First of all, happy holidays to everyone! I may edit this article in the near future with more screenshots to hopefully make things a bit more clear. I have received quite a few questions about phone numbers in gContactSync so I’m hoping this can help explain what it does and Read more…
I’ve just released the first beta version of 0.3.0. I feel it is ready to be in a beta as there are no known bugs other than some quirks with postal addresses in Google’s API. For now postal address synchronization is disabled by default, but you can enable it in Read more…
I received numerous reports of gContactSync showing errors about mailing lists, deleting contacts, and/or duplicating contacts. I believe the cause is a recent (unannounced?) change to the API that gContactSync 0.2 uses as well as the newer API that 0.3 alphas use. For some reason, it looks like Google changed Read more…
I worked on two new Thunderbird/Seamonkey add-ons over winter break. The names aren’t very creative, so let me know if you can think of a better name for either of them. Contact Photos This add-on displays the photo of the contact from whom the message was sent in the message Read more…
Brief version history for gContactSync 0.2 and a basic description of 0.3 (in development)
Google Contacts API Update Google announced a new version, 0.3, of their contacts data API yesterday. It adds a significant amount of flexibility, several new fields, and enhances existing fields. Some of the major changes include: Structured Postal Addresses – It is now possible to keep the structured address fields Read more…
Download You can find the download on addons.mozilla.org (recommended) or mozdev.org. Current Features All the features of 0.1 Synchronizes an address book in Thunderbird with contacts from a Google Account (Gmail) Customizable Groups in Gmail are synchronized with mailing lists in Thunderbird Duplicates (multiple contacts with the same e-mail address) Read more…
I finally added gContactSync 0.2.0 to addons.mozilla.org. I also placed it on BabelZilla so I should be able to add more locales (translations). Since it is new and hasn’t been reviewed yet, it is still listed as “Experimental”. Current Features All the features of 0.1 Synchronizes an address book in Read more…
I have released gContactSync 0.2.0b2r2, and you can download it here. The only changes are a few bug fixes, some logging improvements, support for Thunderbird 3.1a1pre, and a new link to the error reporting form in the gContactSync menu. I recommend upgrading if possible, but if you already have 0.2.0b2r1 Read more…
I made a Twitter account for gcontactsync updates – http://twitter.com/gcontactsync