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 11 May 2010 @ 8:06 AM 

Address Book and iCal Google Sync

 

This tutorial is intended to follow on from yesterday’s post on setting up a Google account to synchronise contacts and calendars automatically. It assumes you have contacts and/or calendars set up on a Gmail account.

It’s time now to set Address Book to automatically sync with this account. Open Address Book and click Address Book -> Preferences. Click the “Accounts” tab and check “Synchronize with Google”. Click configure and put in your Gmail address and password. Your online contacts will now be downloaded into your Address Book.

Address Book Contacts Account

Setup a Google Account within Address Book

Configuring the calendar will be a similar process. Open iCal then go to iCal -> Preferences. Under the Accounts tab click “+” in the bottom left to set up a new account. Leave Account type as Automatic and put in your Gmail address and password. Your online calendar will now be downloaded into iCal.

iCal account setup

Setup your Google calendar in iCal

If you have multiple calendars in your Google account you can select which ones to sync by going to the Delgation section of the account. Put a check next to the additional calendars you wish to synchronise.

Click Delagation to add multiple calendars

Click Delagation to add multiple calendars

You should now successfully be synchronising with your Google account :)

Posted By: Jason A
Last Edit: 31 May 2010 @ 12:10 PM

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