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Mac and Nokia One Click Syncing

A quick follow up to my previous article on synchronizing contacts and calendar items between my Mac Powerbook and my Nokia 6600 phone. I got one comment, and a follow-up email on the "one click" nature of Hotsync, so I thought I'd mention how I got back to that nice state of affairs.

With a Palm, synchronization starts by pressing the "Hotsync" button, found on the device cable or cradle. You hear a nice sound, the sync runs, and then you hear another nice "all done" sound (and hopefully) not the not-so-nice "there's been an error" sound. With iSync and my Nokia phone, things aren't quite as nice. I have to run the iSync application on my Powerbook, hit the start sync button, then watch the screen for the result. This is far from horrible, but it can be slightly improved. (Note that Mac OS 10.4 "Tiger" is IMHO a slight step backwards -- the iSync menu extra used to initiate a sync with my phone -- now it just initiates a .Mac Sync).

Linked below is a little program (really a very trivial AppleScript) that you can put in your Dock. Click it, it launches iSync, begins the sync, waits, and quits if everything went OK -- just like Hotsync. Also just like Hotsync, it gives nice auditory feedback of the start, end, and error states.

iSync with one Click, like Hotsync script

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Olivier on Tuesday 10 January, 2006:

The service i was referring to is now posted at http://go.yahoo.com (Yahoo Go! Series 60 application).

It is basically OTA seamless synchronization between your phone and your yahoo services (contacts, mail, photos).

The setup is fairly simple (really just install the app and enter login/password). Most of the functionality is integrated with the native S60 applications, and the synchronization is fairly straightforward. (after the initial 'slow sync' step)..

I realize other companies have pitched this before (cognima, fusionone); but it being integrated and release by Yahoo makes it so much more compelling ! I believe it does not use syncML, but rather the verdisoft sync engine..

Now, we will have to see how much my data bill is at the end of the month :)

O/

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David on Tuesday 10 January, 2006:

Cool -- I'll look at it in a bit more depth. Now I have to see if anyone has written an iSync <-> Yahoo plug-in.

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