Well the iPhone will not sync with Now Calendar. Maybe there new version, but I cannot wait until October for the beta release especially when I want to use my iPhone.

So I decided it is time to migrate to iCal. It is the closest product to Now Calendar besides DayLite. If you sync with multiple calendars/persons then Spanning Sync’s software may be a solutions for you. I will be reporting back my hopeful success in the next few days.

The first question is how to get my calendar data to iCal. Well iCal will import from Entourage. Since Entourage comes with Office 2004 and I used to use Entourage as my email client it was already installed on my Powerbook.

In Office as of Office v.X you can use the Microsoft handheld conduit. Which is available for download on the Microsoft site, expect for those using Microsoft Office 2004. Office 2004 has a “Handheld Sync Installer” located in the Additional Tools folder in the Office 2004 application folder.

I just finished completely migrating my Now Up-To-Date/Palm calendar to iCal and synced with my iPhone. Worked first try. So here is what I did.

#1 Synced my Palm treo for the second to the last time to make sure you have a backup in Now Up-To-Date.
#2 Backed up my Palm preferences
#3 Backed up the Now Calendar file
#4 Installed the Handheld Sync Installer
#5 Synced my Palm Treo for the last time
#6 Checked that all my data was in the Entourage calendar. It was
#7 Ran iCal and imported my Entourage Data.

After a few minutes all my calendar events were in iCal. Then I set up some new calendars and changed some colors and Synced my iPhone.

All is good!!

As a disclaimer; the list above is an overview of the process I took to transfer my data to my new iPhone. These are not step by step instructions as this is not the scope of this blog. I welcome any questions, but this is not a support forum.