http://google.com/calendar - if you have a gmail account, you get calendar and Google docs (shareable cloud-based docs and presos and spreadsheets) along with it, they're linked at the top left of the gmail page. If you're using your Mac's Address Book & calendar, you can sync that stuff both ways to Google, but you have to buy some software. I use "Spanning Sync" ($25/year or some such) and it works perfectly. So the calendar on my mac and my phone are always auto-magically in sync. -Tim
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > Good to know, Tim. Where can I find the Google calendar on the web? Can I > synch my android phone with that on a Mac? I notice some of the android file > transfer options won't work with a Mac, which is unfortunate. But I do like > the Android options. I am using their mail client for my comcast mail, and it > works great. > > Paul > On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:18 PM, Tim Bray wrote: > >> I'm one of the people who does Android at Google. For those out there >> who already use some combination of gmail and Google calendar ("those" >> is a big number), when you give the phone your login, it goes and >> automatically sets up your email and calendar and contacts on the >> phone, and then makes sure they automatically stay in sync. It's >> really slick and handy, and the gmail program that runs on Android is >> very smooth & snappy. >> >> There's also a regular ordinary mail client that will talk to various >> kinds of mail servers including the ones most people have "at work". >> >> But if you hate Google and/or have no intention of using any of that >> stuff, you might be better off with something other than Android -Tim >> >> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Paul, like you I also have an Android (Google's OS for smartphones) based >>> cell phone. It seems to me that you have confused it a little. When I got >>> the phone (with the number of the local provider, obviously) and fired it up >>> for the first time, I was asked to give my GMail account to "initialize" the >>> phone or "connect it to the cloud" or whatever would be the term. Android >>> phones seem to be unable to operate without a GMail account stored somewhere >>> deep inside them. >>> >>> What I am trying to say is that my (local) cell phone number is a part of >>> contract between me and the respective operator. Google is no part of it. >>> Even if I were to take the Google Nexus phone, I would think that the same >>> reasoning would have applied. >>> >>> Boris >>> >>> >>> On 1/13/2011 1:58 PM, paul stenquist wrote: >>>> >>>> I think it has to do with gmail's role as an app for smart phones. I >>>> had to set up a gmail account when I bought an android phone from >>>> Verizon. Didn't bother me in the least. Don't use the address, but it >>>> certainly didn't make me angry. There are lots of weird things going >>>> on in the world of interconnectivity as the players stake out their >>>> territory. If it doesn't affect me personally, I don't give a damn. >>>> Paul >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
