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[abhishekaiyar]

it's always so difficult to find a cheap and good solution to sync my palm lifedrive with google calendar. right now i sync to ical and i sync ical to gcal.

[scotty321]

You can sync iCal to Google Calendar as well, using BusySync or Spanning Sync. More details here: http://www.maclife.c...e/synchronizingicalto_outlook

[steven107]

SMS reminders work in Australia as well. (And they're free, don't know if they are up there?)
I've been sending myself messages to get me out of boring meetings .

[WalrusCP]

+1 for BusySync

A terrific little app that constantly keeps my iCal and Google Calendar synced. Combined with Google's sync app for Outlook at work, I can keep all of my calendars synced through Google. Plus, I can sync over the network with my wife's calendars!

[Hurley42]

One small issue I have with Google Calendar is that when in Gmail and I click on Calendar at the top-left, a new browser window opens instead of a new tab (same for Docs) in Safari. I can do command-click, but I am just used to iCal at this point.

[abhishekaiyar]

yes i agree. i do the very same. it is actually good that all the calendars stay intact. before i got my macbook, i was looking for a solution to sync my lifedrive directly. now i am happy with solutions for mac.


thanks

[almatt]

If you are not in a mood to pay good money for freely available solutions for Syncing iCal and Google, try these..

1, GCAL Daemon
This hidden utility for Unix systems is actually provided by Google and it works very well. - a little Terminal tweaking is required but...

http://blogs.kno.at/...ith-gcaldaemon/

"A great and simple program, doing one thing: It synchronizes your remote google calendar with your local .ical-sourcefile, and vice versa. That?s not just great because it simply works, it also brings along two major features: The local calendar file will keep the calendar 100% available offline plus it?s no problem switching to any other program that?s using the ical - format."

PS. Read the comments at the end of the blog - it contains some good hints.

2. Sharing iCal:
Why pay $25 for software when online calendar sharing sites are available. Me and my wife use

http://icalx.com

- we publish our personal calendars and subscribe to each others. Yes, you cannot edit someone elses - but I think its ok and more secure.

3. iCalPublish:
Ok if you do want to spend money - I did it on icalpublish. I have 46 calendars in iCal - DONT ASK :-0
And iCalpublish helps me consolidate. For Eg. if I want my colleagues to see my free/busy time, I can consolidate all my work and home calendars into a Free/Busy Calendar and publish to Google or iCalx. So no one knows busy also means that I need to go pickup my child from daycare early today! You can do many variations on this - try it and you'll be hooked. best $15 I spent.

http://www.buddy.com/ical/
"Apple's iCal application allows you to publish your calendars so anybody can view them on the web. However, if you have multiple calendars (e.g., work, home, school), iCal 1 won't combine them so they all appear together on the same web page and iCal 2 won't allow you to combine individual calendars in more than one group. iCalPublish allows you to combine individual calendars and publish them as one calendar to your .Mac account or another WebDAV server for viewing on the web."

PS.. The plain text markup in these forums are a PAIN in the ....!!! URL Link creation page does not seem to work.. this is what happens when i use the pop-up tool... webmaster - fix these forums please.

GCAL Daemon

[magmac]

One thing I like to do since I use gcal often is to install the google notifier on all the machines you use regularly. It runs on mac and windows. That way you can add, view, get notified without opening the browser.

[Hurley42]

I know of a Windows user who has an iPhone and wants the calendar on it to sync with her Google Calendar. Anyone good Windows software for that?