ICal

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iCal is the personal organizer by Apple Computers, Inc that comes bundled with OS X

iCal
Min/Max OS Support	10.2 / 10.3
License	System Software
Category	Productivity
Installer	Installed with OS X
PowerPC Traitor	{{{universal}}}
Website	iCal

Contents 1 The Inner Workings 1.1 Data Storage 1.2 iCal Development 2 July 17

The Inner Workings

Data Storage

iCal stores everything in plain text. They're saved in .ics files which are in ~/Library/Calendars/

Here's an example of an event store in iCal's plain text format

BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20021023T181500
SUMMARY:Sushi Dinner!
UID:05F4B247-1E66-11D7-BC48-0003934767F6
SEQUENCE:4
DURATION:PT2H45M
END:VEVENT

iCal Development

• iCal package for Python
• iCal Python module
• "Read iCal Data with Ruby"
• iCal Perl Module

July 17

When iCal is in the Dock but is not running, it shows the current date as July 17th. To change this to a blank calender page instead, run the following commands in a Terminal:

cd /Applications/iCal.app/Contents/Resources
cp App.icns App-backup.icns
cp App-empty.icns App.icns

To reverse this change:

cd /Applications/iCal.app/Contents/Resources
cp App-backup.icns App.icns