Both SCORM 2.0 white papers have been submitted, so I’m doing my weekly review (GTD style) and wanted to clear the plate with something lighter than pedagogy or DITA or IE 7 rollouts.
Don’t get me started…
Anyway with a month of using the iPhone, I’ve had one lasting annoyance and that’s synching my calendar information with Google Calendar.
I plunked down $20 and picked up Spanning Sync to sync calendars between Google and my Mac. If you’re a Mac user and you normally use Google Calendar to expose your calendaring information from “the cloud,” it’s worth the $20 for the lack of drama.
It just works. The Google CalDAV deal is great from iCal by itself, but you can’t write from the iPhone using only Google’s CalDAV exposure.
I’ve been using the iPhone like a fiend for organizing my consulting, work and home stuff, so after the 15-day free trial period, I bought it. Spanning Sync usually costs $25/year, but you can save $5 by using my discount code if you decide to buy it:
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In full disclosure, if you use my code I’ll get a $5 referral fee from Spanning Sync. Once you’re a subscriber you’ll get a code of your own so you can make money every time one of your other friends subscribes to Spanning Sync.
Every time I synch the iPhone to the Mac, it syncs with iCal. iCal synchs flawlessly with Google. In version 2.0 (coming soon, I read), they’ll also be able to synch contacts — again it should be no fuss.
More on LETSI and SCORM 2.0 coming next week.
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Sync My Calendar
| 11-Sep-08 at 9:17 am | Permalink
Just wanted to share my appreciation for Spanning Sync. And the Spanning Sync 2.0 Beta is very near release (I’ve been using it for a while now with no problems) and should be stable enough to use regularly (especially if you want the contacts syncronization).