iTuneMyWalkman

http://ilari.scheinin.fidisk.fi/itunemywalkman/?page=details

This free application will synchronise playlists (including podcasts) on an sony ericsson phone, but it has to appear as a volume. It will even sync when the volume appears on the desktop, automatically.

Looked for MacFuse or MacFusion bluetooth, but it's not really available. Experimental at best.

However, a new cable for the W880i means that now it connects beautifully. Moved iTuneMyWalkman to Applications and ran it. Set up to have a Folder Action and a Script, and configured to use Stick 1 memory card (probably should have left the * in the settings name) and sync just Stick 1 playlist. Seems to work very well! Dragging Podcasts into the Playlist means they're transferred too.

Return to password manager and backups

The Keychain file format is apparently open source and documented.

It is possible to access Keychain from Java, but it might not work very well. Problem could be that only part of Keychain is accessible. Apple mentions it here.

If I could use the Bouncy Castle APIs to create a password store, then this program could read the archives on my mobile phone: TinyEncryptor

I tried MiniCommander which is already on the phone but it doesn't handle encrypted ZIP files.

I remember that I also found ways to export Keychains by automator or maybe it was applescript. But I can't remember where I put that info now... nor how to automate sending files to the phone via Bluetooth, automated by a script (check rest of this blog though).

Or, how about KeePass, open source, multi-platform - but is it as good as Keychain? Well, I guess I don't really use Keychain all that much, and it looks better than truecrypt because it structures data. I can also get it on my mobile. (There is another J2ME version but it's not looking as good.)

And some clever person has figured out how to get Auto-Type to basically work using some URL-handling trickery. Very clever.

Offline OS Maps with MG Maps

I worked out how to get offline OS Maps in the UK on Mobile GMaps, and posted on the forum here.

My post:

I have worked out how to change MapTileCacher.perl (v1.35) so that you can download OS Maps from multimap.co.uk and use them offline in MGMaps. Very handy for hiking, as these are arguably the best maps in the world. I've only done this on OS X - perhaps someone can apply this technique to other OS's and other places (like within Mobile GMaps itself). 

Both 25,000:1 and 50,000:1 scales are downloaded, corresponding to the cache tool's zoom levels 15 and 14 respectively. The 50,000:1 maps are also provided at zoom levels 13 and 12, but below that you end up with pretty standard Live maps, which are handy for locating yourself, but no better than other map providers'. 

Thanks to Christian Streng's post at http://forum.mgmaps.com/viewtopic.php?t=1116&postdays=0&postorder=asc&&start=250, which set me off in the right direction. 

Firstly, you need to set the User Agent for the wget or curl fetch. If you don't, I think Multimap will 95% of the time give you a 403 forbidden response, at least it did for me. For OS X, at line 75 add a User Agent to the curl call (I don't know what you need to do with wget, I'm on OS X): 

Code:

$wget = "curl -A Safari/3.2 -# -o TempTile.$pid ";    $systemRefererParam = "";

Secondly, put the following in place of the Osmarender map type (or your own choice of map style that you don't use). This code works out what the correct URL should be, which is a binary tile system like Live maps only broken into six digit segments. I spent a while finding the right 'miXXX' string in the middle - these combinations (where the string depends on the zoom level) give you the 50,000 or 25,000:1 maps as described above, at different zoom levels. You can zoom in further, but there is no point because you just get a blocky, scaled, version of the 25:000:1 map. (There are many other miXXX strings that give you maps for only parts of the country and/or only certain zoom levels - these ones gave me maps for all the places I tested, which wasn't all that many, but spread right across the country.) 

Code:

elsif(index($MapType,"Osmarender") != -1)     # ************ multimap for UK OS Maps ********************    {      $digit = ((($y & 1) << 1) + ($x & 1)); # 'randomise' server access mc0, mc1, mc2 or mc3      $url .= "http://mc" . $digit . ".multimap.com/ptiles/map/";      # the following selects the map type to use - only certain combinations of zoom and map type work, and some      # map numbers different from these work in some areas, but not UK-wide. Hopefully these particular ones      # do work UK-wide.      $url .= ($zoomLevel+1) >= 16 ? "mi932" : ($zoomLevel+1) >= 13 ? "mi904" : ($zoomLevel+1) >= 6 ? "mi916" : "mi915";  # select map type      $url .= "/" . ($zoomLevel + 1) . "/";           # Multimap uses quadrant tiles like Microsoft Live, but splits them up into six-digit long segments.      # e.g. http://mc1.multimap.com/ptiles/map/mi902/16/031313/131331/311.png            $mmchars = 0;      for($i=$zoomLevel-1; $i >= 0; $i--)      {          # put a / every six characters          if ( ($mmchars == 6) || ($mmchars == 12) )          {            $url .= "/";          }          $url .= ((((($y >> $i) & 1) <<>> $i) & 1)));          $mmchars++;      }      $url .= ".png";    }

The $zoomlevel+1 business is because zoom level 15 in MapTileCacher.perl corresponds to zoom level 16 in Multimap, and so forth. 

With this you can use the cache tool, selecting the Osmarender map type, and run MapTileFE.perl as normal, but instead of Osmarender, MapTileCacher.perl will download lovely OS Maps from multimap. 

MiniCommander J2ME for phone

It's Midnight Commander for your J2ME phone! Can unzip zip files, which is very handy for getting zipped MG Maps caches to the phone because my phone's bluetooth can't support sending folders all at once.

Offline maps with MG Maps

Huge list of software for mobile phones

http://www.maps-gps-info.com/fgpfwmobile.html

 

Some interesting ones

http://egpstrack.hlod-wig.org/screenshots.html

 

http://www.basenav.com/ allows you to scan your own maps, but haven't found a use for it yet.

MG Maps 

http://www.mgmaps.com/index.php supports offline maps, works very well.

Go to the MapCacher site and choose which area you want to download by dropping pins on the map. Choose which zoom levels you want to cache. Then hit the Generate! button to download a .map file to the local system.

Execute ./MapTileFE.pl from Terminal, passing it the .map file BUT WITHOUT THE .map EXTENSION. It will call MapTileCacher.perl for each level of zoom you specify, creating a MGMapsCache folder which can be sent to the phone by Bluetooth.

Instructions on forums

Download above perl tools here.

Instructions for getting offline maps http://forum.mgmaps.com/viewtopic.php?t=725

Instructions for using offline maps here http://forum.mgmaps.com/viewtopic.php?p=2745#2745

Setup

I had to to rename the .perl.pl file to .perl, so other script can find it.

Use chmod u+x to allow execution, then just run ./MapTileFE.pl.

iSync Sony Ericsson W880i with Feisar plugin

Bought and installed Feisar's plugin for my phone, then ran iSync.

I set up an address book group called On Phone which will have all my contacts that are on the phone in it. Got to sync with that at first, to avoid deleting anything on the phone - the group is empty at first.

Took a couple of hours to get everything well organised, but then did a sync and it seems to work fine now.

Calender syncing won't work seemlessly though, because it seems to be only able to sync with calendars on the mac, not my gmail calendar. The option to sync phone items to the gmail one isn't available, so I make one called On Phone just for things I add on the phone and want to move into another calendar at home. That's not the end of the world for now though. And the main thing is that todo items sync!

Proximity detection of Bluetooth phone

The software is Proximity.

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/proximity.html

Backup file to phone via Bluetooth Object Push Automater action

It's possible to make an Automator action that takes a file and sends it to a mobile using Bluetooth.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071010200518755

points to this file which can be loaded into Automator (open Automator and on the file mene, choose Import Action...)

http://geekmuse.googlepages.com/BlueActionMove.action.zip

Unfortunately the phone (Sony Ericsson W880i asks for confirmation.

However, it is possible to just run this automator action and back up files wirelessly. I'm using this with a TrueCrypt volume which holds passwords, so it can be easily backed up.

Somewhere I remember having a program that would detect a bluetooth device coming in range and would run a script.