Making life Hard for Paniced People - Sony Ericsson S710a, Apple iSync 1.5

It shouldn't be hard to take a phone you've been using w/ a mac for months and ask them to sync all the address and calendar info from the phone to the mac.

How hard can it be?

Well, first, iSync 1.5 doesn't recognize the phone, so when you go to Add Device, it will search, cause the phone to wake up, and then nothing useful happens.

What can you do?

Well, after a number of google searches, you might run across a link to a dead ip address

What does work?

With a bit of effort, it turns out that you can map that path to salling's site and if you remove the salling part of the path, you get a path that works