Spanning Sync Blog

'Remember the Milk' Causing Widespread Sync Problems

If you're unable to sync due to "could not generate your list of calendars" errors, please remove any subscribed calendars from Google Calendar, including Remember the Milk, even if you're not syncing those calendars.

After several weeks of investigative work by engineers at Google, NuevaSync, Pocket Informant, and Spanning, we've found the root of a problem many users have been experiencing. Calendars to which the user has subscribed in Google Calendar can become unresponsive, causing the Google Calendar API to be unable to work with sync clients from any vendor.

Apparently calendars from Remember the Milk have become relatively unresponsive in the last few weeks, causing many of our users to be unable to sync. Deleting the RTM calendar from the Google Calendar web interface solves the problem immediately.

Much thanks to our counterparts at Google, NuevaSync, and Pocket Informant for helping track down this issue. Please let us know if you have any questions.

Save 25% on Postbox with Coupon Code R6UWHPA

The developers of the most excellent Postbox email application for Mac and Windows have just launched their Refer-a-Friend Program, and we'd like to refer you.

Just click here or type in the coupon code R6UWHPA when you check out and you'll save 25% off the regular purchase price.

Their program works just like Save 5+Make 5, which rewards Spanning Sync customers for doing what they already do: telling their friends about Spanning Sync. In fact we've worked closely with Sherman and Scott at Postbox to share what we've learned.

We've paid out tens of thousands of dollars in referral fees to our customers. We see it as an elegant way of investing in our customer community. And if you haven't signed up for Save 5+Make 5, it only takes about 30 seconds and can start paying off immediately. Or if you're not yet a Spanning Sync customer, you can find a discount code to get started cheap here.

So now you can earn easy money recommending two great apps from indie developers: Spanning Sync and Postbox.

Spanning to Participate in Google I/O Developer Sandbox

I'm proud to announce that Google has invited us to participate in the Developer Sandbox at Google I/O in May.

We've been using the Google Data API's since they were first introduced in 2006, first with Spanning Sync and soon with Spanning Backup, about which we'll be talking more this week.

If you're able to make it to Google I/O, please come by and say hello.