[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Google Calendars

[Tobias Eigen]

Hi all -

I missed this discussion back in April, but want to express
appreciation for the points raised below and add my vote that it would
be very useful  if markspace were to write a sync tool for Palm/Google
calendar. I am finding myself abandoning iCal and my PDA in favor of
Google calendar, then being stuck without it when I'm not near a
computer.

Google calendar suits the way I use computers, much like other nifty
"social networking" tools like flickr. I use many computers
(desktop/laptop/office) and I share with many people (family, friends
and colleagues). If Google calendar (or one like it - I recognize that
there are multipel good online calendars - but Google is the one with
the open API that I know of) could be the "truth" calendar that syncs
with my Tungsten for when I am offline, that would be superb.
Otherwise I will be looking for some other solution - right now it's
printing out calendars! This effectively turns my Tungsten into a
glorified addressbook and alarm clock, which is rather sad really.

Incidentally, subscribing to the Google calendar iCal calendar doesn't
work properly using missing sync, even accepting that it's read only.
I now have multiple entries for events from the Google calendar in my
tungsten so I've abandoned that idea.

Cheers,

Tobias

On 4/25/06, Barney Maccabe <maccabe at cs.unm.edu> wrote:
>
> On Apr 25, 2006, at 7:40 AM, zoara wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Derik DeLong wrote:
> >> On 4/24/06, Daniel Goldenholz <danielg at bu.edu> wrote:
> >>> Barney
> >>>
> >>> Wow! I didn't hear about Google Calendars. They are very cool.
> >>> Thanks
> >>> for mentioning them.
> >>
> >> I don't think Google can do anything about this.  The iCal
> >> subscription mechanism doesn't allow for subscribers to push changes
> >> back.  Unless they come up with a whole new protocol, I don't see
> >> what
> >> they can do (and even if they do, they'd have to get Apple on board).
> >
> > Wouldn't it be possible to bypass iCal and sync the Sync Services
> > database (the "truth") to an online system? You'd just need an
> > application that can access the truth and can also read/write to
> > Google
> > or another online calendaring system.
> >
> > iCal needn't be involved at all, I think.
>
> Yep, that's true -- Google is about to publish their calendar api and
> someone (perhaps MS) could write a sync tool (I'm not going to hold
> my breath, but I will encourage them :).  My purpose in subscribing
> to my google calendar was to be able to read it off-line and to sync
> it to my palm. The first of these works, the second doesn't.
> >
> > As far as I'm concerned, I'm not that interested in Google Calendars
> > until I can point my friends at a URL that they can access without
> > signing up for anything. If they need to sign up, they won't bother. I
> > currently have my calendars published at icalx.com and (at the moment)
> > that's good enough for me.
>
> That's why I push the subscribed calendar to my .mac account (where
> it seems to mess up the time for non repeating events).
>
> I understand that these are not ideal solutions, but it seems that
> they should work.
>
>
> --
> Barney Maccabe
>
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