Apple Releases iCal 1.0.1 and iSync 1.0

Apple today announced the immediate availability of iCal 1.0.1, an update to Apple's innovative calendar program that lets users manage multiple calendars and share them over the Internet, and the release of iSync 1.0, Apple's breakthrough synchronisation software. Since the introduction of iCal in September, more than one million copies of iCal have been distributed and more than 200,000 calendars have been published online.

“Within just a few months, iCal and iSync have become desktop essentials for thousands of Mac users who want to better organise the personal informationon their Mac with the devices they carry with them most”, said SinaTamaddon, Apple's Senior Vice President of Applications.

iCal's breakthrough “Internet publish and subscribe” capability is a first for any calendar program. Users can “publish” their iCal calendars on the Internet, and other Mac users can “subscribe” to them and view them in iCal on their own Mac. The ‘subscribed to' calendars will automatically update whenever the original published calendars are updated. Since iCal's introduction, several independent Web sites have sprung up to host iCal calendars. One of the most popular, iCalShare.com, hosts over 780 published iCal calendars in 28 categories including movies, music and sports. Any Mac user can subscribe to one or more of these calendars to, for example, keep track of their favourite sport team's schedule or see when their favourite band is in town for a concert. iCalShare.com even offers a plug-in forApple's Sherlock application that lets users search for published calendarsby keyword.

iSync 1.0 works seamlessly with the Mac OS X version 10.2 Address Book andiCal to synchronise contacts and calendars between Bluetooth-enabled mobilephones, Palm OS devices, Apple's iPod portable digital music player and other Macs using Apple's .Mac service. With iSync 1.0, users can for the first time sync their Mac OS X version 10.2 Address Book with the new .Mac Address Book making it incredibly easy to access contacts while using .Mac Web Mail from any computer in the world. iSync 1.0 also includes regularly-scheduledMac to Mac synchronisation, which makes it even more convenient to keepinformation updated on multiple Macs.

Pricing & Availability:

iCal 1.0.1 is available for immediate download at https://102.p.syniva.es/uk/ical.iSync 1.0 is available immediately as a free download athttps://102.p.syniva.es/uk/isync. A .Mac account is required for Mac to Mac synchronisation and a list of iSync-compatible devices is available at https://102.p.syniva.es/isync. Both applications require Mac OS X version 10.2.2.

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