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BusySync 2 to include Google Calendar to iCal capability

by Michael Rose Jan 14th 2008 at 3:00PM


If you're iCal-based for your scheduling needs and you want to share calendars with family or colleagues, you're probably already hip to BusySync and the delights of iCal syncing Mac-to-Mac without a .Mac account. Now the BusySync team has announced a key feature for 2.0, shipping in February: Google Calendar synchronization. You should be able to share calendars across the internet with other Google Calendar users, and if they have BusySync on their machines the Gcal data will slide neatly into iCal for them.

BusySync 2.0 will ship for $24.95 per computer, a $5 price increase -- if you buy a BusySync 1.5 license today for $19.95, you can upgrade for free to the new version. There's also a public beta on the way if you want to check it out.

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pschaefs

hmmm, this is a real conundrum. I've found gcal daemon to be too cumbersome to install and I think the other sync programs are not worth the money. I haven't tried Plaxo yet, but probably will. The thing that attracted me to gcal daemon was the ability to do a two-way sync and update between gcal and ical (and it was updated every ten minutes).

April 07 2008 at 11:12 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
pjones

Does anybody know how to share iCal calendars over a local network? I don't have OSX server or the calDAV capabilities... but I am running a local network with a three macs and would like to be able to share each machine's calendars with the other machines.

January 18 2008 at 1:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Michael Rose

pjones -- that's what BusySync does! :-)

January 18 2008 at 1:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kyle

@jpoa

I am definitely interested in that. I tried installing it on Tiger and Leopard and I can't get it to work. I follow it to a tee but something goes wrong and then I'm lost. A GUI would be fantastic, if you had the time. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

January 16 2008 at 3:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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pschaefs

yeah, I couldn't get gcaldaemon set up either. would appreciate the help

April 07 2008 at 12:40 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jpoa

Man... In the beginning I tought everyone knew it, but now I don't get it...
There is a free (GPL'D!!) application that does that! Gcaldaemon does all you want for free! And for a LONG time!
If the trouble is setting it up I can make a tool for that, as long as anyone is interested (wont spend time developing a GUI for nothing...).

Cheers!

January 16 2008 at 3:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Thijs Poorthuis

But plaxo can't seem to sync multiple calendars...

January 15 2008 at 6:01 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Justin Brown

i second the Plaxo comments. i works great.

January 15 2008 at 2:39 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rick

Or just get Plaxo and sync everything in the world for free and automatically.

January 14 2008 at 8:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Josh Farkas

Or you could do this for free...

1) Create a google calendar
2) Make it public
3) Put some appointments on it
4) Click the RSS feed for your calendar
5) Place this within iCal and subscribe

Your calendar will update automatically with your google cal. Set up Quicksilver to make speedy appointments on gcal and you're even better!

January 14 2008 at 8:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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allan smithee

Or you could get a clue, RTFA, and understand what BusySync (as well as Spanning Sync) does that your "free" solution CANNOT do, namely, bidrectional calendar editing and syncing.

All you lame "or you could just..." posters drive me nuts. Read the post and understand what the product does FIRST, before you post your jaded, "techier than thou" retorts

January 15 2008 at 1:58 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Josh Farkas

Yep, this is bidirectional but apparently that is worth $25 and proving you're a complete and utter dick. Kudos!

January 15 2008 at 9:44 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kai

I'm using Plaxo 3, and it has this feature, too. Only it syncs from any Mac to the Plaxo first, and then to Google. But changes get populated both ways - and I can include more Macs. And it syncs my Outlook at work, which is behind a stupid web proxy that requires authentication. And it keeps all my address books in sync. I'm using the free version. Can recommend. (No, I don't work for them. Just a happy user.) Regards from Barcelona/Spain, Kai

January 14 2008 at 5:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Geoff

Reason to use it over .Mac sync: it actually works.

January 14 2008 at 4:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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