right.

I think a lot of people like busycal.

I also use Quickcal just to enter appointments. It is the bomb diggity. I can do it with quick keystrokes.

If there's a standalone app that synchronises with a Google calendar, equivalent to iCal, that runs on OS X

Sunbird? I like it on Windows at least. Kind of ugly, but in a more utilitarian way than iCal. If you use Thunderbird, you can use the Lightning extension with it (same thing as Sunbird, just as an extension of Thunderbird).

Speaking of calendars...

Is there a way to get other people's google calendars, that have been shared with me, to appear on the iPhone calendar apps? Right now, the only way I can see them is by using Google's own web-based iOS "app" (i.e. the mobile version of the web page).

Never mind. I googled the answer. If you go to google.com/calendar/iphoneselect you can pick which calendars to synch. I just added all the shared ones and am waiting for my phone to update to see if it worked.

I think there is Jon B, but there are about 3 ways to sync your iPhone calendar with Google, and some of them let you do it and some don't. I used the "Google Sync" method, I believe, which let you navigate to a web page from your iPhone and enable/disable different calendars. The default "gmail" account method, when last I tried it, had trouble with multiple calendars of any form, and shared calendars specifically. It may have improved?

I would strongly suggest investing in a calendar app that isn't the iPhone default. I really enjoyed CalenGoo for the 5 days I had it before I bought an Android (not the most worthwhile purchase perhaps...) but didn't play with it enough to really recommend it, per se. But Business Calendar on the Android has changed my life by being basically nothing like the default calendar app(s), just way better.

If CalenGoo is as good as I tended to think it was after a couple of days, I have to think that $6.99 is a cheap price to pay.

Gris,

yes for iphone users, I really like Agenda. Really nice interface.

I'm looking at Business Calendar on Google Play (Who came up with that name? It's really meaningless and bland. I can't remember it without going back to look. I just scroll through the apps until the middle, looking for the shopping bag.) and people seem excited by it.

I'm not mad at the default calendar, although I have to use Touchdown for work Exchange, and the widgets that display that are limited--there's only so much use I can get out of any other app's widgets, other than Executive Assistant, which integrates with Touchdown and Calendar. It's...so so.

Some of the copy on the Business Calendar page is irritating. You can't have a fully functional free version with extra features on the paid one. Fish or shit in the pot.

But Gris--I can't tell--do you prefer CalenGoo to Business Calendar?

Calengoo did not exist for Android when I bought Business Calendar, so I've never tried the Android Calengoo. I only used the iPhone version for a few days and not during the school year (when the calendar is most important to me) so I don't think I can do a fair comparison.

I really like Business Calendar. I agree that the name and copy are bad. But it's great, in terms of functionality, interface, and usability. And it has great widgets. Calengoo looks a little prettier, and probably has most or all of the same functionality (and a much better name), so it would probably serve you just as well, but I can't put my guarantee behind it like I can BizCal. And since Calengoo is an iPhone port, it may or may not do as well with widgets and such (again, I don't really know).

It's interesting having an iPod Touch and a Xoom 2. iOS and Andriod feel so different--iOS is like a device operating system that does computer-like stuff while Andriod is like a computer operating system that does device-like stuff.

That is an excellent comparison! And you should go back in time and tell Steve Jobs that they feel that different. Or at least tell the commenters at macrumors.com.