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Well, no one would believe it, but I have been hit by my personal technologies’ obsolescence. The mobile phone I had for a very long time finally gave up and I had to buy a new phone.

I had a quite a lot of files — videos and audio tracks mostly — in the old phone’s memory card. You’d expect that I could transfer the files easily to my new phone, but no.

The new phone doesn’t use MMC cards; it uses a mini-SD card. And the new phone’s data transfer utility (transfers via Bluetooth), for some reason, was not copying all my files.

As for using a card reader, I threw away my multicard reader soon after I stopped using a CF-card based camera and the newer multicard readers don’t read MMC cards.

Oh, yes, I could use a cable to connect to a PC and use the phone’s sync software to transfer the data to a PC. But then I threw the cable and the software CD away a long time ago.

So now I use a Bluetooth dongle on my PC and transfer files one by one whenever I have some free time (fairly frequent) and remember that this has to be done (not so frequent). I have been at it for close to three weeks now and am about halfway through.

Surely it shouldn’t be this difficult?

In the light of being technologically challenged as illustrated above, and having been criticised for a pathetic attempt to write some “code” last week in this space, read this: Five strangest programming languages ( http://www.computersight.com/

Programming/

Five-Strangest-Programming-Languages.397205). Now it doesn’t look easy, does it?

N. Nagaraj

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