So long iCal, hello Google Calendar

I just started investigating gcal and I'm quite impressed. But I too want 2-way synching as I sometimes tend to use my phone to store events (SMS won't work globally yet, nor would I want to pay a fee to add events).
So, adding the google API for gcal to the isync tool apple has, I don't see why my good ol' powerbook shouldn't be able to act as the go-between of gcal, ical and my phone.
As long as gcal is already committed to the ical standards, how hard can it be? I so wish I had time to spend writing the plugins for it...

I have to say that Google has me totally hooked. I love gmail, and gcal is great too. Now for the over the air sync app that they promised for mobile devices! (I know gcalsync - available from gcalsync.com - is looking like a winner, but it still won't work on my Nokia N70).

Incidentally has anyone tried the mobile url for checking gmail on the road. It's fantastic! http://m.gmail.com

Hi,
sync is possible if you use Outlook 2003 ;), with the plugin RemoteCalendars
http://remotecalendars.sourceforge.net/google.htm
Here are all the instructions
http://remotecalendars.sourceforge.net/google.htm

I'm interested in how you set up your Quicksilver trigger. I have looked online and can't find any resource to set up one of these triggers for myself. Please help...

Google Calendar is looking really slick but there are some drawbacks when you have to manage schedules on-line and off-line.

I am trying to collect information about mobile phones that will fix this problem.

Please hop over to http://ekive.blogspot.com/2006/04/google-calendar-making-coordination_20.html and leave a comment that lets me know:

- Make and Model of Phone you use
- Your Carrier
- Whether the Calendar capability on the phone allows you to send a calendar booking as an SMS or MMS message.

For instance the Sony Ericcson P800/P900 models provide send vCalendar as SMS or MMS on T-Mobile or Cingular.

Please help on this fact finding mission. There is a solution that can bring the off-line and on-line calendar worlds together.

How do I drag a link to Google Calendar to my dock or desktop ?

Out of the first 20 comments, I'm really baffled to see none seems to know there have been webcals existing years before the Google one, including versions which support syncing with iCal, some even free (WebCalendar, PHPiCalendar...)

Yes, Google does use "some mental suggestion on you when you sleep". Indeed.

Herv頠:-(

Here is a question tat has blown my mind ever since switching to Mac years ago - why didn't Apple do a Google Calendar? i.e. why did they not create an online iCal that synchs with iCal app? (If you are thinking about talking to me about "publishing your iCal" you can sit down). The probelm with Google calendar is that I cannot add to ift rom my Treo - someone needs to write a nice little app for that and then I am set. I do dream about a homepage a la Google Personalized Hompeage - designed by Apple.

My iBook is the computer I use most often, and I often have to use it offline. I use gmail, but I access it through Mail.app so that my messages are always available to me. If I'm using another computer I can still access them through gmail itself: best of both worlds.

If iCal were able to sync with Google Calendar as easily as I get gmail through Mail.app, then I'd be using that setup in a second. As it stands, there's no good reason for me to adopt gCal because I'm not caught without my laptop (or sync'd iPod) often enough.

Uh.. doesn't Apple have .Mac for this?