• Reported by Nate

I've been futzing around with iCal and iSync lately. My first mistake had nothing to do with the software or my hardware configurations, I simply didn't understand that a "published" calendar is only editable via the computer that originated it (if only using iCal). Then I learned that iSync is not just for using up all the memory on that phone you just purchased, it can be used to keep multiple Macs synchronized (contacts and calendars), assuming you have a dotMac account. So if you move around to various locations/computers, you can keep your essential data moving with you. If other platforms are part of your workstation rotation (specifically Linux or Windows), you can even view your calendars using the beta of Mozilla Calendar application quite easily. What I'm not yet seeing, is a good way to make a calendar or group of contacts "collaborative" - so that, for instance, my wife and I can update a portion of each other's contacts, while retaining our individual work contacts, and if this could be done with her preferred windows machine and my preferred mac, all the better. Do you have any suggestions? Perhaps I am asking too much.