Funambol: Synchronize Contacts Between Outlook-Palm-Gmail

I while back I downloaded and played with Funambol, now there is a free online Funambol server that provides the glue to many synchronization needs. For me it is:

Palm Treo650 < – > Outlook contacts/calendar < – > Gmail contacts/calendar

So I am basing my procedure on this great article.

Step 1. Sign up for an account on scheduleworld.com.

Step 2. Download funambol outlook client. Install per the instructions and configure per the information provided by scheduleworld.

Step 3. Synchronize Outlook with Palm Treo (already configured, using software that came with the Treo). This step just makes sure we have synchronized data in Outlook before proceeding.

Step 4. Run funambol plugin for Outlook.

Step 5. Log into scheduleworld and confirm you can now see the synchronized data.

Step 6. In scheduleworld.com site, click on Google Sync and setup google account info. There are also several google calendar sync options in the Preferences page that I have set so that it will sync the google calendar with each syncML session.

NOTE: so far, I’ve only been able to sync contacts with regular gmail account and not my google apps domain services account.  So I’ve done a google export of contacts from scheduleworld that I loaded to my domain google apps account.  I don’t suspect scheduleworld will be able to add contacts sync to google apps because of the google apps APIs, they contacts APIs seem to be available only to premium users at $50/yr.