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I’m slowly trying to move everything I can online at the moment because now that I am travelling quite a bit I don’t want to be tied down to any particular computer or geographic location.

This means things like swapping to web mail rather than a stand-alone mail client and using del.icio.us rather than Forefox standard favorites.

So I’ve been experimenting with Google Calendar to help keep life organised.

What I want to be able to do is access Google Calendar on my PC while I’m working (easy) but then when I’m away from my computer I want to be able to still access it. And this is the problem I have had in the past - one calendar on my cell phone, and another paper version at home. And keeping the 2 in sync can be a real pain.

What I *can* do is log into Google Calendar using the browser on my cell phone, but even running 3G the connection is so slow it’s painful - and I want to be able to make quick decisions. Worse - the data network isn’t as reliable as voice so sometimes I find I *can’t* access the net on my phone.

But now I think I’ve got the solution and it’ll be interesting to see how it works out.

As before, I enter dates and appointments on Google Calander when at my PC. But I have also found and installed a little application on my Windows Mobile-powered Palm Treo that syncs the Windows Mobile calendar function with Google Calendar.

So if I’m heading out for a meeting all day, I just turn on my Treo before I go, power up the synchronization software and - POW! - within moments everything is on my Palm.

This synchronization happens via my phones internet connection so I don’t need to be plugged into my PC in order to carry this process out.

Even better - the synchronization works both ways so if I add some dates at the meeting, I just resync at the end of the day, and my Google Calendar account is updated.

Perfect! Google Calendar will even send me SMS messages ot remind me of upcoming events!

The application I’m using is called OggSync - I’m using the freeware version at the moment but there is a paid version - though to me it wasn’t very clear from their website what the differences were so I thought - why pay the extra?!

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