Piotr Woloszyn

I was looking for a way of synchronizing my private Google calendar events and my professional Outlook calendar with Nokia N95 8GB. As it turned out it is possible to have quite neat configuration with 2-way syncing to and from your mobile. What is interesting it can be used with other phones as well, not just Nokia, not just Symbian 60 3rd.

The solution has two distinctive parts:

• 2 way synchronization of Google Calendar with the phone
• 1 way synchronization of the Outlook Calendar with the Google Calendar

There is a free service GooSync which helps with first problem. It works with many, many different phones and as basic version is free. The biggest limitations of the free version is that we can synchronize just main calendar, so people using multiple calendars might have to consider using Premium version of service. As a result of registration and installation the goosync software you will have a new synchronizer added to the standard Nokia Sync application.

Next… To pump out events from Outlook to Google Calendar you can use Google synchonizer. Install it on a computer where you have Outlook (note: the supported Outlook versions are 2003 and 2007) and setup 1-way synchronization Outlook -> GCalendar. The application working as a deamon will push events every X minutes to your Google Calendar.

To synchronize your phone with your calendars go to the Sync application on your phone and choose the goosync.com http syncing. You can use WiFi or GPRS to connect to the syncing service. Unfortunately you cannot schedule the synchronization, you will have to do it manually.

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After reading latest Coding Horror I decided to write about my treat for this Christmas. Wholesale buying of crap begins! This year I decided to buy Audio-Technica ATH-ANC7 QuietPoint noise-canceling headphones and thanks to generosity of my friend who went back home for Thanksgiving and Black Friday I am a lucky owner of them. I’ve been using those headphones for last two weeks and have to say that I am very happy. I am not going to write full review of this product however I have to say couple of words of my opinion.

The headphones are equipped with noise canceling system which works surprisingly well. It makes my daily commuting a pleasure now, I can listen to music on the tube without putting volume on max. I haven’t tried them on the plane yet but I have heard from other people that it cancels engine noise very well. We can use them as headphones with our favourite music player or only for noise protection as the cable can be easily disconnected. The sound itself is just great: very rich, with solid base and vivid high register. Pleasure! Nice feature is an ability to work in passive mode, so the headphones can be still usable for listening to music even if we run out of juice in battery. I tried as well Bose Quiet Comfort headphones and I think it is the same league of quality and the better value option.

What’s your geeky treat this year?

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