So I bought a new N95 8GB. They’re shockingly cheap now that the N96 is here, £200 off eBay, no contracts or any of that malarkey. Interesting issue with how to get my phone book from my SE W910i to the N95 though... IT seems that SonyEricsson (well, they’ve always done this) have a neat trick where you can send or export the entire phonebook as a vcf (vCard) file, but that Nokia have a very shit trick whereby they can’t deal with multiple entries in a single vcf file and so you spend a time carefully exporting your phonebook to discover you can only import the first entry. So lateral thinking is required. This was my solution (not perfect, but free...) My thinking was that I’d need to split the file into its constituent parts. There’s various phonebook managers that claim they can do this, but they’re almost all entirely rubbish and almost all charged for — so I looked into mail clients instead. My theory was proven right. I figured that Thunderbird would likely either be able to do this, or would have a plugin that someone, somewhere had written to do this. I installed Thunderbird and then added in the marvellous, but enigmatically named MoreFunctionsForAddressBook, and proceeded to watch as I opened the address book, right clicked on an empty bit and chose “Import vCard/vcf” from the menu and it effortlessly imported my vcf file and showed me all my contacts. I then ended up slightly in awe as I realised I’d not have to export them one by one and could simply ctrl+a to select all, right click and then click “Export” and pick a folder. I discovered a vaguely neat trick on the N95 though, if I access it through mass storage mode and put the contacts in a folder called “Other/Contacts” I can mass import them into the phonebook, which is nice. The display is wobblier than the SE W910i. It’s bigger but the graphics are choppier and seem slower. Overall I know I can do far more with this phone, but it’s a bit clunky. Plus it was meant to come with Spiderman 3 and didn’t, damn eBayers Mind you, I have it on blu-ray. So I don’t care *that* much. In other freakcityish news, using display:table-cell appears to have fixed my image woes in the forums. JScript’s shoddy support of lookahead and lookbehind matches has annoyed me (they seem to sometimes work but sometimes not, which is an arse) so I’ve had to work around it for the regular expression matching on the site, which sucks a bit. The beta is still being worked on, though there’s still a lot behind the scenes and not a huge amount to show yet. It’s a closed beta at the moment, if you join the beta testing group you can get access to beta.freakcity.net and have a play with the slightly redesigned forums. The key bits are (at the moment) RSS feed for forum topics Public groups show up in forums, as do your private groups, which are clearly marked “private” and unlike public groups only appear for their members. If you’re not a member of a public group you’re taken to the group membership page when you click on a forum post. The groups are a bit less horrible to use The (x)HTML is a lot more semantic The tooltips work in Safari too The irritating fading bug that appeared in the messaging centre in IE is fixed, it now all works correctly. Lots of CSS enhancements to take advantage of new features in Firefox 3 as well as a lot of work making everything look a little bit cleaner. Quick preview pane for forum posts gives you an idea of how your formatted post will look. Animated gif support in images (ish - still being worked on) Long URLs now get truncated It’s a bit faster Known issue: There’s only the daytime theme at the moment