10.5: Two-way synch Google Calendars and iCal

Aug 11, '08 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: pamon

As noted in this post on the Google Code Blog, the Google Calendar now features support for the CalDV protocol:

The Calendar team was the first to launch its Google Data API back in 2006, and in that proud tradition, we're excited to offer an additional way for developers to read from, and write to Google Calendar: the CalDAV protocol. (CalDAV -- an extension of WebDAV -- is an evolving, open standard for calendar synchronization.)
What this means is that you can now do two-way synchronization between Google Calendars and iCal version 3.x (standard in Leopard). Google has some additional pages to help with the process: As noted by Google, this is a developer-focused release, and they strongly suggest that you restrict synchronization to test accounts only at this point.

[robg adds: I haven't tested this one; the hint is credited to pamon, as he's the one who emailed me the info on Google's CalDAV support. I wrote up the hint based on the links in pamon's email, so the above words (and any errors) are mine, not his.]

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