Adding holidays to iCal

[akm3]

So, I am trying to use iCal more and more, and just learned about a feature it had that I didn't know about.

I was looking at my iPod touch to see when mothers day was, and realized there were no holidays on my iCal! I thought that the program couldn't be that worthless, and sure enough it isn't!

What you do, if you didn't already know this very basic thing, is go to Calendar --> Find Shared Calendars.

This takes you to Apple's website where there are tons of different calendars to subscribe to. If you click 'most popular', the first choice is U.S. holidays. Click to download it, and boom. You have all the U.S. holidays automatically added to your iCal calendar. There are many other countries you can subscribe to as well, and also many other calendars: Moon schedules, racing schedules, football, whatever.

I know this is old hat 'basic' for many Mac users, but as a going on 6 month switcher, I had no idea of this feature. OSX and it's built in features continue to impress me.

-Allen

 

[killmoms]

Yep, had this calendar in my iCal for a while. It's convenient.

 

[Sky Blue]

You can add music and movies into iTunes.

 

[forafireescape]

It IS really convenient - makes me wish they had more "global" calendars.

 

[akm3]

You can add music and movies into iTunes.

haha You are making fun of me, but I can handle that. Thank you Ric Romero and your breaking news report

I only shared my 'find' because I honestly didn't know about it and I'm sure there are other switchers who didn't either.

 

[PlaceofDis]

haha You are making fun of me, but I can handle that. Thank you Ric Romero and your breaking news report

I only shared my 'find' because I honestly didn't know about it and I'm sure there are other switchers who didn't either.

don't feel bad, took me forever to figure out too

 

[wordmunger]

It IS really convenient - makes me wish they had more "global" calendars.

I went and looked at the list, and the first page had Austria, Argentina, and Brazil. What country were you looking for?

 

[forafireescape]

I went and looked at the list, and the first page had Austria, Argentina, and Brazil. What country were you looking for?

Okay, that was bad phrasing on my part. By global I didn't mean other countries of the world, I mean "more global calendars" - as in, more of these shared calendars. Sorry about that.

 

[emw]

I only shared my 'find' because I honestly didn't know about it and I'm sure there are other switchers who didn't either.

This should be much appreciated - there are a number of theoretically simple things out there with which many new users, and some experienced ones, are not familiar.

Really, this is the type of stuff that is needed in the Mac Basics forum. Thanks for putting it out there.

 

[TheCreator]

Nice tip man, I don't use iCal a whole lot, but this will help!

 

[IJ Reilly]

And if the calendars Apple offers aren't enough...

http://icalshare.com/

 

[puckhead193]

i download the sports ones like bruins and rangers along with the holidays and jewish holiday's really helps out at organizing your life

 

[ArmyKnight12]

Damn, you need Leopard to download it!

 

[bennyboi]

wow. really handy tip i did not know, and i consider myself savvy. always annoyed about the no holidays. Thanks for sharing!!!

 

[Latro]

you can also add any shared google calendars to iCal. There are MANY google calendars that may be interesting.