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Gmail (Finally) Adds a Contact Chooser

Gmail's auto-complete is convenient when you know exactly who you're writing to, but adding lesser-known or oddly named contacts can be a pain. Gmail's new pop-up contact chooser makes digging your...

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Gist Brings Inbox Aggregation and Sorting to iPhone

iPhone/iPod touch: Gist, an inbox aggregation webapp that sorts your email, RSS, and other feeds based on the frequency and importance of contacts, has released a free iPhone app that brings the same...

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AddressBook Connects Contacts to Social Networks

Android: If you dig the idea of Motorola's socially integrated interface but aren't planning on rushing out to get a new phone, Asurion's AddressBook can match up contacts with their service profiles,...

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Google Contacts Can Kill Duplicates in Bulk

If you sync your Google contacts between multiple devices or pull from multiple email accounts, you've probably got quite a few duplicate entries. Now your Google and Gmail contacts let you kill those...

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Stop Google Buzz From Showing the World Your Contacts

Whether you call it a huge privacy flaw or just an annoyance, Google Buzz can put the contacts you automatically follow—a.k.a. those you most frequently email or chat—on a public profile page. Here's...

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Mozilla Contacts Imports and Auto-Fills Email Addresses in Firefox

Firefox: Mozilla knows we often reach out to our contacts through our browsers. So the Firefox maker has crafted an experimental tool to make, for example, filling out "email this" forms easier by...

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The Complete Guide to Fixing Google Contacts

Google Contacts needs to get better. Google and Gmail devotees regularly deal with duplicate contacts, sync abnormalities, over-stuffed contact groups, and other problems. Here are our best methods for...

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Organize Your Work Contacts by Company on Your Phone with a Simple Tweak

If you've got a lot of work contacts, you probably want to keep them organized, grouped together, and separate from your friends and family. If your phone doesn't have many options for sorting your...

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Mozilla Contacts Adds Facebook and Yahoo Import, Address Bar Searches

Firefox: Mozilla's been cranking away at their experimental (but seemingly stable) Contacts add-on, making it a really convenient one-stop shop for getting to all your Gmail, Twitter, LinkedIn, local...

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PrivateID Reloaded Saves You from Sending Email from the Wrong Address

Thunderbird: Nowadays, a lot of us have at least separate work and personal email addresses. Thunderbird extension PrivateID Reloaded links each account to its own address books and attempts to prevent...

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The Complete Guide to Creating a Consolidated, Master Contact List

Ever wanted to consolidate all your contacts—from Google Contacts, Facebook, LinkedIn, your desktop address book, and your phone—into one comprehensive bucket you can effortlessly sync and export...

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Contacts Add-On Brings Your Web Address Books into Thunderbird

Thunderbird 3.1 only: Contacts is Mozilla's nifty Labs project that compiles and manages all your web address books in Firefox, and now it's made the logical leap into Mozilla's email client,...

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Create Keyboard-Friendly Contacts for Quicker Phone-Based Access

Take the hassle out of sending messages from your mobile phone by creating compact and keyboard-friendly nicknames for frequently used contacts.Computer tips and tricks blog How-To Geek shares a great...

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Rainmaker Automatically Updates Your Google Contacts with Data from Social...

Rainmaker syncs contact data from Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn so you don't have to manually update your Google contacts or even go and look up the contact information yourself.Rainmaker helps you...

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Gmail Can Now Stop Auto-Saving Contacts, Fixes Other Small-But-Crucial Things

By default, Gmail automatically saves the details of people you reach out to. That's handy when looking up an old friend, not so handy when trying to tame your unruly Google Contacts. Now Gmail offers...

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Neiio Consolidates All Your Online Contacts for You to Import Anywhere—for Free

Most of us have contacts scattered across various social networks and mailboxes. Until now, getting them all in one convenient place required awkward manual importing/exporting or using services that...

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Add Your Contacts to Google+ Directly from the Gmail Sidebar

Gmail received a minor update today that allows you to manage your Google+ contacts directly from the sidebar. While this is convenient if you're you're a fan of the social network, it's particularly...

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Tacts Bulk Edits, Sorts, and Deletes Your iPhone Contacts with Ease

iOS: Your iDevice's built-in Contacts app leaves a little to be desired. While it can get the job done, it doesn't offer any creative features to help you organize, edit, and delete your contacts...

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The Best Address Book App for iPhone

There are piles of address book alternatives for the iPhone, but after digging through them all we settled on Smartr Contacts as your best bet. It gives your contacts an upgrade by adding a historical...

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The Best Address Book App for Android

Oddly enough, there aren't too many contact management tools for Android that aren't also dialer replacements, or focused entirely on replacing whatever built-in tool you have on your device already....

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Brewster Is an Address Book That Pools Together All Your Social Contacts and...

iOS: Keeping track of contact information for everyone you know can be tough. Brewster is an iPhone address book that works to bring all your contacts across various social services together in one...

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Morse Pulls Contact Information from Your Gmail Messages and Syncs Them to...

Often times you'll find contact information in the body or signature of an email, but you neglect to add it to your contacts and are forced to search your email for a phone number or address. Morse...

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Keep Your Google Contacts Up to Date with a Simple Google Script

Keeping your address book up to date is always a tasking process. While a few apps exist that supposedly comb your contacts for updates, those only work if they actually update their information. Tech...

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Create a Common Gmail Account to Sync Contacts in Everyone's Phones

To keep your partner, housemates or office colleagues always updated with commonly used contacts, create a group Gmail account. Smartphones can add it as a secondary account and sync the contacts, so...

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Veern Makes a Time Zone-Based Contact List for Quick Communication

iPhone: Living in a connected world, you probably have friends, family and coworkers in different time zones. Veern lets you add them into a custom contact list that displays the current time at their...

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