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Update Version 0.11 - Minor Bugfix - Adds Trailing slash in location if not there.
So, I've done some more work on my little script and have compiled it into an exe. You can use it for free and if you feel like making a contribution if it works well for you, there will be instructions for that in the readme file. If you have any troubles feel free to email me at johnny.matthews+getcals@gmail.com
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-I'm not sure which Ipods have calendar functionality, but at the moment this works on the Ipod with video and also the Nano.
-To get the ICAL address from Google, go to your calendar view, click on the down arrow next to your calendar name and go to "Share this Calendar". Choose the "Calendar Details" option, then click the ICAL button next to the "Private Address" section
I'll go try it and report back after :)
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You don't have a Mac version, do you?
ReplyDeleteFor my Mac I go to gcal then my calendar's>select the calendar>share this calendar.
ReplyDeletethen click on the "calendar details" tab and click on the iCal button in "Calendar acess"
Go to iCal and from the top menu calendar>subscribe. Paste and you are subscribed and it should update to your ipod.
can you post the source so we can compile it for linux.. hopefully with not too much work.
ReplyDeleteThis is an excellent idea that works well, albeit roughly.
ReplyDeleteAnyone try this with a 3G iPod?
ReplyDeletebeautiful
ReplyDeleteAre there ways to make this work the other way around as well?
ReplyDeleteThat is: with your script I've got the gCalendar ics file on my ipod. I assume I can synchronize that one with iCal. What if I change things in iCal and want to upload those changes later back onto gCal?
Are there ways to make this work the other way around as wellÉ
ReplyDeleteThat is: I`ve got my gCal ics file on my iPod now. I assume I can go to a mac and synchronize it with iCal. What if I make changes to the ics file in iCal -- can i somehow synchronize that changed file on my iPod back to gCal?
does it works on Windows?
ReplyDeleteThis works great! Now if only I could sync my Gmail contacts to my iPod...
ReplyDeleteHow do you determine what the url is of the ICAL url from google calendar to paste into the .ini file?
ReplyDeleteIn Google Calendar, click on the down arrow next to the calendar name and choose "Share this Calendar", Go to the calendar details page and click on the ICAL button next to the "Private Address" Section
ReplyDeleteSweet. Thanks alot. People who put their great ideas and ingeninuity out for everyone to use on the net are are the best embassadors for keeping it open for the good of all.
ReplyDeleteIve created a preaty simple gui for changeing the options in the ini file.
ReplyDeletehope fully i can get it hosted on some website and i will post up a link soon.
Send it to me with your info and I'll post it alongside getCals and give you credit for it.
ReplyDeleteIn the read me text file it says "needs to have the path to your Ipod Calendar folder" . Is this folder automatically created or do I need to create it and how if so ?
ReplyDeletei'm sitting behind a proxy - would be great if you could add that feature to a later version...
ReplyDeleteGreat job guy(s), it's a nice tool, easy to use (I read something about wizard interface but I don't really see the point about that because the .ini file is simple and you modify that only once...).
ReplyDeleteMy pb:
I'd like to know why I can't see multiple calendars on my ipod, I have the 2 "nameOfCalendar.ics" in the calendar folder but when I use my ipod video I see only one calendar, the first downloaded by the application...
Do you have an idea of my pb?
My mistake, i wasn't enough patient, that's all.
ReplyDeleteI closed the application before the end :p
I can't download the file it says file archive corrupted. What to do?
ReplyDeleteWe're not supposed to set Google Calendar to share with everyone in order for this app to work, right?
ReplyDeleteIt's not working for me, and I wasn't exactly clear on whether sharing needs to be enabled. Just trying to troubleshoot what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks!
This is brilliant, thanks!
ReplyDeleteIt's working on my 30gb photo (one of the first batch!).
But to get the ics to download properly, I still had to add a trailing / to the end of the ical address in the .ini . So it became something like:
http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/
emailaddress/
private-longnumbersandletters
/basic/
(line breaks added so it doesn't drop off the page!)
Perhaps that's a bug with earlier ipods or still in 0.2beta ?!
It'd be great if apple would build this into iTunes (win) and pay you a nice license fee ;-)
i'm sitting behind an web washer. so i can't call the http url of the gmail cal service. it is not possible to call the https url of the gmail calendar url from the getcal programm? i get following error on the ipod
ReplyDelete"LWP will support https URLs if the Crypt::SSLeay module is installed.
More information at http://www.linpro.no/lwp/libwww-perl/README.SSL." in the directory LW:\Contacts\personal.ics
any ideas?
I am not very computer savvy, but i'm trying to sync my Ipod with my Gcalendar. What kind of file do i put in the Google Calendar file to have it automatically sync up with the google calendar when i'm connected to the net?
ReplyDeleteDo i just paste the url address into the ipod calendar folder?
i read someone's reply about "ini" files and don't know what they are.
I have written a Windows version similar to this program availible at http://www.digg.com/apple/Sync_your_iPod_with_Google_Calendar
ReplyDeleteHello, I would EXTREMELY like to download this software but I just cannot find how to actually get it. I keep clicking links, but they dont get me anywhere and it is very frustrating. Please help me!
ReplyDeleteIs there any way this can be modified so that one could use it with a service like Remember The Milk (which also uses ical) to import a to-do list instead of a calendar and put it in the actual To Do list folder on the iPod? That would be a great update. Here is what the folks at RTM have to say about it, if it helps: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/1041/ Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThank you! I've been looking for ages for a program like this!!
ReplyDeleteAlso, I second Angelique's suggestion.
Link is dead. can't download it anywhere, anyone have an alternate solution to sync gcal to ipod?
ReplyDelete"can you post the source so we can compile it for linux.. hopefully with not too much work."
ReplyDeleteIt's really easy to do on linux. Make a shell script that cds into your ipod's calendar folder (ex: cd /media/iPod/Calendars) then rm basic.ics, then wget the ical feed off of the calendar site.
Umm google disabled this??????
ReplyDeletetry the wayback archive webarchive.com
ReplyDeleteWhy did google disable the site?
ReplyDeleteI get my URL from the iCal Button in the "Calendar Address" group. I subscribe it in iCal but while downloading for the first time, iCal crashes. Did I do anything wrong?
ReplyDeleteId love to dload this but the link is dead :/
ReplyDeletecan anyone who has dloaded it send it to me
cheers
Screw Google. You can download it here: http://web.archive.org/web/20070730081402/http://johnny.matthews.googlepages.com/getCals0.2beta.zip
ReplyDeleteYou can download 0.2 beta here: http://web.archive.org/web/20070730081402/http://johnny.matthews.googlepages.com/getCals0.2beta.zip
I would encourage someone to create mirror sites before Google takes this one down too.
Okay, sorry that last post didn't work. Here is version 0.2beta
ReplyDeleteand here is getcals version 0.11.
Seriously, somebody put these up on some mirror sites and post them here.
The download link doesn't work!
ReplyDeletei don't know hot to write here: location|E:\Calendars\
ReplyDelete..i can't see the location of my ipod with windows vista!
it's look like if it doesn't have location!
Does anyone know if this works using an XP computer and an iPod Touch? I'd really love to sync my Google calendar and my Touch!
ReplyDeletethe download link is dead and the version0.11 zip is corrupted and so is the beta version
ReplyDeleteDoes anybody know what the Location Folder for the Calendar is referring to? Where would I go about finding that on my PC? Sorry if this is easy, I'm very new to iPods. I have the iPod 16GB touch
ReplyDeleteCould anyone post me the exact URL of the version of GetCals for MAC? I cannot find it...
ReplyDeleteThanks.
My 8Gb ipod touch just reports there are no supported calendar applications. Is there a setting that can be changed to point to the ical files?
ReplyDeletethe download link is broken...could you please host it on rapidshare or something? thanks
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The files are not corrupted, they just don't open with certain programs, including Winrar. Right-click the zip file and choose Open With...-Compressed (zipped) Folders, and it should work.
ReplyDeleteIs this blog missing something, I feel like it just left off after where to find the google cal address...... now what doI do to get it into my ipod?
ReplyDeletedoes the application getCals still exist? the link is broken...
ReplyDeleteI got things to work mostly... it gets as far as the black screed and says that 35 items were downloaded or whatever. And they appear in a spreadsheet file in a the folder I assigned... but nothing shows on my iPod. There is a calandar file on the drive (small like 3k), but nothing shows on through the iPod UI.
ReplyDeleteAny thoughts?
I was able to download the iCal file, but I have no idea how to put it onto my ipod in order to sync with its calendar. HELP!!!!
ReplyDeletethe ipod changes my hours! i have +1 in my google calendar, but the ipod shows one hour early. if i have an appointment at 8 the ipod says 7. yes i have the ipod in my timezone, +1. why is this?
ReplyDeletethis is great. do you have a link to your getFolks program? do you have one for getting the tasks as well?
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