Getting isync back on lion

For some reason apple has removed isync from lion. For those of us without an iphone this is rather annoying. I have used isync for years. It sort of generally works ok. I tried syncmate but that was useless as it only works with s40 nokia phones and my N8 is an S60. I tried it but it just hung when trying to sync. I uninstalled it and then later it popped up to remind me I hadn’t sync’ed! Not impressed with an application that leaves bits of itself lurking.

I had a quick google and I found this article on nokia support forums which had a solution.

I downloaded the sync from there. It is the last version that was made. I then went onto nokia’s site and got their add in for the N8.

After pairing my phone via bluetooth I loaded up isync and copied it into the applications folder. I then loaded the nokia package. After that I added the N8 as a device back into isync. It worked perfectly! All the calendar items I had have popped into the new calendar. Contacts have appeared in address book (never use it). I have no idea why apple have dropped it.