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Cached by Google, no less.
Archive.org has a few months delay at minimum.
Moving your Contacts and Calendar Away from Google
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Re: Moving your Contacts and Calendar Away from Google
#32In software development term, this is probably an over engineering. Spend all the effort to setup your own data cloud before it becomes a fact that you really need it, that is, Google decides to change their cloud service so that it's no longer usable to you. Of course you could argue that what if one day Google simply disable the data exporting feature without any notice, in that case you would have no time to migra…
Back in the days, when I switched phones I migrated my contacts manually...
P.S.: This way you also throw out outdated/invalid contacts...
Re: Moving your Contacts and Calendar Away from Google
#33One of the problems with using a self-hosted alternative like this is the fact that Google open up a lot of their services through APIs which other applications then consume. A web app I wrote a couple of years ago is one example (meetingShed). This easy integration with other apps opens up a lot of possibilities, but is there an alternative with ownCloud? It would be really interesting to see if a solution could be…
Can't read the article right now, but for contacts and calendars we have standard public APIs: CardDAV and CalDAV. Too bad Google just discontinued the latter, weirdly enough just a few months after finally supporting the former.
Re: Moving your Contacts and Calendar Away from Google
#34Site is down. will this solution sync with my iPhone?
ownCloud does sync with iPhone, yes. I am still basically on Google myself, but did a trial install of ownCloud and it worked pretty much instantly. Just add as CalDAV and CardDAV accounts on the iPhone, the correct addresses to use is shown in ownCloud somewhere.
Re: Moving your Contacts and Calendar Away from Google
#35Re: Moving your Contacts and Calendar Away from Google
#36What can we do for translated versions? I'm not a dev but my father uses google calendar a lot because it's easy and intuitive but he knows nothing about english...
It's not like he has to lean much english. New appointment, alarm, the days of the week, etc.
You would have to learn quite a bit. Pick a language that you know almost nothing about, preferably one whose alphabet you can't recognize without looking it up. Now use a website built in that language. Is this potentially an exaggeration? Yes. Is it still relevant? Yes.
Re: Moving your Contacts and Calendar Away from Google
#37One of the problems with using a self-hosted alternative like this is the fact that Google open up a lot of their services through APIs which other applications then consume. A web app I wrote a couple of years ago is one example (meetingShed). This easy integration with other apps opens up a lot of possibilities, but is there an alternative with ownCloud? It would be really interesting to see if a solution could be…
But I think this is exactly the point, no?
Google has an API now, but who knows if it'll be there tomorrow. Google does not have a great track record at this point.
Re: Moving your Contacts and Calendar Away from Google
#38So the actual article title is 'Moving your contacts and calendar away from Google', not 'Move your contacts and calendar away from Google' as it was posted here. Less of an instruction/warning than might be expected, and more of a how-to guide.
Re: Moving your Contacts and Calendar Away from Google
#39Re: Moving your Contacts and Calendar Away from Google
#40I moved to http://www.atmailcloud.com and have been really pleased with it.
It's $2 per account, you can host multiple domains under one control panel, it has email, contacts, and a calendar under one roof, and offers iPhone/iPad provisioning as well. You can also create subadmin accounts if you want to delegate responsibility for a certain domain to someone else.