Synchronize Google Calendar with Outlook, Blackberry, and mobile phones
Posted on March 8, 2008 at 10:35 am
At the beginning of this year, I mentioned a cool service from Calgoo called Calgoo Connect, which allows you to sync your Google Calendar with Microsoft Outlook. Overall, it was a nifty little program that solved an annoying problem for people who still used Outlook at the office, but Google Calendar everywhere else.
Now Google has come out with it’s own version of syncing software called Google Calendar Sync that will allow you to sync events between Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar for free! You can configure the sync in both directions and can control the frequency of synching. The only thing you have to note is that this program will only sync up your primary Google Calendar with your default Outlook Calendar, it cannot sync up secondary calendars just yet!
Just type in your Google credentials and choose the syncing method that you would prefer! After that, the program just runs in your system tray and you’ll see two arrows show up when it’s performing a sync.
You can then sync your Outlook calendar with a mobile device such as a Palm Treo, etc. For Mac users, you can synchronize your Google Calendar with iCalendar using a cool program called Spanning Sync.
For Blackberry users, Google has a separate application that you can use to sync your calendars called Google Sync for Blackberry. This will allow you to view your Google Calendar items in the default calendar on your BlackBerry.
If you’re an iPhone user, you can actually access your Google Calendar via a special interface by just going to http://mobile.google.com/calendar. The interface is made just for the iPhone’s touch screen display and really makes it pointless to “sync” with the calendar on your iPhone since you can use Google Calendar with all the features directly from the iPhone.
If you don’t have a Blackberry or an iPhone (like me), then you can might want to check out a program called GooSync that allows you to easily synchronize your Google Calendar with most mobile phones or PDAs. GooSync has a free version and premium version, the latter of which allows you to sync contacts, sync multiple calendars instead of one, and sync appointments up to 365 days in advance rather than 30.
Thanks to these new tools from Google, it should be a fairly simple task of getting your Google Calendar synced to your mobile phone, PDA, or Microsoft Outlook! If you have any questions, post a comment! Enjoy! Source: Webware
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Its great to see Google recognize that their users want a sync to a desktop platform and this is a very good start. The sync itself works quite well, many of the people at our office have given it a whirl to see how it all goes.
Unfortunately it does not let you sync multiple calendars or calendars that have been shared with you. You can only sync your default calendar. But hey if someone needs that thats where the 3rd party suppliers come in. We offer a product (Connect) that allows this and there are other companies out there who do this as well, all you have to do is search around a bit.
Cheers!
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