I'm currently evaluating the best method to sync my calendar and contacts between my Mac and my iPod Touch (and I'll probably get an iPhone next). I was testing MobileMe, and it seemed to work ok, but when I switched to the new Calendar Beta, I was not happy. I don't want to use an @me.com email address. I had ical sending my appointments out via my regular IMAP account hosted elsewhere and I was happy with how that worked. Now with MobileMe and CalDAV, the appointments go out from me.com, which I don't like (and my invitees get an email that they have to go to a web site to get the ics file, don't like that). I also don't like paying $99/year for that.
So I started looking and came across Spanning Sync. This looks very promising, but a lot of the info and data out on this is quite incomplete/confusing to me and I'm trying to piece it together. So can someone confirm the following for me: 1) Spanning Sync appears to sync my "on my Mac" calendars with my Google Calendars. Appointments I send go out from my other IMAP account, like they used to. However, when I look at the appointments on Google, all the Attendee/Invitee information is missing. From old posts, this was a limitation I gather? But is this still a limitation? I cannot tell. 2) There is talk on the product site about syncing to iPhone/iPod as well. As far as I can tell, this product doesn't do anything for that, right? Is the best option to use the Google Sync (Exchange/ ActiveSync) option for this? I'm testing it now, and it works, but of course, I don't see any invitees/attendee info. I do want to sync "over the air". CalDAV form the iPhone/iPod won't do contacts, so I ruled that out. 3) I guess this is really a Google Sync question, but I notice that if I send appointments from my iPod and pick one of my other calendars, I cannot add any invitees. Only on my first/primary calendar can I add an invitee. Is that by design or is this some result of me syncing with Spanning Sync? Thanks for clearing up the confusion for me.. my head is spinning!! Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Spanning Sync" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spanningsync?hl=en.
