I finally broke down, joined the 20th century, and bought my first iPod (Touch 16 GB) this week.

I've been a Palm user for quite some time (including storing wallet photos) and was holding out hope that Palm would offer something competitive with the iPod, but there is no such animal on the horizon. I know the 'Pre' is coming out, but this is to compete w/ the iPhone, and I am not about to pay $60 per month/$700 per year for a cell phone.

So Here goes...
How to migrate from an old Palm Pilot (Tungsten E) to iPod Touch in 30 steps or less, WITHOUT installing or paying for any 3rd party software on your home computer.

Initial Conditions:
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Palm Desktop installed on Windows Laptop, NO MS OFFICE or OUTLOOK s/w.
iPod Touch/iTunes installed on Windows Laptop.
iMac home computer, w/ no iCal or iTunes data loaded yet in the user account.

Contacts:
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Step 1. Export Palm Desktop contacts to CSV file, import to Yahoo Contacts
Step 2. Tell iPod via Windows Laptop iTunes to pull contacts from Yahoo account.

Calendar:
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Step 1. Save your Palm Desktop Calendar to Date Book Archive (dba) format.
Step 2. Upload/Import dba archive to Yahoo Calendar.
Step 3. Export Yahoo Calendar to outlook CSV format.
Step 4. Import CSV formatted calendar into Google Calendar
Step 5. Export Google calendar to iCal format on Mac computer
Step 6. Sync iTunes w/ iPod on Mac computer (w/iCal). Do NOT sync iTunes music, or it will vaporize all the music that was on the iPod Touch.

Tasks, Notes:
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Step 1. Establish ReQall web account (free).
Step 2. Cut/paste individual notes and tasks from Palm Desktop on Windows laptop to ReQall on web.
Step 3. Install ReQall (free) app on iPod (in standalone, WiFi mode), type in your ReQall account name and info.
Step 4. Click 'sync' in ReQall to synchronize web ReQall data and iPod Touch ReQall data.

Photos:
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Take your favorite photos from Picasa (Windows computer), export them to a folder with 640x480 resolution. Import into iTunes on Windows computer. Sync iPod.