30boxes into Outlook

Submitted by mikehostetler on Wed, 02/08/2006 - 14:23

I started using 30Boxes today was very impressed. Everything I had read about it was true, it is an amazing service.

That's not what I'm writing about today though. Today I figured out how to export the 30Boxes iCal Calendar data into Outlook 2003. Apparently this has been a difficult nut to crack because of the sucky iCal support in Outlook.

Thankfully, open source came to the rescue and I found the Remote Calendar project over at Sourceforge. Installation of this sweet little utility was a snap and when I restarted Outlook, I had imported my 30Boxes calendar within about 20 seconds.

Hooray for interoperability!!!

UPDATE: Been using this for about a month now, here's my update.

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Mike Hostetler is an inventor, entrepreneur, programmer and proud father. Having worked with web technologies since the mid 1990's, Mike has had extensive experience developing web applications with PHP and JavaScript. Currently, Mike works as the CEO of appendTo, LLC, The Company Dedicated to jQuery, based in Denver, Colorado. Heavily involved in Open Source, Mike is a former member of the jQuery Core team, leads the QCubed PHP5 Framework project, and participates in the Drupal project. When not in front of a computer, Mike enjoys hiking, fly-fishing, snowboarding and spending time with his family.