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Product Description:
BusySync allows multiple users to share and edit iCal calendars on a local area network or over the internet without the need for a dedicated server.
BusySync is a Mac OS X System Preference Pane that runs in the background and adds calendar sharing capabilities to iCal. Leveraging Apple Sync Services and Bonjour, calendar events created by one user are instantly published and synchronized with other iCal users on the network. Users can share and edit calendars, make changes on each others calendars, and everything is automatically synchronized between each user, on each Mac.
- Bonjour networking - BusySync automatically synchronizes calendars with others on your local area network. No dedicated servers or complicated network settings to configure. It just works.
- Wide area networking - Sync calendars between your home and office Mac over the internet. Or take your laptop on the road and automatically switch between Bonjour and internet syncing.
- Multi-user editing - BusySync allows multiple users to share and edit calendars with full read/write access. Changes made by one user are instantly synchronized with all others on the network.
- Security - Calendars can be password protected to provide different groups of users with different access privileges including read/write, read-only, or no access.
- Offline access - Changes made to a shared calendar while disconnected from your home or office network are automatically synchronized when you return.
What's new in this version:
- Attendees are no longer synced from iCal to Google. This will prevent Google from creating duplicate shadow events on the Google primary calendar to block your free/busy time. It will also stop Google from sending out email reminders to all attendees 24-hours before an event.
- Message Alarms in iCal can be mapped to either a pop-up, SMS or Email alarm in Google. See Google Settings for more info.
- When subscribing to a calendar via Bonjour, you can remove Alarms and/or To-Dos. See Subscribe Options for more info.
- When events with attendees (meetings) are published via Bonjour, the calendar name is appended to the title in brackets (e.g. "Lunch Meeting [Company Calendar]"). See
- Scheduling Meetings for more info.
- Fixed various Google syncing bugs.
- Fixed Floating time bugs.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4.10 (Tiger), or
- Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
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| Overall Rating: |  (5.0) |
Features: | (5.0) |
Support: |  (4.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (5.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (5.0) |
Price: | (5.0) |
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I your notification settings suddenly dissapear, YOU'RE SCREWED - Version: 2.1.6, 9/2/2008 11:10AM PST
(1 of 6 users found this comment useful)
mikirbyI tried deleting my existing Google calendars recreating them by hand with the correct notification settings, and re-syncing, and instead of populating the ones I created, BusySync created identically named ones which it filled with my events, with, you guessed it, the notifications turned off.
I then tried exporting my events from iCal, deleting them from my calendars, hitting BusySync's various "Reset" settings, and re-syncing to have BusySync create the calendars but without any events, so I could set the notification settings before restoring my events from backup. I even tried changing the names of my calendars. No matter what I do, all my old events reappear on my google calendar witgh, you guessed it, the notifications turned off.
Then, if you keep trying, you run into a nasty little surprise... google sets unadvertised 24 hour limits on creating new calendars and on pushing events to existing ones. I am now stuck without my Google calendar for the day, and, because one of my calendars was a birthday calendar which I could only clear by backing up and deleting all my address book entries, without my contacts. Thanks, BusySync.
I thought it was a good product until this PITA. I'm furious at having to waste two hours of time like this over something so stupid.
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- 1 last try = 1 last frustrating failure to work right (1 replies)
Probably unnecessary - Version: 2.1.6, 8/23/2008 08:57PM PST
(2 of 4 users found this comment useful)
Westside guyNow that Google Calendar supports CalDAV - a calendar sharing protocol that iCal supports out of the box - these sorts of programs are probably unnecessary for most people. You can just use iCal to directly access your Google calendar, including adding, modifying, and deleting events.
Take a look at Google's how-to regarding setting up iCal for use with Google Calendar.
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- Probably unnecessary (1 replies)
However.
The price is nuts. More politely put, it's both deceptive and out of touch. First, it's not actually $25—it's $50, and that's if you're content to sync calendars on a measly TWO machines. I think 3 or 4 machines combined at home and work is pretty average for users most likely to be interested in this utility, but that takes the price up to $75–$100. And no, there's no discount until the 5-licenses mark. 10% off if you spend $125 to $225 for a shareware utility. Gee, thanks dad!
When you consider that $90 will get you Adobe Photoshop Elements and $80 will buy a new 4GB iPod Shuffle, it's difficult to understand why BusyMac would insist on a price like this.