Nokia 6086 & iSync

September 27th, 2007 |

Icon for the Nokia 6086 phone.A few months ago I switched yet again to a different cell phone provider. I went back to T-Mobile, and was intrigued by their T-Mobile at Home service. You know the one where the phone hooks into your broadband connection and then all subsequent continental U.S. calls are free (after paying them a monthly fee of course).
Anyway, I got the service which works pretty well. The sound quality is normal, and I haven’t experienced any delay in the conversation while talking. Only every now and then does the phone act strange, like refuse to dial, and once in a great while it even crashes in the middle of a conversation. I’ll put up with these little annoyances as long as they don’t happen too frequently, but can’t live without my Mac synchronizing via bluetooth with address book.

Luckily, there is a nice site dedicated to hacking your mobile phone to work with Apple’s iSync:

http://en.isync-hilfe.de/faq-blog.html

It didn’t take long to get it working, and I even made a little graphic for my phone so it looks better in iSync.

It was pretty easy to get set up. I just followed the instructions on the isync-hilfe.de site for the Nokia phone and it worked the first try. iSync will say that the synchronization didn’t work but your phone will know better and everything will come through just fine.

Feel free to use the graphic I made, as long as it not for commercial purposes.

Hiking…

September 13th, 2007 |

Today was a great day to go hiking. The smog that beset Salt Lake earlier this week had rolled away and tonight was a good night to go on a short hike. I hiked up behind Shriner’s hospital along the Bonneville Shorline Trail.

Listening to: …Nature…

Sunset on Mt. Olympus.
Sunset over Salt Lake City.
Fire in the Sky.
Twilight.