Syncing Google Calendar to your iPhone

Perhaps one of the most important utilities on any mobile device nowadays is the calendar. Most people have to have their schedule wherever they are and get important notifications when something is upcoming.

With a large Gmail user base, there are plenty of different options for tying in Google Calendars with Blackberry's, Outlook, and other calendar applications. But what about tying in your Google Calendar to your iPhone? Well, it's pretty easy.

1. Visit your Google Calendar account and click on the Calendar Settings arrow under your "My Calendars"
2. Under the Private Address section, click on the "ICAL" button. This gives you a direct and private URL to your calendar. Copy this address.
3. Open your iCal application and navigate to Calendar > Subscribe. Then paste your Google Calendar URL in.

Once you have subscribed to your Google Calendar, sync up your iPhone and all of your events will drop into place. From now on your iCal will pull in all of your events during your set intervals.

There is also another option called Spanning Sync. This application works through iTunes and does require a $25 one year subscription plan, or $65 purchase. It offers a two way synchronization between Google Calendar and Apple iCal.

UPDATE: Thanks for the iTunes clarification St3phen.

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