Setting up your DeskAway calendar entries to show up on your iPhone is easy - there are a few one-time steps that you need to follow.

1. Google Sync - First, setup your iPhone/ BlackBerry to sync with your default calendar on your Gmail or Google Apps account. Follow the steps here. BlackBerry users click here.

2. Once you can see your default calendar entries on your iPhone/ BlackBerry, it is time to sync your DeskAway calendar to your Google calendar. Follow our steps here.

3. On your Google Calendar, you should now see your DeskAway events. Google sometimes takes long to pull all the events data - we have seen this to be irregular. Once this is done, you need to choose which of your calendars you want to sync to your iPhone by following the steps here. By default, only the primary calendar syncs.

Thats it. You should now see your DeskAway events on your iPhone. This is a sample event that I added to my DeskAway calendar which now shows up on my iPhone! -:)

While I use DeskAway to manage my work-related projects, I also use Outlook to manage my Mails and Outlook Calendar to keep track of my other appointments that fall outside of the work I manage on DeskAway.

DeskAway also has a very helpful Calendar, which helps me track my deadlines, milestones, events and important dates related to my projects.

As I used both DeskAway Calendar and Outlook Calendar, there was one problem that I faced sometime back. If I forgot to lookup the Calendar on my DeskAway account, I found myself slipping on an important event or a deadline. I figured out the reason for this was that I was used to the “Reminder Pop-ups” that my Outlook had, which was not there on my DeskAway.

This is when I found out about Subscribe to iCalendar feature available on DeskAway. This allows me to sync my Deskaway Calendar with my Outlook Calendar in just one click. Now that I have subscribed to iCalendar, I can view my DeskAway Calendar on my Outlook. I can now get reminders of my DA tasks too from my Outlook.

However, the DeskAway calendar on Outlook is ‘view only’. If I have to make modification, I will have to do it on my DeskAway calendar. Any changes made on my DeskAway calendar will automatically sync with Outlook.

DeskAway also gives you an option to manually sync the DeskAway calendar with any program that supports .ics format.

Now, after syncing my DeskAway calendar with my Outlook, I am totally in control of various deadlines and events that I manage on DeskAway. As a user, one thing I like a lot about business offerings is their ability to morph themselves into places I frequent, into applications I use extensively. This increases my adaptability and usage of that product or service.