Simply enter your zip code (if you live in the USA) or city name and country (if you don’t) into the search box at the top of the site’s front page.

iCal and RSS buttons appear at the top right under the ad banner. Command-Click on the iCal one and copy the link location. Command-Click in iCal’s calendar window, select Subscribe and paste the URL into the dialog that appears. All done.

You get a series of All Day events providing a forecast of the week ahead:

Personally I get all the weather I need from a Dashboard widget, but I understand how it would be useful to see the “Monsoon” bubble for the day on which you are entering details of the upcoming family BBQ.

You can do the same thing in Google’s Calendar by following the instruction in the post on Lifehacker from which this tip is lifted.

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You will find a calendar that you can customise to let you know of new books at Amazon.com that match author or keyword criteria that you set. Another calendar allows you to subscribe to a detailed weather report for the country and zip code you specify.

A script that sets your current weather as your iChat status message is also available.

Most useful perhaps is the customisable holiday calendar, which provides much more control of the dates it will track than most of the ready-made, “off the shelf” calendars:

You can also find a customisable TV schedule and a biorhythms chart.

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