PI in the Sky – Paul Irvine

The Palm Pre Plus / webOS comes with built in sync for exchange calendars, but not for outlook calendars. I have Outlook 2007 and use it for accessing a couple of hosted exchange accounts (POP without calendar), and multiple imap accounts. So there was no apparent way to get my Outlook calendar data into my Palm Pre Plus. I found several commercial software tools that could do it, and it wasn’t that I was bothered with paying for software that does a good job, but it wasn’t a deal breaker and so I left it a day or so. I’d just got my several contacts info sorted out from my old phone (by adding them to my gmail account) when I saw that Google has a calendar sync utility you can download to sync your outlook desktop calendar to your Google Calendar. I hadn’t used Google Calendar before but decided to check it out. It was okay, but the interesting thing is the widgery allows you to do full sync, sync Google to Outlook only, or sync outlook to google only. Very cool. Select the last option, and google calendar has my outlook calendar in it. Fire up the Calendar tool on webOS on the Palm, and bingo… there’s my new google account data all sync’d in with my other calendar information, nicely merged and color coded.
This Palm Pre Plus continues to impress. Very nice.