Workers' Edge Guide to Contact Management
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This compendium of tips from CNET's Workers' Edge blog will help you consolidate, cleanse, and otherwise manipulate the contacts you've accumulated in Outlook, Gmail, Thunderbird, your iPhone, and elsewhere. Several free and low-cost contact-management utilities and Web services are put to the test. Say good-bye to outdated, incomplete, and duplicate address-book entries in all your contact lists.
Dennis O'Reilly
Dennis O'Reilly has been writing about personal technology since microfiche and ROM readers roamed the Earth. He spends his leisure hours wondering how all these strange names got into his contact lists. When not in front of a computer he can be found riding his heavy-duty Schwinn bicycle at a steady 7.5 miles an hour along the backroads of Sonoma County. Dennis can be reached at doreilly@gmail.com The Workers' Edge blog is at www.workersedge.org Dennis's fiction writing is at www.dennisoreilly.com
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Workers' Edge Guide to Contact Management - Dennis O'Reilly
Workers’ Edge Guide to Contact Management
by Dennis O’Reilly
Copyright 2012 Dennis O’Reilly
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Table of Contents
Sync Gmail and Outlook contacts automatically
Merge your Gmail and iPhone contacts
Sync contacts and calendars between Outlook, Gmail, and iPhone
Merge your Outlook and Gmail contacts
The semi-automatic way to manage multiple contact lists
Share and synchronize your Outlook and Google calendars
Utility merges duplicate Outlook contacts
Sync contacts between Thunderbird, Google
Print your Outlook contacts as mailing labels
Syncing your Google and Outlook calendars
Five quick, useful Google Calendar tweaks
Simple, free Web address book needs encryption
Three online contact managers compared
Sync Gmail and Outlook contacts automatically
The free Contacts Sync utility automatically syncs entries in your Gmail and Outlook contacts, although some manual tweaking of duplicate and empty entries will likely be required.
A reader named Maribeth is migrating from Outlook to Gmail and asked about synchronizing her two accounts:
"I just read your blog about Outlook/Gmail [Merge your Outlook and Gmail contacts]. I understand this is a fix to make them both the same, but do you know if there is a way to sync them continually? I still want to use Outlook on my desktop and also have IMAP movability on my Droidx2 phone and also on an iPad. Is it possible?"
In a July 2009 post I described how to "Sync contacts and calendars between Outlook, Gmail, and iPhone." That post refers to the free Google Calendar Sync utility, but there's no equivalent from the company for syncing contacts. Google does offer its paying business customers Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook (free trial available).
A potential alternative is the free Contacts Sync utility from Indian company PPP Infotech, which automatically syncs your Gmail and Outlook contacts. The only glitches I encountered in testing the program were Outlook's built-in antivirus protection, which required that I manually allow Contacts Sync to access Outlook's contacts, and the inability to sync contacts that lack data in the e-mail or last-name fields.
Automating contacts sync between Gmail and Outlook
To sync your Gmail and Outlook contacts via Contacts Sync, enter your Gmail ID and password in the program's main screen and click the Save Settings button. Then