DCECU ATM issue still ongoing. Power box has a padlock, but it can still be turned off by anyone who decides to pull up and flick the switch. I called DCECU a few months ago (in addition to almost two years ago) telling them of the issue and they said they’d send someone out to see what they can do.
I no longer do business with DCECU as of April of 2009. The way I see it, they can send someone out to grab and drop off cash from a remote ATM, but they can’t put a lock on the power switch to prevent misuse. Seriously? Normally I would just say “oh well”, but it’s been almost two years now and the problem still exists. So now that I have moved my money and loans elsewhere, now I’ll say “oh well”.
I thought I’d write this up so others don’t have to search all over for it. I have recently switched from a Palm Treo 700P to a Motorola Droid. Verizon employees couldn’t figure out how to move my contacts from the Palm to the Droid, but I did and thought I’d share. Here’s how to do it.
You have a couple of options – either have the Verizon people do it (which didn’t work in my case), set up a GMail account and export all of your contacts there (why give Google access to all of that info?), OR you can export all of your own contacts from your Palm Desktop application into the Droid itself without the middleman. Be sure to follow these steps in the order in which they are written.
-Sync your Palm to make sure all of your contact information is up to date
-Open the Palm Desktop application
-Go to the Contacts section, click on Edit -> Select All
-Once all contacts are highlighted, click on File -> Export -> Export as VCard
-Connect the Droid to your computer
-When prompted on your Droid, select Notifications -> USB -> Mount
-Your Droid should show up as a new drive on your PC at this point
-Copy your VCard file (should end in “vcf”) that you exported to the Droid “drive”
-Unmount and then disconnect the Droid from your PC (important)
-Open Contacts on your Droid and choose Import/Export from the options on the menu
-Choose to Import from SD Card
-After importing, go to Contacts and chose Display Options from the menu
-Expand your gmail account menu and check everything that has “System Group:” by it. In my case, for example, it was “System Group: My Contacts”, “System Group: Friends”, “System Group: Family”, “System Group: Business”
-Done
The export to vCard will bring your numbers, emails, and addresses for each contact, in addition to notes you may have written about each contact. The only issue I had is that it didn’t like to import all of the pictures from the Palm so I had to edit the VCard file slightly by hand. Other than that, smooth as silk. I’ll also be posting this to my own web site along with a full review soon…
UPDATE: Just another bit of information – you can export contacts in VCard format from a variety of email applications including Outlook and Evolution. The whole process basically works the same way whether using Windows, Linux, or a Mac.