So upon moving from my Windows Platform over to my Mac, I had to figure out a new way to do e-mail and calendar. I have had a Google account for some time, and have used the Google Calendar on and off for the last 6 months. The big issue was always synchronization. I like having a good web client, which Google has, but need to have mobile and desktop access to it as well. Between my Mac and my new Blackberry, my calendaring problems are solved!
On the Mac side of things, I’m using iCal and Spanning Sync. Spanning Sync was the first ever application I bought for my Mac, and I don’t regret it in the slightest. I bought the lifetime subscription for it for a mere $65 and it has already done so much for me. It was very simple to install (as most MacOS applications, it was a simple integrated installer), and all it required me to do is sign in with my Google account information and choose the local calendar it should sync the remote calendar down to. Done!
It pulled down my whole Google Calendar with no sync issues. All the funky repeat events, exceptions, everything. I have been using it for about two months now and only had one sync issue, related to the 10.5.2 upgrade, but by the time I had installed it, Spanning Sync already had instructions on what to do to correct the issue and remove the duplicate events.
It is a solid shareware application, and has very good support from the developers. They have been gaining steady support and have steadily developed a repore with Apple in getting iCal bugs reported and resolved.
Honestly, this piece of software is a bargain at the $25/year price, and a STEAL at $65 for lifetime updates. It keeps the lovely web client in sync with the beautiful Apple desktop client. And right now, you can get a $5 discount by clicking this special link: http://spanningsync.com/?r=SAUHNN or using discount coupon code “SAUHNN”. It’s just that easy.
Now I could have stopped there, or used the data now in Apple Sync Services to manually sync stuff over USB, but Google had a better idea. They have developed an application called “Google Sync for Mobile” which is an application built for the BlackBerry. This application enables over-the-air (OTA) syncing of your Google Calendar down to your Blackberry calendar. It’s the next best thing to having a BES server. It runs in the background and syncs your Blackberry’s calendar to your Google Calendar at a defined interval.
So now I have the total solution — a calendar that stays in sync with my online web client, by offline desktop client, and my semi-online mobile client. It’s pretty sweet. If only the rest of my life was so perfectly organized!
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I use the same software to Sync my gCal to my iCal. Brilliant for my iPhone. I love the fact the guy is selling lifers for $65. Thats how software should be sold
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Spanning Sync really is a wonderful piece of calendar sync software. I use it to keep my gcal, ical, and ipod touch all in sync. And with the new Spanning Sync 2.0 Beta you get contact synchronization between google and your address book!
New Spanning Sync works better than busysync, 5 shared calendars with 3 Macs, suddenly conflict. used Spanning Sync for 4 months.
Not a single problem.
I have only been using Spanning Sync for a month but i think it is great. I like to have my mac as the ‘base’ network to my calenders, my iphone flawlessly syncs to my mac no problem so i always have it with me. So it was just getting them online to google calender.. and spanning sync does the job, it syncs both ways and now includes contact syncing as well… Works great.
I use SyncMate, it syncs Google and Mac for free. It is very handy and has nice interface. Why to pay for Spanning Sync if SyncMate does the same but for free?…
Moreover SyncMate syncs Mac with win mobile or nokia phones, PCs or Macs, PSP, USB drives, online storage. This is really all-in-one tool for mac OS X sync. And free version is available.