Gmail and Offline Calendar
Since a few years, I have been using GCalendar for managing appointements. It is really a nice tool providing all the features I need (email alarms, ical sync...) :
http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/overview.html
The only real issue I had with it was to access to my appointements offline. As I regularly spent weeks abroad without any internet connection it was really a pain. Thus, I needed to print on PDF the next weeks in order to access to my schedule which is not that nice.
Tonight, I finally found a solution, GCalDaemon:
http://gcaldaemon.sourceforge.net/index.html
And an introduction to using it:
http://lifehacker.com/software/google-calendar/geek-to-live--sync-google-calendar-and-gmail-contacts-to-your-desktop-251279.php
I can now synchronise all my calendars using Thunderbird and Lightning. This is a real improvement to my way of working.
posted by pagalmes at
11:37 PM
2 Comments:
I use iCal to view and cache the calandar local. All I do is use the live iCal link. Unfortunately this process is only one way. Hopefully when Leopard comes out they will support two way synchronisation through the web cal standard.
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Shaun McDonald, at 12:55 AM
I used to use iCal, but stopped & recently switched from iCal to Gmail because of the synchronization problem. It erased appointments I had on my smart phone and made a big mess. I switched to Motorola's Droid and am syncing it with Gmail, it works great (there are other problems with the Droid, but that's besides the point).
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software test consultant, at 11:28 AM
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