Google <3's Outlook, Proposes With A Calendar Sync App
For all the Google-holics out there, your favorite company just released a small, but very useful app, to help keep their Google Calendar relevant and increase its usefulness. According to the Official Google Blog, as of today you can download a tiny app that will automatically synchronize your Google Calendar with your Outlook Calendar and vice versa. The app can be set up to sync at regularly established intervals and without any manual start, and best of all its free.
This is a cool first step, Google, and I'm sure it will effect the largest user base of Calendar software, but I would love to see the same functionality for Thunderbird's Calendar extension and iCal, or even Lotus Notes (for those of us that are stuck using Lotus at work...). In any case, it's a good step and I'm happy to see it come to life. The main reason I haven't used Calendars before is that I abhorred trying to keep multiple Calendars update with the same information, but now it seems life has become just a bit easier. Thanks Google!
[via: Download Squad]
Jesse James
Posted to On Your Desk on 6 March 2008
· Comments (2)
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If it ain't broke... cease production. Right?
OMG, thank you for posting this. A project I'm working on is hindered by someone's use of Outlook for calendaring and syncing to Google for everyone else is a true headache. You just saved me a lot of time and effort.
If you like that, you should see scheduleworld. It uses syncml and some hacks to sync everything from Evolution to iCal.
I've been using it for a while to keep my google calendar in sync with my outlook, evolution for ubuntu, and my pocket pc all in sync.
http://www.scheduleworld.com