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Sync Outlook and multiple Google Calendars with Remote Calendars

Remote Calendars
Google Calendar Sync does a decent job of letting you synchronize Microsoft Outlook and Google Calendar - if you only have a single Google Calendar you want to synchronize. But if you keep separate Google Calendars for work, personal appointments, or other activities then Google Calendar Sync is of limited use, since it will only synchronize your primary calendar.

But where there's a will, there's a third party plugin. Remote Calendars is an open source add-on for Outlook 2003 and 2007 that lets you subscribe to any online calendar that uses the iCal format. And that includes Google Calendar.

Installation is a bit tricky. Once you download and unzip Remote Calendars, make sure to open the Prerequisites folder and run both applications (or better yet, read the instructions) before running the Remote Calendars setup utility. You'll know it worked if you're greeted with a configuration screen the next time you run Outlook.

Once Remote Calendars is installed you should see a new toolbar in Outlook that lets you add or remove remote calendars. You can copy and paste the URL found in your Google Calendar settings.

[via gHacks]

Filed under: Internet, Productivity, Google

Synchronize Google Calendar and Outlook with Google Calendar Sync

Google Calendar SyncGoogle today released a piece of software that may just be the holy grail of calendar synchronization. Well, if you use Windows and Outlook, anyway. Google Calendar Sync is a utility that automatically synchronizes your Outlook and Google Calendar appointments.

You can configure Google Calendar Sync for 2 way sync, meaning that any time you update either calendar, the changes will be copied to the other. Or you can choose a 1-way sync which will only copy changes made from one calendar to the other and not vice versa.

What's really exciting about Google Calendar Sync is it gives you a way to synchronize your calendar across multiple devices easily. Just install Google Calendar Sync on multiple computers and now when you update your laptop calendar it will automatically sync with Google Calendar, which will automatically sync with your desktop PC, which will sync with your Windows Mobile PDA. Pretty cool, huh?

Google Calendar Sync is hardly the first tool for synchronizing Outlook and Google Calendar, but it's free and it performs automatic synchronization at regularly scheduled interviews while most other programs cost money and/or require you to activate them manually.

Now if Google would just release a version that works with Thunderbird (with the Lightning extension) and iCal.

[via Official Google Blog]

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