Comments on: Solution: iCal, gCal, and iPhone. A happy threesome

By: Emma

Emma — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:52:16 +0000

In doing a bit more digging, it seems that I'm not the only one to have noticed this problem, but there's not a whole lot about it on the intertubes. I'm hoping that a fix is found. Al and I really liked our second alerts and miss them, but love the idea of having our calendars backed up on Google, just in case the worst would happen to our iPhones (gasp, shriek, and perish the thought). I know, we could just use Google calendar on the iPhone, but I prefer the iPhone's calendar, and Google calendar doesn't have a second alert function that I'm aware of.

By: John Wilker

John Wilker — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:35:36 +0000

A second alert like, 10 minutes then 5 minutes? I'm not sure really. In hindsight I think you're right, I don't recall getting any secondary alarms when appts come up. Never really noticed or thought about it.

I actually switched my setup from NuevaSync to google. Not sure I'll keep it though. i can only have it handle my main calendar which is weird and whack. Nuevasync handled all the calendars I had in google.

By: Emma

Emma — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:10:45 +0000

Hi John… I've got a question for you that I can't seem to find an answer for elsewhere… when you set Nicole up with NuevaSync, did she loose her ability to set up a second alert on her calendar? Al and I set our iPhones up with NuevaSync and… voila… it worked (yay!), except we no longer have the option to create a second alert.

By: jwilker

jwilker — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:56:35 +0000

Just set my wife up with NuevaSync, so far so good. I'm really liking this solution, I've been with it a few days now. Liking the quickness of moving data from iPhone to iCal, gCal in the middle. Pretty nice.

The biggest perk, I'm not tied to a machine now. That's huge.

By: chris hough

chris hough — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:23:36 +0000

spanning sync looks really nice, and I had thought of buying it, but it does cost a little coin :( its seems that this issue is more of a software related probably that apple needs to correct and should so in the future. i wanted to avoid buying an app than apple release a patch to fix all of these problems

By: chris hough

chris hough — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:21:23 +0000

I imagine they will change that down the road, but who knows. I have been holding off on getting the iphone 3G until the next gen comes out. i love being an early adopter but the kinks can get annoying sometimes. just like the old ipods, when they got to the nano, they were right on!

just a few pennies for the fountain, lol

By: jwilker

jwilker — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:40:35 +0000

Yeah the whole one exchange sync thing is lame. I can't imagine a technical reason for it. Blackberries seem to have no problems that I am aware of.

By: Jeff Coughlin

Jeff Coughlin — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:24:31 +0000

Spanning Sync also syncs contacts (as I noted above) between Google contacts and Address Book. I'll definitely check out syncinablink though (you never know if there is something better out there – no reason to be tied to just one product :) ).

Also, check out these screencasts of Spanning Sync in action: http://spanningsync.com/screencasts/

And no, I'm not just suggesting Spanning Sync for referral kickback (although that would be appreciated). I'm just mentioning it b/c I've had so much luck with it.

By: chris hough

chris hough — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:22:23 +0000

that app only syncs the iphone over the net, you can than subscribe to google contacts in address book: http://tinyurl.com/4x56fq | http://tinyurl.com/5fejtz , since I will no longer be using my .me account and I am not renewing it this year, i have start migrating everything to google contacts and gmail, nuevasync is exceptional, however, if you already use an exchange account i.e. a corporate email account nuevasync doesn't help.

So far this is what I have found to work best. I migrated everything to google, setup the contacts sync inside address book (i do not use the itunes hook up because it did not sync my google contact groups and it was a little buggy), in ical i can subscribe to my google cals, and I bring down my mail via imap to my machine at regular intervals. I also make regular backups of my goog contacts by exporting them to a file. While, I am an apple junkie, i think both mobile me, imail, calendar, address book, have a long way to go before I would switch back to .me full time.

By: jwilker

jwilker — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:07:56 +0000

So does it sync google contacts to address book contacts etc.? Interesting. I've left my contacts more or less untouched. Mac Address book is my system of record pretty much