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December 15, 2007

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iCal, meet Facebook

Posted Dec. 15, ’07, 10:30 AM PT by Aayush Arya
Category | Software

iCal, meet Facebook.pngI love Web 2.0 and the fact that a lot of websites have their own APIs these days which allow third party developers to extend the reach of the website to your desktop. That’s the reason why you have applications for uploading photos to Flickr or ImageShack, desktop based interfaces for various online blogging software, native applications for online searching, etc. The best examples of this sort of integration are, of course, Apple’s .Mac service and the iTunes Store.

One application that has recently jumped into this fray is FB Events by James Frye. There isn’t much to describe here (which kinda sucks if your job is to blog about it). When you launch the application, it asks for your Facebook account login credentials and once logged in, it fetches the records of all the events you have scheduled on your Facebook account and imports them into iCal. It is a simple two-step procedure that does not require much user intervention and is pretty much fool proof as long as you remember your Facebook password. The application is free of charge and weighs in at a tiny 650KB. I use neither Facebook nor iCal (yeah, I know I have a little too much free time on my hands) but if you do, there’s no reason not to check this thing out.


2 Comments

Ted Bozarth Author Profile Page said:

You can also check out Spanning Sync which will sync specific iCal calendars with Google Calendars. From Google Calendars you can then share a calendar with another Google user. End result? A shared Google calendar with permissions set the right way will then update YOUR Google calendar and then, in turn, your iCal.

December 16, 2007 10:27 AM
Andrew Jackson said:

What would be even better is if it could sync the attendees from the facbeook event with your ical address book.

December 26, 2007 11:20 AM

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