Nokia Lifeblog expert transfers Lifeblog to Apple iPod

From Russell Beattie's always useful computer/communications Weblog I learned about Charlie Schick of Nokia who wrote about how he transferred content from his Nokia Lifeblog on a Windows XP computer to his Apple iPod (see below).

As I've written previously, Nokia's Lifeblog software organizes and stores in chronological order a variety of communications files, such as SMS, e-mail, photos and videos.  Lifeblog (that does not have a Web-based Weblog component, yet) is bundled with a few (very few) Nokia camera phones; the PC client can be downloaded from the Nokia Web site.

As I've also written before, Nokia and TypePad are working together to develop templates that would faciliate integration of Lifeblog with Weblog functions, such as one of the early templates I've used.

Schick's iPod  with Lifeblog

Here's how Schick transferred Lifeblog data to his iPod:

"I installed the iPod photo software on my Windows XP machine. This updated my iTunes. The cool thing is that on the PC you don't need a helper app, such as iPhoto (which doesn't exist on the PC) or Adobe anything (which is what is suggested by Apple). You can point iTunes to a folder and it will suck up the photos from there (nested too).

"Needless to say, I pointed iTunes to LifeblogData/Datastore/Files, the folder that has all my data (all neatly organized by month I should say, which came in handy later on). After loading my songs, it started (very slowly) optimizing the images for the iPod (don't know why), and then it took a while to load 4300 or so images (about 4 G) from my Lifeblog.

"Yes, it worked. Better yet, I could view all the images on the iPod all together or in their subfolders which - yes! - Lifeblog had politely organized by month! How cool is that? My images were all properly rotated as in Lifeblog; though it wasn’t clear to me how the iPod was sorting my pictures, since some were out of order.

"To see how well the integration worked, I transferred a new image to Lifeblog from the phone. It was transferred (updated) to the iPod when I placed it in the cradle - automatically! But, I still need to figure out some other things, since when I rotated an image after it had been uploaded to the iPod, the image wasn’t updated on the iPod side, even though it was on the PC. So, I'm still trying to figure out the synch there (isn’t that always the issue!)."

Comments

[Charlie]

Alas, the iPod was taken from me, since I had bought it for someone else and was making good use of the time before I had to hand it over (with permission).

As an aside, I wanted to mention that Nokia Lifeblog 1.5 (www.nokia.com/lifeblog) is now available in English. Other languages to follow.

It now posts via Atom to blogs, such as TypePad (I think this one is a TypePad blog, right?).

Tchau!

Charlie