Comments on: Thunderbird, Lightning and Google Calendar Sync for iPhone

By: Angela Allen

Angela Allen — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 07:12:49 +0000

Thanks for the link, Ant.

By: Ant

Ant — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:40:21 +0000

I found this interesting website http://www.sync-iphone.com that provides instructions for both Thunderbird and Gmail synchronizations with iPhone

By: Angela Allen

Angela Allen — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:15:00 +0000

Mitch, I’d love to help you — but I completely refuse to use MobileMe. I found it to be such a catastrophe when it was first launched that I swore off at that point and have refused to go back. (See the post on MobileMe from 2008). I use Google Apps for email and calendar coordination between my iPhone, my iPad and my MacBook Pro. I also use iWork (still in beta) with a few of my clients to allow collaborative work from the Mac or the iPad. It’s making me a bit MORE flexible and more mobile.

I haven’t battled with Thunderbird/Lightning for a few years now (I love Google Apps!)

I did do a quick search and found a few resources that may help you (or at least co-commiserate with you) with your situation including one from PC world, I also found a blog on the challenges of mobile me and thunderbird, and a MacFixIt selection of fixes and workarounds.

Hopefully one of those will help address your specific situation and combo of softwares to get you up and running.

Between you and me, I made the decision some time ago to create a working environment which is the least possibly complex combination for the most ease of use. It’s a “work in progress” – but the goal is to get my work done without having to fight the tools that are supposed to help me. I do that by eliminating troublemakers and keeping my systems simple (as much as I can). I eventually got tired of spending all my free time rebuilding my systems and troubleshooting. So, if I have a piece of software or service that causes me grief or doesn’t play well with the others– it doesn’t last long. My software and hardware is here to serve ME — I don’t serve them anymore

Best wishes!

By: Mitch Krayton

Mitch Krayton — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:02:17 +0000

Need help with iphone calendars, MobileMe calendars and Thunderbird/Lightning calendars.

I want the same calendar info to appear in all 3 places and to update not matter which one I enter in a new event. Is this possible? If so, could you provide step by step help to enable this.

I have OS 10.5.8 with iCal 3.0.8, MobileMe subscription and iPhone app, GMail account.

I currently cannot sync desktop iCal to MobileMe and have to use the Web verions of MobileMe cal to get the events onto my iPhone.

I know this has to be possible with duplicating events in the calendar and with losing events because they did not sync to all the other calendars.

Thanks

By: Angela Parker

Angela Parker — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:18:52 +0000

Thanks, Kurt! This is the option (the free one) that I’ve been using on my iPhone. Works for me too!