Comments on: My Kingdom for a calendaring solution!!

By: Solution: iCal, gCal, and iPhone. A happy threesome | johnwilker.com

Solution: iCal, gCal, and iPhone. A happy threesome | johnwilker.com — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:01:24 +0000

[...] you followed my previous post about wanting to trade my Kingdom for a way to sync my iPhone, iCal, and gCal, you know that the [...]

By: Reto Aeberli

Reto Aeberli — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:23:10 +0000

Perhaps this helps: http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/12/02/google-ca...

By: toby

toby — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:52:25 +0000

unfortunately, other calendars subscribed to in gCal aren't even viewable, let alone editable. I don't see why an exchange account needs to remove the availability of a normal iCal sync…

By: chris hough

chris hough — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:27:04 +0000

you can always try this app if you are not currently running an exchange account: https://www.nuevasync.com/

By: jwilker

jwilker — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:22:18 +0000

@toby, Yeah that's kind of frustrating. Another odity I've found. I have access in gCal to two other calendars. via nueavaSync, they all show up as my single calenard. Odd, not sure I like that.

By: jwilker

jwilker — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:45:02 +0000

oh and for anyone curious, I followed @Toby's link. http://www.ianfernando.com/2008/sync-google-calen...

By: jwilker

jwilker — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:44:33 +0000

So. NuevaSync, plus using calDav for gCal to iCal. seems to work. I can see my google info in iCal and interact with it. I can CRUD on the iPhone and it's reflected in iCal and gCal. So far so good. I did have to turn off my EUI exchange support, so now I need to feed that into gmail or something so I can still do work stuff. Bummer the iPhone only supports one exchange server sync set up.

By: jwilker

jwilker — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:26:19 +0000

@TJ yeah exchange isn't really a solution for me, since I have no access to one on my own. EUI has one I connect to for mail. but I'm not comfortable having 360Conferences stuff on their exchange box. I'm looking at NuevaSync per @Toby's suggestion, but the iPhone only allows 1 exchange sync, and that's EUI already so that's a no go unless I feed my EUI mail in some other way.

@quetwo, I'm not opposed to exchange, but don't have one readilly available.

I'm really annoyed that Apple hasn't made this easier. In this instance, I miss my crackberry. Google support, bam baked in, easy to set up and done. Talk about annoying.

By: quetwo

quetwo — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 04:55:03 +0000

I know its not the direction that you are going, but Exchange has a really, really good calendaring solution. I've seen very few that match it. Everything syncs with it, everything can read it, and the sharing/permissions system just works. I would say it's about the best designed system Microsoft has come up with… Its what iCal is supposed to do, but dosen't.

Now that being said, at home I use SmarterMail. It comes with my hosted domain, and emulates Exchange. I've also used Zimbra's calendaring solution which works great too. gCal was pretty much useless to me — it was such a pain to work with if you were working with any non-google apps. I've syced all of those apps with my Blackberry and local desktop, and viewed them remotely when I was away from home.

By: TJ Downes

TJ Downes — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 04:24:31 +0000

Im using Exchange, it syncs with everything i need it to. I work with a lot of event and calendaring apps and a huge consideration for me has been to build a sync gateway between all the mainstream calendaring. Maybe sometime after I finish my current project I'll get the chance to address this.