Tired of switching between Outlook and Google Calendar just to stay on top of your meetings and commitments? If that's the case, you might want to consider syncing your Google Calendar with Outlook.

Syncing Exchange accounts with Android is a snap, but local sync with Microsoft Outlook and a USB cable is much tougher.

We explain how you can sync Google Calendar with Outlook Calendar to get the best of both the worlds using free software for your Windows computer.

Outlook for Android has added the ability to sync calendars with the dedicated Google and Samsung calendar apps — making it even more enticing.

Google Calendar works with a number of desktop applications and mobile devices including iCal, iPhone and iPad, Blackberry, Android, Nokia/Symbian, and Windows Mobile phones.

The last thing we need to sync with Outlook is Google Calendar. Google provides a tool called Google Calendar Sync that syncs this for us, so it should be fairly simple.

Q. I haven't been able to sync Google Calendar with Outlook since Aug. 1. Is there a workaround, or can we get Google to restore Outlook support? A. To get Microsoft's contacts/calendar/mail app ...

Although the program does support some Internet calendar subscriptions, Microsoft Outlook 2007 cannot sync with Google Calendar by default. Google does offer a tool that adds this capability to ...

But there is a way to create a 1-way sync relationship from your Google Calendar to Outlook.com that will happen server-side, meaning your phone only syncs from one-calendar source.