ContactSync: Sync Specific Outlook Contacts Groups With Network Users

Want to share specific Outlook Contacts group across the network users, but don’t want the fuss of having to manually pick and send contact cards from Address Book and send them to connected users? Meet ContactSync, an ingeniously simple, yet powerful Outlook 2010 add-on that lets you effortlessly share a specific contact group with anyone connected to your network. It is basically developed to let users easily share their business contacts with their co-workers and keep their shared contact groups synced all the time. It allows you to change the shared contact group, add, remove and edit contacts and replace the currently synced shared contact category with any contact group of your choice. In addition, ContactSync implements duplicate conflict resolution technique for de-duplication of shared contacts. When you share a contact, it immediately looks for contact with similar name and email address to prevent saving duplicate entries in shared contact group. It also uses FileAs and Email fields identify the same contact. Read past the jump for details. Read More

Enable Facebook Contact Pictures To Appear In Third Party Apps

Facebook can automatically sync the contacts on your phone be it Android or be it the iOS. However, while the sync is perfect in most cases  the pictures that are synced for these contacts fail to appear in the third party apps such as the popular Handcent SMS, GO SMS and some third party dialers. The apps developers it seems, just don’t bother with fixing this issue. Lucky for us, XDA-Developers forum member My_Immortal has found a way around this mess. More on it after the jump. Read More