Phone Frolics

Posted at 1:13 AM on 21 July 2003

Very much a tinkering day today - on a friends recommendation, I picked up an O2 sim card for my phone and have managed to set up my email over a GPRS connection. I'm slightly loathe to mention why in a public forum, but it's really a rather splendid thing indeed ;-)

This prompted me to finally sort out some things I've not been enjoying with my phone - namely its insistance on displaying contacts as "lastname firstname" which I find deeply irritating. Solved the problem by putting everyone's surname details into the first-name field on my Mac, and resyncing (iSync is sooo good at this it's silly, even the conflict resolution is top notch!) which as a side benefit enabled me to "categorise" certain numbers by putting information into the lastname field. ;-)

Nice.

It also lead me to finding out how to hack iSync to synchronise calendar entries and todo lists too - and everything seems to work perfectly! I can add, update and edit entries on phone/computer, and it all synchronises! Hooray!

Still got a few more things to work on, but then everything'll be set up just so. Hopefully I'll get around to doing them a bit quicker than it's taken me to get this far... ;-)

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Comments on "Phone Frolics"

Reason? With an entry like that I think we'd be fools to not start guessing.

1) You want to read your email on the lav.

2) You want to send email on the lav.

3) You want your new lavblog site to get more frequent email updates.

4) You've a new found appreciation for ascii pr0n, but it only works with your phone's fontset.

5) There is no #5.

Oh no, it's a far better reason than that - after all, I can do all of those things already on my other sim card. Why would I want to use a service provider that mumble mumble for their GPRS access? ;-)

Had one once. Can't remember where I left it.

check behind the fridge, that's where I found mine. It's a bit mouldy but still seems to work ...

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