Just picked up my N800 last week. Wanted to get my contacts and Bookmarks from my MacBook Pro over to the N800.

Although there is no sync ability with these methods, I have at least managed to get all my data over.

For the contacts I used VCard Blaster

For the Bookmarks, I just exported them as an HTML file from Safari and imported this file with the Bookmarks programme on the N800 - I was a bit surprised it worked, but they are all there and in their original folder structure - very cool.

I post this only because I hadn't found any other mention here about getting bookmarks over from Safari - if this is old news, apologies!

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Following your example I managed to get my stuff on the tablet too.
A note: why did you pay 9 bucks to send your contacts to the tablet ?
I've selected all the contacts from Address Book and used the "Card -> Send these cards..." option to send them to the tablet.

One question: do you have all the info of your contacts on the tablet or just their e-mail address ?
'cause it didn't copy any phone number at all.. just e-mail addresses and I think it's an N800 Contacts' limitation.

worked without any problem.


No idea if it's an old news, but I was glad you did post it

They had a fully functioning demo, so I just used that. i kind of assumed the Address Book one didn't work, without even trying it - thanks for the tip. Having said that, see below:

I got phone numbers and email addresses. I didn't get street addresses or notes. For some reason the N800 address book does not appear to have the option to add street addresses - some address book!

No problem for the tip. Still checking if it worked better than your way

I didn't get ANY phone number at all and it imported ONLY contacts with an e-mail address.
Weird. Now I'm charging my tablet, I'll do a few more tests later.

Thanks!

Just tried importing iCal (.ics) calendars into GPE Calendar and that works too! So no syncing but at least I can get the events onto it.

edit: since GPE Calendar has an online sync feature, does anyone know if its possible to use this with iCal published calendars - perhaps a 3rd party calendar server?
Thanks.

Cool, the n800 is charged.. I'll see if I have sometime to play with the Address Book.

Been looking into this calendar thing more - seems there is some one way syncing ability using a site like icalx with iCal. Not sure how reliable it is yet, but seems to work.

Until this last weekend, I had 2 different sets of safari bookmarks (home and work), 2 sets of firefox bookmarks (home and work), and the start of a set of n800 bookmarks.


Then I evaluated delicious, google bookmarks, and netvouz.com ... and decided on netvouz.com.

1) delicious only does tags, and not folders, for your bookmarks. Makes importing and re-organizing a bit annoying. I think google bookmarks was the same. Netvouz does _both_ tags and folders. Very nice.

2) netvouz has import and export logic for safari, omniweb, IE, mozilla/firefox, camino, and I think one or two others. Plus opera. But I think that's for standard (desktop) opera, and not mobile opera. At any rate, I think I lost a couple bookmarks when I imported the N800 bookmarks.

3) netvouz has javascript buttons you can put on your safari and firefox toolbars so that you can "add to netvouz" instead of adding a new bookmark ... or just straight to netvous. Add to nevouz has 2 versions, a pop-up and a non-pop-up. They mostly support the same browsers with these buttons, BUT, the javascript doesn't work with the mobile-opera on the N800.


Now I have 1 set of bookmarks for all locations. :-)

It'd be nice if the N800's bookmarks application could use delicious, google bookmarks, or netvouz as its storage backend. Though, delicious and google have APIs that would make this somewhat easier. AFAIK, netvouz does not yet have an API. But, really, all it would have to do is:

- periodic automated (and manual) import from netvouz* (for offline caching, or for local lookup speed, just a periodic automatic update of the data downloaded from netvouz*)
- when "adding", duplicate the functionality of the javascript (which is probably "open a web page with these parameters"), and if you're offline, queue up additions to send once you're back online.
- when you want to completely open and edit your bookmarks, it would just open a web page to netvouz*.

(* or delicious, or google bookmarks)