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Address book syncing

March 30th 2009 in Gadgets

I've got too many address books in too many places. With over 6000 contacts, I don't want to have think about how to merge or maintain the them on an ongoing basis. I've got two Thunderbird email address books, two Google GMail address books and my BlackBerry address book to deal with. I want them all to sync live. I don't want to have to run a Windows server in order to run a BES server [?] and maintain it just for contact syncing.

I've already got BIS [?] access for incoming and outgoing email OTA. Google Sync supports Gmail Contacts, so that solves my BlackBerry to Gmail contact syncing. Zindus, a Thunderbird add-on, solves my Thunderbird to Gmail syncing.

So far so good. I sync'd over 6000 contacts down from my Gmail account to my Thunderbird, and 150 Thunderbird contacts up to Gmail. All of them are synced automatically from Gmail via Google Sync to my Blackberry. All for $50/month for unlimited voice and data with Metro PCS on my BlackBerry 8330 Curve. No servers to maintain, no license fees, no cables to connect.




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