I’m in a mixed marriage. Jennifer uses a PC.
We keep our calendars in sync by using Yahoo’s free service. But this only works when wifi is available. I would much rather use some other system in my computer and sync with either Jennifer or the Yahoo calendar. I’ve tried double-calendaring and it gets tiring. I fail to keep up.
Another option would be to find a way to get my yahoo calendar loaded for offline browsing. But while that is possible on the PC I haven’t yet found that feature available in a browser for the Mac.
Any suggestions?
And while I’m on the subject of computer organization, is there any reason I should keep Entourage on my hard drive. I like Microsoft Office in general, but the Mac already comes with a calendar and email system. Off hand it looks to me like Entourage is not as searchable. Does anyone out there prefer Entourage. What about the firefox/thunderbird system? Are there some benefits there I don’t know about?
P.S. I just noticed Mozilla has a calendar as well. I’m wondering of the PC and Mac versions can export data to one another…. Anyone know?
I believe the Mozilla Calendar uses Webdav – so all you would need is a hosting account somewhere that supports Webdav and then you two could keep in sync. However, Webdav is not that common, and I’m not sure how complicated it would be to set up. Daniel or Jon Barlow might know more.
Also, doesn’t the Palm desktop come in both Mac and Windows flavors? The desktop software is a free download, and I know Yahoo will sync with the Windows version for sure. If it will also sync with a Mac, you could both use the Palm Desktop locally and sync them to the same Yahoo calendar.
I use Yahoo for personal stuff, Outlook Calendar via OWA for work, and Michelle uses a wall calendar. If someone wants to tell me how to keep those in sync…
saw this at download.com it uses excel for your calendar…not sure if it will be helpful or not…
http://www.download.com/Excel-Calendar-Template/3000-2077_4-10434954.html?tag=lst-3-1
Mark,
Go here and ask that question:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=903
The mozilla calendar was part of the monolithic app which included email and browser in one program. The seperate calendar application is called Sunbird. Here’s the page at mozilla. I have installed Sunbird on all my users desktops at work and it is working out very well. All departments have their own calendars as well as a company wide calender. You can view seperate calendars within Sunbird easily. You can selectively view any number of calendars as well. I am using webdav for collaberation but this is not necessary. You can just share the file on your computers via sneakernet or just on a network share if you like. Definitly check it out as it works well. But also, the iCal format was developed by apple so the calendar itself might work in some Apple app. I’m not sure what things in the Apple world use iCal.