Apple's iCal can help you share your schedule by publishing calendars to .Mac, WebDAV, and FTP servers. Because .Mac is expensive, WebDAV can be hard to come by, and FTP is insecure, Scalp is a tiny hack for iCal that allows calendars to be published to the Web via SFTP.

Its name is the unfortunate result of combining "cal" and "scp", the command used to copy files via SSH.

Scalp is released under the GNU General Public License.

• Download Scalp 0.7 as a disk image from Google Code (157k).
• View the source, also at Google Code, or see instructions for checking it out.

This version of Scalp has been tested with iCal 3.0.5, the version that ships with Mac OS X v10.5.5. If you have any success with newer versions of iCal, please contact us.

The bundle has been compiled as a Universal Binary. Being tragically impoverished, however, we have no way of testing it on a PowerPC-based Mac, so it really could do anything on that platform. For instance, it could forcibly remove your hair and parade your locks about to its tribesmen as a trophy. Again, please let us know know of your successes and failures.