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Everybody who has to deal with different (operating) systems probably know this problem. You'd like to keep your calendar entries in sync between all systems, so that you have an accurate schedule independent of which system you are currently working with.

As I had this problem lately, I searched for an easy but OS-independent solution to resolve this problem- and I found one: Google Calendar. Google's calendar application is really powerful (while being - as most google services - free of charge). The calendar makes it easy for me, to have an accurate multi-category schedule, which I can access from everywhere (well, at least where I can access the internet).

Now with Google Calendar as base, I can sync it with my company laptop (running Windows Vista/Outlook), my private laptop (running Mac OS X/iCal) and my Blackberry wireless device. I can do two-way syncs from all devices w/o any issues and I can select which of my categories I want to sync with which system (e. g. on my company laptop, I only sync the "work" category with the Google Calendar, but on the MacBook or my Blackberry I sync all categories).

Thanks Google for this great and free service- it really eases my daily calendar-work.

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Ok. It's about 12h since I am working with Mac OS X and I am more or less getting used to it. There are some things that are not (yet) working as I like them to work, but I think I will get this figured out as well.

I've tried out a bunch of software, but I think that I finally found the configuration that works best for me:

- Browser: Safari (with some plugins from www.pimpmysafari.org)
- Mail: Apple's Mail.app (with GPGMail)
- Calendar Application: Apple's iCal.app (with SpanningSync to sync my Google Calendar)
- IRC/IM: Colloquy, Skype, PSI
- Audio-Player: Cog
- Terminal: iTerm with zsh/screen
- Mobile sync: PocketMac
- Office stuff: iWork '08
- Programming: vim
- Photography stuff: Lightroom, Photoshop

That's all I need for efficient working and I have to admit, that on Mac OS X you can work very efficient. All in all I am very pleased with my new toy (especially the battery duration is awesome: >5 hours while working as usual).

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