Sync your Gmail Contacts with Thunderbird Address book
January 5 2010 12:57:30 PM
I'm terribly cluttered when it comes to keeping track of addresses and phone numbers. It's not my fault. I use WordPerfect, Lotus Notes, Gmail, and a Moto phone that I can only push contacts to it via it's Moto Tools software.In Moto's defense, I can sync my Notes contacts with it's address book. Pretty slick in fact... when the software want's to recognize my phone. It's buggy as hell, and has never worked acceptably on MS NT, XP, or Vista, through my V400, V600, or A1200 motorolas. Then getting all that to my WP address book? Don't even bother, I've had enough of tinkering with that. I've had it working, but don't remember how.
In my quest to be more productive, I think I'll be moving to an Android based phone. I love my A1200, it makes great calls and the clamshell design is superior to those candy bar phones. I really have no complaints. If only it had wifi, and I could get away from the crippled motorola linux.
Ok, I'll admit, I've had it 3 years and I want a Droid. I'm not completely sold I NEED a new device. I'm still feeling a bit burned from my Palm T3 that has sat in a drawer for five years now that didn't live up to expectations.
Regardless, the first thing I needed to do was start organizing my Address book. For that, I found 'Zindus', a google and Thunderbird contact sync tool. You just add it as a plugin to Thunderbird, and start adding and syncing all your gmail addresses. It's a mess, but I'm getting there.
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