The Google apps calendar works well for us because my wife has her own, I have mine, and we share each others. Makes it easy for me to see what she's got scheduled with the kids (she's a stay-at-home mom and does a lot of activities during the day), and she can see... well, hmm... I guess it's more of an advantage for me than it is for her :) For contacts, I agree that the type-ahead in the gmail interface is great, but we need decent comprehensive contact manager. names, phone numbers, addresses, birthdays, etc.
I looked into the apps that Robert and Dana mentioned, but I'm a bit leery to give out login info to a 3rd party app. Installed Outlook 2007 yesterday, and to be honest, it's pretty cool. I've managed to get it to read in both my wife's google calendar as well as mine... and it will even do an overlay view. However, I can't seem to get the iphone to sync with those. As far as I can tell, it will only sync with the 'main' Outlook calendar. Not what Outlook refers to as "Other" calendars. Google's got a sync tool that will sync a google calendar to the main Outlook calendar, but only a single calendar, so I'd lose the functionality of being able to get my wife's calendar synched up with the phone. So, as of right now... just using Outlook in conjunction with the iPhone for contacts. Outlook is essentially the backup in case the phone accidentally gets put into a blender. Still don't have a good solution in place (that doesn't involve a third party) for calendar tho. On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]>wrote: > I use Google apps as well and don't use Outlook at all anymore. I > sync my iPhone to Outlook mainly for backup purposes, and in case I > have alot of data entry to do. I haven't yet needed a phone number > while in GMail, and the typeahead for email addresses in GMail is so > good that the email addresses are almost always already in there. > > For calendars I just use the iPhone exclusively for my calendar and > again use Outlook for backup purposes only. > > Really, Once I thought about it, I'd been trained by Outlook and > Microsoft to *need* a desktop calendar and contacts program. I > started using Google apps and tried to use it's calendar and contacts > too, but in the end I found I simply didn't use it or need it. I > always have my iPhone with me and I don't actually need the desktop > version. I've dropped it entirely (cept for backup). > > -Cameron > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Charlie Griefer > <[email protected]> wrote: > > so... > > since using google for domains for my personal email, i've stopped using > > outlook. i've stopped using any email client and use the gmail web > > interface exclusively. my wife and i both use the google calendar, > which > > has gone pretty good so far. > > > > what i find lacking in google (sorry, google) is the contacts. i've more > or > > less gone without a true contact manager since making the move to google > for > > domains. > > > couple of weeks ago, got an iphone. i would now like to sync my mail > (can > > do, not a problem), calendar (can't seem to sync google calendar with > iphone > > 'out-of-the-box'), and contacts (but ain't got any). > > > > i could just install outlook, set outlook to sync with the email accounts > > and google calendar, which would give me back a contact manager... and it > > syncs with the iphone. > > > > ....or... any other options i'm overlooking before going back to outlook? > > > > -- > > I have failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my life. I love my > > wife. And I wish you my kind of success. > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:285385 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
