As we have also been disstatisfied with that we wrote a parser for AmiAmi that creates a RSS feed. You may also subscribe it, it's update twice a day at 16:00 and 04:00 Europe/Berlin time every day. You can find it on:

http://ghostdub.de/~eefi/rss.xml

Maybe it'll help you harvesting the Otaku loot you want .

So, after a *ton* of googeling and looking around i found out theres a app for jailbroken iPhones which reads the .sqlitedb files of Contacts, Calendar and Notes and sends it to a specialized synchronization server for PIM. Luckily theres a bunch of clients for other platforms - including S60, evolution, ldap, etc. - we're interested in the Evolution one.

So, i installed Funambol (the syncserver) on my server and started it up. First to notice is that the startup often does not work at first try - i had to start/stop the server a few times before it would serve me on http://hostname:8080/funambol/. Also there seems to be a fucked-up state where the http-server is running but the admin-interface won't let you log in. At that point i also had to restart the server a few times *sigh*.
Then i installed iPhoneSync, the iPhone funambol client on my handset, started it up, entered my servers data and synced. Woosh, failed. The Log said "server returned error -1" ... wowziez, cool - whats that? No table of error codes, no description, no server debug log entries, nothing - not even a bugreport in some mailinglist. Basically its a funambol bug concerning contact-Thumbnails with more than 8k size *Sigh*. At least its fixed in svn trunk...

Now comes the fun part - compiling Funambol. As Funambol needs tomcat, netbeans, maven2 and a whole other bunch of dependencies its *really* fun. With some tinkering i made it to a installer package - that now even works with the iPhone.
So, for all of you out there running into the same bug as me - heres a Funambol binary of svn trunk with this bug fixed:

http://tmp.kanojo.de/funambol-8.2.2-SNAPSHOT.bin

So - here's what you basically need to do:

1. scp the above binary on your server, ssh there and execute "sh funambol-8.2.2-SNAPSHOT.bin"
2. install the server as guided by the installation program, i installed it to /opt. Also note it *really* only installs stuff there, so no worries about trash not managed by the package management on your system .
3. when asked whether you want to start the server say no
4. cd to /<wherever>/Funambol/, execute "./bin/funambol-server start", wait a few minutes (you can also check top whether java has stopped eating up your whole cpu-power)
5. start up the admin interface, either on the server by using remote X (ssh -X) "./admin/bin/funamboladmin" or in a installation of funambol on your current desktop box.
6. there, log in using "admin" as user and "sa" as password, go to user management, change the admin pw (important! ) and log in again.
7. once again in user management create a new user for you.
8. on your jailbroken iPhone with cydia, install "iphonesync" via cydia, start it up, enter your servers data (http://yourhostname:8080/funambol/ds) - and sync!
9. on your desktop box, install syncevolution, to configure do the following:
10. execute "syncevolution --configure --sync-property "username=123456" --sync-property "password=!@#ABcd1234" funambol". then open up ~/.config/syncevolution/funambol/config.ini and change the URI to the same as you used on your iPhone
11. sync using syncevolution -s <mode> funambol (<mode> can be one of the items seen in "syncevolution -s ?")

Happy Syncing!