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Spanning Sync (Re)opening Public Beta

Paul Westbrook | 04 February, 2007 14:53

The public beta for Spanning Sync has reopened.  With Spanning Sync, you can synchronize your iCal with your Google Calendar accounts.

Now that I have tried it out, I am impressed with how well it works.  I was easily able to synchronize a calendar in my Google Calendar account with a calendar in iCal.  In fact, this was a Google Apps for Your Domain account, so there doesn't appear to be any problem working with these, as opposed to a regular Google Calendar account.

One suggestion that I have is to add the ability to create a calendar in iCal from the Spanning Sync interface.  This would be very helpful if you have a lot of accounts in Google Calendar, and want to synchronize all of them.

I don't think that I will be using Spanning Sync personally.  I am finding the calendar sharing and event invitation capabilities so much better in Google Calendar than they are in iCal.  Also, I can modify the calendars on Google, even when I am not on my Mac.  The only reason that I want to keep things synchronized with iCal is so I can use iSync to synchronize the data with my phone.

This is really easy to do with just subscribing to the private ics feed in iCal

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