Problem

I want to have one one calendar on my Apple Mac & on my Nokia N800.

Solution

1. Download SpanningSync from http://www.spanningsync.com/ , This software will allow you to sync your iCal with Google Calendar. This software will cost you approx $25 per year, or $65 one off payment.
2. Setup SpanningSync from within System Preferences.
3. Enter your Google Calendar email address and password in the top two boxes, and in the bottom half of the window, select your iCal calendar, and which Google Calendar you want to sync it to. N.B. I’ve also ticked the box for automatically sync’ing every one hour.
4. Press ‘Sync Now’.
5. Wait a few minutes to see the calendars in Google Calendar.
6. Now, in Google Calendar, press the ‘Manage Calendars’ button.
7. Click on theGoogle Calenda you sync’d with in step 3.
8. At the bottom of the screen, you should see a section called ‘Private Address’.
9. Right click on the green ‘iCal’ button, andcopy the link location.
10. Goto you email client, past the link you’ve just copied, and send an email to yourself (that you have already configured on your N800). This will save you having to write down & retyping the private URL.
11. Now on your N800, install GPE Calendar. You can download GPE calender from here.
12. Open up your email on your N800, and retreive your emails. You should see the email you sent to yourself.
13. From the menu, select ‘Edit’ then ‘Select All’, the URL should be highlighted (i.e. the one you copied and pasted from Google Calendar).
14. From the menu, select ‘Edit’ then ‘Copy’.
15. Open the GPE Calendar application.
16. From the main menu, click on ‘Tools’ then ‘Calendars’.
17. Click on the first icon, the one that looks like a peice of paper.
18. Name the Calendar, and select the ‘Type’ and ‘Subscribe’.
19. Click in the URL box, and the keyboard should pop up. Press the ‘Menu’ icon (should be bottom left of the keyboard if your using the pointing stick). Select ‘Paste’. The URL should now paste in.
20. Enter your Google Calendar email and password in the ‘Username’ and ‘Password’ boxes.
21. Select an updae interval that works for you, and press ‘Save’.
22. Sometime nohing seems to happen. If you get this, just close the Calendar application, and restart it.

Requirements

• Apple Mac (I’m using OSX 10.4.9 – it may work on other versions too)
• SpanningSync software (to get iCal information to Google Calendar)
• Google Calendar account
• Nokia N800
• GPE Calendar on the Nokia N800
• A working email account on your N800 (for getting the private URL from your Mac to your N800)

There is another (free) way to get your iCal sync’d with Google Calendar using a Java program called GCALDameon. See macosxhints.com and the GCALDameon tutorial (I’ve not tried this way, I just too lazy!!!).

Any appointments you make in GPE Calendar DON’T get sync’d back to iCal, but because your using Google Calendar, you can change any appointments on the fly (as long as you’ve got an internet connection).