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Plaxo 3.0 is available

Plaxo is an online address book and calendar manager that can synchronize your information between Outlook, Google, Yahoo!, AIM, your Apple apps and more. Today they released version 3.0 which includes a number of improvements, like:
  • Google Calendar synchronization
  • Calender "countdowns" to important events
  • Improved reminders
Best of all, Plaxo is free. It's still in beta, so take that into consideration before you try it out.

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Chris

the only "spam" i've seen is when you tell it to notify your friends that you've updated your info.

i'm digging the new version. it's spotty with safari right now but works fine with firefox.

June 26 2007 at 3:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
thomas

Charles, I've been using Plaxo for years (it saved my contacts once because I lost all my address book data) and have yet to receive a spam mail from Plaxo. Invitational emails are only sent on request by the Plaxo user, so if you receive any mail, it's the user's fault, not Plaxo's.

June 26 2007 at 5:08 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dalton

Hello Josh Farkas of Pixelton:

Subscribing to gCal from iCal is one way—download only. Hopefully this Plaxy thingo would be true synchronization, that is to say, it goes both ways.

June 25 2007 at 8:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Josh Farkas

Can I ask a serious question here? iCal can sync with Google Calendar pretty easily. It takes a jump in the Google options but you can pul in the GCal feed. Then you have a real living calendar with you at all times.

Simply add in QuickSilver support for Google Calendar and you can instantly add in new dates/appointments...very fun.

So is this really just an app to sync contacts? Seems a bit odd to have a full app for that one goal truthfully.

June 25 2007 at 7:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Charles

Alas, you omitted one crucial piece of information from your story: Plaxo.com is a spammer. Plaxo became notorious across the internet for sending tons of annoying "invitation" emails, many people (including me) are filtering all email from Plaxo. Their core business is getting people to enter contact info into their database, and they have no ethical problems in sending spam to everyone in your contact list to ask those innocent third parties to enter their data too.

June 25 2007 at 5:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Saksith

Nice one, I've been using this to save my contacts. So it is kinda a evolution to save your calendar as well. But are you able to sync from iCal to Plaxo and then to Google Calendar? Somebody please explain me if this is possible!

June 25 2007 at 5:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Saksith

Nice one, I've been using this to save my contacts. So it is kinda a evolution to save your calendar as well. But are you able to sync from iCal to Plaxo and then to Google Calendar? Somebody please explain me if this is possible!

June 25 2007 at 5:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
matt

I have been pursuing the holy grail of total-sync-a-fication among my work PC (Outlook), Blackberry, home Mac, and Google apps, and (looking a week into the future) iPhone, for ages. I decided to throw caution to the wind and give Plaxo a try. It sync'd beautifully to my work PC, regardless of tall the enterprise crapware or other security features. I added my Google calendar. So far so good. We'll see how the home Mac integration goes tonight, but if it does, wow. The holy grail, man. The holy grail.

June 25 2007 at 4:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
E.

I haven't used this version yet, but the syncing on their old version left quite a bit to be desired, and I stopped using it because it was so unreliable.

Make sure you back everything up before you try it.

June 25 2007 at 3:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
rdjl27

Ok, I feel foolish, you can ignore their warnings, and it seems to work almost perfectly in Safari. Dave, my sincere apologies.
Thanks for the awesome tip.

June 25 2007 at 3:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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