Google Calendar adds iCal Support

July 28th, 2008 (2:00pm) Mike Gunderloy 5 CommentsTweet This

Google appears to have finally noticed that Mac users would like to sync their desktop calendars with their online ones: they’ve released (in beta form) Google Calendar CalDAV support. By following their instructions, you can set up synchronization between your OS X Leopard calendar and your Google one.

Though it works, the initial release is rough. Among the current issues are that it doesn’t work with other CalDAV-enabled software, it doesn’t support To Dos, and it doesn’t sync email reminders or alarms. You might want to look at the free Calgoo or the $65 Spanning Sync instead. In any case, I recommend backing up your data before experimenting.

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Comments (5)

thank you for this.

what I’d be excited about is if Google Calendar synched up with Now Up To Date on OSX…will check out Calgoo, though.

thesilversun — 3:44 PM on July 28, 2008 Reply
Should also mention BusySync. It works very well and and at $25 it’s a lot cheaper than spanningsync.

Chris — 6:17 PM on July 28, 2008 Reply
I use plaxo to sync my iCal and google calendar. It’s the easiest, cheapest sync solution I’ve found.

dawn — 7:13 PM on July 28, 2008 Reply
Unfortunately, the new sync does not support Hebrew. I’m guessing YMMV for other non-English languages as well. I’ll stick with Plaxo for now.

Zviki Cohen — 10:01 PM on July 28, 2008 Reply
SpanningSync is more expensive, but it also supports contact syncing which it appears none of the other solutions do.

Judi Sohn, WebWorkerDaily — 1:42 AM on July 29, 2008 Reply