Ever since making the switch back to Mac over two years ago, I have really enjoyed using iCal. I bought a .Mac account thinking that I would be able to keep up to date with my appointments no matter where I was. However, anyone who subscribes to .Mac knows how poorly implemented their online calendar is. All you get is a static calendar that can’t be modified. With the launch of Google Calendar and its ability to sync with iCal I thought that I had finally found the answer to multi-location calendar modification. I was saddened to learn that the synchronization only works one-way: Google Calendar to iCal. Changes made in my iCal software would not be reflected when I logged into Google Calendar while away from home. The result is that I find myself using solely Google Calendar while iCal just sits in my dock looking lonely.

It looks like this may be about to change. Spanning Sync enables two-way synchronization between iCal and Google Calendar. Check out the very promising video demonstration on the developer’s site. The product is planned to go into a closed beta soon. We’ll keep you up to date as more details emerge!

I’ve recently decided to start taking a hard look at my budget and where my money is going each month. That’s why I was glad to find, through the all-knowing beings over at Lifehacker, some great blogs about personal finance.

Get Rich Slowly is the result of one blogger’s study of multiple personal finance books. After reading all these books, he attempted to get his thoughts down in writing with a post called “Get Rich Slowly!” and his blog was born. I found some really helpful articles here including How to Give Yourself a Raise and Make Some Noise to Save Some Money. J.D.’s posts are insightful and concise and his advice is very easy to implement into your own life.

I Will Teach You to be Rich is the brainchild of Ramit Sethi, a recent Stanford graduate and entrepreneur. Ramit mixes some humor into his extremely thorough articles, making for some nice light reading that packs in a lot of great ideas and advice about personal finance. Check out How I Got My Credit Scores and Credit Report for Free and his excellent What’s Easier Now Than Later? series. Ramit has also sends out a newsletter and has various other occupations.

For the geek in all of us…ok, the geek in me, there is Getting Finances Done. This is a mixture of a personal finance blog and David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology which basically makes it the geek equivalent of a speedball. Getting Finances Done has been immensely helpful in the development of my personal budget. I highly recommend 3 Reasons Why Most Budgets Don’t Work (and How to Fix Them) and the excellent follow-up piece, How to Create a Zero-Based Budget.

Whether you are an old pro at managing your finances or just getting started, these blogs are full of great advice and useful information!