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How to Sync an iPhone with your Outlook Calendar or Google Calendar
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How to Sync Your iPhone on Two PCs
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Sync Your iPhone With Your Outlook Calendar Using iTunes

Step 1

Open iTunes and check to make sure that you have the most recent version. Do this by clicking on "Help" and then click on "Check for Updates."
Step 2

Use the cable that comes with your iPhone to connect it directly to your computer. This will automatically launch iTunes. Select "iPhone" from the iTunes source list. Click on the "Info" tab in iTunes.
Step 3

Click on the "Sync Outlook calendars" option. Click on "Apply" in the lower right-hand corner of your screen. Your computer will now sync with your iPhone based on your settings.

Sync Your iPhone With Your Google Calendar Using iCal

Step 1

Sign into your Google account and go to your Google calendar page. In the left bar of the page, click on the downward arrow that's next to the calendar you want to sync. In the drop-down menu, click on " Share this calendar."
Step 2

Click on the "Calender Details" tab. Next, scroll down to locate the "Private Address " section at the bottom of the page. Click on the green button labeled "ICAL." This will open a pop-up window that has the URL with the private address for your calendar. This address must never be shared with anyone else, as it gives full access to your Google calendar. Highlight and then copy this URL to your clipboard (Control + C)
Step 3

Launch your iCal application from your Dock. Go to "Calendar" in the top menu, and then click on "Subscribe." Paste the URL from your clipboard here (Control + V) into the pop-up dialogue box. Click on the "Subscribe" button. This will subscribe your iPhone to your Google calendar, and will open an information window.
Step 4

Type a name and description for the calendar into the appropriate blank fields. If you do not want to import the "Alarms," "Attachments," and/or "To Do items" from Google, then check the box next to the option/s that you do not want.
Step 5

Choose a time interval from the drop-down box labeled "Auto-refresh." This will determine the frequency with which iCal will refresh Google Calendar.
Step 6

Click the "OK" button. Your Google calendar will now be listed in the left-hand pane of your iCal window. Now, the next time your iPhone syncs, it will update all your Google calendar events as well.

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How to Sync Your iPhone on Two PCs

First you need to have your iPhone already synced with one of your computers. This will be Computer A for the rest of this article.
Step 2

Now on Computer A, you will want to find the "iTunes Music Library.xml" file. For MAC users this file is found at "/Users/[your username]/Music" for Windows XP and older it may be found at "Documents and Settings[your username]My DocumentsMy Music" and for Vista users it will be found at "Users[your username]Music" Open it with notepad or some basic word processor.
Step 3

Once you have opened this file in a word processor, look for the tag "string" after "Library Persistent ID," in between those tags is an alpha numeric code you need, it should be 16 characters long. Take this code and copy it somewhere or write it down so that you can use it again later on the other computer.
Step 4

Now go to Computer B, the one you would like to sync your iPhone with as well, and make sure iTunes is closed.
Step 5

Now locate the "iTunes Music Library.xml" file on Computer B as well. Refer to step 2 for assistance with this. Once you find the file, create a backup of it, one easy way to do this is to copy and paste it in the same folder. The computer will create a copy of the file with a slightly different name.
Step 6

Now open this document with a word processor and repeat Step 3 by locating the code and copying it to a safe location as you will need it for step 8. Now replace the code with the one you copied from Computer A in Step 3. Go to File>Save then close the document.
Step 7

Install a hex editor if you don't have one already, I recommend Tiny Hexer, which there is a link for at the bottom of this article.
Step 8

Locate the file "iTunes Music Library.itl" with your hex editor. Once this is open, go to Edit>Find and Replace. In the find field, enter the code from COMPUTER B, you should have copied this code somewhere during Step 6. Hit FIND and it should come up with 1 result, now hit the REPLACE button and enter the code from COMPUTER A that you got in Step 3 then hit REPLACE again. Now go to File Save and close.
Step 9

You are now down. It is best to setup each PC to sync something different, this setup is perfect for syncing music from one PC such as your home one and Email, calendar, contacts etc from your work PC. If you try to sync up music from both PCs then the music library must be the same on both PCs or your library on your iPhone will get changed every time you sync.

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