This one, I’m sharing with you too. The k510i iPhone theme with the clown fish is still available. Perhaps, when I get bored with the Stable one, I’ll convert the iPhone theme to a w810i theme. I’ll see.

Luckily, other people know exactly what to do about that. Enabling Bluetooth Sharing, perhaps I would have done that if I searched a little further.

Oh well, my mac is accepting my files again

Of course, it is still a hack, unsupported, and thus, if I could find a supported way, I’d love to try that one (iff I don’t have to buy it). That’s why my heart skipped a beat today after installing the Leopard Development tools. I noticed there was an utility added to my Powerbook called iSync plug-in maker.

I opened that tool and indeed! The entire interface screamed to easily create an iSync plug-in. It can detect the phone, interrogate it and enter the device characteristics automatically. The only thing I had to do is enter some defaults and enter which type of contacts I had (does the phone support company-name, does it support first and last name or is everything entered in one field, …)

After configuring the plug-in for my phone, I noticed a button “Test”. Sure, I want to test! Suppose I install this plug-in right away, try to use it and then notice it erases all my contacts from my phone and my Addressbook. Don’t want to see that happen! While thinking that, I hit the test button and saw the more than 1350 test scenario’s that could be executed! Amazing. Everything seems to be covered: add only a contact with a first name, modify a contact with first and last name, a contact with first and last name with only company address, or with only a home address… I select them all (no, not one by one) and hit “Run those tests!”

The tests start and tell me what they do: adding a contact, modifying it, … After a while I go take a look in my phonebook list. Indeed! A contact is created at the top of the list called “Firstname Lastname” and after a couple of seconds, the “Lastname” is renamed to “Lastname Modified” and even the phone number has changed. So that’s perfect! Not only this tool seems to be user friendly, it even seems to work!

And then… the shower. An enormous flood of ice cold water drained over my head as a tropical storm during mid-winter. This time my heart didn’t skip a beat. It skipped a couple of them. The contact that is being modified isn’t just the first contact. it is the only contact.

One hundered and thirty three contacts erased in just a fraction of a second (didn’t see the removal anyway), no one to talk to, no one to call, no one to recognize, all contacts, all phone numbers, all e-mail addresses just G-O-N-E. Except for “Firstname Lastname Modified” with office phone number “1111111″ who is laughing at me.

DAMN

I stop the tests (I am not waiting for the +1350 tests to be finished since the first two took 3 minutes to complete – bluetooth isn’t fast), take the risk for the plug-in to actually work and install it. That works. I open Address Book, back-up all contacts (it’s a reflex, I haven’t removed Time Machine by accident) and launch iSync hoping that I can restore my contacts that way. Wrong thought. iSync states that the plug-in doesn’t work in this version. Raging in agony, I click the special button that iSync supplies to show and remove the erroneous plugin – which I do remove – and relaunch iSync. Clicking “Sync”, I truly hope that this will work and luckily, the program is intelligent enough not to erase all contacts from Address Book, but add them to my phone instead. Now, it’s just a matter to restore the contact images (from which a backup cannot be created) and my voice commands (to call some of my contacts handsfree) but at least my phone numbers are back.

I wonder what “File System Modifier” does…

It has happened about three times now this week. I copied something (mostly text) to my clipboard and – of course – pasted it there where I wanted it to. And then, I don’t need it anymore but it remains on the clipboard… at least… That’s what I expected it to do. A couple of minutes/hours later, I hit ctrl+v by accident, pasting the content of the clipboard in the text I’m writing… and it pastes this:

It looks like a cellphone, until you start to enlarge it:

It more likes like a virus laughing at you… and that rather scares me.

Note that the desktop icons might be different on your phone

Using a hint on MacOSX hints, I am able to sync my K510i anyway.
The entry I added to Metaclasses.plist is:

<key>com.sony-ericsson.K510</key>
    <dict>
        <key>Identification</key>
        <dict>
            <key>com.apple.gmi+gmm</key>
            <array>
                <string>Sony Ericsson+Sony Ericsson K510</string>
            </array>
        </dict>
        <key>InheritsFrom</key>
        <array>
            <string>family.com.sony.ericsson.syncml-phones-2005b.usb-bt</string>
        </array>
        <key>Services</key>
        <array>
            <dict>
                <key>ServiceName</key>
                <string>com.apple.model</string>
                <key>ServiceProperties</key>
                <dict>
                    <key>AlternativeNames</key>
                    <string>K510i</string>
                    <key>ModelIcon</key>
                    <string>SEK750.tiff</string>
                    <key>ModelName</key>
                    <string>K510</string>
                </dict>
            </dict>
            <dict>
                <key>ServiceName</key>
                <string>com.apple.synchro</string>
                <key>ServiceProperties</key>
                <dict>
                    <key>NbrEmailPerContact</key>
                    <integer>3</integer>
                </dict>
            </dict>
        </array>
    </dict>

Nice one… Problem is that the contacts on my phone weren’t remotely the same as in my address book… Well, now they sort of are… Although I have the feeling that I removed some of my phone contacts while manually merging them the same contacts which were named different on my phone.

• Menu – Settings – Connectivity – Data comm. – Data accounts – New account
  • APN: mms.be
  • Username: mobistar
  • Password: mobistar
  • Login request: Off
  • Allow calls: Automatic
  • IP address: <empty>
  • DNS address: <empty>
  • Authentication: PAP
  • Data compression: Off
  • Header compression: Off

  On my phone, this account is saved under the name MMS.

• Go back to the main menu and go to Messaging – Settings – Picture message – MMS Profile – New profile
  • MMS Profile name: <enter something you want>
  • Message server: http://mmsc.mobistar.be
  • Internet Profile: <Edit – create new profile>
    • Connect using: MMS <This is the data profile you have created in the first step>
    • Use proxy: yes
    • Proxy Address: 212.065.063.143
    • Port number: 8080
    • Username: empty
    • Password: empty

The differences with the website, is that you DON’T have to enter username and password together with the proxy settings, but you DO have to enter them in the Data communication. Oh well, I don’t know, since login request is turned off. Another thing is to set Authentication on PAP. I set it initially on None and I guess that was the biggest problem, together with the proxy server.

You can also go to the SE website, go to Support – Produc Support, under section “Software and settings” you choose MMS Settings and you enter the form.