HOW TO SYNC MICROSOFT OUTLOOK WITH ICAL USING GOOGLE CALENDAR

Since I am currently using both Windows XP and Mac, I need to have my calendars seen in Microsoft Outlook in Windows and Ical in Mac. How do I do it? It was a headache previously. However recently Google adds CalDAV support to Google Calendar. What is CalDAV support? This is taken exactly from Google blog. "CalDAV is an open protocol that allows calendar access via WebDAV. CalDAV models calendar events as HTTP resources in iCalendar format, and models calendars containing events as WebDAV collections. This allows you to publish and subscribe to calendars, share them collaboratively, sync between multiple users and sync between multiple devices." To see the google calendar in your Ical in Mac, just download the setup tool here and follow all the instructions.

So, in simple term, you can have an online google calendar in your ical and all your calendar editing in ical is synced with google calendar. To sync Microsoft Outlook with google calendar, you need to install Google Calendar Sync in your Windows XP PC. Make sure the setup in the Google Calendar Sync is two way instead of one way.

So, guys, your Microsoft Outlook, Ical and Google Calender events will be synced all the time. But all these have to be done manually.

With this, it doesn't matter if your smartphone or dumbphone is synced with Outlook or Ical, all your events in all your calendars will look the same. Even if you left your notebook, macbook, smartphone or dumbphone at home, you can still edit your calendar in a cybercafe at Google Calendar and all the changes can be synced in all the calendars.