So last week, I was one of the lucky ones to be able to procure a new iPhone 3GS at the local AT&T store. Definitely impressed with its features, mainly since its my first iPhone. So I set up my GMail and Penn State IMAP which was pretty easy to do. Then, I started looking at my calendar options for Oracle Calendar syncing. I surveyed what was out there, Synthesis and SyncJE. Both of these products are pay only, and I wanted a free solution. I kept reading and then I came across a blog posting from google. The full post found here, discussed how to make your calendar available on your iPhone. So all I needed to do was to get my Oracle Calendar data to Google's calendar. That seemed easy enough, Oracle has an export feature. So I exported an iCalendar file using (a period of previous 1 week to 1 month). I then loaded that into Google's calendar. I noticed that most of my events were there, but not all of them. What was missing were the repeating events. I ran into this problem in the past with the Portal and Oracle calendar, my solution at the time was to use the vCalendar format. So I did that, and low and behold all of my events just showed up in my calendar. Then to access them from my iPhone, I pointed Safari to: google.com/calendar/gp and entered my credentials. Then I was presented with a new interface to my calendar. The only cavaet I can see is that the google calendar will only allow up to import at most 50 events. For me that does not seem to be an issue. Since my calendar is pretty static, doing an upload when I need it does not seem to be an inconvenience.
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