entering the modern world
Just bought a smartphone (well, got it free with the 2 year contract), after *mumble* years on a pay as you go plan. The monthly bill (even rolling over my unused balance) is going to be a shock after $15/month and never using up my minutes. I got a Palm Pixi Plus (the Pre was noticeably slow just playing with it in the store) and it has a hard keyboard, so I'll be using it for text messaging, and email, and web surfing, and maps, and ... not actually talking on the phone. :) Currently trying to do some magic to sync my Palm Pilot calendar and contacts. *fingers crossed* Phone number stays the same.
Note to self: get Canada plan switched on for the weekend, otherwise the first bill will give you a heart attack.
Hmm, can't get a good enough signal to set up the account, will do it tomorrow at work.
Update:
To get address book in to gmail contacts, export as .csv from kpilot on linux, create a new contact and add stuff to it in gmail, then export it, use that to add headers to the kpilot output (in a spreadsheet, so export as .csv again). For the record, I had about 1000 contacts in my Palm Pilot. I imported them under a new group so I could delete them when I messed up. They had to be added to "My Contacts" to synch to the phone.
For the calendar, back it up using kpilot, so have the CalendarDB-PDat.pdb (kpilot doesn't have a gui for the calendar). I just tried palm2ical on windows to create a .ics file and then created a new calendar in my google calendar and imported it. Currently seems stuck. :/ Might just be the 9 years of info to slurp in, though... yup, it's there, and lots of overlapping events from when I was duplicating stuff. Next up: text files, and I need to find a safe/locker program as well.
Note to self: get Canada plan switched on for the weekend, otherwise the first bill will give you a heart attack.
Hmm, can't get a good enough signal to set up the account, will do it tomorrow at work.
Update:
To get address book in to gmail contacts, export as .csv from kpilot on linux, create a new contact and add stuff to it in gmail, then export it, use that to add headers to the kpilot output (in a spreadsheet, so export as .csv again). For the record, I had about 1000 contacts in my Palm Pilot. I imported them under a new group so I could delete them when I messed up. They had to be added to "My Contacts" to synch to the phone.
For the calendar, back it up using kpilot, so have the CalendarDB-PDat.pdb (kpilot doesn't have a gui for the calendar). I just tried palm2ical on windows to create a .ics file and then created a new calendar in my google calendar and imported it. Currently seems stuck. :/ Might just be the 9 years of info to slurp in, though... yup, it's there, and lots of overlapping events from when I was duplicating stuff. Next up: text files, and I need to find a safe/locker program as well.