WWDC '08: Charlie Wood (Spanning Sync)

I have officially managed to finish sorting and editing all of the footage from WWDC. The last video in our series is a chat with Charlie Wood from Spanning Sync. He managed to make it to an early appointment at my hotel on the morning I was leaving, despite having made the most of a large-scale bash the evening before.

If you're not familiar with Spanning Sync, it's an application that provides synchronization between Google Calendar and iCal. The upcoming release, currently in beta, will be adding contact sync as well. Charlie provides a demo in the video, highlighting the contact photo aspect of the feature.

Justin Williams recently posted a guide to using Spanning Sync with his own application, Today. If you're a Today user who's interested in integrating Google Calendar, have a look. And check out my chat with Charlie after the jump.

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Shawn

If one just wants calendar syncing between multiple Macs and gCal (without the bullshit storage and extra "paid" email) check out: http://busymac.com/ This was out much earlier than this Spanning Sync garbage. I've used it for three months now. Love it.

July 08 2008 at 4:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jason

Spanning Sync, yuk. I had lots of problems, and hated that they interject their servers in between me and Google. Oh, and a yearly fee? No thanks.

I went with BusySync instead, set it up, and haven't touched it since. Works perfectly, totally in the background, no hassles.

July 08 2008 at 1:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Balls

for the most part, I dig the mac. Things like this, rightly suck.

You have to pay to have 2way synchronization between ical and google calenders?

Seriously, wtf?

I hate this nickle and dime bullshit.

July 08 2008 at 1:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Arsei

I'm a gCalDaemon kind of guy, waiting for it to be /really/ stable with leopard (meh), but I don't see how spanningsync can win this one vs busysync.

July 08 2008 at 12:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

anon

They were the first mover on gCal-iCal sync. I actually did buy a one-year subscription when they released the software. But BusySync is so much better and more stable. I haven't used Spanning Sync in a few months, so they may have improved since. Whereas Spanning Sync kept running into problems that affected syncing, BusySync has hardly had any that affected me.

July 08 2008 at 11:20 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jash Sayani

Cool App. But is useless now as iCal has Google Calendar Sync !

Rejoice !

July 08 2008 at 11:02 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Bob

Subscribe and Sync are two very different things (unless I'm missing something in which case, tell us all how you did it!).

July 08 2008 at 12:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

iCal doesn't have Google Calendar Sync. If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch and OS X 10.5.3+, you can sync Address Book to your GMail contacts.

July 08 2008 at 1:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rob Sandie

Does this compete directly with MobileMe?