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Sync Google Calendar with Apple iCal via Spanning Sync
Spanning Sync will make your Google Calendars and Apple iCal play nicely together with devices. iCal and Google Calendars are great applications for different sets of reasons, one is online with sharing capabilities, one is desktop driven with great notifications and offline capabilities. Get ready to get excited Mac users, Spanning Sync syncs all of these features together and lets Mac users choose which calendar application you want to work in with total two way calendar synchronization.
If you find yourself working on different Macs, or require a calendar that is shared throughout the day, Spanning Sync ties in support for multiple Macs and sharing capabilities. Simply share a Google Calendar, and Spanning Sync will sync them all together. Changes made in iCal, will appear on the Google Calendar, and changes that are made to Google Calendar will be made on the iCal calendars. Apple's iSync then works to sync up calendars onto capable devices like mobile phones and iPods as well.
There is a 15 day trial period for Spanning Sync, with a one year subscription costing $25, or you can drop $65 to purchase the app outright.
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Shay Nowick said 5:58PM on 3-14-2007
Glad to hear this is out of beta! Desktop sync is where it's at - it's a tough game to master but without it I think most Web 2.0 apps will be ignored by the user base who would actually pay to use them.
Spanning also offers a pretty cool Salesforce.com plugin that sets up custom-filtered RSS feeds from Salesforce to your desktop. Here's a writeup in case you're interested. http://www.undertheradarblog.com/wp_blog.html?fb_2042860_anch=2043673
It's funny that Salesforce.com is so popular BECAUSE it's online (and therefore it's always up to date with the group who uses it) but NO ONE likes logging in to the interface. There are lots of apps in the SF App Exchange that help users avoid the dreaded SF login.
I feel the same way about Google calendars, I hate logging in! Spanning gets it, can't wait to see what they'll sync up next.
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exilio said 6:04PM on 3-15-2007
Great app, but it isn't cheap. I would advise people to wait until Mac OS X 10.5 comes out. Apple is very well aware of the limitation .Mac currently has and may address them in the forthcoming release of Leopard.
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