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August 21, 2006
Syncing Google Calendar to Outlook
This may be old news, since it was posted to Mobility Today 14 hours ago, nevermind to Jake's site a few days ago. I figured I'd put it out there anyway:
How to Sync Google Calendar with Outlook and Smartphones Automatically
[Jake Ludington's MediaBlab c/o Mobility Today]
Why librarians should care: If you have a smartphone, *or* a non-phone PDA, for that matter, and you've been playing with Google Calendar, you either may not know that you can export your Google Calendar to Outlook for download (since export features don't seem to be built in, just looking at the settings) and then subsequently to your portable device. Or, you may know patrons who have this question.
After you get through the installation of the RemoteCalendars software, the fix lets you *sync* to and from Outlook 2003+. Yahoo Calendar offers the Intellisync for Yahoo downloadable app to allow syncing back and forth with different contact/calendar management applications and gadgets (including Outlook, Outlook Express, Palm OS Handhelds, Pocket PC Handhelds, Lotus Organizer, and ACT!, which is a step closer than Google Calendar right now). Hopefully Google will get on the syncing bit, or at least somehow hook up with RemoteCalendars a la Yahoo's syncing app to make this less of a backroads hack and more of a built-alongside feature.
I'm guessing this could be altered relatively easily to work with other calendars that accept iCal files, but that's just a guess. If you come up with a way to do it, or already have a way to do it, I'd love to hear about/link to it. :)
August 21, 2006 11:46 AM