lifehacker.com — If you don't want to shell out $100 for MobileMe and you don't have a Microsoft Exchange server lying around, you're stuck pulling data or manually syncing it to your computer. But, if you're willing to roll up your sleeves, you can set up push email and wireless contact and calendar syncing using the free Microsoft Exchange service Mail2Web.
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mediaphileJul 16, 2008
If you're using Gmail, IMAP is a better solution for handling the push e-mail, since your actions are synchronized back to the Gmail servers (and, consequently, any client you have configured to use Gmail's IMAP). So with IMAP, marking an e-mail read on my iPod Touch also marks it as read in Mail.app on my notebook. Also, sending mail from mail2web was a lot slower for me than sending mail from Gmail IMAP, and it came from my mail2web address instead of my Gmail address. This is still pretty useful if you want/need push contacts and calendar, I guess.
l800lemmingsJul 16, 2008
yes but how many of us would be happy with the option of just push email... is apple offering free push email...this while not perfect is a big step forward
antheoJul 16, 2008
It seems to be a viable option as the ME.com service is not usable, it is really too slow and it has less features than Google Calendar. I can not even share calendars on the web. That's a 2 minutes operation on Google calendar. I am going to cancel my ME account.
mr100percentJul 16, 2008
You can share calendars on the web with mobileMe. In iCal, go to Publish calendar, and it will give you a URL of the live site as well as feed addresses. Google calendar even can subscribe to them.
Closed AccountJul 16, 2008
You could set it to check every 15 minutes,.
xenocoderJul 16, 2008
It seems like a good (and free) short term solution for some activities, but there's still no GCal syncing to be found.
donsnycJul 17, 2008
Thank You!
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