Tiger iSync Phones

Posted on Saturday, April 30th, 2005 8:03 PM

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I'm playing around with Mac OSX 10.4. Zeno sent me this great thread on how to get the new iSync to work with unlisted Series 60 phones. It involves navigating to a hidden folder and changing an XML doc. I was pretty annoyed when I first tried iSync and it said my 3230 (which I'm still using) wasn't supported. I tried the hack found in the thread and it works! Though I *really* can't understand why Apple is using a custom app to do the sync rather than using SyncML, but that's just me.

Anyways, while I was messing around in the iSync folder, I noticed all these .tiff files of other phones. So continuing to play I decided to use the Automator to grab all of those files and convert them into .pngs so I could throw them online. Worked like a charm! Though I have to say, there's really not a lot of phones in there.

Two second thoughts on the OS: Tiger is okay, though it's not without problems. My Finder crashed a couple times already and some apps aren't working. Spotlight is actually disappointing - it doesn't work nearly as well as Quicksilver IMHO.

At least my phone syncs now though!

:-)

-Russ

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