contacts

Avoid Embarrassing Email Mix-Ups By Using Nicknames Instead

If your boss happens to share a name with a friend or co-worker, there’s always a chance of accidentally selecting the wrong person with your email client’s autofill feature. Macworld suggests assigning nicknames to those people who share names in your address book.


Import All Your Twitter Contacts Into Mountain Lion With One Click

We’ve already highlighted 10 secret features of Mac OS X Mountain Lion, but another hidden standout is the ability to link Twitter handles to all your contacts with a single click.


Make Friends, Not Contacts

On a recent trip to the Startup Festival in Montreal, Wedgies co-founder Jimmy Jacobson learned the value of friendliness when marketing a company. The lessons he came away with about networking and relationship-building are relevant in business and beyond.


Cue Turns Your Email, Contacts And Calendars Into A Smart Timeline Of Your Day

iOS: Calendars can help you keep track of your day, but they don’t always have all the relevant information about a specific event. Cue automatically grabs information from your cloud services and intelligently turns them into a timeline of your day, containing all the information you need about each event.


Gmail Adds Contacts To Its Search Bar

Gmail added a useful little feature to its search feature today, adding details for all your contacts to your search results for quick access.


Fruux Syncs Contacts, Calendars And To-Dos Across Systems For Free

If you’re wedded to one platform, it’s a good bet you already have a tool that keeps your life synchronised and organised pretty well. For those of us who have to deal with multiple platforms, multiple computers and mobile devices with multiple operating systems, and work with people who use different ones than we do, there’s Fruux, a free service that keeps your to-dos, calendars and contacts in sync on almost any platform. Think of it like iCloud for the rest of us.


ToutApp For Gmail Organises Your Contacts, Tracks Sent Messages

Firefox/Chrome: Google Contacts needs some work, while Google+ Circles in Gmail was supposed to give you quick access to the people you interact with most, but isn’t terribly useful. That’s where ToutApp comes in — its new Gmail plugin creates a “Relationships” view where you can see the people you email often, a “Groups” view that automatically creates mini project teams after you feed it a couple of emails, and it can even track the emails you send and let you know when the recipient opens them, no return receipt required.


WriteThat.Name Updates Gmail’s Address Book With Contacts’ Email Signatures

Keeping up with all your contacts can be tough. People move, change their phone numbers and otherwise outdate your address book all the time. Free service WriteThat.Name keeps your Gmail address book always up-to-date by scanning incoming email signatures for contact information.


Postable Is A Simple Way To Get Friend’s Addresses

It’s increasingly rare that you ever need a friend’s physical address anymore, but there are occasions where you need to send out a physical letter. If you don’t feel like emailing, calling or posting a Facebook update to track down addresses, Postable is a dead simple and secure address book where your friends can enter their own info.


Buzz Contacts Is An Attractive Contact Manager For iPhone

iOS: Buzz Contacts replaces your iPhone’s contacts app with a contacts manager and dialler that’s easy to navigate, offers partial name and number search, lets you quickly SMS or call your contacts, organise your contacts by list and category, and looks good in the process.


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