Synching Japanese Sony Clie with iCal on a Mac

Skip reading this unless you need help synching your Clie with iCal. I bought a used Clie PEG-T650C at the used PDA shop in Akihabara. Beautiful model, and doesn’t have the silly keyboard on newer models. Unfortunately, I could only synch with my mac, and only with Palm Desktop when I set OS X to use Japanese as the primary language. I bought the “missing Synch” program thinking that would help but to no avail. Tonight, however, I gave it another try and it worked great so I wanted to pass on the simple procedure here…

1) Download and install Palm Desktop for the Mac (4.1 when I tried).
2) Download and install iSync (1.3 when I tried) and the iSync Palm Conduit
3) Open the HotSync Manager (in the folder where your Palm Desktop application is).
4) Choose “Conduit Settings” from the “HotSync” menu.
5) Double Click “iSync Conduit” and activate it. Also put a check mark on “This is a Japanese device” if your Clie is a Japanese model using Japanese.
6) You are ready to sync with iSync! Japanese also transferred beautifully!