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After my 30Boxes greasemonkey script had been implemented on the website, I figured it was time to look at more possibilities.

The iPod Nano I have always tells me it can offer me calendars, so why not give it a go? I already found out how to put music on the iPod so let's see if I can get more stuff to work!

The format iPod supports (for calendars) is ics (the iCal file format). 30Boxes makes it a breeze to grab this file. Just login, go to Setting, Sharing, Entire View and there you'll see a link pointing to your ICS File.

After mounting your iPod, all you have to do is something like:

$ GET [ICS File URL] > /mnt/ipod/Calendars/30boxes.ics

And you're good to go. Your 30Boxes calendar can now be viewed on your iPod.

Sweet, but of course a calendar isn't too fun to look at all day. It usually contains appointments and data concerning boring meetings, so lets see if I can also get some photos of my wife on there (believe me, it's much more fun to look at than a calendar ;-).

Sure enough this is easy too! GPixPod, a python solution, is designed just for this. After installing it, it worked straight out of the box.

So now I can listen to (part of) my collection of metal CDs by using gnupod. 30Boxes is providing me with an ics file, so I can keep track of my appointments and in the meanwhile, I can look at my wife, thanks to GPixPod. That leaves me with the Contacts option, but I first have to find a good way to store addresses and phone numbers (... as if I didn't try half a billion things already). Feel free to recommend me a service like hiveminder or 30boxes with solid addressbook functionality :-)

gnupod, 30boxes, gpixpod, ipod, linux, ics, ical