Syncing Google Calendar
June 24th, 2006
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I’ve been trying to get an overview of how it is possible to sync Google Calender. Here are the main ways I could find/think of. There are some solutions for mobile devices Ipod and Java compatible cell phones, and som solutions for desktop applications Ical and Outlook.
What Google offers is first of all import and export of cvs and ical files, but doing this manually is too much of a hassle. Secondly, they offer the chance to make the calendar available as a feed or a public ical file, but this is read only, which means no two-way syncronisation. Thirdly they offer some more specific services, texting in events via the cell phone, but this does not seem that attractiv to me and they don’t support my service provider.
As I noted earlier it is possible to sync with advanced cell phones via the free application gcalsync, but I just read on Matthew Millers blog that there is also a commercial solution called Companionlink. I am hoping that this maybe supports more phones.
Ipod users can sync one way with the getcals pc application.
As for the desktop solution by Scheduleworlds, which I mentioned earlier, this does not seem to work. Whenever I try to set it up I get a weird error message.
Tuaw.com has published a guide for setting this up in Ical and Grinn Productions has published one for setting one-way sync up in Outlook using the remotecalendars, but this graphic tutorial shows how to-way sync is possible in the current version.
I anyone know of more ways to sync Google Calendar – don’t hesitate to comment.
Entry Filed under: Calendar, Cell phone, Mobile, google calendar, syncml, tech
11 Comments Add your own
1. Scott | July 5th, 2006 at 5:05 am
Thanks for following this topic, as I’ve been having my own struggles with the same issue. So far nothing works satisfactorily, although I have a fancy new Nokia Symbian-based smartphone (6680). Gcalsync doesn’t work yet on my phone (though by all rights it should), and Companionlink is only for Windows Mobile, Pocket PC, Palm, Blackberry, but not Symbian (which at least in Europe has a far bigger install base for smartphones).
I agree that Google has to support SyncML itself if a reaal solution to this is going to be found. Cheers.
2. brady | July 9th, 2006 at 4:02 pm
the latest updates for os x tiger include support for a vairety of bluetooth phones. I have a nokia and can sync it using simply ical subscribed to a gcal calendar and then isync to my phone via bluetooth. no proprietary software needed. go apple!
give it a try it may work…..
Cheers
3. Tech Tag » Syncing &hellip | August 10th, 2006 at 5:56 am
[...] After a failure earlier on, I tried syncing Scheduleworld and Google Calendar yesterday and it finally worked. I was hoping (naive – yes) that this could as a middleman providing Google Calendar with the needed Syncml compatibility. In reality I could only make this work one way, exporting from Google Calendar (why they needed my pasword and username I don’t know), and in order to make the synchronization start I had to log in to Scheduleworld and request it. [...]
4. jeroen | August 11th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
When you synchronize outlook and gcal with Companionlink you can sync your nokia phone trough nokia pc suite.
If you setup pc suite to sync automaticly when the phone is connect by bluetooth your phone is always be updated when your near your pc
In short you sync gcal and outlook and you sync outlook and your phone
If you schedule by windows taskmanager Companionlink to update every hour your phone and gcal will be well synchronized.
5. Tech Tag » Schedule&hellip | September 19th, 2006 at 3:16 pm
[...] This news finally ads something resembling syncml compatibility to the list of possible ways to Synchronize Google Calendar. [...]
6. k | October 4th, 2006 at 8:01 am
how do i sync with syncml? if i have scheduleworld set up, how do i sync it with my 6680?
gcalsync doesn’t work for me, and companionlink does require outlook installed which i would like to avoid. ical+isync works fine on a mac, but i’d like to sync my phone thru a pc, not my brother’s macbook.
7. jens | October 4th, 2006 at 8:46 am
If you want to make it sync with Google Caldendar by scheduleworld, you need a wap/internet connection on the phone like GPRS or 3G.
I’ve made a tutorial on how to set up scheduleworld here: http://www.tech-tag.com/2006/06/28/how-to-easily-sync-outlook-calendar-with-an-ordinary-cell-phone/
But it does not cover the issue on how to setup the phone. I have not tried setting up a 6680, but on my 6610i it is the standard function called Synchronize. This just has to be set up with the Scheduleworld values: server name, username, password and name of calendar and contact. If you check the manual this should be pretty straight forward.
The alternative is to use the tutorial I link to above and setup, Outlook to sync with Scheduleworld and Sechduleworld to Sync with Google Calendar. Then you just install the standard Nokia software to sync with Outlook on your PC.
8. random374 | October 22nd, 2006 at 3:16 pm
A direct OTA sync with Google Calendar is available at
http://www.saraiya.com
9. The Holy Grail of Synchro&hellip | November 7th, 2006 at 9:38 pm
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10. OrbBox | January 5th, 2007 at 11:33 am
Free iCal to Google Calendar sync tool: http://gcaldaemon.sourceforge.net
11. Rodrigo Urubatan | January 7th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
I have just wrote a post about another sync option for cell phones, take a look at here:
http://s603ed.blogspot.com/2007/01/google-calendar-symbian-perfect-match.html
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