On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Insurance Squared Inc. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gcooke@insurancesquared.com">gcooke@insurancesquared.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
What are folks using to manage contacts? I've decided to get rid of my pile of business cards for something more permanent.<br>
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I started using kaddressbook, but that seems like a fairly discrete program. Have to fire it up every time I want to look up a number, which seems cumbersome. Also doesn't seem like it integrates with thunderbird, i.e the kaddressbook entries aren't visible in thunderbird.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Google Gmail has Contacts in it. It is integrated, so when you type a few letter<br>
of a name, it will drop down a list of matching names so you can pick from <br>
them.<br>
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It syncs with the Android phone, so you have your contacts everywhere.<br>
You can sync only select groups (e.g. Family and Business, but not <br>
anyone else).<br>
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I know the answer's 'complex', but can we integrate contact software like kaddress book with asterisk as well? It'd sure be nice to just scroll threw my address book on my desktop, press clickety click, and have the phone dialed. Maybe I'm getting lazy here.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Google Voice provides some of that. You can dial a number of enter a name<br>from your Google Contacts.<br><br>Last I tried, only limited features are available outside of the USA (just dialing<br>to land lines in the USA and Canada), and the other end said they can't hear <br>
me, though I could hear them fine.<br><br>
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