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Google Calendar & iPhone Calendar

iCal and google calendar synch is easy. I google calendar go to settings, and under calendar details, right at the bottom, is a "private address". Use the "ICAL" link as the address to which to subscribe iCal to.

Then when you sync with iTunes iCal entries will be synched across. The drawbacks are:
It will be a read only calendar
You can't synch on the go (i.e. without your mac)
Alarms aren't set.

that's the free option - the pay for options do support alarms etc AFAIK
 
szsz said:
I am LOVING Nuevasync.
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you.

Perfect.
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You're welcome. We've worked very hard over the past few days
to upgrade server capacity and to find and fix all the issues that
showed up with growing user population. Good to hear it's working for you.
 
dboreham said:
Hey there Xtal : I am David Boreham and I own the company that
runs Nuevasync. I'm not a lawyer (if I were, I guess I'd be spending
all my time writing privacy policies), but I suspect that your post above
could be actionable. In any event, let me set the record straight :

1. We are not spammers, identity thieves or similar.
2. We are software engineers.
3. We developed Nuevasync to test and demonstrate some sync protocol
software we developed over the last year. For that purpose, and the
number of users we attracted then, offering a free service made good
business sense for us because we received the benefit of improving our
code quality.
4. The site ran very nicely for months, UNTIL the iPhone 2.0 was launched
the other week.
5. We now have thousands of new users and our servers are melting. We also
have quite a few stability issues that have arisen as we took on huge
numbers of users.
6. Our policy is to do whatever we need to do to help the existing users.
(who have signed up and trusted us even though our web site was not slick
and we have no posted privacy policy).

Therefore, once we have achieved stable service for our users, we (actually
I) will have some time to write the policy and post it.

The short version would be : our policy is to not use your personal information
for any purpose other than to provide our sync service.

Now, since we have so many users now it is unlikely that we can
continue to offer a free service indefinitely. This will probably lead us
to explore other business models, to cover our costs. None of these
will include selling private information. A business that depends on
selling information about people just seems wacko to me, certainly
immoral, and I would hope illegal.

If you have any concerns or questions you can e-mail us at :
support@nuevasync.com
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I've been searching these forums day & night for a solution that "just works" and is easy. Thank you, thank you, thank you... it's working like a charm! :)

Do you have plans to support Gmail too? To me, this is definitely something that's worth paying for.
 
iCal & Address book synch & Mobile Me

I have different calendars for different areas of activity.
I also have many groups in my address book.
I would like all of these pushed to mobile me, to be viewed or edited on the web.
However, I would like to be able to specify only specific calendars and specific address book groups to be pushed to my iPod Touch. Is there a way to do this? Does mobile me allow for this? Or is there some other way?
 
not sure if someone touched on this but i've been using the free neuvasync to sync calendar and contacts. it's push so it updates right away. it works for email too but i don't use it for that. my primary function is for google calendar because my family all shares a one and constantly updates. i stay in sync all day and can add/delete. it's free.
 
Nuevasync must of updated something because now ALL my calendars are syncing (including any shared ones I am displaying). Awesome.
 
yeah that worked well for about 12 hours. now its down and nothing is syncing. They have a message on their page saying that they're down...hope things get fixed soon.
 
hayaku said:
yeah that worked well for about 12 hours. now its down and nothing is syncing. They have a message on their page saying that they're down...hope things get fixed soon.
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Hi, we have restored service after a marathon 30 hour debugging session.

For the time being we've set a limit on the number of open connections.
This is sometimes lower than the number of devices that would like
to connect to the service, but it's necessary in order to keep the server
stable. Devices will re-try and sync after a while if they fail to connect
initially.

We expect to make additional performance improvements soon that
will allow us to keep up with demand.

Apologies to everyone who was affected by the outage.
 
I signed up for nuevasync in the hope that it will do what I want: be able to sync my google cal with my iPhone cal. Unfortunately I ended up with a blank calendar on my iphone as it seems that nuevasync isn't pushing any data to my phone :(

The setup went through fine, and I've tried turning the calendar synch off and on, but still a blank calendar..

does anyone have any suggestions? I've emailed nueva and am waiting to hear back from them.
 
Please Help Me With NuevaSync!!!

svenito said:
I signed up for nuevasync in the hope that it will do what I want: be able to sync my google cal with my iPhone cal. Unfortunately I ended up with a blank calendar on my iphone as it seems that nuevasync isn't pushing any data to my phone :(

The setup went through fine, and I've tried turning the calendar synch off and on, but still a blank calendar..

does anyone have any suggestions? I've emailed nueva and am waiting to hear back from them.
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I am in exactly the same boat - I've been trying to do this repeatedly since last night, but I'm struggling to see why NuevaSync is pleasing so many people because I just can not get it to work. I've tried everything people have suggested on forums and I'm now awaiting a response from NuevaSync. Mr Boreham, if you're out there...HELP!:(
 
mkaiser1 said:
I am in exactly the same boat - I've been trying to do this repeatedly since last night, but I'm struggling to see why NuevaSync is pleasing so many people because I just can not get it to work. I've tried everything people have suggested on forums and I'm now awaiting a response from NuevaSync. Mr Boreham, if you're out there...HELP!:(
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Apparently due to the large number of people that have recently signed up, they had problems. There is a posting on nuevasync.com that explains what is happening. Hopefully they are back up soon.
 
Bodah said:
Apparently due to the large number of people that have recently signed up, they had problems. There is a posting on nuevasync.com that explains what is happening. Hopefully they are back up soon.
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But they say they've fixed their problems. Both on this forum and on their site... still no joys of over air syncing :(
 
svenito said:
But they say they've fixed their problems. Both on this forum and on their site... still no joys of over air syncing :(
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On site right now

Users Can't Sync Issue
Update : 8:44 MDT 9:44 CDT 14:44 UTC
Service is up and running but we have diagnosed a bug in our code that is leading to failed sync for many users (particularly if you use an Apple device). We have decided to temporarily disable new user signup until we can ensure reliable and quick service for our existing beta users. Existing users will probably find at present that they can't sync. We expect to fix this problem in the next hour or so.
 
I'm not used to sites updating their users quite so regularily so I hadn't checked since this morning :p

thanks for the info!
 
Damn. Nuevasync would be slick if I didn't already have an exchange account for my work address. I need a calendar push/sync for my side business.
 
Mindflux said:
Damn. Nuevasync would be slick if I didn't already have an exchange account for my work address. I need a calendar push/sync for my side business.
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Unfortunately this is a problem for those with corporate Exchange servers.
Our hope is that the device vendors (Apple, Palm etc) recognize that
multiple sync sources are a requirement, and remove the restriction
that prevents more than one from being configured (assuming that their
code already supports multiple sync sources, which one would think
it would but of course we don't know for sure).

The alternative that you might imagine is that we (Nuevasync) implement a
kind of Exchange proxy that allows syncing back to your corporate server
through us, adding in the Google content. This is technically possible
but it would be a significant undertaking and even then probably not
acceptable to everyone due to secrecy/security concerns.
 
svenito said:
I'm not used to sites updating their users quite so regularily so I hadn't checked since this morning :p

thanks for the info!
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In big companies (I've worked for a few!) it can take literally days to
work through the process to update a public web page. Since we're small
we can just open the html file, edit and save.

Service is back to normal btw, since yesterday afternoon.

Load is still growing. At present we have reasonable capacity headroom however.

Anyone waiting on a support e-mail reply please be patient.
We are mostly replying quickly to the new questions but we have
about a hundred e-mails that we received during the outage that
have not been dealt with. We will work back through those.
Most of them are along the lines of 'when will you be back up'
and hence are no longer actionable, but there are I'm sure some
real bug reports in there too. We will get to them soon.
 
Glad I found this thread.

I signed up and set up Nuevasync today after being frustrated with MobileMe, and everything works okay except one thing, I am not able to sync my Address Book in OS X with Google. However, syncing between my iPhone and Google works great.

Is this just a limitation of the OS X, or am I doing something wrong? I have Address Book to Sync to Google, but when I use iTunes, it says my address books will be sync'd via Exchange over the air. If I try to Sync Now using my menu bar icon, it says it's syncing, but the contacts never arrive to Google.

Is it possible to sync between Google and OS X Address Book when Exchange is being used on the phone?
 
thunderbird maybe?

I do not like outlook anymore and i have been using thunderbird for my mail - it is too bad iphone 3g does not sync with the popular firebird - but I was wondering if there is a way to sync google calendar with thunderbird so then maybe there is a thunderbird app out there for syncing - I am unalbe to find a good app to sync with google calendar or even with firebird/thunderbird

any input would be greatly aprpeciated
 
ianternet said:
I do not like outlook anymore and i have been using thunderbird for my mail - it is too bad iphone 3g does not sync with the popular firebird - but I was wondering if there is a way to sync google calendar with thunderbird so then maybe there is a thunderbird app out there for syncing - I am unalbe to find a good app to sync with google calendar or even with firebird/thunderbird

any input would be greatly aprpeciated
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There is and I've been using it myself for a few months.
You need to install Lightning, and then the Google provider add-on
(both in Thunderbird).

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4631

I use this to get calendar into thunderbird and then sync two devices
(a WM phone and an iPod touch) with Nuevasync. The only issue
I've seen is the 'alert-fest' that you get when all four (phone, pod,
t-bird, google web calendar) alert you about the same event at the
same time.
 
balofagus said:
Spanning Sync will allow you to sync between Google Calendars and iCal. They have a 15 day trial but it will cost you a one-time fee of $65 to purchase to application.

Edit: Apparently Busy Sync can also do it. Plus, their trial period is 30 days, and the software is only $25/computer.
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I tried both Busy and Spanning Sync. I liked Busy Sync better, and the price was better.

I needed it for my wife's phone. She has a blackberry. I can wirelessly sync her BB calendar with Google's calendar, so Busy Sync added syncing to iCal. It's now working like a MobileMe type calendar.

This will also work with iPhones. I can't see subscriptions in iPhone from my iCal, so I can't see my wife's calendar, which I had been subscribed to, so I use Busy SYnc to directly add her calendars to mine, now they show up everywhere. Big Busy Sync fan.
 
thanks! this definitely will help now Ijust need to make sure everything syncs perfectly between lighting and my iphone! :)

dboreham said:
There is and I've been using it myself for a few months.
You need to install Lightning, and then the Google provider add-on
(both in Thunderbird).

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4631

I use this to get calendar into thunderbird and then sync two devices
(a WM phone and an iPod touch) with Nuevasync. The only issue
I've seen is the 'alert-fest' that you get when all four (phone, pod,
t-bird, google web calendar) alert you about the same event at the
same time.
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