Molecularist

I will repeat this less often later, but for now I wanted you all to know that all the tips here are unsupported. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t try anything! Many of these tips are for those who know how to mess with their Series 60 phones.

Just wanted to share how I managed to move my messages to my 7610 from my 6600, so that they could be included into Lifeblog:

1. Make a back up on your PC of your 6600 MMC and your 7610 MMC!
2. I cut and pasted all my files from my 6600 MMC to a RS-MMC for the 7610 (this deletes all the content on the 7610 MMC – but you made a back up, right?).
3. I put the RS-MMC and adapter back into the 6600.
4. I set my message store to be the MMC. This transferred all my messages and email settings and such to the RS-MMC.
5. I put the RS-MMC into my 7610 and then set the messaging app on that to save to the MMC. But since I already had my messages on the MMC, it just revealed all the messages that were on my 6600. 😉
6. I installed Lifeblog on the 7610 MMC and then let Lifeblog collect the items on my MMC.
7. All the messages that I transferred from my 6600 were now in my Lifeblog!

Cool.

A few other notes:

• I didn’t have to transfer my photos since I have always saved them to the MMC.
• If you want to keep all the apps that come on the 7610 MMC, then you will have to try something else.
• I don’t know if this will work with the 3650, since it is a different version of the platform (I’ve been trying without luck). Also, it seems like there is a timestamp difference between the 3650 and the 6600. The 3650 put in the GMT time if GMT offset is used, while the 6600 put in the real phone time. That means that whenever I transfer images from the 3650 into my Lifeblog, the time stamp is off by the GMT offset. How annoying.

Just wanted to let the more intrepid Lifeblog users know that the Lifeblog files and data are not hidden by the application. The database is there for you to browse (if you know what you are doing) and the data files and thumbnails are also equally available in an easy to understand and consistent file structure.

I have already spoken with a few folks who have discovered these neat little things and have begun thinking of what they could do, such as scripts for posting to their own blog or to do back ups or other manipulations.

If you do come up with a hack for Lifeblog, let me know by commenting here. I’d like to check it out and make it available to others (with your permission, of course).

Of course, none of these hacks are supported (I need to say that, since I work on the Lifeblog team). Mess around at your own risk!

Christian Lindholm has put up a list of things to do with Lifeblog. He’s the leader of the team and like the rest of us, has become a big user of Lifeblog.

Here’s a synopsis, go to his site for the full text:

• You can use the beta to import all your old photos and create a timeline of them.
• Use it as a people diary, annotating pictures of those you meet.
• Use it as a “project record”, photographing a project as you go along.
• Lifeblog will organize it for you.
• Use it as a visual diary, photographing things you want to remember.