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Figured Out the Sync in a Blink Problem

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

I figured out my problem with Sync in a Blink. It turns out that my five mystery different contacts had no name or company name – only email addresses. I never could find them in the Contacts app but I happened to install the iPhone Peeps app (sort of a Coverflow for contacts thing – not as great as it could be, but that’s another story). Anyway, one good thing about Peeps is that it showed these five mystery contacts and I was able to edit them and add names.

Once I did that, Sync in a Blink’s show ungrouped contacts option stopped crashing the app and instead correctly displayed these five rogue contacts.

Tags: contact groups, contacts, iPhone, sync in a blink
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Sync in a Blink Now Supports Contact Group Editing

Monday, January 12th, 2009

I downloaded version 2.1 of Sync in a Blink last night and to my delight, the app now sync_in_a_blink_logo supports editing contact groups. I had written about my somewhat complicated procedure for putting contacts into a specific contact group and then sycning with Google contacts. Having this capability integrated into the app is definitely better.

Unfortunately the ability to see contacts not already in a group is not working for me. It crashes every time I attempt to refresh the contact list.

I’m not sure if this is due to my having a large number of contacts or for some other reason. I’ve posted on the Sync in a Blink support forum, so hopefully someone from the company will reply soon. I will be very glad to be able to automatically filter and determine which contacts are not in contact groups. With over 320 contacts, it’s a huge pain to keep track of that manually.

Tags: contact groups, google, iPhone, sync in a blink
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Using Sync in a Blink with Google Contact Groups

Monday, December 29th, 2008

The latest version of the Sync in a Blink iPhone app supports Google Contact Groups. This is a wonderful feature addition, as Google adds all correspondents to its “Suggested Contacts” group which then sync down to the iPhone which probably isn’t desirable. I don’t really want all the mailing lists and support email addresses I correspond with to show up as contacts on my iPhone. By creating an “iPhone Contacts” group, I can avoid that problem.

Unfortunately, the way contact groups are supported on the iPhone and their interaction with Sync in a Blink is not entirely intuitive. After configuring Sync in a Blink to only sync the “iPhone Contacts” group, I found that newly created contacts on the iPhone were not syncing back to Google. I initially thought this may be a limitation of the iPhone, but it’s not. There is a way to make this work.

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Tags: contact groups, contacts, google, iPhone, ota, sync, sync in a blink, wireless
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