iContact: Desktop manager for your Google address book

If you have most of your contact information tied up in your Gmail account but need quick and easy access to names, phone numbers, and email addresses on your desktop, iContact can help. Sure, you could set up Outlook or Thunderbird to sync with Gmail, but iContact is far easier to use and it even comes in a portable version that you can run from a USB flash drive.

Here's how it works. Install or run the application and enter your Gmail username and password. iContact will download your address book and allow you to instantly search by name, email address, or other field. If you occassionally need to look up a phone number to call in Skype or send a message to using a service beside Gmail, iContact could come in handy.

The program leaves a copy of all your contacts on the server so you can still access them from any computer. And you can add contacts to your Gmail address book using the desktop client as well.

[via MakeUseOf]

Tags: address-book, contacts, freeware, gmail, icontact