If you already added your Facebook and Twitter accounts then your mail settings screen in OS X will look something like this: If you need to setup your Google mail on your desktop you can follow these instructions. If iCloud is not yet setup on your computer you can follow the instructions from Apple. You can also choose to setup Messages and Notes with Google. Again you will run everything but e-mail through iCloud. Next you’ll need to make sure OS X is setup for your accounts properly. After Google depreciated the use of Exchange I setup my e-mail with the official GMail App using instructions from The Verge. As a bonus using the official GMail app seems to use less battery than Exchange. Then you should set your Mail, Calendars, and Contacts section so that you are syncing only your mail to your Google account. The switch to contacts should be set to on like the picture below: To see if you are using iCloud for your contacts you go into “Settings” and then “iCloud” and make sure it is setup. The first step is to setup your iOS devices so you are only using iCloud for your contacts. More info: Export GMail Contacts, How to backup iPhone Contacts, Backup Apple Address Book. You probably won’t lose anything provided you follow these instructions exactly and do not choose options to delete all your contacts, but it is better safe than sorry. Important: Before starting this process you may want to backup your contact lists using the procedures appropriate to each account. It also assumes you want all your contacts in GMail. This system assumes you are using an iPhone or iPad with iOS 6 and the latest version of Mac OS X. I have been spending the afternoon experimentally attempting to determine how all these different systems work together. Today Apple released iOS 6 and with it deep facebook and twitter integration that can confuse even the best of us. One of the most miserable parts of owning multiple gadgets and using multiple technologies is getting them to all play nicely together. The new version of Cobook is now in the Mac App Store here.Note: Updated on Decemto reflect that GMail will not be working with Exchange anymore. Some try to use simpler CRMs but it’s still an overkill and a bit like using a tractor to drive to supermarket,” he says. “Especially non-sales people are seriously lacking a decent contact management solution. “We do believe that there is a big gap between simple address books and CRM systems,” says Dancis. The app is free for now, but Dancis says the vision remains the same – he wants to make Coobook a freemium product in the future and expand the service to other devices. Not bad for a bootstrapped startup out of Latvia. Since the company’s launch earlier this year, the free Mac app has reached a quarter million downloads and now has about 80% 5-star ratings in the Mac App Store. Other new additions debuting in the 1.1 release (which Dancis admits is more of a “2.0” but given that it’s only been three months since launch, he went with “1.1”) include support for Xing, a new feature that now shows local time next to phone numbers and addresses, and various usability and design improvements. “For us, it’s the top priority next to user experience,” he says. CEO Kaspars Dancis says he believes it’s important for a contact management solution to pay “maximum attention” to privacy and security. It’s worth pointing out, too, in the wake of address book privacy slip-ups on iOS, Cobook respects user privacy and data security – it doesn’t upload your address book to its servers. (Dealing with conflict resolution is one of the most annoying things about the native OS X app – especially if you have a large address book.) Cobook will also sync tags, social profiles and other fields beyond the usual name/address/phone/email info, as well. But what’s even better is that, unlike with OS X’s Address Book’s built-in sync, Cobook’s sync is smarter and conflict-free. That’s a great selling point for this free software application, which previously pulled in contacts from the Mac’s native address book, as well as from social networks like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.įor Mac users who prefer Gmail and/or Android instead of buying into everything in the Apple universe, this is definitely a useful tool. Cobook, a Mac contact management app which offers an improved experience over the default OS X address book (at least, that’s a popular opinion), has released an update today which introduces a notable new feature: the ability to sync with Google Contacts.
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