New iPhone owners will commonly ask themselves how they can sync their Google Calendar with their iPhone calendar. Or maybe how to sync their Gmail or Google Reader items with their iPhone readers. If you do a web search you’ll find some applications that will actually do this, but don’t waste your time. You want to go to the source, straight to Google, instead of going to Joe Bob Simpleton who has written some half thought out iPhone app to sync these things. So here’s what you do:
Turn on your iPhone, and start Safari. Browse to www.google.com, and login. You can login to iGoogle if you like, but I personally don’t due to speed issues. Anyway… On the top Google menu bar, click on “Calendar” (or “Gmail” or “Reader”, etc). You’re now looking at the mobile version of Google’s web app – designed by Google for mobile users. New iPhone owners won’t realize that you can add an icon for this exact URL directly to the “Home Screen” of your iPhone just be clicking the “+” button at the bottom of the browser, and then the “Add to Home Screen” button.