Before I get to Part III of The search for a free Spanning Sync, I just wanted to cover one app that I almost forgot about: Calgoo.
Calgoo is a desktop interface for working with Google Calendar. This means that, like the Sunbird/Thunderbird interface I mentioned in Part II, you can work with your Google Calendar in a normal desktop program. Of course, Calgoo has many differences from the Part II solution. One is that Calgoo only interfaces with Google Calendar, and instead of syncing with it, it actually runs your Google Calendar(s) from within the program. Also, as a minor annoyance, you need to create a Calgoo account to download and use the program. But, like the Sunbird/Thunderbird method, Calgoo is cross-platform and has a clunky, non-OS-integrating interface. In fact, Calgoo’s interface is even less attractive and OS X friendly than Sunbird’s, do partly to the fact that Calgoo does not sync Google Calendar with a local calendar. Still, Calgoo is in beta (only version 0.37), so it may get better for its 1.0 release.
So, like Sunbird and GCalDaemon before it, Calgoo fails to suit me. But hey, it may be great for you. And if it’s not, just hold tight a little longer for Part III: Back to Beta.
