topaz

I love my iPhone. Oh, I love it so much. But there is one thing that I never was able to do that drove me nuts, and that was keep the calendar on my phone synched with Google Calendar. I use Google Calendar to schedule pretty much everything in my life now, and not being able to get it reliably on my phone was maddening.

The last time I looked at this, the only solution seemed to involve Google Sync, a tool which looked at best a little kludgy and at worst threatened to lose all of my data if something went wrong. I elected not to use it.

But as of the iPhone 3.0 update it is possible to make your phone sync directly with GCal: http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=151674.

After following that, go to https://www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect to select the calendars you want to see on your phone. Make sure you hit "Save".

Voila! Now I can schedule appointments and -- dare I say it? -- lunch dates! with confidence. It's like a whole new world, baby.