Tag: CONTACTS

Yahoo! has been talking about ways that the company can use social networking-style features to improve the email inbox. Now the company is rolling out a minor update to Yahoo! Mail that could certainly save you a lot of time and hassle, because it lets you sort your email messages so that you only wind up seeing emails from your contacts. Here's how it works. First, you have to set up a Yahoo! ...

It's pretty simple to set up your Gmail to forward to Yahoo!, Hotmail or whatever other email account you might have, but not all of your other email accounts have a way to export contacts and messages to Gmail. The Gmail team has taken matters into its own hands and added new import settings that make it easy to switch to Gmail. Now you can bring your contacts and mail from Yahoo!, Hotmail, ...

Back in the day -- OK, 2007 -- there was a spiffy little OS X app called Facebook Sync that pulled down your friends' contact info and added it to Address Book on your Mac. This was especially brilliant if you used iChat, because screen names would be imported so you could chat with most of your Facebook friends before there was a Facebook Chat. But Facebook Sync turned out to be too good to be ...

Yes, your PDA, cellphone, BlackBerry, or whatever it is you carry around in your pocket probably came with a calendar and contact manager. And they probably suck. Pocket Informant doesn't. This personal information management suite was originally designed as a complete replacement for the PIM applications that come with Windows Mobile. It's now available for iPhone and BlackBerry devices as well. ...

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 ...

SkypeSync is a new service you can use to get all those numbers from your phone into your Skype list, so you can call them with SkypeOut, the Skype feature that lets you call regular phone numbers. It's built using the SyncML standard, which is supported by most recent phones, so the odds are pretty good that it'll work for your cell. Here's how to use it: point your phone's browser at zyb.com, ...

One of the most valuable features of any good email or IM service is the contact list. Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, and other companies that provide online communication tools also give you a place to store information about your friends, family, colleagues, and people who you met years ago and have completely forgotten about. Yahoo! is making that much more useful by launching the Yahoo! Address ...

DownloadSquad reader Leni Mayo sent us a hot little tip. He has written a script called Zindus for Thunderbird which syncs Google contacts with the address book. It works on version 3.0a as well he says. Here's a list of the fields that you'll be able to move from Google to Thunderbird: Full Name Primary Email address and Second Email address Phone Numbers: Home, Work, Work Fax, Pager, ...

Have you ever read an article where the title pretty much tells you everything there is to know? Yeah, this article is basically one of those. DupeDeDupe is an applications for Windows Mobile devices that searches for duplicate contacts from your address book. Paul at MoDaCo wrote the utility, and it's designed to work with AppToDate, which means you can automatically download any future updates. ...

Over the years, odds are you've accumulated more contacts than you know what to do with. What's more, those contacts are spread out across an array of applications and services. There's your Gmail, AOL, Yahoo!, and Hotmail contacts. There's the contacts stored in Outlook on your desktop. And then there are your social networking contacts on sites like Orkut and LinkedIn. Keepm lets you import ...

Shortly after releasing a tool for synchronizing Google Calendar with Outlook yesterday, Google released another key in the synchronization puzzle: an API for accessing Google contacts. The API will enable trusted 3rd party sites to access your Google contact information without asking you to provide your login information. So next time Facebook, Plaxo, or another service wants to import your ...

Yes, you read the title line correctly. Outsync is a small, simple application that imports photos, and only photos, of your contacts from your Facebook account into Outlook. With Outsync, you can easily replace old photos in your Outlook contacts list with shiny new pictures from Facebook, or add pictures to those contacts who previously had no image. Those shiny new pictures are then synced to ...

It looks like Google may be planning some new Gmail features. Many users are already noticing a "newer version" of the Gmail interface with faster page loading and an expanded contact manager. But did you notice that you can choose from a list of instant message services to flesh out our contact profile? Kind of funny, since you can only chat with other Gmail/GTalk users from within the Gmail ...

It might be a good idea to scrutinize your Gmail account more closely than usual these days. Not only is Google in the process of rolling out IMAP support, but it looks like some users are able to access a new version of Gmail. If you notice a new option that says "older version" or "newer version" at the upper right-hand corner, you're probably in. It should be right between the "settings" and ...

UPDATE: There are reports circulating that this could be a spam/email harvesting site. Use at your own discretion. As with any other email entry service, you have no idea what may happen with your address. Thanks Jeff. UPDATE2: Please see Alex Rose comments below, webmaster of the service. Have you ever scribbled down a new contacts email address, only to arrive to your computer and get ...