The iCalendar format, also known as "Internet Calandar" in Outlook, was designed to be viewed and shared with many different programs and services, including Google Calendar and Lotus Notes.

At first glance, your Microsoft Office Outlook calendar might seem incompatible with Apple's iCal; however, the .ics format, also known as iCalendar, is a common bond between these and many other ...

Can I Import an ICS file into Google Calendar? To import a .ics or iCalender file to your Google Calendar, open Google Calendar Settings and navigate to Import & export tab. Next, select the .ics file ...

In my quest to find a good Web calendaring application for my son’s school Web site, I have looked at dozens of solutions ranging from the simple, limited, and incredibly ugly, to the remarkably ...

Last column, we looked at Sunbird, a standalone application from the Mozilla Foundation for tracking calendars. As we saw, Sunbird is able to work with calendars in the iCalendar format. These ...

Last month, we continued our look at the iCalendar standard, which makes it possible for programs to exchange calendar and appointment information. As we saw, an iCalendar file contains one or more ...

If you’re a Google Calendar user, you may have had issues adding events to your calendar when someone sends them to you attached to an email in iCal format (the files usually looks like “invite.ics”).

Have you ever set up two iCal calendars, only to later decide you’d rather have them as one? In my case, I had one calendar named Personal and another named Family Stuff. I decided that was a bit ...