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Contacts, Tasks, and Calendar Items

Contacts, Tasks, and Calendar Items

Some of the most important data moving between your phone and your desktop is the information you use to communicate and get things done.

Here are a couple of ways, from free to pay, to keep your calendar and contacts in sync between your phone and your computer.

Google Sync

Google Sync for iPhone syncs your contacts, mail, and calendars between your iPhone and the web and to your desktop. While it’s going to your Google account and not the desktop directly, if you’ve you’re syncing with Google on your desktop (which you can do it’s basically the same thing. As an added bonus, it’s a nice access point for all your Google stuff. [Free, Setup Instructions]

MobileMe / Mail2Web

MobileMe is Apple’s $99 per year premium service for computers and iOS devices that syncs all sorts of data, but the biggest draw is push sync of your contacts, tasks, and calendar items. If you’re away from work or home and get someone’s contact information, MobileMe will make sure it’s back on your desktop by the time you need it. MobileMe is really a service that ought to be free for iPhone users, but it’s not. The upside is that you can set up much of the same push syncing you get with MobileMe with a free service called Mail2Web. It doesn’t come with every feature MobileMe offers, but it’ll get you push contacts, calendars, and email. [$99/year MobileMe]

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