Although the school year may not yet have ended for many students, Apple has announced today their Back To School Specials for students and educators alike.

This year, Apple has up’d the incentive as they are now offering new buyers either an 8gb iPod nano or an 8gb iPod Touch for anyone purchasing a qualifying Mac.

Now, you may ask why anyone may want an iPod nano if they could get an iPod Touch, but it looks like Apple is counting on enough people purchasing iPhones that the iPod Nano may be more of an incentive for students.

But, if you’ve been waiting to purchase both a Mac and an iPod… its really hard to pass up on this offer.

iCal is a wonderful calendar application that allows you to create and manage multiple calendars at a time. One of its strongest features is its capabilities to both share calendars over the internet and subscribe to calendars in a similar fashion.

The latter feature also allows you to add Holidays to our calendars. To do this, navigate in Safari or the web browser of your choice to http://www.google.com/calendar/.

Create an account if needed and enter into the Search field ‘US Holidays’ or any group of national holidays that apply to you and click the Search Public Calendars button.

Now, add one of the calendars. Once the calendar has appeared under “My Calendars” and on your Google Calendars, click on the drop down arrow next to the calendar and select Calendar Settings.

Find the iCal button on the Calendar Address row and click it to find a link that iCal knows how to handle. Clicking the link will launch iCal and ask you which Calendar you’d like to include it in.

I personally created a new Holidays calendar but it should work seamlessly with any of the calendars you’ve already added. Congrats! Your newly added Holidays should now appear in iCal.