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AddressBook Connects Contacts To Social Networks
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Android: If you dig the idea of Motorola’s socially integrated interface but aren’t planning on rushing out to get a new phone, Asurion’s AddressBook can match up contacts with their service profiles, letting you quickly contact someone across multiple channels. More »
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Gmail (Finally) Adds A Contact Chooser
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Gmail’s auto-complete is convenient when you know exactly who you’re writing to, but adding lesser-known or oddly named contacts can be a pain. Gmail’s new pop-up contact chooser makes digging your contacts’ depths far less painful. More »
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Import Facebook Phone Numbers Into Your Google Contacts
12:30AM Kevin Purdy | Android users with Facebook friends who list their phone number in their profiles will love this: Brad Fitzpatrick offers a Greasemonkey script that exports those phone numbers to AddressBookr and offers to add/merge them into your Google Contacts. Even though this was posted last November, I just gave it a test run and it worked like a charm. Thanks, Nick!
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Card.ly Creates Attractive Online Business Cards In A Jiffy
9:00PM Adam Pash | Web site Card.ly allows you to collect all of your contact information—online and off—into one simple, linkable “business card” you can share with anyone. More »
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Gmail Improves Importing, Syncing Options
12:10AM Kevin Purdy | It already made its way into Google’s stand-alone Contacts tool, but now Gmail supports a few extra fields that apps like Outlook and Apple Mail try to bring over (like birthdays and web sites), and improved importing from many sites and apps. If nothing else, that leaves the “Notes” field free for actual, you know, notes.
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Google Contacts Open To Non-Gmail Users
9:30PM Kevin Purdy | Google Apps users and those looking for a central, convenient spot for their contacts, take note: Google’s stand-alone contacts site now lets anyone with a Google account add and manage names and details. More »
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9:17AM Angus Kidman | Microsoft has released a new version of its Outlook Connector software for synching Windows Live email, contacts and calendars with its Outlook desktop mail client (2003 and 2007 versions are both supported). The main changes in this release are fixes to stop meetings getting their times shifted (yikes!), eliminate not handling calendars with more than 250 appointments properly, and not messing up MAPI connections used by other programs. More »
Microsoft Updates Outlook Connector, Fixes Calendar Bugs
9:17AM Angus Kidman | Microsoft has released a new version of its Outlook Connector software for synching Windows Live email, contacts and calendars with its Outlook desktop mail client (2003 and 2007 versions are both supported). The main changes in this release are fixes to stop meetings getting their times shifted (yikes!), eliminate not handling calendars with more than 250 appointments properly, and not messing up MAPI connections used by other programs. More »
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Choose Your Own URL For Your Google Profile
12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Google Profiles, the page the big G wants you to use as your universal contact page, now lets you choose your own URL cap instead of a number string. So google.com/profiles/BestDudeEver is up for grabs. More »
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GO Contact Sync Keeps Google And Outlook Contacts Matched
11:30PM Kevin Purdy | Windows only: GO Contact Sync is a handy little synchroniser that keeps your Google (G) and Outlook (O) contacts in line. You run it once or schedule it, and customise how it handles your data. More »
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