Synchronize iCal and Address Book with Google Calendar and Gmail Contacts. Share calendars and contacts among multiple Macs. And while you’re at it, connect Google Apps to your iPhone or iPod.

Spanning Sync, my favorite synchronization tool as a Google Apps user and a Mac user, has released an update, version 2.02, with some minor bug fixes and improvements to overall speed and a smaller memory footprint.

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The new stuff I thought was substantial:

• Contact syncing! Spanning Sync now syncs Address Book with Google contacts.
• Contact photo syncing! (Awesome)
• Changes in iCal and Address Book are automatically pushed to Google as they’re made.
• Improved, easier-to-use preference pane UI.
• Dramatically improved network performance.
• Improved support for syncing huge (10,000+ events) calendars
• Improved support for syncing large numbers of contacts
• Improved support for multi-Mac configurations.
• Improved compatibility with MobileMe.

Speaking of Google Contacts, did you know there was a dedicated site for your contacts now? Pretty cool, though it’s still very rough around the edges. I’m surprised Google hasn’t done more with contacts yet. It’s a huge market for them, and no one has conquered it yet.

Anyhow. For now, I’m mainly using Spanning Sync to sync my contacts. I rarely use iCal, but I’m thinking my kids might use it more, thus making this software/service much more useful. But even if I was only using it for contact syncing, it’s worth my $20.

I wouldn’t be bragging about this software if it weren’t such a steal. If you use my coupon code, D8BYCM you’ll save $5, and, in turn, get your own coupon code allowing you to make $5 for every referral. I covered my $20 about two days after I posted my referral code. (Thank you Aaron.)

Try it out for yourself – and let me know how much money YOU make!