Nokia 5130 iSync Plugin Snow Leopard

Today I bought a new phone only to discover it's not supported by isync.

So I have made my own plugin. I've seen a few forums with people who want to get their Nokia 5130 to work with isync.

The plugin should be put into /Library/PhonePlugins/

If the folder doesn't exist create it.

This probably only works on snow leopard (10.6). You could try 10.5 but no promises.

Download here: Nokia-5130.phoneplugin.zip

Enjoy!

UPDATE (13/12/2009):

It seems the birthday and photo fields can cause some problems. My phone has contacts that would sync fine one time and not the next.

I have tried to fix this but can't se what is wrong, especially as it changes each time i sync. Strange.

So what I have done is prepare 3 versions of the plugin (this time with installers, so no confusion over which to use).

Full Version:

Includes all contact details that the phone supports

Download Here

Normal Version:

Excludes Birthday and Photo fields

Download Here

Basic version:

Only has email and phone numbers

Download Here

Let me know in comments which version works for you. I use the normal version, because the full version works sometimes, but frustratingly not all the time.


UPDATE (23/03/2010):
Unfortunately this is no longer working for me and i have no idea why. Great that some of you have had some luck. Apologies to the rest of you. I have tries to fix it but have decided it must be a problem with the phone (maybe the reason it wasn't supported in the first place). I'll keep try to get it working but dont know how much luck i'll have.

Hopefully it still works for you!

iPhoto 09 Faces and Facebook

Like a lot of people I'm a little confused as to why Apple forgot to integrate iPhoto 09 Faces with address book. Seems like an obvious oversight to me. This is especially important when it comes to exporting photos to Facebook.

iPhoto  cannot make the link between the person you tagged with Faces and the friend you have on Facebook unless iPhoto knows the persons email address. You may have noticed that if you upload a tagged photo to Facebook, it will tag the person but the link it creates is not 'clickable' so your friend will not be notified that you have posted a photo of them.

I decided to make a quick shell script that would be capable of copying email addresses from The Mac OS X Address book to iPhoto. 

You can download the script here

To Run it open terminal type

bash ~/Downloads/iPhotoFacesAddressbookSync.sh

Where downloads is the folder your download the script to. It will then try to sync the Faces you have in iPhoto with email addresses from the Mac OX X Address Book.

Note that this script is to be used at your own risk, I take no responsibility for you loosing all your photos (thats VERY unlikely, the script doesn't even touch your actual photos, just the faces metadata). Always always backup your photos before doing any unsupported modifcation. In saying that it works fine for me and my friends.

Hopefully Apple will wake up and provide us with a iPhoto 8.1 with AddressBook integration.