Googaby brings hard fought freedom to your Google contacts

Folks;

This is the developer of Googaby. Once I could come up for air I peeked at a few of the early postings concerning Googaby.

First Thank-You to Mike Schramm for the original post! Thanks Mike!!

So yes there is a built in sync if you have Leopard and an iPhone or you want to hack around.
However, Googaby works on Tiger and does not require an iPhone/iPodTouch.
The built in sync does NOT deal with groups, pictures, or custom labels.
Googaby does deal with all of these data elements

Please note Googaby is push only - nowhere does Googaby claim to sync! Here's our viewpoint:
If you’re a Mac user then the Address Book is where you should store your contact data.
Not only are the data elements much richer than those of Google Contacts, but by storing your contacts in the Address Book, those contacts are available for all of the rest of the goodness that Apple brings to Mac OS X (today and tomorrow in Snow Leopard).
So relax, just keep your Address Book up to date. You’ve got your Address Book handy whenever you are using your Mac, your iPhone, or your iPod Touch. Let Googaby take care of getting any changes you make sent up to your Google Contacts. If you do occasionally enter or change contacts on Google, then just open the Googaby browser and drag those Google changed contacts on top of the Address Book.

The push is only one of many features of Googaby.
Backup & Restore, no other product lets you do that! Find & Replace; linkified notes; total vCard control...
Check out the screencast for WhoPaste on the website:http://www.googaby.com/_Screencasts/Screencasts.html.

Ok thats enough from me for now.
Sorry for the long post,
Googaby

Windows has had this for free for sometime. Ironically it's called iContact! (www.dataload.com/icontact)

You can export CSVs and VCard from Google's contacts, so the import and use-in-spreadsheet thing isn't really that great a feature. But I guess this is more about the syncing.

If all you need to do is sync gmail and address book, use http://soocial.com. I've been using it for a while and it works nicely.

Rembert, you can try out BusySync from http://busymac.com

And no, I'm not affiliated with either of these companies.

does anything like this exist for PC users?

I've had no success with the Address Book built-in Google contact sync, even after fiddling with plist files. It just doesn't work correctly.

That having been said, $25 is $10 too much for this particular app.

As for Spanning Sync--can't you just add your Google Calendar to iCal as a remote calendar? Why the need for sync?

You don't need an iPhone to sync the Address Book with Google's contacts, you just need a friend with an iPhone. I just gave my girlfriend my com.apple.iPod.plist file and everything worked.

I managed to get my Gmail account and iPhone syncing through exchange, but now my Address book-Gmail syncing stopped working. Every time I make a change on my iPhone/Gmail I have to export the .vcard and reimport it into Address book!

I suppose the thing that this app does extra is that it seems to allow more than one Google account.

But as others have mentioned. If single Google account-Mac sync is all you need, OS X address book will reasonably happily sync with Google. If you want to have more control, then go down the Spanning Sync route. With Spanning Sync the "one time only" emails won't get synced, and you can even restrict it to certain address book groups. And @rembert, it'll sync up your calendars as well. If you want to save $5 off Spanning Sync (disclaimer: and save me $5 as well!) then use this link to purchase it: http://spanningsync.com/?r=KQ4W7A

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this feature already built in to address book?