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[chris.oco]

If you have ever wanted to sync your personal calendar to your ipod, but either dont use/have microsoft outlook, or just dont like either of them, (like me) then there is actually a way to sync almost any desktop calendar to your ipod using google calendar as a "stepping stone". Basically gcal has a built in feature that will sync your desktop calendar to google... this is normally useful if you want to be able to view your calendar anywhere you have internet and want to make changes and have them take place on your normal calendar. but for our purposes, you want to sync to gcal and then enable the calendar for sharing through ical (youll find out how to do that in the "settings" section of your google calendar) when you enable sharing through ical, you have to be willing to accept the fact that your calendar will be listed on the google search pages if some one happens to stumble apon your url... but for most people, this is not a problem and nobody will probabily ever stumble apon your url anyway because its so long and complicated, that you'd have to get pretty lucky if you ask me!! anyway, when ical is enabled, it will give you the url for your calendar-- save this, you'll need it later.

now your going to want to download a small desktop program called "spongecell" (google it!).. sponge cell comes with free trial of their calendar program but we are already hooked up so we dont need that but you do need to sign up for an account (it is free though) so that you have a user name and password..., so once you download, (the coool thing is that it can be installed on a portable drive also if you want to sync from different computers) you want to go to settings, and erase the url for their calendar in the top field, and put your ical url that you saved earlier in to the box for other calendar types on the bottom of the screen. whollla! now all you do is connet the ipod, the program will recognize the ipod drive name (did i mention that you need to have disk use enabled on the ipod) and hit sync and the program will get a copy of your ical off-line and sync it to your ipod! presto! now just update the calendar when you need and hit sync and there you go!

[lucachaco]

i prefer google calendar