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Moving your Contacts and Calendar Away from Google

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Re: Moving your Contacts and Calendar Away from Google

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Post by diroussel »

uslic001 wrote: post #20

Any similar setup that uses IOS phone instead of Android out there? I am tired of contacts going missing from IOS and Google or 4 copies of all my contacts showing up in both IOS and Gmail. I lost all my contacts in IOS when I upgraded to the iPhone 5. Then I had a bunch of contacts that I did not want in my contacts populate my IOS contacts when I linked my Facebook account on my IPhone 5. It is even worse on my Win…

iPhone supports CardDAV and CalDAV, so this same tutorial will work with iOS I assume.

Re: Moving your Contacts and Calendar Away from Google

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Post by mark_l_watson »

Nice idea. I have just gone through the minor hassle of switching my blog off of Blogger and relegating Gmail to my backup/secondary email service - all in the spirit of controlling my own stuff. I only calendar share with my wife, so setting up something like this is probably something I will do also.

Any JVM based open source projects? I would rather not deal with PHP.

Re: Moving your Contacts and Calendar Away from Google

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Post by UnoriginalGuy »

I like ownCloud but it is very immature.

I mean it looks very snazzy right when you first install it and start to use it, but has a lot of little issues hidden under the surface.

Couple of examples: Randomly deleting files because it got confused. Infinite loops. Essentially unusable on Windows servers (don't even try). etc.

As I said, I like OwnCloud, and I think it has a very bright future ahead of it. But it isn't "there" yet. I'd never use it in an enterprise in its current state.

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