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lprovenIt's Saturday and it's fairly quiet, so I am sitting here with my battered old Thinkpad, which runs W2K Pro 'cos it can't run Linux properly. (It has ACPI issues. Serious ones. And it's a damn sight quicker with W2K than XP. Even does Bluetooth and WLANs and stuff. Slightly shameful to be running a Micros~1 OS on it, but it's actually damned handy to have at least one Windows machine, and this is mine.) It's on the Internet via the shiny new phone and a USB cable.
(I am starting to think of this as the mini-Monolith. It's black, shiny, full of concealed high technology, its dimensions approximate to 1x4x9, and as I peer at it with dim eyes and poke at it with my big hairy fingers, it takes long enough to learn to appreciate its subtle mysteries that I sometimes feel positively Australopithecine.)
Said old Stinkpad is also concurrently connected to my not-quite-so-battered old P910i (with its Chinese firmware, acquired in the process of unlocking it from Orange in a little place I know in Chinatown, which isn't called Bona Phones but possibly should be) via its USB cradle. The fact that both work at once, and that I can move data on & off the monolith while connected to the Internet through it, both surprises and pleases me.
My number should port across on Monday, meaning that the monolith will become my primary phone, and the P910i will become a paperweight. (Except that actually it won't, as I shall stick an old PAYG SIM in it.)
So I decided it was time to try to get the data off it. Now, I have something of a dislike of Outlook, which grows ever stronger as I now use it every day at work. So I wasn't prepared to sync it into that.
Instead, out came my pre-Millennial copy of Organizer 6.0, installed and swiftly updated via a copy of 6.1 that was washed up by a passing torrent.
And lo, after really very little fiddling at all, honestly, all the data from the P910 is in the PC, and swiftly transferred thence into the monolith. Which now knows all my contacts, my appointments and everything. The new phone's good to go and I have a backup. Triffic. And it was all astoundingly easy. No, really.
Now I must learn if I can also sync the Nokia to Google Calendar or something like that, so I can get at it when the phone is not around. I also, far more importantly, need to extract the data from my Psion 7Book and get that into the monolith as well.
Sometimes, I am still surprised at how easy things are these days which were once really very hard.
What, alas, doesn't surprise me any more is that lovely, simple, elegant products likeThreadz Lotus Organizer disappear into history while clunky junkers like Outlook are used by millions. [Sigh]
(I am starting to think of this as the mini-Monolith. It's black, shiny, full of concealed high technology, its dimensions approximate to 1x4x9, and as I peer at it with dim eyes and poke at it with my big hairy fingers, it takes long enough to learn to appreciate its subtle mysteries that I sometimes feel positively Australopithecine.)
Said old Stinkpad is also concurrently connected to my not-quite-so-battered old P910i (with its Chinese firmware, acquired in the process of unlocking it from Orange in a little place I know in Chinatown, which isn't called Bona Phones but possibly should be) via its USB cradle. The fact that both work at once, and that I can move data on & off the monolith while connected to the Internet through it, both surprises and pleases me.
My number should port across on Monday, meaning that the monolith will become my primary phone, and the P910i will become a paperweight. (Except that actually it won't, as I shall stick an old PAYG SIM in it.)
So I decided it was time to try to get the data off it. Now, I have something of a dislike of Outlook, which grows ever stronger as I now use it every day at work. So I wasn't prepared to sync it into that.
Instead, out came my pre-Millennial copy of Organizer 6.0, installed and swiftly updated via a copy of 6.1 that was washed up by a passing torrent.
And lo, after really very little fiddling at all, honestly, all the data from the P910 is in the PC, and swiftly transferred thence into the monolith. Which now knows all my contacts, my appointments and everything. The new phone's good to go and I have a backup. Triffic. And it was all astoundingly easy. No, really.
Now I must learn if I can also sync the Nokia to Google Calendar or something like that, so I can get at it when the phone is not around. I also, far more importantly, need to extract the data from my Psion 7Book and get that into the monolith as well.
Sometimes, I am still surprised at how easy things are these days which were once really very hard.
What, alas, doesn't surprise me any more is that lovely, simple, elegant products like
