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Export Thunderbird Addressbook to Palm

A script to put a Thunderbird Addressbook on a Palm

Run Mozilla Thunderbird, open the addressbook, click Tools->Export and export it to a CSV file, say mozilla.csv

Use it like this:


./ThunderBird2Palm.pl < mozilla.csv > palm.csv
pilot-addresses -p /dev/pilot -r palm.csv
pilot-dedupe -p /dev/pilot -r AddressDB

Requires Perl, Text::CSV, new version of pilot-link

ThunderBird2Palm.pl

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PopBg

This Perl script creates a background out of images that it finds on the internet through searching for random words out of the dictionary at images.google.com . It uses PerlMagick for the image functions and currently uses xloadimg to display it on the background.

Download
Edit the first few lines
Place in crontab
Enjoy

randomimage.pl

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