In our previous post, we looked at syncing strategies for Mac and iPhones. The focus was on people who use iCal and Address Book as their primary place to store events and contacts.
Today it’s Google’s turn. If you use the Google Calendar, Google makes it easy to sync that calendar with your phone or desktop computer. And if you’re using Gmail, you probably have dozens of names and addresses in your contact list. Google sync handles that as well, helping you manage your contacts across all your devices.
Google Sync uses push technology to keep your devices synchronized; update a phone number son your computer and the new info is pushed automatically to your other devices. Add an event to the calendar on your synced mobile phone and that change will be reflected automatically on your Google calendar.
Google Sync works with the Iphone, BlackBerry, Android and Windows Mobile phones, among others. The features vary, depending on what kind of phone you have, but the push technology works for most phones. You can also sync to Outlook on your PC or iCal and Address Book on your Mac
If you’re using Google Apps at your workplace, your system administrator has to enable syncing. Otherwise download the syncing software and get step-by-step instructions here for syncing Google to your phone. Or learn how to sync calendars and contacts to any device at the Google Sync Services website.
