Spanning Sync 2.0">Spanning Sync 2.0
Spanning Sync v2.0 is out of beta, and as promised it syncs not only calendar events but also contacts.
It’s a free upgrade if you already have it. You can open the Spanning Sync pref pane and follow the instructions or manually download it from spanningsync.com/download.
- Contact syncing! Spanning Sync now syncs Address Book with Google contacts.
- Contact photo syncing!
- Trickle syncing! Changes in iCal and Address Book are automatically pushed to Google as they’re made.
- Improved, easier-to-use preference pane UI.
- Dramatically improved network performance.
- Improved support for syncing huge (10,000+ events) calendars
- Improved support for syncing large numbers of contacts
- Improved support for multi-Mac configurations.
- Improved compatibility with MobileMe.
- New user-friendly log window for troubleshooting or checking status.
- Improvements to the “create troubleshooting report” system.
- Tons of other bug fixes and improvements.
Some tips for using the contact sync — if you’ve already turned on the contact sync setting inside of Address Book that would (try to) sync your address book to Google — turn it off. If you don’t you’ll have a flood of duplicate address book entries, extra characters — general badness. Thanks to Spanning Sync’s support team for very quickly (and nicely) troubleshooting it for me while in beta — if I had actually rtfm, I probably would have avoided the issue entirely.
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