I finally found how to add birthdays from my Google contacts to Google calendar. It is deeply hidden within Google calendar, whereas I would expect this to be a simple check-box setting.

Google calendar contact birthday

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I have been trying to import a private key into ConnectBot for Android.
The key I’m using is working fine when using Putty, but does not work for ConnectBot.
It’s a server side generated key and protected with a password using Puttygen.

To make it work for ConnectBot, you need to have a OpenSSH version of this file.
Luckily one can also use Puttygen to create an OpenSSH key.

Puttygen

In Puttygen, do the following:

1. Load the private key [File] -> [Load Private Key] (*.ppk)
2. Enter passphrase if applicable
3. Goto [Conversions] -> [Export OpenSSH key] and save

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