Apple have spent the last couple of weeks trying to turn themselves into Microsoft, rolling out their new MobileMe service … in theory, it’s a great idea, providing a way to automatically and instantly synchronize your iPhone to your home computer. In practice, it’s not so great – not only do many of it’s features not yet work as originally advertised, some users messages are lost, but even without the hiccups it will only work if you “jump in the deep end” with them, changing your email address and everything to fit their scheme.
My friend Robert has been cursing them regularly – and publicly now over at TwistyBitz:
Personally, I don’t want to pay $99/year to have yet another email address; I’m perfectly happy with Gmail and all the other free features they offer – I already have my Gmail sync’ed with my iPhone (OK, not in real time, but close). And now – thanks for the heads up, Josh – I’m able to have my Google Calendar sync’ed in real time with my iPhone!
If you have not heard of this yet, head over to NuevaSync and check out their service … like MobileMe it’s suffering a little from the sudden increase in demand from iPhone users, but unlike Apple it won’t break anything if it doesn’t work, and anyway tonight it’s working well 🙂
Basically, if you have a Google Calendar, you set up an account on NuevaSync, link it to the Google Calendar, then set up your iPhone to access NuevaSync as an Exchange service. After that you enable Calendar sync’ing, and your Google Calendar magically appears on your iPhone (and any changes you make to it, get sync’ed back the other way!)
One warning … Apple will wipe any calendar data in your iPhone when you start this process, so make sure your Google Calendar is up to date before you begin.
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