The whole problem of managing data on multiple machines seems to be more and more a challenge, which is why I highlight these solutions so often. Although it’s listed as an “alpha”, the free FuseCal got a nice review over at ReadWriteWeb and what makes it standout from the crowd is the support for many calendar applications. The web service can sync between the following calendar clients: Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007, Windows Calendar, Google Calendar, Yahoo! Calendar, iCal and any other web-based calendar that you can subscribe to. Looks like the first sync will require a little time and effort on your part since you pick and choose what events you want moved around to your multiple calendars. After that, you can set up filters for specific events or just have FuseCal sync all of your events across all of your clients. FuseCal can also send you updates if events change… nice.I’ll have to give this one a try; even though I use Google Calendar as my main cal, every once in a while, I’ll open up Outlook or iCal. Although FuseCal doesn’t sync directly with handhelds, you should be able to get at your event data through ActiveSync or whatever synching application your particular handheld uses.
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The whole problem of managing data on multiple machines seems to be more and more a challenge, which is why I highlight these solutions so often. Although it’s listed as an “alpha”, the free FuseCal got a nice review over at ReadWriteWeb and what makes it […]
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…and yet there still isn’t any particularly easy way to sync Gcal to your iPhone/iPod Touch *sigh*
Benz145: define “easy”. ;) If you mean OTA, I completely agree with you. But a method like using FuseCal or any of the other tools that sync Gcal and your mail client of choice gets the events to your host PC. iTunes will then sync them over to the iPhone. It’s no different than using ActiveSync with Windows Mobile.
The other thing is: I have no need to sync the events to my iPhone. Using Gcal as the main “hub” for events works just fine when paired to the Gcal web page on the iPhone in Safari. The data is available at the same speed it would be locally and it takes up no room on the device. Of course, this won’t work for Touch owners because they don’t have connectivity all the time.
man – i was playing with oggsync for a while a few weeks ago (google cal to wm5 sync) and i STILL am feeling the repercussions of this at work, even though I deleted the outlook/oggsync program .exe on my computer a while ago. I have phantom meetings that are 1 hour off, meetings I was supposed to be at are not showing up. Maybe I’m just crazy or I’m being kept out of the loop for some reason at work or the outlook gremlins are messing with me. Anyhow, I blame it all on those crazy syncing programs. I’m not about to to try to merge work, google, WM5 all together ever again after that experience!