March 31st, 2008, 1 Comment »
Earlier in the month I asked you, dear readers, how you were syncing Apple’s iCal and your Google Calendar. You offered several solutions, but the one I ended up trying was BusySync. It lasted about three weeks before doing this to my calendar:
As you may have guessed, there’s only one luncheon. Julie and I are speaking at it, so the event should appear twice, not five times.
I don’t think I did anything peculiar to the app–I just installed it and expected it to work. And, sadly, it didn’t. At least the uninstall process was relatively straightforward and didn’t permanently screw up my Google Calendar.
I’d consider Spanning Sync, but this issue isn’t really worth 65 of my hard-earned dollars. Back to a web calendar-only universe, I guess.
UPDATE: The folks at BusySync are on the ball, and already emailed with a detailed explanation of the issue. It’s not worth my time to troubleshoot it at the moment, but I appreciate their prompt and thorough response.
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March 6th, 2008, 10 Comments »
I expect there’s a reader out there who’s already solved this problem, so I thought I’d ask. I’ve never used iCal. I’ve been using Google Calendar for Capulet and personal stuff for a few years. I’m quite happy with it, and it’s great for publishing shared calendars, as in “these are the weeks you can come visit us in Malta”.
I was reminded about iCal because somebody sent me an iCal request the other day, and I didn’t really know what to do with it. Subsequently, Google announced support for synching with Outlook. It occurred to me that if there was a cheap and easy way to synch iCal and Google Calendar, I’d give it a try.
I found Spanning Sync, which promises to do the trick. After searching vainly for a ‘Buy’ button on the home page, I determined that it costs US $65. That’s a bit steep for experimenting with a problem I don’t really have.
Note that I’d need to synch both ways. I know I can subscribe to a feed for Google Calendar, but that’s insufficient for this scenario.
Has anybody else confronted and defeated this particular syncing issue?
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