Visit the website at chuckchat.About Sony Ericsson iSync Plugins for Mac iSync is a software application first released by Apple Inc. If you’ve got a great idea or heard about a new feature in Gmail, or something that works with or enhances Gmail, I’d love to hear from you. If you’re a long time listener to the Gmail Podcast you’ll recognize many of these and I encourage you to go over and take a look – there are some great nuggets of information like backing up your messages, cleaning out your contacts, or tricking out your labels. Here’s today’s quick tip: Fiona King over at has posted an article titled “ 57 tips of highly effective Gmail users“. It’s a bit manual, but once setup, it’s only a couple mouse clicks away. To keep things in sync in the future, just use iSync periodically. You can resolve conflicts one at a time by choosing which card you want to take precedence, or you can merge the changes by highlighting one or more cards and click “Merge cards” or using the keyboard shortcut Cmd-Shift-| (that’s a verticle pipe character).Ĭlick “Sync Devices” one more time and your contacts in your Mac Address Book and Google contacts are now in sync. When it’s done, click on the Card menu and select “Look for duplicates”. Depending on how many contacts you have, it may take a few minutes to synchronize all the changes. Now start up iSync under the Mac Applications menu.

It will ask you for your Google login and password – use the credentials you normally use to get access to your Gmail. Under the General heading, at the bottom of the screen check the box that says “Synchronize with Google”. Go to the Address Book menu, choose Preferences.

The key to syncing your Google contacts is in the Mac Address Book. That way if anything goes wrong, you’ll still have your original data. You can do that in the File menu by choosing Export, Addressbook Archive. This is based on a recent article at showing how you can sync your Mac address book with your Google contacts.īefore you start, we strongly recommend that you back up your Mac Address Book. Those of you with iPhones, Macs and Gmail will find this very helpful. Contacts Sync with Mac Address Book By Chuck Tomasi on May 31st, 2008īefore I dig in to this I would like to thank my long time friend, co-worker, and mentor, Scott Reynolds for passing on this wonderful tip for Gmail.

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