Dylan Verheul

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August 20, 2009

Back to Nuevasync

After some comments from Jon Skeet over at SuperUser.com in response to my praise of Nuevasync, I tried Google native syncing methods for getting my contacts and calendars from the cloud to my iPhone. It all seemed to work well, until I noticed that certain contacts kept duplicating. After making sure there was no other sync service operational (I have tried a few), I was pretty sure it had to be something between the iPhone and Google.

So, I went back to Nuevasync, and all has been well since. By the way, the Google Calendar Sync was working just fine, but I can only set up one Exchange sync on the iPhone, so that went back to Nuevasync as well.

Update Aug 23 2009: Switching back to Nuevasync didn't make the duplicates go away. I guess it's something else. Will investigate further.

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June 26, 2009

iPhone 3.0 default calendar and Nuevasync

Today I noticed that changes I made to my iPhone Calendar did not show up in the connected Google Calendar. After some research, it turned out that my default iPhone calendar was set to a read only calendar I also subscribe too. So, apparently my calendar settings had changed after I upgraded to 3.0. I don't know if this was the 3.0 update or the fact that I tinkered with some settings.

After settings my default calendar on the iPhone to my primary Google Calendar, everything was working again and updates showed online and in iCal.

Your iPhone default calendar can be found in Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendar > (scroll all the way down) Default calendar.

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July 16, 2007

From Outlook to iCal

I've been using a Pocket PC and Microsoft Outlook for close to 6 years. This means that my current Outlook calendar holds precious data that I would like to move to my MacBook Pro. Since I'd already been fiddling with Google Calendar, I didn't really research this one. The only thing I looked for was a way to move from Google Calendar to iCal, and I found that. This is how I got all my Outlook calendar data into iCal:

  • Create a new calendar named "Outlook Export" in iCal.
  • Create a new calendar named "Outlook Export" in Google Calendar.
  • Exported Outlook calendar to CSV.
  • Import the CSV file into Google Calendar's "Outlook Export". This may take a while.
  • Installed the fully functional Spanning Sync trial on the Mac.
  • Set Spanning Sync to sync your Google Calendar's "Outlook Export" with your iCals "Outlook Export".
  • Wait, confirm your choice when your Mac asks for it, wait some more.
  • Done!

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