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iContact: Desktop manager for your Google address book

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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 or run the application and enter your Gmail username and password. iContact will download your address book and allow you to instantly search by name, email address, or other field. If you occassionally need to look up a phone number to call in Skype or send a message to using a service beside Gmail, iContact could come in handy.

The program leaves a copy of all your contacts on the server so you can still access them from any computer. And you can add contacts to your Gmail address book using the desktop client as well.

[via MakeUseOf]

Filed under: Developer, Internet, E-mail, Yahoo!

Yahoo! Address Book API now open to 3rd party developers

Yahoo! contacts
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 Book API, which will let 3rd party developers create applications that can interact with your contact list. For example, you can use the API to develop an application that will scan your contact list to find other users who already belong to the social network you're signing up for, or a list of people you may want to invite. The API also supports contact synchronization, which could come in handy if you want to develop a tool that syncs online contact lists with Outlook or Thunderbird.

The API also provides the ability to create, modify, or delete contact information, which sounds a litle scary. But Yahoo! says write-acess is "available on a case by case basis," so developers will need to contact Yahoo! before creating a utility that has the ability to wipe out your address book.

Plaxo and LinkedIn have been using the API for a while, but Yahoo! is launching it publicly today.

[via Mashable]

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