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7000 contacts in Skype Address Book, how do I mass delete – Skype Community
Select one contact, scroll to the last contact and shift-click on it. That should select EVERYTHING between the first and the last—so be careful. Then hit the DELETE key on your keyboard. If there are contacts you do not wish to delete, [...]

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I’m an idiot, I imported 7000 contacts into Skype. I know, I should have just allowed things to be seen. There is no documented way to delete contact except one by one. The problem is that it is not clear how to select all contacts. Here is how you do it:

Click on the contact group [...]

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So Vyshemirsky found another solution to this problem called at http://ww.snerdware.com/groupcal and they have another than does the same for contacts to the Address Book. Although Judi found it buggy and it deleted appointments in Exchange and iCal (so backup before trying any of this!). And some think they are out of business.
There are real [...]

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Whether you are a small business or a family, everyone needs the same three things:

Email ideally from your own vanity domain, whether it is myname@tongfamily.com or myname@igncap.com, while having a @gmail.com or @me.com is nice, we all want our own identity. And we need lots of disk space, at least 2GB per user. Have wireless [...]

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Google actually has a contact system built into Google Mail. These are used just about everywhere, but most importantly you can use Google to synchronize contacts in Mac Address Book, iPhone and maybe even the Blackberry.
You unfortunately need third party tools to then take the contacts and push them to your iPhone (Nuviosync) and Address [...]

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Appigo ToDo was recommended by John. He is right. It is a terrific To Do list manager and it syncs up into the cloud. I’ve normally used Outlook’s Notes to do this between PC and Blackberry (for free!), but iPhone doesn’t support notes nor does Mac Mail and so there is no sync into the [...]

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It is a 256MB download, so hope you have a fast connectionApple Releases iPhone Firmware 2.0.1 – Mac Rumors Not clear what has changed, but early claism are – Backup process for the iPhone is much faster. – Netshare still works – SMS typing faster

Apple releases iPhone 2.0.1 Software Update – AppleInsider has a forum thread and [...]

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This is a big deal for making Macs enterprise friendly. Can’t wait until next year!
AppleInsider | Apple previews Mac OS X Snow Leopard with QuickTime X
Mac OS X will include native support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 in OS X applications Mail, iCal and Address Book, making it even easier to integrate Macs into organizations of [...]

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This is the single biggest problem I’ve found with Entourage to iCal synchronization. Entourage sync is incredibly slow on Leopard to the calendar, but more importantly, with the iPhone hooked in, you get zillions of duplicates.

The Mac Address Book has a built in deduplicator which sort of works, but is better than nothing. With [...]

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Jon and my parents have both asked me about a simple phone that isn’t complicated or smart like an iPhone or a Blackberry, my two current recommendations. In looking at this, the main criteria are:

Big screen. So you can see the numbers you are dialing (most folks at this level won’t be using an address [...]

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