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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:Want to create custom shortcuts? Head to the Keyboard Shortcuts tab of the Keyboard and Mouse part of System Preferences to create shortcuts for common tasks that appear in the Services menu. You can also add application shortcuts for tasks that appear in the menu bar of those programs.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
rdjl27 said 3:15PM on 6-25-2007
I'm not usually one to criticize a post trying to inform about free, intriguing web app, but before posting wouldn't it have been nice to note on a Mac blog that this doesn't work with Safari yet? Although the "classic" one works... Yay? Very neat concept, thanks for the heads up, look forward to Safari support.
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Roger Tobiasz said 3:17PM on 6-25-2007
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.
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E. said 3:28PM on 6-25-2007
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.
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iMatt said 4:29PM on 6-25-2007
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.
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Saksith said 5:17PM on 6-25-2007
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!
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Saksith said 5:17PM on 6-25-2007
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!
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Charles said 5:31PM on 6-25-2007
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.
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Josh Farkas of Pixelton said 7:01PM on 6-25-2007
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.
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Dalton said 8:37PM on 6-25-2007
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.
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thomas said 7:00AM on 6-26-2007
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.
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chris said 3:01PM on 6-26-2007
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.
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