How to sync Google Calendar with iCal

In this article I will teach you to sync your Google Calendar with Apple's iCal. iCal and Google Calendar both have support for CalDAV which will allow you to easily sync your Google Calendar with iCal. When you add an event to iCal it will be added to Google Calendar and when you add and event to Google Calendar it will be added to iCal.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Google Gmail account
• Mac running OSX 10.5+ with iCal version 3.0+

1. 
    

   Open iCal and click the "iCal" in the menubar. Click "Preferences" and then the "Accounts" tab.

2. Click the "+" button in the bottom left hand portion of the window.

3. Enter a description for your calendar. Then enter your username and password for your Gmail account.

4. Click "Server Options" and enter
   "https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/[e-mail]/user"
   into the "Account URL" field without the quotation marks and replacing the place holder account with your information.

5. Click "Add."

6. Now click the "Delegations" tab and click refresh. This will let you choose which calendars to add. If you just have one calendar you do not need to do this step. Also make sure that your Gmail address is in Address Book under your name so that you can invite and email guests to events in Google Calendar from iCal.

Tips & Warnings

• If you have trouble when trying to add your account make sure that there are no spaces in the "Account URL" field. This can easily happen when copying and pasting from this article.
• Make sure that when you enter your username in Step 3 that you enter it as [e-mail]