The Contacts Fiasco
Posted on October 18, 2008
Filed Under Internet Stuff, Life Stuff |
I’ve just sorted a problem I have had for more than 10 years now. It took a while, but I think it is finally sorted.
What is this problem I speak of? Well, my contacts. I started using a mobile phone back in 1997. I had been using the internet for email and did have an address book. I had a list of phone numbers in my mobile which I had to re-type in a new phone each time I upgraded. My PC had friends’ emails, lovely. These friends also have addresses, one would hope.
So, 11 years later (probably more), I have a bunch of contacts which, despite being the same people, are not the same, my PC has an email, probably old and maybe a mobile number. My phone has loads of numbers for 1 person, but no email. Outlook has addresses. Each time a friend moves house, email provider or mobile number, I have to change a few devices which aren’t synchronised (well, some are, some aren’t). I know there is Plaxo and the rest, but it never quite did what I wanted.
Enter Soocial (pronounced “Social”, just to really confuse things). There are all sorts of sync clients for my laptop, PC, Gmail, Mobile. I don’t even need to plug anything in, it updates on the interwebamathingy. Next step was to blindly let these devices, not aware of each other yet, synchronise to 1 place. It was harsh, duplicates, mixed data etc. it took a couple of hours of synchronising, looking etc. (luckily I don’t have a huge database of contacts), but now I’m happy, eventually, I’m sure I’ll have to sync Faceboook etc. Maybe in 10 years or so, let’s see.
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