Don't
be a Vegetable - Keep Regular: An Event Shared is an Event Enjoyed Overview
We have created and maintain 2 online calendars:-
- HUMS - calendar for the Huntingdonshire Music School. Terms times, concerts, exams, socials etc.
- External Events - music events accessible to all in and around Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire etc.
This has been done using the iCalendar format so that you can subscribe to the calendar(s) and will then be guranteed the latest up to date information on your computer without having to enter anything. Any changes we make are automatically picked up by all the subscibers to our calendars.
Often there will be web pages associated with an event. Using one of these applications you can double-click on an event in the calendar and then on the web page address shown (URL) which will take you to a page providing more information.
To subscribe to our calendars you need one of the following software applications:-
- Netscape browser/application suite (Windows, Linux, Mac, OS/2)
- Mozilla browser/ application suite (Windows, Linux, Mac, OS/2)
- Firebird browser (Windows, Linux, Mac)
- Thunderbird news/email application (Windows, Linux, Mac)
- iCal stand-alone calendar application (Mac only)
- Sunbird stand-alone calendar application (Windows, Linux, Mac)
All of these are free and can be downloaded and installed easily.
The instructions show you how to install and subscribe to our calendars together with one showing UK holidays.
The 2 basic steps are:-
- install an application that will download and update a shareable calendar (iCalendar format)
- get (subscribe to) one or more calendars
Thereafter, when you have the application running and it is connected to the Internet, it will check and update the calendars that you've loaded.
Step 1 - Installing an iCalendar-aware Application
Installing Netscape / Mozilla and the Netscape / Mozilla Calendar Extension
- Download, if needed, the browsers from the following pages:-
- Install
- Start Netscape / Mozilla up.
- Go to the Download/Install Mozilla Calendar download page at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/download.html#download_appsuite (look for 'Calendar for the Mozilla Application suite')
- Download the version of Calendar for the Mozilla Application Suite
for your computing platform (Windows /Linux /Mac/ OS/2)
- the browser will ask you if you want to allow this - you need to say yes.
- After completion quit Netscape/Mozilla browser and restart the browser.
- Subscribe to our calendars (below).
Installing Thunderbird E-mail Application and the Thunderbird Calendar Extension
- Download, if needed, the browsers from the following pages:-
- Install
- Start Thunderbird up.
- Go to the Download/Install Mozilla Calendar download page at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/download.html#download_thunderbird (look for 'Calendar for Mozilla Thunderbird ')
- Download the version of Calendar for the Thunderbird
for your computing platform (Windows /Linux /Mac/ OS/2)
- if you right-mouse click on the download link you can choose where to save it - save it on your desktop.
- the browser will ask you if you want to allow this - you need to say yes.
- After completion start the Thunderbird application and select the Tools | Options (or the Tools | Extensions on the Mac version) menu item and select the Extensions tab.
- Click on the '+' icon and point the Select the calendar extension to Install file dialog at the extension you downloaded at step 5 (file ending with .api - should be on your desktop if you followed our advice ;-) )
- Click on the Open button
- Click on the Install Now button
- Click on OK
- Quit and restart Thunderbird
- Subscribe to our calendars (below)
Installing Firefox and the Fireboard Calendar Extension
- Download, if needed, the browsers from the following pages:-
- Install
- Start Firefox up.
- Go to the Download/Install Mozilla Calendar download page at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/download.html#download_firefox (look for 'Calendar for Mozilla Firefox')
- Download the version of Calendar for the Fire for your computing
platform (Windows /Linux /Mac/ OS/2)
- the browser will ask you if you want to allow this - you need to say yes.
- After completion quit the Firefox browser and restart the browser.
- Subscribe to our calendars (below)
Step 2 - Adding Calendars
Apple iCal
- Start iCal up.
- Select the Calendar | Subscribe menu item
- For each calendar in turn:
- Add webcal://ical.mac.com/nicplum/HUMS.ics (Huntingdonshire Music School Events) to the Calendar URL, select a refresh interval and click on Subscribe
- repeat for the External Events calendar using webcal://ical.mac.com/nicplum/External32Events.ics for Calendar URL ...
- repeat for the the UK Holidays calendar using http://ical.mac.com/ical/UK32Holidays.ics for Calendar URL ...
- You can then, in the Calendars window, select each and choose a colour for each calendar
- That's it - you should have subscribed to 3 calendars.
Subscribing to (Adding) Our Online Calendars to Your Application
Now that you have an application on your computer that can capture shareable calendars and display them, you need to add some calendars - ours!
- Click on the the link to subscribe to the HUMS Calendar. You can edit the name and colour used to show the events.
- Click on this link to subscribe to the External Musical Events Calendar.
- Click on this link to subscribe to the UK Holidays calendar.
- Other calendars are available at iCalShare
