Tags: Google, Palm
Google Calendar (no Palm Sync yet)
April 13th, 2006, by Rich.
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Google Calendar has now entered it’s public beta testing phase. The interface will be familiar to anyone who’s used GMail and any other calendar application before - it’s basically a hybrid of the two.
Palm Sync for Google Calendar is Needed
My initial impression is that it looks good, but without the ability to sync with handheld devices (e.g. Palm Pilot) it’s ubiquity is far from certain.
PC-using iPod owners will no doubt be delighted to know that their music machine can already sync with google calendar, thanks to it’s support for the iCal format (if Palm Inc. are listening, take note!)
iCal
The best of the low-hanging fruit so far is that it happily subscribes to iCal files, so publicly available calendars (which are typically produced by the legion of apple users who have been enjoying a good calendar app for a couple of years) are now far more accessible to web-based users.
Sharing
The ability to collaboratively author calendars looks good too, however, this seems to be broken at the moment.
Update: People want Palm Sync!
Since writing the above entry I’ve noticed an awful lot of people arriving here with similar desires… it’s understandable really, given that Palm have sold over 34 million PDA’s worldwide, and licensed the OS for use in millions more phones.
July 13th, 2006 at 12:50 am
i would love to know any sync program available for my treo 650. or balack berry?
July 13th, 2006 at 1:06 am
There’s an old project at http://sourceforge.net/projects/jp-icalendar/
It looks potentially useful, but it is very low activity. I’m trying to build it now, but am still figuring out the dependencies.
July 14th, 2006 at 4:02 pm
sync with Palm Vx please……..
My company doesn’t allow to install any software. I can’t sync my PDA to Palm desktop. The only way is through Yahoo Calendar but it is terrible.
July 25th, 2006 at 9:31 pm
Well, it’s been a few months now. Anything? Anyone? I just want to be able to hit the Sync button on my treo and have it match my Google calendar! Is that too much to ask? I was able to export from google to outlook which syncs with my treo, but once I’ve made changes in Google, it’s just too much work to re-export the calendar. Please, there’s got to be an easier solution.
July 26th, 2006 at 8:22 pm
I found one solution that seems to work and it’s free. I signed up for AirSet which has an option to subscribe to an iCal feed. I export the iCal address from my google calendars to AirSet so whenever my Google calendar changes, my AirSet calendar does too. Then AirSet can sync directly with my Palm Desktop or outlook (which syncs to my palm). You do need to download free software though to sync. Seems to work so far.
July 26th, 2006 at 8:43 pm
Sounds promising!
Aside: the addition of a wifi card to my T5 has killed the battery within 6 months of commisioning, so I’ll not be able to test this until I’ve done a little soldering.
July 27th, 2006 at 4:24 pm
Well, add me to the long list of folks that would like to see Google Calendar sync up with Palm Pilot calendar…otherwise it’s really not worth the effort, trying to keep to calendars.
July 28th, 2006 at 6:09 pm
Ditto! I’d like to be able to sync to my Palm Treo 700p! would make this a great thing!
July 31st, 2006 at 11:56 pm
The ability to sync with my Tungsten will make the Google Calendar solution complete for home and office.
August 10th, 2006 at 11:55 pm
Tried CompanionLink with no luck. Seemed very half-baked. Plus, they only sync to Palm Desktop so their claims of sync’ing to your PDA are inaccurate/misleading, in my opinion.