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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.

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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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Feature Request: Coverflow for Contacts on the iPhone

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

I’m still really enjoying my iPhone after having had it for a week.  I upgraded the software to 2.0.2 and despite the mixed reviews I’ve seen on the Internet, I haven’t had any problems with it.

There is a feature I’d like to see in the iPhone software.  I’ve been running around taking pictures of my contacts so that I can have a pretty image pop up when they call.  But what I’d really like to be able to do is turn the phone sideways and get a “coverflow” view of my contacts with images, as I can do with albums in the iPod interface.

While I doubt Apple reads this site, I figured I’d put it out there.

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