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Spanning Sync for Mac to Google syncing
I'm still using Spanning Sync to sync my local calendars to Google. Calendaring is the main sync issue for me: my phone syncs with my local iCal, and then my local iCal syncs to multiple calendars that I have. This is still a bit tricky, since I have a personal Gmail account as well as multiple Google Apps for Domains accounts. My main request is to support multiple accounts and use the "native" login for that account, rather than having to use one account that has access to all calendars. This does work for calendars, but doesn't work for contacts: your contacts will be synced to only one account.
For calendars only, if you have a Series 60 phone, there is also CalSyncS60. This lets you sync directly from your phone to Google calendar. Except, I never got it to work quite right, and I don't have a data plan at the moment, so syncing would be mainly at the home or office where I have wifi.
The reason I made this post now? Brendon pointed out to me that Spanning Sync has a refer a friend program, since he was about to buy a copy. So use this link or click on the logo if you are planning on buying Spanning Sync and want to also push $5 my way (you also save $5).
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Boris - I think it was from you who I first heard about caldav support for google calendars. I set that up in iCal for my google apps calendars and voila! Perfect syncing. Why not just go that route? What does Spanning Sync give you that you can't get for free?
Just curious - cause I haven't found the perfect calendar syncing mechanism yet. The caldav support mentioned above works pretty well - but for some reason the calendars show up as read only on my iPhone. D'oh! It's a bit frustrating that there is no built in calendar sharing between accounts on the mac either. Amy and I have separate calendars and I've had to work a little magic so we can see each others...
I'm using davical instead of google calendar (they made up with caldav after I begun to use davical). Same problem with Nokia E-series as with iPhone. Events are readonly. This is really REALLY frustrating as I sometimes forget it and then syncing complains about some modifications that couldn't be made.
Caldav itself works great.
I have particular needs, as I said: multiple calendars, among others. Actually, and that read only item. I sync to my phone, and need to be able to read and write in all locations.
Also, spanning sync syncs contacts, too. CalDAV is definitely the long term way to go ... but it's barely supported today.