mac and the instinct ??

I almost quit buying our 2 Instincts when I saw it had no support at all for Macs.  I've been using the Instinct since Thursday (4 days) and must say, I almost forgot I needed a computer.  If you want to use the Mac's Address Book and Calendar, then you have no way of doing that.  For the calendar, the work around I found was to upload my calendar to Google Calendar.  I cannot synchronize that, but at least I don't have to re-enter my calendar entries.  I have not touched the Instinct's calendar yet.  It seems very basic.  I need the option to have calendar events coded for work, personal, etc.

As for uploading music and photos (haven't done any movies), what I do is use a card reader.  You just need to make sure the card has the proper folders listed for the Instinct to find what you upload.  It's pretty fast that way.  Currently I'm looking at ways to create a music playlist before I upload my mp3s.

The SD card should contain the following folder structure:

DCIM - inside there are two folders: CAMERA and SAVED
MEDIA
MUSIC
OTHERS

There might be others depending on whether you've received files or not, but at least those folders should appear on the card.  I typed them in caps because that's how they're showing on my card now.  I don't know if capitalization is required or not.

Why do we need iCal?  I've been asking myself that question.  I used iCal until June 19, when I bought my Instinct.  I am now using Google Calendar exclusively.  I don't know why I used iCal before.  I had to sync the app every day in order to have the calendar on my Treo 700p, on my other Macs.  Yes, everything was done automatically with the push of a button, but why?  I'm noticing that with Google Calendar, no matter where I am, I can enter new events and not worry about synching.  My only complaint with Google Calendar is its inability to show me a full month and navigate from month to month.

First thing you'll need is a Google account.  What browser are you using?  I use Firefox.  Once I log on to my Google account, then the calendar shows up. 

That is odd.  I have saved my Google Calendar as my home page on the Instinct.  Does anyone have any idea why a user wouldn't be able to log on to the calendar?  Have you tried to log on to Google and then get to your calendar that way? 

You're welcome.  Glad it worked.  As for the views, you can set it to different views, but it'll be faster to do that on the Mac.  Whatever your default view is on the Mac, it'll also be the same on the Instinct.

As for the iCal/Google Calendar sync, I'm waiting to get back home to the U.S. to try that.  I've been out of the country for 3 weeks and sometimes don't have good internet access where I'm staying.

I just bought an instinct and wanted to know why sprint or Samsung does not offer a sync manager for MAC as they do for a PC. Are there any plans afoot to develop this sync software for MAC? It seems to me that it would be a great marketing ploy to do this/increase their market share.