Comments on: PC to Mac Migration, Part 1: General Setup and Transfer.

By: Sunil

Sunil — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:10:10 +0000

I need an application where I can convert csv file which has SMSs.
I want to transfer/migrate these SMS to my iPhone SMS inbox or sent messages, whatever it is. Can anyone help.

Regards

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:57:25 +0000

Tom, you can also enter birthdays in the address book and have them show up in ical automatically - just enable a check box in ical’s preferences.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:03:00 +0000

Trev,

Thanks. What threw me is that I have a half-dozen contacts with more than three emails and it “cut them off” at three when imported. Apparently it didso because I hadn’t ore-defined more than that in the template before importing. That seems silly to me but I suppose it has its uses. At least I don’t have to state at 50 fields that I’ll never use like in Outlook. Still, i rhink the import ought to be smarter.

Afterwards I thought I did try to add another but I may mistaken.

At least I know I can add them now.

By: Trev

Trev — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:49:00 +0000

Hi Tom. really liking your blog. Just to address your comments about Address Book. You can keep adding unlimited (I think!) email addresses etc. by clicking on the little green “plus” icon that appears next to each field. You can also add custom labels. Try it.

By: Neil Anderson

Neil Anderson — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:55:00 +0000

Congratulations on the new iMac! I’m still waiting for mine to be delivered. Sounds like your setup is going well. Looking forward to your comments with the iLife and iWork suites.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:15:00 +0000

issue with Address Book is that there just isn’t much… there.

I don’t have the app in front of me right now, so don’t quote me on this, but you get a couple addresses, three email addresses, a URL, Notes, birthdays, and a few other fields. Compared to Outlook’s seemingly hundreds of possible fields in a tabbed display it is spartan, to say the least.

Further, there are few ways to view your data. In Outlook you can get a list, cards, detailed cards, etc. views, and each one of them customizable. AB shows them as a “card”, whose template you can modify (with their spartan data choices above) and that’s it. You can sort by first name or last name, though.

There are practically no preferences for the app, and in fact not many commands at all. It takes “simplicity” to extreme.

The bottom line to me is it just doesn’t look like it’s part of the trilogy along with Mail and iCal. The first two appear to meet the needs of most users, with reasonable flexibility and functionality, while Address Book looks like it was thrown together on a weekend to complete the package.

By: pabugeater

pabugeater — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:50:00 +0000

Hi - nice summary, what you described is just as I’d expect it. My comment concerns Address Book, and why you think it’s so wimpy :) I ask not as a challenge, but just to learn what I may be missing.

Like you, my contact list is small and my needs (must be) few. I too have about 100 personal contacts, but also about 150 “business contacts”, everything from my vets to my HVAC contractor. Some have a single number or a single email, others may be loaded with multiple numbers, FAX, emails, URL, birth dates, and notes that may contain driving directions. I also have entries entered last name fist, and sorted last name first. Consequently, I set my iPod and cell phone to sort/display the same way, and print the contacts the same way. The only “device” that I have trouble with is my Camry, it’s locked into a first-name-first mode.

Agreed, too, that .Mac synching of all this (and more) data between various disparate devices is nice, and worth the price of admission for me.