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View shared calendars for free Google Apps accounts

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

I have for a long been a Google Apps user and synchronizing e-mail, calendars and contacts with my iPhone works flawlessly. My partner and I are sharing calendars but until today it has been impossible to view my partner’s calendar on my iPhone. The reason for this is that the “administer security controls” where you can add shared calendars is “are only available for Google Apps Premier and Education customers” (look at the bottom of the page).  Today I found a workaround, at least for iPhone users but I guess it will work for every smart phone that support CalDav calendar synchronization. This is how I did it:

  1. Go to http://support.google.com/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=151674 and follow the instructions on how set up your (i)phone’s CalDAV synch.
  2. Open up https://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/ditt_domene/iphoneselec and select the calendars you want to synch
  3. Go to your phone’s calendar settings and select the calendars you want to view. On an iPhone: Open up your calendar, click on the “Calendars”  button in the upper left corner, select the calendars you want to view.

That’s it!

“Goodbye, Lists” another discontinued service from Google

Friday, November 25th, 2011

It looks like Google is doing some house cleaning these days. Today I got an email from Google about the shutdown of Google Wave.

Quote:

… [Google] Wave service will be turned off on April 30, 2012.

Now I just found this page about Google Bookmarks: Goodbye, Lists: FAQ – Bookmarks Help.

Quote:

Lists is being discontinued on December 19th, 2011.

Well, it makes sense that they shut down services that is barely used. I hope that Google now keeps up the good work and is putting all their resources making Google’s core services even better. And I hope Google+ is one of those services!