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Auto-iSync your mobile phone with your Mac

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While playing around with my Siemens S65 I once purchased BluePhone Elite to …well, I don’t know what exactly I wanted to do with it — but it was very nice to hear a greeting and have iTunes paused and re-started whenever I entered or left the range that rendered a blutooth connection between my mobile and my mac possible.

Now that I’ve got a shiny new Sony Ericsson K800i and got it iSync working with it, I reworked the AppleScript that says “Hi!” to me everytime I come closer to my MacBook Pro.

tell application "System Events"
tell application "SpeechSynthesisServer"
say "[[emph +]]Hi!"
end tell
end tell

I’m no AppleScript guru at all, but this is what I could do after reading through some forums on the net.

Today I thought about the solution for a problem that encounters me multiple times each day: Everytime I changed something on my Mac or the K800i that relates to my addressbook/contacts, calendar or to-do lists, the other device’s information is out-of-date — I had to remember to open up iSync and synchronise the data before leaving the house.

After a little googling around I found the following AppleScript snippet from the Spanish site Sofa Naranja, that does this for me automatically — it opens iSync and syncs. I didn’t want to have iSync open after the Sync and therefore altered the script a little bit — this is what I use at the moment:

tell application "iSync"
activate
synchronize
repeat until syncing is false
if syncing is false then
quit
end if
end repeat
quit
end tell

The result

If I come closer to my mac now — with the mobile in my jeans’ pocket — BluePhone Elite starts my AppleScript. I didn’t change anything until this step. But the AppleScript now does more than greet me — it opens up iSync, synchronises the data between the phone and the mac and afterwards quits iSync.

It’s working very nicely so far…

Update: It wasn’t working nicely at all — read this post for a working solution: Update: Auto-iSync your mobile phone with your Mac