I, for one, would really like to sync it with my google calendar. I haven't seen a way to do this. Am I missing something?

My biggest complaint on the calendar is it's limited functionality. The first thing I tried to enter ran into troubles.

Example:
My cleaning ladies come every other Wednesday at 10:20 and the other weeks on Thursdays at 2:20. I can see why I'd have to treat these as seperate events and create 2 sets of repeating items in the calendar, but even that won't work. As it stands, I would have to create 4 seperate repeating events to get it to work in this calendar.

Items can repeat daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly, but not bi-weekly (which is commonly found in calendar software). I also can not set 20 minutes after the hour as the start time. Only 00, 15, 30, and 45 are options. People's lives do not always work on 15 minute increments. In this particular example, it's not that big of a deal, but there are other instances when you need to know the exact time of an event.

Like many other TouchSmart functions, the calendar looks great and has a ton of potential, but just doesn't seem to be done yet.

If theres a way to sync Outlook with google and since google syncs with the touchsmart, that would probaly work. Its a feature that I would like sinc eI rely on my PDA phone quite a bit.

David

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SUCCESS!!

OK, it may not be free but it works. I used a program called syncmycal which synchronizes any and all google calendars with any version of outlook and the sync is two ways, which means you can enter info into you google calendar/touchsmart calendar or your Outlook calendar and it is updated across the board.

I tried google's calendar sync but it only works for the default calendar which I don't use of course since its easier to use my TS calendar.

This seems to be a big find and I'm going to use the trial for a few days and see how things go. Individual user licenses are $25.00 which isn't too bad providing the product does what its intended to do and support is good.

More on this as I learn more.

Right now, I've been able to sync all three of my calendars.

I'll also be publishing a tutorial soon.

David

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linanming said: thanks for the info on Syncmycal... after is it keeping everything in synch without any issues? do you still recommend it? will your tutorial be coming out soon?

sorry I hadn't posted back about it yet.  With finals, graduation and now taking a break on vacation, I hadn't had much time to do much computing.

I'll be back "behind my desk" next week and should be able to play around with all the software I have been testing.

In a nutshell, syncmycal has worked for me but it has crashed twice on bootup.  Not sure if it is due to other software I'm running...or was just running - I uninstalled the latest norton product that I was asked to test...just as bad as the last, but it seems like the crashes happpened after I uninstalled norton.  So, when I get back I'm going to do a clean install and start again so I'll be able to give an update then.

 David

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