iPod Touch Awesomeness – Calendar Synching

I wanted to share some pretty neat iPod geek talks with you right now.

First off, I don’t know about you, but I always found that I used my calendar at work a whole lot more than any other calendar.  It may have to do with the fact that I am in front of my computer at work 8 hours a day.  I always wondered how I could get my calendar at work to sync up with my calendar at home.

Worry no more!  I found out a real easy way to sync my calendar at work to the one at home, PLUS the one on my iPod Touch.

The key is Google Calendar.  Essentially, I needed to arrange my calendars in the following manner

iPod Touch <—-> iCal (on the Mac) <—–> Google Calendar <—–> MS Outlook Calendar (work)

I went to Google Calendar and found an application to synchronize my calendar entries from work to the Google Calendar.  I have set this synchronizer to scan once every two hours for any new entries.  Once this was set up, I can log into Google Calendar at any point and see the entries on my work calendar.  I can also add an entry to Google Calendar and the synchronizer would update my work calendar as well.

So the next step was then to get the synchronizer for iCal (the calendar program on the Mac) to Google Calendar.  That worked smoothly so then all I have to do is update my iPod and voila!  I now have calendar entries on my iPod.

The calendar entries on the iPod are neat.  I was walking to my final exam the other day and my music lowered and I heard a chime sound.  Sure enough, it was a reminder that I had an exam in fifteen minutes!  Pretty cool.  I am sure that the iPhone works similar to this when a phone call comes in while listening to music.

All in all, I’m pretty pumped over this discovery.  I stumbled upon this while testing out different features on Google for my new job (which is awesome and deserves it’s own rightful place in a separate blog entry) and am loving it.

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