“PIM” Tagged Pages

Org-Mode iCalendar Import with Conversion to Floating Times

Revised on Friday, January 25, 2019
Created on Sunday, January 20, 2019

In an earlier blog post I wrote about using Emacs Org mode for calendaring, and exporting iCalendar files with TIMEZONE information (including “VTIMEZONE” definitions, as specified by RFC 5545). Another side of the picture is importing from iCalendar into Org, and in this post I introduce a little Ruby script I recently finished writing for that purpose. I don't think I'm the first person to have written a half-baked script for iCalendar-to-Org import, but the special requirement I had was that I wanted to be able to interpret “DATE WITH UTC TIME” values in a non-standard way, and convert them into “floating” times (without time zone information).

Org-Mode iCalendar Export with Explicit Time Zones

Revised on Thursday, August 23, 2018
Created on Tuesday, July 3, 2018

For several years I used Symbian phones for calendaring, and the biggest issue for me was the lack of support for time zones: there was neither a way to specify a “floating” time, nor could you select a specific time zone for an appointment. Times would be interpreted in the context of the currently selected system-wide local time zone, and shifted later when changing the time zone setting. Consequently, I avoided ever changing time zones to retain the times as entered.

Another PIM Data Exporter

Written on Thursday, August 22, 2013

My little SMS Exporter utility app has probably been downloaded quite a few times by virtue of it having been available for many years. Now it's time to introduce another PIM data exporter application: Anyxporter. This new application is capable of exporting contact data, and supports both MeeGo Harmattan and (some versions of) Symbian. One of the shortcomings of SMS Exporter is that its export data format is not as machine readable as it could be.

SMS Exporter

Last modified on Wednesday, August 14, 2013

This is a small utility that allows one to export and/or delete all the short messages in the Inbox and Sent folders of one's S60 phone. In principle all S60 based phones should be supported, but testing on all S60 platform releases (let alone individual phone models) has not been done. Known compatible platform releases are: S60 2nd Edition FP2, S60 3rd Edition FP1, Symbian Anna, and Nokia Belle. The tool was hacked together in a rather hurried manner, so use at your own risk, and please let me know if you come across any problems with it—I haven't.

SMS Exporter v1.10 Released

Written on Tuesday, May 21, 2013

I was recently motivated to install some Symbian SDKs again, after quite a long break from Symbian programming. So here, an updated release of SMS Exporter for Symbian. SMS Exporter v1.10 should fix some of the potential-incompatibility installation warnings that the previous release may have caused on newer phones. The good news is that since there probably aren't going to be any still newer Symbian phones (now that the Nokia 808 PureView has indeed been confirmed to be "

Nokia's Products Are Error (Message) Free

Revised on Saturday, November 28, 2009
Created on Sunday, November 8, 2009

So I upgrade the firmware of my Nokia E71 from v200 something to v300 something. After the upgrade, I proceed to restore my data, as one would. No errors reported, and indeed everything was restored, with the minor exception of all of my 1540 Calendar entries, which were nowhere to be seen. The same thing with restore from memory card and restore with Nokia PC Suite. Sometimes I wish something this important would just work.

SMS Exporter v1.09 Released

Written on Friday, August 8, 2008

The certificate used to sign v1.08 had expired, so created a longer lived one with openssl, and signed with that. Added the backup registration file while at it, as it had been missing from previous 3rd edition releases.