Migration from an iBook, w/o using Firewire

Dear friends,
a friend just got a brand new Macbook, and I told her I help migrating her old stuff from an old iBook to her shiny new laptop. I proceeded, with confidence and trying to appear savvy, to connect a firewire cable from her iBook to her Macbook (basically following on-screen instructions) but it didn't work. Seems to be that the iBook's firewire port is kapputt. Is there other way to connect both computers and safe my face? Thank you for your help.
PD what happened to the dolphins?

Follow the instructions in this article, and then transfer over files and documents by hand.
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