FoxBoom!

What’s a guy to do?

Back in the old days, I kept my personal calendar in iCal, and published it to .Mac so I could view it in Outlook at work.

This was great until .Mac went off line for a month and chewed through my e-mail and wouldn’t give me my calendar backups back (bitter, moi?), so I moved over to Google Calendar, which was brilliant, apart from losing the beautiful iCal interface and the automatic “birthdays” calendar generated from the Address Book.

But now, I have the iPhone calendar application. Google Calendar’s iPhone interface is almost as good, but not over GPRS.

So I figured it was time to go back to iCal so I can sync with the iPhone, but to see if I can publish my calendar somewhere outside of .Mac. I noticed iCal has a “publish to private server” option, but it seems to be WebDAV rather than FTP, and as great as my hosts are, they don’t support WebDAV.

I did a spot of research, and found a couple of free WebDAV hosts, but before I could sign up for any of them… I found out that iCal actually can publish through FTP after all.

Awesome!