it’s been awhile since i did anything with my grandcentral account. poking around a little bit it might actually be a good way to manage contacts. i’ll have to try importing my gmail contacts and my outlook ones and see what happens.
- backup both your contact lists
- gmail: contacts > export > export to a csv file
- outlook: file > import and export > export to a file > export to a csv (me: dos csv) - import gmail csv contacts into outlook
- sync pocketpc to outlook
- shake head in disbelief at just how much of a mess you just made from your contacts
ha! booo. that’s a whole lot of gmail contact info to have to go through and sort now. bleh. i guess i should consider deleting my outlook contacts and my pocket outlook contacts, restore an old PIM Backup that isn’t all jacked, and re-sync with outlook. i really need to look at other methods of storing/sharing contacts between my various machines and the pocketpc.
right now, the only reason i’m using a virtualized winxp is for:
- outlook (boo.. hiss. boo!)
- tmobile wing activesync
- sysadmin java programs & apps that require internet explorer
- ubuntu’s nm-applet stomps on the resolv.conf [ launchpad ]
- issues configuring nm-applet-openvpn (manual openvpn works though)
most of the windows specific things i can offload to a virtual machine running on my work network. the archive email i’m still trying to figure out though, i’ve never really been good at going back through old email and seperating the cream from the noise. the noise from my work group’s default alias has been piped into a new ticket system so i can easily take my current outlook psts and crunch them down to a fraction of their size. currently don’t have a lot of meeting requests or other work outlook calendar items, so i can easily just add those manually to google calendar when something comes up. i guess i really don’t need to worry about syncing my personal evolution with my work outlook mail, but i do need to go through and clean up the email from this year and just archive it.
it’s just a lot of different blobs of data… not as difficult to manipulate as i’m making it. i should really stop focusing on how to get it to plan nice in my new environment because some of the data/apps don’t play nice off their native windows systems. syncing the pocketpc shouldn’t take any priority either, i’m definantly switching to an android handset as soon as they are available in Q2 2008.