Syncing Mac Address Book With Google/Yahoo Contacts
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Syncing Mac Address Book With Google / Gmail / Yahoo Contacts
This is a new feature in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and now you can sync your Mac Address Book contacts to your Google or Yahoo Account, virtually eliminating the need to purchase Mobile Me.
To set this up:
- Open Address Book - from the dock, not from your Mail:app account
- Click on "Address Book" and "Preferences"
- Click on "Accounts"
- Select the account "On My Mac Local" and check the checkbox next to "Synchronize with Google or Yahoo"
- A box will come up asking you to agree or disagree
- Enter your Google / Yahoo Account login
- Click "OK"
- Your done!
Note: Syncing won't happen immediately - it can take up to about an hour.
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What this does it keeps your Mac Address Book Contacts synced with your Google/Yahoo Mail Contacts automatically. So that when your working away from home or on vacation you can log into google/yahoo mail and have all your contacts email
addresses there, and up to date. It does not sync email.
Apple has something called Mobile Me which you can purchase for PC and Mac. This is what Mobile Me does:
Mail, Contacts, and Calendar. All your stuff. Always in sync.
Maybe you have a Mac at home, a PC at work, and an iPhone. MobileMe uses push technology to keep them all up to date. Make a change on one, and the rest are automatically updated.
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When you purchase Mobile Me they also give you a mobile me.com address where you can set up email addresses and have them come to your home computer, your iphone, or accessible from anywhere you are.
If someone doesn't want to purchase Mobile Me then syncing of the mac address book and google/yahoo is a good alternative.
I have Mobile Me and I love it.
There is a free 60 day Trial for Mobile Me for your PC or Mac which you can find here Mobile Me Free Trial
ahhhh very cool and thanks for the great explanation. OK I will say the "Find my iphone" is cool - do they have that for just ipod touches? See I would buy that for the son's ipod touch.
No they don't have it for ipod touches that I know of, but I read that they are upgrading that service, adding new features and options because of the new ipad so it might be worth watching.
Well I lock my network with MAC address only. But then I do not broadcast my SSID, which in a way hide my SSID, so no 1 would see my router on the computer even if they are in the next room. I think it is secure enough thou.
It only synched the email and phone numbers, not the addresses?
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Nice post SOTR. OK I admit I'm not a MAC person but what does it doe Syncing? Does it just mean that you don't have to add your password or it merges your emails?