Syncing iCal Across Platforms

I am trying to sync my iCal calendars across platforms (Macbook, iPad, iPhone), but I cannot figure out how to create a calendar on my Macbook on the cloud. Whenever I create a calendar, it seems to save it to my computer and not to the cloud. (Thus it doesn't sync). I am not really interested in having any calendars on my computer anymore that aren't iCloud synced. Any suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks...

Nancy Huerter wrote:
I tried to add an iCloud calendar as noted above, but ical is only showing options for OnMyMac and MobileMe calendars. Suggestions? Thanks!
Have you migrated to iCloud, and have you turned iCloud services on (for your Mac)
System Preferences>iCloud, select the services (calendars etc) you want.

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Check your calendar where you are adding the event belongs to the MobileMe Calendar, otherwise will not synchronize.
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Interesting, never knew there was an iCloud website. Ironically, it wouldn't open in Safari (just got a spinning progress wheel), but it opened up fine in Chrome. :/
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This is another related question.
Having at last extracted a decade of diaries from Palm Desktop as vCal (since you ask I had to go back to Classic as the app quit without writing the export file in Tiger and Leopard, even tho it is otherwise OK) I now have something I can import rather messily into iCal.
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I hope I can get some help.
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As indicated above, the solution is to use SyncTogether from Mark/Space.
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Hi mebjk,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
It appears that iCloud is not syncing your iCloud calendar between your Mac and iOS devices.
I know it can be frustrating when features don't work as expected, and I have a few articles to share that can help.
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I just figured out that Apple has buried an "Audiobook playlist" checkbox under the Music tab in the iPhone's settings / preferences.
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