I have been a big fan of Google’s apps strategy and have been a big proponent of google docs, having all of the company on it with our own domain for over a year.
But I have been so frustrated with the lack of seamless contact integration with my phones — blackberry or iphone. 3 years ago I had better integration than I had up until today.
The new google OTA sync is awesome. It works like a charm. Its not hard to setup and its really fast.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Yeah there was the issue of getting my contacts and address book aligned so that what when from gcontacts to my iphone was current. That took the most time.
A couple of things to be thinking about.
- backup everything (use address book archive and I made a separate vcard export of each address book group)
- Synch up your apple address book with gcontacts
- export gcontacts and import into address book.
- use the duplicate feature to remove dupes
- use the a to g program to export the address book (if you want to export into gcontact groups, you need to do one group at a time as vcards
- use the address book group function to selectively export vcards to be imported into Gcontacts
- erase all of your gcontacts in mycontacts group (this can take a while because you can only remove 500 at a time.
- import your vcard groups from your address book back into gcontacts. They will check for dupes and wont import dupes. YEAH!
- Follow the gcontact steps for activating ota synch feature.
- It will be done in no time.
Very cool. It actually works and I have now have OTA for my Iphone with Gcontacts and calendars.
Back to 2006 but without Outlook!!!
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