Month: February 2006

If, like me, you use Apple’s iCal to keep track of a variety of different aspects of your life, and, like me, you need to share those aspects with colleagues, then you could need iCalPublish.

This nifty bit of software performs a vital job – it allows you to combine multiple diaries from within iCal and publish them on a .Mac or WebDAV server as a single calendar.

I used to publish several diaries from within iCal, and colleagues would have to open all of them to see my overall availability. Now, they simply open a single diary and in there are the contents of six others.

It is shareware, and well worth the fee, in my opinion. Once you publish your combined diary, you can also subscribe to it yourself and see it in your own local copy of iCal. You see it as others who subscribe to the published version would see it. Cool.

The current version is 2.3, and it is available from www.buddy.com

I’ve recently installed Site Meter on this blog, as I was impressed with the way that it can track all the details about where visitors come from. It offers a range of analysis tools, but by far the most fun is to see where in the world your visitors are based.

Site Meter provides the user with a world map that has clickable dots on it, each representing a visitor. Have a look at a recent map relating to this site. If you are reading this entry within my drupal site then your dot will be on a map similar to this right now:

This reminds me a bit of Frappr, whereby you get to post your actual location and a few words about yourself – ideal for bringing together a distributed team… but Site Meter is relevant only to your own website.

There are different levels of use, but I am trying out the free version. Look at the very bottom of the page in the footer area to see a small green icon which will take you to the stats for this site.

Very cool… 🙂