Tag: CONTACTS

Mozilla Messaging, citing Mozilla's increased focus on Web-borne communications, will be reintegrating with Mozilla Labs. The Messaging subsidiary was formed in 2008 to focus on Thunderbird, but given Mozilla Labs' current focus on identity and contact management, it now makes sense for the groups to be merged. Thunderbird will be unaffected by the change -- some URLs might change, but that's ...

SendGenie is a slick new app (currently in open beta testing) which makes sharing files and photos as easy as dragging and dropping. Once installed, SendGenie adds a dropzone widget to your desktop which you can hide and unhide via the system tray icon. When you want to zap a file to a friend, just drag it onto the dropzone (yes, the wizard hat that you see above). Your file will be added to a ...

Gmail's contact groups have received a couple of minor enhancements today, to make the overall experience more user-friendly. First off, you can add multiple members to a group at once, by just copying a list of email addresses and pasting it into the Add to group menu when viewing any particular group you've created. Second, you can now specify which one of a contact's email addresses to ...

With multiple devices syncing your contacts this way and that, with changes, additions, and deletions from all over the place, it's pretty easy to end up with a muddle mess of data. Thankfully, if you sync your contacts with Google, you've now got a backup plan should everything hit the fan. Google has introduced a restore feature for Google Contacts that allows you to undo any mistakes you've ...

With Google calling out Facebook last week for trapping your contacts, it seems like a perfect time to offer a solution for rescuing those Facebook contacts and their email addresses -- sorry, still no phone numbers -- and exporting them to Gmail or your other address book of choice. To do this, you'll need a Yahoo! account (Mozilla's Asa Dotzler says a Windows Live account works, too). It's ...

I'm not a fan of desktop email clients. I haven't been for some time, and I'm not shy about extolling the benefits of a Web-based email app. Mozilla, however, decided to put together a slick new add-on for Thunderbird that has me seriously thinking about switching back. Like the project they launched earlier this year for Firefox, Contacts for Thunderbird is all about connecting with your ...

If you thought Facebook ruled your social life before, wait until you see the new options for event and app invites. It prompts you to select Facebook friends, and then to import the email addresses of your friends who don't have Facebook. That means your friends might be inviting you to all kinds of stupid stuff via email, even if you're not on Facebook. The new contact import feature can get ...

Our lovely sister site Engadget has been digging into the guts of iPhone OS 4.0, and they've discovered some interesting Facebook-related tidbits. While scoping out the .plist files on their jailbroken 4.0 iPhone, Engadget found what appears to be support for Facebook contacts on the iPhone. They also found mentions of a "SocialKitInternal.framework," which could be a generic framework for ...

We recently told you about Mozilla's awesome new Contacts add-on, which gives you a universal address book that you can use browser-wide, on any website. Well, that was just version 0.1. Contacts in the Browser is improving rapidly, and version 0.2 adds a lot of new goodies, including importing contacts from LinkedIn and Plaxo, and a new contact search system. Contacts looks to be integrating ...

DooID presents a slick solution to an all-too-common problem: it provides people who have accounts on multiple social websites with one single place to post all of their contact information. It strives to act as an online business card, and I must say it does the job quite gracefully. Ideally, you would be able to meet someone new and give them a single, simple URL (such as ...

Between address books and buddy lists, our contacts have become some of the most important data that we deal with every day. Mozilla understands this, so they've introduced an experimental Contacts add-on that gathers up your contacts from multiple sites -- so far it's Twitter, Gmail and Apple's Address Book -- and collects them in a browser-based contacts database. That way, your contacts stay ...

Everything about Facebook seems driven toward getting more data into the system, but it's always been a lot harder to get data out. Now that Yahoo! Mail has integrated Facebook Connect, though, you've got one more option for importing your friends' email addresses from Facebook. To grab your Facebook friends as Yahoo! contacts, just head over to your Yahoo! profile and go to the contacts tab. ...

Bump, the impressive iPhone app that lets you trade contact info and other data by physically bumping two phones together, isn't just an iPhone app anymore. Bump for Android has arrived (so sayeth TechCrunch, at any rate), and it covers Bump's biggest weakness: you had to have an iPhone to use it. Between iPhones and Android devices, Bump now has the potential to become a common way of swapping ...

Orbit is a mobile app that brings together your Facebook and your phone book. It's a phone book at heart, but it shows your friends' recent Twitter and Facebook status updates, and allows you to create groups called "orbits." You can turn the level of social noise from each orbit or individual up or down according to your needs. Of course, you can also initiate a call, text or email from within ...

Google's contact manager for Gmail has left a lot to be desired for a long time. For once thing, up until recently it didn't have fields for birth dates, web sites, or other information that might be stored in your other address books. But today Google added support for birthday and website information. Now when you import contacts in CSV format from Outlook, Outlook Express, Hotmail, or Yahoo, ...