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Well, if there’s one available at one of the local AT&T stores, the Best Buy, or the Walmart, I’ll be the proud owner of a new iPhone 3GS. I think my first stop will be Walmart… nobody is brave enough to camp out at a Walmart are they? Not with all the trampling fiascos over the past year…. besides, you can’t beat their return polices.

What I’m looking for is the best way to migrate from one iPhone to the latest and greatest – hopefully taking as many of the settings with as possible. I’m looking for saved SMS messages, email accounts, photos, notes, and other personal settings… everything. Here is my plan.

First, make sure to have the latest iPhone OS 3.0. You don’t want to try and install iphone 2 on the new iPhone 3Gs because, well, it isn’t supported.

The next step also falls under preparation, backup my current iphone. To make sure it’s been done, I’ll plug in my iphone 3G. Right click (control click) on the Phone in itunes, and choose backup.

Your Backup will be stored here:
On a Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/

On Windows Vista: \Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\

I anticipate that I’ll need to enter email account passwords again, but if all goes well, all my junk will all be there.

Update: Well I strolled into my local AT&T store at about 8:00. Fully staffed and no line. They had a 32 Gig, and five minutes later I was out the door. Connected to the wifi at the starbucks next door from my truck and restored from backup. Basically, iTunes walks you though the entire thing and this post is for nothing. Apple is cool like that.

Step 1: Get the phone

Option 1: Get a Nokia 6133 unbranded

• you’re all set, move on to step 2.

Option 2: Get a Nokia 6133b from T-Mobile

1. Completely charge your phone
2. Pay for flashing by www.iunlock.com. Great service. (ship it or drop it off)
3. Wait for phone to get back (Takes about a week round trip.)

Step 2: Hack iSync and pair with Mac.

Step 3: Get T-Mobile settings from nokiausa.com

1. Got to www.nokiausa.com
2. Click on Support » Setup.
3. Click on Get Settings (under Settings and Browsing and MMS Messaging image)
4. Click on Get Standard Settings.

1. Accept terms
2. start
3. Choose your phone. (if 6133 is not listed choose 6131)
4. select T-Mobile USA as your network
5. select T-Mobile Internet as your service providor
6. enter your security code, phone number and send it to your phone.
7. Receive text message with settings. (save, and load them)

1. Accept them.
2. Load them

Step 4: Set-up Custom Data Access (for java apps)

1. Menu
2. Settings
3. Configuration
4. Personal config settings
5. Options: Add New
6. Choose Access point from the list
7. Enter a something for Account Name
8. Then go into Access Point Settings
9. Under Data Bearer choose Packet Data
10. And in Bearers settings enter the following:

1. Packet Data Access Point: wap.voicestream.com
2. Network Type: IPv4
3. Authentification type: Normal
4. User name: *blank*
5. password: *blank*

Step 5: Get Java Applications

Get Opera Mini:

1. On your phone go to mini.opera.com
2. Download Opera mini
3. Install it
4. Start browsing

Best Opera Mini Sites:
My Home Page: m.netvibes.com –it gives me access to weather, gmail, espn, yahoo sports, new york times, and basically any feed you can think of all on one tiny page.

Get Google Maps:

1. On your phones browser (not opera) go to http://moble.google.com/
2. CLick on google maps
3. Download and install the app

Get Gmail:

I couldn’t get the gmail java app working, there is always m.gmail.com on your web browser (Opera Mini)

Steps I Tried to get Gmail working – none worked, contact me if you get it working!

The flashed phone is not recognized by google so you have to circumvent the certificate by placing it on your phone manually. The certificate required by Gmail Mobile Application is available for download at www.verisign.com/support/roots.html.

Here’s an alleged guide to get the required certificate to resolve the “Your phone doesn’t have the appropriate certificate to communicate with Gmail” error.

1. Download the certificate at www.fourteenfloor.com/files/PCA3ss_v4.cer to your computer.
2. Transfer the certificate into your mobile phone and store it. .

1. Click on the File in the finder
2. Click on the Finder menu » Services » Send file to bluetooth device (shift-apple-b)
3. Choose your phone from the list and choose send
4. Accept the file on your phone

www.gmail.com/app/v1.0.0/en/gmail-g.jar

Note Widsets are kind of fun.

I think my Tivo died. It was stuck in a reboot cycle the other day and was a bit hot. I pulled the plug on it and now it will not come back to life.

Mass hysteria and panic are ensuing as I adjust to live TV.

Update: The new replacement Tivo should arrive today.

Update 2:Found some power supplies for under 5 bucks. At that price you could buy two.

What the tivo brand series 2 tivo requires is a PS-70 – SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY from allelectronics.com.

I’ve created the ultimate Napoleon Dynamite Screen Saver for your Sony Ericsson t-610 phone.

Save it to your computer, then send it to your phone via bluetooth or the data connection.

Also, one of the gangs keeps trying to recruit me because I’m pretty good with a bow-staff.

I now use Google’s free email service, GMail for about 95% of the reading and composing of messages that I do. I have roughly a dozen email accounts that all get funneled in one way or another to Gmail.

The built in spam filtering is not quite excellent, but it’s darn good. It stores the last 30 days spam messages for you in a folder aptly titled “Spam” – and mine usually has between 1,300 and 1,400 depending on what time of day it is That’s 46 emails per day that I don’t have to see touch worry about virus’.

I don’t miss the emails from Usnu Buku.

Update: The recent flood of Rolex spam has pushed my 30 day spam count over 1700. Ugh.

I use a program called BBEdit very often. I purchased version 6 and version 7 of the software. Version 8.0 just came out so I started using the full featured demo to see if it was worth the upgrade price — and it is. I didn’t plan on purchasing the upgrade until after the 30 day demo expired. Yesterday the application said it would expire in less than 24 hours. Today, it says it expires in 49,710 days. For the mathematically challenged, that’s in 136+ years. I’m guessing that’s a quiet feature change in the new version they released today (8.0.2). why they just released another update to the demo. I guess I’ll just keep waiting until it expires.

Update: The demo expired the next day. It was a dialog error, not a demo expiration error.

I’m stuck. Google is down and and I don’t know how to find anything on the internet without it.

Everyone who is migrating to Gmail loves the google search feature for all your new mail, but wouldn’t it be nice if you could get all of your old email messages into Gmail from your Mac OS X Mail.app without forwarding the thousands of messages you’ve accumulated over the years by hand?

Mark Lyon wrote a great little PC program in python that automates importing your old email messages to your gmail account. The site instructions and the program are for Windows and work great, but what about us Mac users?

He was nice enough to include the python source code that also happens to work with Mac OS X, but for those of you that have no idea how to run python scripts, or don’t even know what python is and have no clue about mbox files, I’ve written a simple applescript that uses the terminal to automate the process for all of your mailboxes.

The script requires you to download Mark’s source code, modify a few settings and then click run to automate the process for all of your Mac OS X Mail.app mailboxes, while allowing you to exclude other mailboxes.

1. Download Mark’s script to your Desktop. Instructions Here.
2. Download my gmlAutomator AppleScript.
3. Open the script in Script Editor.
4. Modify the properties at the top of the script
5. Run the AppleScript.

Update:
Another even more simple way to accomplish this was sent to me by Ken. The process is to create a new rule in Mail.app with the action “redirect to
myaccount@gmail.com”. Have it match whatever messages
you’re interested in bouncing up to gmail, for example all of
‘em. Select the messages you’re interested in sending off and
run Message -> Apply Rules. Done!

If you leave the rule in, new (matching) messages will also get
bounced to gmail (and still preserved in Mail.app).
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The TiVo I bought back in January was the bottom of the line, 40 hour in a TiVo branded box. It’s worked great. Right away I added on the USB ethernet adapter so it could talk to home base through my broadband internet rather than dial up because I don’t have a land line – haven’t since ’98. I got the home media option so I can wirelessly stream mp3′s to my tivo, but I hardly ever use that feature.

The problem I’m having is I can only save like one episode of a few shows and they’re automatically deleted after a couple days to make room for upcoming shows. I needed a bigger TiVo. So I watched the deal sites for a economical 160 GB drive (51$ shipped). I bought a slick case adapter for the tivo that allows for an extra fan and a second hard drive. Then all I had to do was burn a boot cd, format the drive, set the jumpers on the internal 40 GB drive to Master, add the second drive and fan to the TiVo, and plug in the machine.

Now I’ve got a dual HD TiVo with 208 hours of recording time, instead of 40, and it was on the cheep. Plus, I didn’t loose any of my settings or old recorded shows.

Geeky. Sweet.