The Holy Grail of Synchronization
How to synchronize Microsoft Outlook (multiple locations), Google Calendar, Gmail, iPod, and mobile phone with Funambol / ScheduleWorld.
If you have multiple devices that are already MS Exchange compliant then the Exchange Hosting is a great ideas, but if you have more than 1 platform then it becomes a very big challenges to keep all in sync.
Read a review of Funambol/ScheduleWorld open source service. You migh not have the same requirements, but certainly have part of it. It is a good read
This is the setup the author is trying to sync:
- Calendars
- Microsoft Outlook at work for professional scheduling
- Google Calendar for personal scheduling
- Contacts
- Gmail for email addresses
- Microsoft Outlook at home for contacts
- Gadgets
- Nokia 6682 for access to contacts/calendar on the go (or any mobile phone that has software to synchronize with Microsoft Outlook, ie: all of them)
- iPod for access to contacts/calendar on the go
About ScheduleWorld calendars, contacts, tasks and notes.
ScheduleWorld is an experiment in a new kind of rich Internet application, built on the foundations of open standards that enables you to access your data from virtually anywhere using a growing number of interoperable devices and software. The key features are:
Sync With Virtually Anything.
Sync ScheduleWorld with cell phones, Outlook, Thunderbird, Palm, Pocket PC/Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, iPod, Mozilla, Evolution (with more on the way). Click here for more details.
Simple and Fast Calendaring, Scheduling, Tasks, Notes.
Easy and convenient to use. Innovative techniques using the latest technology provide a great user experience. Click here for more info.
Global Addressbook.
You can update and view your contacts from many different applications and devices such as cell phones, Outlook, Thunderbird, Netscape Mail, the OS/X mail/address book, KMail, Evolution, and others. Export/import is the slow and old fashioned way to stay in sync. Click here for more info.
An Optional Rich Java Client.
Offline support and some unique features like encryption, and multiple overlaid calendars with transparency. Click here for more info.
An Optional Java Micro Edition (J2ME) Client.
Offline support, over the air sync, full character encoding support, full timezone support, true iCalendar (RFC 2445) support, resolution independence. Click here for more info.
What we meant here is for regular user, you can pay a very low cost subscription -around $4-$7 (e.g. 4smartphone) and have them host your “Exchange server” services. By doing so you can not only sync your mail (and direct push a la Blackberry) over the air (WiFi/GSM/GPRS/ED-VO, ..) you can maintain all your calendar, contacts in sync across all your devices/PCs..in real time too!