I’ve used Palm OS for the past ten years, starting with a stone-age [Handspring Visor](http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Handspring_%28company%29#Handspring_Visor), continuing with an elegant Sony [Clie](http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CLI%C3%89), and ending with a well designed [Palm T|X](http:\/\/www.palm.com\/us\/products\/handhelds\/tx\/). The calendar and the address book kept me organized. The failure of the digitizer in my T|X pushed me to find a replacement. I considered the iPhone and Palm Pre, but chose the [Nexus One](http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nexus_One).<\/p>\n
Once the Nexus One arrived, my task was to find a way to migrate my calendar, contacts, and passwords.<\/p>\n
A coworker recommended [GooSync](https:\/\/www.goosync.com), which he used to move from a Palm TX to a Motorola Cliq. From the description of GooSync, it sounded like neither the free version or the paid version would migrate all ten years of calendar entries over to Google calendar.<\/p>\n
Google calendar supports import from an [iCalendar](http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ICalendar) file. Palm Desktop doesn’t export into iCalendar format. Jpilot on Linux does, but I found that the format is not compatible with Google’s import. So I synchronized my Palm TX with Evolution on Linux. Evolution’s iCalendar export was compatible with Google’s import.<\/p>\n
Palm Desktop didn’t seem to be able to export in a format that Google’s contacts could understand. I used Jpilot on LInux to export each of my categories in [vCard format](http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/VCard), and imported them into Google one at a time. This worked well.<\/p>\n
On Palm, I had used GNU Keyring to store my passwords. Android has [KeePassDroid](http:\/\/www.keepassdroid.com\/) (among others). There was no easy migration path between the two. Jpilot on Linux has a plugin to display my GNU Keyring password entries. I installed [KeePassX](http:\/\/www.keepassx.org\/) on my Linux box, and copied and pasted each password from Jpilot into KeePassX. When I finished, I copied the KeePass database onto the Nexus One.<\/p>\n
I like the Nexus One. It’s slim, fast, and capable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve used Palm OS for the past ten years, starting with a stone-age [Handspring Visor](http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Handspring_%28company%29#Handspring_Visor), continuing with an elegant Sony [Clie](http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CLI%C3%89), and ending with a well designed [Palm T|X](http:\/\/www.palm.com\/us\/products\/handhelds\/tx\/). The calendar and the address book kept me organized. The failure of the digitizer in my T|X pushed me to find a replacement. I considered the … <\/p>\n