2.2 and ical syncing

Question

I have 2 ipod touches that I updated to 2.2. They are both synced to ical on my powerbook G4 (OS 10.5.5) and after updating they do not sync properly -- nothing seems to be transferred to or from ical on the computer but if I sync both touches to the computer their calendars will be synced to one another BUT NOT TO ICAL! Any ideas how to fix this? Everything worked fine before the update to 2.2.

Answer 1

Kevin,
Tell us a bit more about what you want to do. See each other's calendars? Edit shared calendars?
For iCal, a .Mac account allows you to literally sync calendars which each user can edit. It also of course allows you to publish calendars, have an off site backup, and access the calendars from any internet accessible computer.
A .Mac account is the only way to share jointly editable calendars. If all you want to do is "Publish" an "Subscribe" (ie see each other's calendars) you could publish to a webDAV server such as:
http://www.icalx.com/
or
http://www.icalshare.com/
icalx offers some security
If simply sharing locally is enough then there is icaltalk:
http://pknet.com/~joe/caltalk.html
This works with Users on the same network or even on the same computer.
The creators of calSync X (iToast) have essentially disappeared so use this with that in mind.