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Get Gestures For Quick Calls, Texts & Emails From iPhone Contacts App

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Thanks to its support for iCloud, Gmail, Hotmail and other similar services, the contact management in iOS is pretty good. You don’t have to worry too much about importing contacts to your iPhone manually, and the stock Phone app integrates the address book quite nicely as well. There are a few things, however, that might entice some users to shift to third-party contact managers for iOS. ReachFast Contacts is a pretty decent example of an app that offers something that is unavailable in iOS by default: gesture control. Admittedly, it only takes a few extra taps to make a call from the stock Contacts or Phone app, but if you have access to the Cydia store, it is now possible to have the best of both worlds. QuickGestures lets you make calls, send a text or start composing an email right from the stock Contacts app simply by performing different gestures on each contact’s name - no extra buttons added! Read More

ReachFast Contacts Is Another Great Gesture-Controlled iPhone Address Book App

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Not a lot of great alternatives exist for the stock Contacts app in iOS, but apps like Smartr and Brewster have managed to garner some acclaim due to a few novel features. Having said that, some might argue that an address book should not be loaded with too many features, since associating photos with your contacts is always less important than being able to find them as quickly as possible. ReachFast Contacts is not completely devoid of bells and whistles, but it is not excessively complicated either, and the developer claims that it will offer you the quickest way of making calls and sending texts from your iPhone. The app has gestures, lets you create new contacts in a really intuitive manner, and comes with a search feature that keeps getting smarter with the passage of time. Read More

FriendIn By Wondershare Is A Social Address Book For Android & iOS

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Wondershare Software, a renowned name among computer and smartphone users, is one of those application developers that needs no long introduction. Having developed several fine multimedia apps for Android and iOS, including the previously-reviewed Wondershare Player, the team has decided to try its hand at a social contact book in the form of FriendIn. Available for Android as well as iOS-powered devices, FriendIn aims to consolidate your all your phone, social and mail contacts under one hood, allowing you to easily view and interact with them from within a single app. It lets you sneak peek into your contacts’ social profiles, status updates and business info from some of the leading social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, and lists all the emails that shared with your Gmail and Yahoo! contacts. In addition, the app supports a built-in texting and mail filtering tool, extended contact info/profile viewer, and a native Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn explorer. Using the app’s Magic Shake feature, you can instantly switch to the list of your most frequent contacts by just shaking your device. That’s not all; FriendIn is also capable of reminding you of upcoming friends’ birthdays, and lets you filter contact lists in multiple ways. Read More

OutlookAdressBookView: View & Export Outlook Address Books’ Contacts In HTML/CSV Format

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Developed By Nirsoft, OutlookAddressBookView is a portable application for Windows that is designed to read contact information from all Outlook Address books and display the details in separate fields, allowing you to easily export the contact list(s) in XML and CSV, HTML and tab separated file format. Unlike Outlook plugins that require you to launch Outlook for performing address book-related tasks, this application doesn’t launch Outlook in the background to import the contact entries. It supports both IMAP and Microsoft Exchange account, and has the ability to read additional contact information for configured Exchange account such as Address Type, Contact Created/Modified Time etc. Just like other Nirsoft’s utilities, it enables users to export only selected entries from the list to local/remote location. You also have the option to view the complete contact information of specific contact in a separate dialog. More details after the break. Read More

Evernote Hello For Android Brings A More Visual, Rich Contact Book To Your Phone

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It’s been six long months since Evernote Hello was released in the iOS App Store to provide users of said mobile OS with a visually and functionally-enhanced contacts book. Just like their other products – Evernote and Skitch – the company has lived up to its reputation of offering multi-platform-supported mobile apps by releasing the official Android variant of Evernote Hello. Akin to its iOS counterpart, the Android version of the app is also all about letting you tie people and their photos to their contact details, manually logging your encounters with these contacts via photos, notes and locations, and viewing all the contacts on a graphically rich mosaic layout. The best part about the entire deal is that your Hello contact book is synced to the Evernote cloud, and can be accessed from virtually any other supported device. Another major trait of Evernote Hello for Android is its firm integration with LinkedIn, which means that you can find ample info about the required contacts from said service, provided they’re already registered LinkedIn users. Details to follow. Read More

Candles: Import Birthdays From Address Book As iCal Reminders [Mac]

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Facebook isn’t just for sharing pictures and playing meaningless virtual games; it serves another great purpose - remembering birthdays! Facebook handles this fairly well and might even be credited with keeping our social lives on track with its little birthday reminders, but the fact is, not everyone uses Facebook to keep track of birthdays. Shocking as it may seem, a lot of people have a favorite app for reminding them about important events. For Mac users, that app might just be iCal, and if that’s the case, Candles is another Mac app that you might want to download. This simple Mac app extracts birthdays from the Address Book and adds them as reminders to iCal. It lets you customize how soon you want to be reminded of an upcoming birthday, and lets you set sound alerts accordingly. Read More

Cobook: Mac Address Book That Imports Facebook, LinkedIn & Twitter Contacts

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The Mac Address Book isn’t nearly as popular as some of its other default apps, like iCal and the mail client. This is one of those apps that doesn’t universally wow Mac users, and many have one or two general beefs with it. Cobook is a free Mac App that is a viable alternative to the default app, the app lets you import contacts from Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. The app can not only work as your default address book, but also integrate with the Mac Address Book if you’d still rather use it and sync contacts via iCloud. The app is easily accessible from the Menu Bar, and allows you to view all the information added for a contact. Since information is coming in from different sources, i.e., Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, it combines the contacts into one. Read More

Address Book I Need: Import, Sync & Manage Gmail Contacts [Chrome]

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Having your email contacts available offline can be immensely useful; whether you need them to compose an email offline or just to look up an address or phone number, an offline address book that allows you to access contacts normally stored in your email account can’t hurt to have around. Address Book I Need is a Chrome application that syncs your Gmail contacts and makes them available even when you’re offline. You can organize the contacts in to different groups, add contacts offline and sync them to Gmail when you go online. Read More

Sync Android Contacts To Cloud & View Detailed Interaction History With Smartr

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Smartr Contacts is a handy address book for Android users that not only keeps a detailed record of all your phone contacts but extends its support to your mail contacts and friends on various social networks with whom you've interacted in any way. With this app, you can scan your phone for numbers, contacts and email addresses and upload them to the cloud, sync your contacts (and events) from almost all the popular online services, view detailed interaction history with each contact (complete with bar graphs!), access their social profile pages, call, text and/or Email them and bring all your contacts to one platform for quick and easy access. In addition, the app sports a homescreen widget that serves as a shortcut to the app and some of its features. Read More

Extract Multiple Addresses From A vCard File

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The Mac Address Book offers storage of contact information in the all-popular vCard format. Consider having multiple addresses/contact information within one vCard file for a particular contact, and you wanted to separate all of these out in individual files. vCard Splitter does exactly that for you. Read More

Access 2010: Import Contacts From Outlook Address Book

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Microsoft Outlook 2010 is one of the best applications to manage and maintain multiple address books. With the ability to exchange data with Microsoft Access 2010, you can import contacts from Outlook Address Book for performing different operations over them. This guide may help you in situations where you need to quickly populate the contact table in Access with your Outlook contacts for creating different contact-related rules and tasks. As you may know Access offers a wide range of features to sort and organize data, you can use the address book and tweak different fields to create a compact contact list, which contains only the required contact information. The Access import feature enables you to select the fields' data that you wish to import and create table for. Therefore, you can easily select the fields from Outlook Address book and insert them into your Contacts table. This post covers how to import address book from Outlook to Access 2010. Read More