Not a support issue

[inkfreq]

This is not a support issue, just a post commending this product.

I can't even describe accurately how much Spanning Sync has changed my
life, literally. It's been phenomenal, and if anyone is reading this
group considering purchase of this product, I can't recommend it
enough.

In September of this year, my mom passed away. She was going in for a
quadruple bypass, and didn't survive the surgery. Before she went in,
she begged me to move in to her home if the worst happened, and take
care of my father and grandmother who are both elderly. Pop had a
heart attack and double bypass two years ago, and grandma has
Alzheimer's.

Needless to say, I agreed.

Now, I'm a father of five, and an IT Manager with an incredibly busy
schedule. On top of this, I now have the responsibility of making sure
my dad gets to his doctor's appointments on time, and that Grandma is
getting to her variety of appointments including Social Security,
doctors, and grief counseling. It's simply overwhelming.

There really is no way for me to keep track of everything. If I'm
driving down the road when Pop makes an appointment, I have no way to
write that down and get it into my calendar later if he calls me with
the information. At 86 years old, if he doesn't call me right away, he
will forget it, and either way, we're missing an appointment.

In steps Spanning Sync. My Pop is a pretty good computer user. He has
a Gmail account.

I have set up a couple of calendars for him where he can input his
appointments. Those calendars are shared with me. They are synced from
Google to my iCal with Spanning Sync, and from there synced to my
iPhone.

At any time he can input a new appointment, and within 10 minutes it's
synced back to one of my computers... I own 6 different Macs between
work and home. Those all get synced together thanks to Spanning Sync,
and each night, they sync to my iPhone.

Thanks to this product, my Pop and I can share calendars seamlessly
between his PC and my Macs, and at any time I have his appointment
schedule at easy access. We set reminders to go off one hour before
each appointment, so even if he forgot to tell me about one and I
didn't notice it, my iPhone will let me know and I can make a quick
adjustment to get him where he needs to be on time.

Without this product, I have no idea how I would be able to manage
taking care of this many people. In fact, I flatly believe I wouldn't
be able to at all.

But with Spanning Sync in my corner, everything gets handled quickly
and easily, and I'm always on the same page with the people in my
care.

I have expanded this system to include shared calendars with my wife
for when bills are due, birthdays, important household tasks, and even
the kids school calendars. My whole family remains in sync with my
iCal being the hub of it all.

You guys have really saved me the pain of a nervous breakdown. It's
not often you can really say a piece of software has changed your life
entirely, and for the better, but this one really has, and it's been
worth every penny.

[Larry Hendricks]

Wow. Thank you for sharing your experiences and for the kind words. As
a developer, you have no idea how inspirational stories like these can
be. It makes all the late nights worth it.

We do the same sort of thing in our family- we have calendars for each
of the kids and those calendars are shared over Google between me and
my wife's account. When either of us schedules something for the kids
in iCal, it propagates over to the other's Google, iCal, and iPhone
calendars. I don't know how we'd get by without it either.

Again, thank you. This made my day!
--
Larry Hendricks
la...@spanningsync.com
http://spanningsync.com

[cwood]

Wow, that's an amazing story--thanks for posting it. I'm a little
overwhelmed. I know what it's like to take care of an elderly parent
*and* kids, and it's not easy. I'm really glad we're able to make
things a little more manageable for you. Thanks again for posting
that. It's really nice to know, and certainly helps put things in
perspective. As always, if you ever run into any problems please let
us know.

Regards,
Charlie

[inkfreq]

Without your product, I'd be seriously lost, and I mean it.

I only hope my post here about my experiences helps anyone considering
this product invest in it.

In what little time I have, I also run a blog. Not a big one, only a
couple hundred regular readers. But in it I have talked about your
product, and I hope it brings you guys a little extra business.

http://web.mac.com/inkfreq

I have told everyone I work with that will listen about this product,
and mentioned it to several of my friends as well.

I hope others out there can realize what I have, how much this product
fills in the missing gaps. My sanity was at stake when I decided to
try your product for a year. When this subscription is up, I will be
buying a lifetime deal, because without it, the men in white coats
would come find me in no time.