iCal is the default calendar application that comes with Mac OSX. It has the ability to both subscribe and publish to Thyme's calendars just as if using a WebDav server (don't worry if you don't know what this means).
Subscribing to a Calendar
To subscribe to a calendar, navigate to Thyme in a web browser and click on the details link under the calendar's title.
The calendar's details window will open up where you may click on the link next to Webcal.
Apple iCal will automatically start if it is not already running and ask you to confirm that you wish to subscribe to this calendar.
Clicking on Subscribe will allow you to edit the subscription details for this calendar.
The default title will be automatically populated by Thyme depending on which calendar you are subscribing to. Once you click OK, the calendar you subscribed to will be listed in iCal's calendar list, allowing you to view it just as you would a local calendar.
Publishing to a Calendar
Note: to publish a calendar to Thyme, the calendar must already exist and remote access updates must be enabled for that calendar.
 Warning: publishing a calendar to Thyme from iCal will overwrite existing events in the calendar that you are publishing to. In most cases, this is desired. In some, it is not.
Publishing a calendar to Thyme from iCal works a little differently than most other calendar applications. iCal can not sync with a remote calendar. That is - you may either subscribe to a calendar or publish to it, you may not do both.
When iCal publishes a calendar, rather than downloading the current calendar and merging the events, it deletes all the events in the remote calendar before publishing local events. After the upload, it will not download the calendar again to see the current content. Some users have suggested reading the discussion located at http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050414182034814 for a solution to the iCal problem.
You may choose to publish to an existing calendar or create a new one.
If you choose to publish to an existing calendar, be aware that, as previously explained, iCal will delete all of the events currently in the target Thyme calendar when it performs the publish operation. To get around this, you may export all of the events in iCalendar format (click on Sync in Thyme's footer), then import them into iCal before publishing.
If you choose to create a new calendar that is updated exclusively by iCal, you do not need to worry about existing events.
To publish to a Thyme calendar using iCal, navigate to Thyme in a web browser and click on the details link under the calendar's title.
In the calendar's details window, copy the link location next to iCalendar.
Next, start iCal and highlight the calendar you wish to publish. Select Calendar from the top menu bar, then cilck on the Publish... menu item.
The publish calendar window will open allowing you to enter details for the publish operation.
Publish calendar as has no effect on Thyme as the calendar's title was already set when you created the calendar in Thyme. Publish on should be changed from .Mac to a Private Server (In some versions of iCal, this will read WebDav Server instead). In Base URL is where you should paste the url copied from the calendar's details window. Typically, a calendar's access is set up so that only certain accounts may update it. In the Login and Password boxes, you must enter your Thyme login information in order to update this calendar.
Once you click the Publish button, this calendar is published to Thyme. This is indicated in iCal in it's list of calendars.
If this calendar is updated in Thyme (adding or updating events), the next time iCal publishes this calendar, those modifications will be erased or overwritten to exactly match the calendar in iCal.
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