Sync without MobileMe

I am trying to sync calendars on various Macs, iPods and iPads for different members of my family. Using MobileMe is no longer functional. For example, if someone sends me an appointment on one email account, I cannot move that to a different calendar without sending an update to all attendees - which is a pain. Also, I can no longer enter appointments from an older iPod Touch.
So I'm looking for a simple solution to sync iCal calendars over my wireless network without using MobileMe. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Jan-Peter

Creat a gmail account
For syncing with iCal:
open ical, click "iCal" at the top and then click "preferences"
Then navigate to the "accounts" tab
Click the "+" in the bottom left hand corner
then change the account type to "google"
then enter your gmail info
then you can add events and whatever, if you want to make sure that your calendar synced, you can click "calendar" at the top, and then click "refresh all"
Sycing on an iOS device:
open system preferences, open "mail, Contacts, Calendars"
Click "add account"
select "Microsoft Exchange"
for the email field type in your gmail email address
for the username field type in your gmail address
for the password type in your gmail password
then for the description type "GMAIL"
click next
then for the server field type "m.google.com"
leave the domain blank
click next
then you can turn on/off sycing for Mail, contacts, and or calendar.
since you only want calendar for what you are doing, slide the mail and contacts to off.
then you are good to GO!

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