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! -:)

In this tutorial I will show you how you can use your BlackBerry device to send a task to yourself and have it automatically show up in your BlackBerry Calendar. I will assume that you use Google Apps - especially the Google Calendar.

I assign a lot of to-dos to myself during the day and have recently started using the DeskMail feature. When I send a task out via email (through my BlackBerry), I would also want it to show up in my BlackBerry Calendar so that I can keep a track of it’s due date while I am traveling.

So, here it is. Follow these simple steps and you will soon be able to see your tasks on your BlackBerry Calendar…

Google Apps For Blackberry
Ok, so the first thing you need to do is to setup Google Apps for your BlackBerry. The entire suite of Google Apps for BlackBerry can be downloaded from m.google.com.

Google Sync - Google Calendar to BlackBerry Calendar
Google Apps comes with a Sync tool that will let you sync your BlackBerry Calendar with your Google account. After you run Sync (manually for the first time, and set it to run automatically thereafter) you should see your Google Calendar events on your BlackBerry Calendar.

Subscribe your DeskAway Calendar to your Google Calendar
Next, we want to subscribe to our DeskAway Calendar from Google Calendar. Follow the steps here.
Your DeskAway events should start to show up in your Google Calendar and the next time the Sync happens, they should start showing up on your BlackBerry Calendar as well.

That’s it. You are almost done. Lets test this out. Add a task to yourself with a due date either from your DeskAway account or using the DeskMail feature. Again, make sure you put the due date on the task. Check to see if it shows up on your DeskAway Calendar for that date.

The next time Google Sync runs, you should see this task on your BlackBerry Calendar on the day it was due! The task traveled from your BlackBerry, your DeskAway account, Google Calendar and finally to your BlackBerry Calendar! Even when people in your team assign you tasks, they would now show up on your BlackBerry Calendar. Great way to be on top of your tasks when you are mobile.

Hope this works for you. Feel free to drop me a line if you have suggestions or issues getting this started.

Viewing all your DeskAway events and project due dates within your Google Calendar is fairly easy.

1. Login and go to your DeskAway Calendar.
2. Right-click on the “Subscribe to iCalendar” link (from the “Left Panel” on the Calendar page) & click on “Copy Link Location“. This is the iCalendar link to your calendar. Any other iCalendar supported programs like Apple iCal, Outlook or Mozilla Sunbird can use this link to subscribe to your calendar. Clicking on this link will bring up the default program on your computer that supports iCalendar. For, now lets just copy the link.

3. Login to your Google Account and head over to the Calendar. Click on the “Add” link in the “Other Calendars” section & then select “Add by URL” from the drop down menu. Now paste the link that you copied in step #1. The link should start with “webcal:….”

4. Voila! Your DeskAway events, due dates of Projects & Tasks & Milestones (that you are a part of) can be seen on the Google Calendar. You can change the color of this calendar too!

5. The Google Calendar will update automatically as your DeskAway Calendar gets updated. (We have seen that the update is very irregular).

No more going to multiple calendar windows and programs. Consolidate all your calendars in Google and enjoy a hassle-free experience of your personal as well as work events and due dates!

Bonus - If you are using a Blackberry you can download the Google Sync for your Blackberry and then sync up your inbuilt calendar and contacts to your Google Account. So now you can take your DeskAway events with you where ever you go!

If you’ll are using other phones and have got the Google Sync working then do let us know if your DeskAway events show up in there.