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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: Utilities, Windows, E-mail

Pikachu, iContact you!

iContact

iContact is a lightweight Windows XP/Vista application that lets you import your Gmail contacts to your desktop. So if you don't have Excel and can't open an exported CSV file, this will work perfectly.

By clicking on a contact's name, it will start up your email software of choice as it should. It also brings down photos, Skype information, and address information to look people and places up on Google Maps.

Neato.

The developers plan on allowing you to bring in more contacts down the pike, like your poor lost MSN and Yahoo! souls.

You simply put in your Gmail login/password and it syncs up in seconds. Search for contacts and set it to open on Windows startup and it'll get your latest and greatest webgirlfriends or boyfriends contact info.

It's free, and it gets the job done if you want to keep your Gmail contacts safe on any one of your 59 computers.

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