Inside Spanning Sync’s iCal-Google Calendar sync beta
The private beta of Spanning Sync’s full two-way iCal and Google Calendar sync app is under way.
Aaron Freedman at MacUser provides a insider’s view 
of how the app works and how well it works.
It is packaged as a system preference:
Spanning Sync installs not as an application, but a System Preferences panel. In it, you put in your Google Account username and password, and then select which iCal calendars to sync with which Google Calendars. You can also set at which interval to have the calendars sync (or you can just choose to sync only manually), and you can choose to sync alarms on each individual calendar. All of this can be set up very quickly, and once so, you can close System Preferences and, if automatic sync is enables, have your calendars sync in the background.
And it is working pretty well. After some initial duplication problems were sorted out, Aaron is pleased with the app’s performance:
Tags: Google calendar, iCal, private beta, Productivity, synching, syncingIt’s great to be able to use my Google Calendar on my PC, and use iCal at home, and then be able to sync my calendar to portable devices with iCal.
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November 27th, 2006 at 12:25 am
Hey guys, thanks for the coverage. I really like Hawk Wings, so it’s great to see my stuff here!
November 27th, 2006 at 12:34 am
Hey, Aaron, there’s only one guy here, but you’re welcome. Sounds like it will be a good thing when it goes public.
November 27th, 2006 at 2:30 am
Yeah, I’m watching the clock dial spin until this thing goes public beta. Just bummed I was too slow to get in on the private beta. I’ve decided to move my family’s stuff to Google Apps For Your Domain, so iCalGCal syncing would be very nice.
February 1st, 2007 at 7:10 pm
Any thought of including Now Soft’s Calendar program?
iCal is great, but Now Up-to-Date is a superior calendar product. I’ve been a Now Up-to-Date user for years and it would be great to have this ability for NowSoft products too.