Draining the online calendar swamp
The latest TWiT “Inside the Net” podcast 
deals with online calendar services and the quest for inter-operability.
Guest presenter Scott Mace (Calender Swamp ) talks up Apple’s iCal and Google Calendar which get good marks for working well together (although not always). However,
The biggest problem has been Microsoft Outlook, which I would say most of the world’s calendars are stored in right now. And Outlook has not played well with others.
[Pause the podcast here and get a copy of OMiC which helps Mail.app and iCal play well with Outlook-generated email and calendar data.]
Google Calendar gets Scott’s vote for the most complete solution although his wife (”an Apple bigot”) thinks that iCal is the bees’ knees and she does things with colour in iCal that other calendar apps can only dream about.
The open source calendar app Chandler gets a good rap too, although it is still in beta and has been for a long time.
UPDATE: Hope on the horizon for iCal-Google Calendar synchronisation.
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November 2nd, 2006 at 10:26 am
CalDAV standards… see:
http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/leopard/icalserver.html
and
http://www.calconnect.org/
while not yet there fully it will be soon… I only hope Google also follows…
November 2nd, 2006 at 8:50 pm
“Guest presenter Scott Mace (Calender Swamp ) talks up Apple’s iCal and Google Calendar which get good marks for working well together (although not always). ”
And yet, there is no two-way synching of iCal and Google Calendar (that I am aware of). WIth such a synching, ical/google would be wonderful, but without that, a critical piece is missing.
You can publish ical events to GC, but there is no true synch.
November 3rd, 2006 at 9:16 pm
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