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I have been using Google Calendar for the past month. One of the best features of Google's calendar is the fact that you can own, administer or simply view more than one calendar at a time. The information is colligated together and presented as one. Which is great for sharing individual family / co-workers calenders and see other events, like bank holidays, without having to add them to my individual calendar.

On my Palm T3 I had been using Datebook 5 categories to capture calendar information for my family by my self. But how cool it would be to have others provide their entries for me...

Ideally I would simply synchronise several different calendars, each assigned to a different category to my Palm...

After some searching I found the following Palm-OS to Google calendar sync possibilities:

• GooSync, alas the very limited help available suggests it will only sync your primary calendar, only works over an Internet connection and the sync goes via their servers. Cost FREE.

• CompanionLink: Will sync the primary calendar but this one uses a conduit program on Windows and connects directly to google, no man-in-the-middle to share my private data with (Google's safe right! (I'm kidding....)). Costs $30.

• CalendarPublish: Currently trying this on my T3, though they have told me its unsupported. It requires IBM's WebSphere Java EME whoms Preference settings screen cause my T3 to crash! Otherwise it's almost ideal as it allows me to sync my primary calendar and 5 others.  Alas It identifies the 'others' not by placing those items in separate categories but rather it appends notes to the individual palm entries. These notes contain extra data, including the private Google URL it came from. Costs $20
  

Looks like I'll need to wait a little longer for my ideal solution to emerge...