iPhone/OS X filter: Can the iPhone sync wirelessly to iCal?

September 12, 2008 5:37 AM

Is there a way to wirelessly sync my iPhone to iCal via Airport or Bluetooth (without purchasing MobileMe)? Maybe an app through the App Store or a jailbroken app solution?
posted by helios410 to Technology (2 answers total)

Here's a answer that's about three-quarters there and works flawlessly:

1) Create Google calendars, and sync them to iCal. Do you have Leopard? Then use Google's CalDAV support. If not, try SpanningSync or BusySync or Plaxo or whatnot.

2) Then, sign up for Nuevasync, which is a free exchange server that will sync your iPhone with the Google calendar. This works on push-sync, so every time you update your iPhone calendar your Google calendar gets synced and vice versa.

3) Now, since you want to sync your computer's calendar to your iPhone calendar, and your iPhone cal is push-synced to your Google calendar, that means all you need to do is to sync iCal to your Google calendar whenever you want to "wirelessly sync".

4) That is, hit Shift-Apple-R in iCal. Done!

Multiple-calendar support isn't up yet, so all of your calendars will appear to be the same color, but it works fine otherwise.
posted by suedehead at 2:55 PM on September 12, 2008

mail2web.com is also a free exchange server (with push-sync.)

It think multiple calendars work.
posted by filmgeek at 8:51 PM on September 12, 2008