Mike Rowehl: This is Mobility

I was playing around a bit more with the N810 this morning. What I’m aiming to do is not need a laptop when I leave the house. The N810 should be perfect for that. What I was trying to get going was syncing the calendar that I keep on my desktop and N95 to the N810 as well. Seems like it should be easy. I use iSync on my Mac to sync up the laptop and the N95, I was expecting to find something that would allow me to relatively simply pull in some software that would allow the N810 to participate in that. I did find some interesting bits of software that would lead in that direction, but didn’t get it working. Then I was trying to get a read-only version of my calendar on the N810 using the GPE Calendar program. But even though I have ical exports up on my server, the calendar app was failing to subscribe to them. Finally I had to settle for using Google Calendar subscribed to my ical feeds to view them on the device. Google Calendar, also, is not syncable using iSync. There’s some commercial software that provides it… but no thanks. Why is it that calendar and contact management still blow after all these years? Wasn’t the standardization on Bluetooth as the transport supposed to fix this whole data problem?

While playing around with Google Calendar I was also poking at the new Mozilla based browser. Check out the info about it here. I’m happy to see that it supports extensions, which in some case can be simple repackages of desktop extensions. No UI elements for the browsers though, which is kinda restricting. Something I wanted to poke at was support for bookmarklets. Do they work? How do they compare to their desktop equivalents? Questions for another time, need to go run about for a while… with my laptop unfortunately.

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