Mac.sis making macs and S60 handsets talk

In the OS X 10.5.3 update dropped by Apple yesterday, the Address Book provides a capability to synchronise your local address book with Google contacts.

If you have an iPhone or an iPod touch, that is.

If you find the limit of 500 characters per TODO description too limited, you can follow this hint at MacOSXHints to increase the length of the description to a more tolerant number.

Note that you may want to back up the Nokia-N95.phoneplugin file before going on a hacking spree to ensure that you have a functional version to fall back on.

I haven't tested this hint myself, as my TODO description fields are rarely more verbose than 3 words. Maximum.

Thanks to Eric for pointing this out – the mobile syncing hotness Nokia Multimedia Transfer has been updated to version 1.2.1. The upgrade can be carried out conveniently through the Check for updates now option in the NMT (have to love the acronym).

Alas! The NMT web page says nada about the contents of the upgrade, so I suppose time will tell. Any clever observations on new or improved functionality are greatly appreciated.

The free todo-list manager Anxiety provides a simplistic way to quickly view the centrally managed OS X todos (from Mail or iCal) as well as to create new todos. Since the application taps into the system-wide task list, it means that the data is also easily synced to an S60 handset using iSync.

The Mac.sis reader stet approached me with the following question:

Rui Carmo of The Tao of Mac has made available an unofficial Multimedia Transfer plugin and an unofficial iSync plugin, as well as general observations on the device itself. For the plugins and Rui's observations on the device, head on over to Nokia 6120 Classic.

Since I have got my GTD solution pretty much running smoothly, I have become more and more dependent on keeping stuff synced between the Mac and the N95, and the cycle of starting iSync and then synchronising got a bit tedious. While there are solutions such as Salling Clicker that can automate the synchronisation, I found the battery consumption overhead due to non-stop BT connection slightly too heavy.

As noted at E-series.org, Nokia has silently added support for some more of the E-Series products for Nokia Media Transfer for Mac. I am sitting at a pesky PC right now, unable to try this out myself, but apparently you should be able to have NMT check for updates to install the updated version.

E-series owners, let me know how this goes.

I am at the moment depending on a slow cellular link and cannot try it out myself, but you may be interested in the fact that Nokia has released Nokia Media Transfer for Mac as an open beta version.

Download the app, take it for a spin and let me know how things go. Gotta find me a wifi AP quickly!

OK, I took FoneLink for a spin, and unfortunately, the early results do not seem very encouraging. The application needs to mature a little bit until I am willing to shell out any cash for it.

The first annoyance is that the tryout version is nagware. This is not your average demo which politely reminds you every now and then to register. No, this software is Marge Simpson on steroids and then some, every few clicks: