entschuldigt den englischen post aber ich glaube das interessiert auch die anglophonen unter uns.

Disclaimer: This How-To may fry your cat and kill your phone or vice versa please do make backups of your data and clone your cat (just in case).

This tutorial uses mostly free services or trial software. (you won’t have to spend any money, unlessyou need the extended feature set of some service or some extended syncability that only the fullversions offer).

Goals are:
- 2-Way Calendar Sync between Mobile Phone Calendar and Google Calendar
- Gmail Use for all Email- Contacts sync from Addressbook.app to Plaxo / Google Contacts

Tools used (in no particular order):

goosync (http://goosync.com): SyncML service for Wirelessly SyncingPDAs / Cellphones with Google Calendar(Supported Devices)

Plaxo (http://plaxo.com): Sync Plugins for Addressbook.app, Thunderbird, Outlook, Outlook Express and whatnot

SpanningSync (http://spanningsync.com): iCal gCal Synctool(free fully functional 15-Day Trial available)

Gmail Loader (http://marklyon.org/gmail): uploads your .mbx or maildir Files to Gmail

The quick and dirty rundown this gets you up and running fast, post your questions in the comments and I’ll elaborate a bit.

Calendaring:
- get a Google Calendar Account if you don’t already have one
- install SpanningSync and sync your iCal Calendar(s) with gCal
- do a quick check if everything synced OK
- install GooSync to your Mobile/PDA
- do a initial Sync, check again
- uninstall SpanningSync if you don’t plan a threeway Sync with ical/gcal/symbian

E-Mail:
- export your Email from Mail.app as .mbx (that’s what I did, I didn’t trust Apple to write standardMaildir format internally), if you have many IMAP folders choose a folder, apple-a to select all Emails and Save-As with an appropriate name (this creates an mbx file)
- use Gmail Loader (I used the non graphical version because I couldn’t be bothered to install all the UI dependencies) (find the non-UI version here: http://marklyon.org/gmail/old/default.htm)
- the uploaded mail gets dropped in the gmail inbox, use a lable (which is almost the equivalent of a folder on gmail, albeit it’s not a folder it really is just a tag or label)and archive the mail if you don’t want to see it in your inbox any longer (it gets filed away under the lable you just assigned to it)
- I then set up gmail to fetch my mail via pop3 and all was good(browny points for installing the gmail java app on your cellphone to read gmail with that)

Contacts:
- grab a free Account over at plaxo and grab the Addressbook.app Plugin
- sync your Contacts with Plaxo (You can stop here if you only want your contacts available online)
<<<< Up to here it’s a twoway sync
Now if for the sake of completeness you want your Contacts in Google Contacts, do the following:
- Export your Contacts as Outlook Express CSV
- Import them into Google Contacts

If you have questions just post them here and I’ll expand the “HowTo” a bit

by the way, check out the mobile interface to google reader, works nicely on the WebKit Symbian Browser
(http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2006/05/you-can-now-use-google-reader-from.html)

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