WAB? Because I use (or intend to use) programs that can import/export
contacts from/to WAB. Anyway, I'm trying to get rid of Act (6.0) and switch
to Time & Chaos (or !ntellect). Also to be able to synchronize
contacts/address books with Corel Address Book, Yahoo Messenger and,
eventually, Windows (Live or dead) Messenger.
As I remember, several years ago MS tried to convince other companies to
create some kind of consortium and agree to some universal standard for
address/contact books. Unfortunately all this idea went to a dumpster.
Yes, AT&T (my DSL provider now) and Yahoo! Help are describing how to export
contacts to CSV but really there is no way to do it (no menu item on their
sites). So - I'm in some way just stuck.
Similar issue was with Unicode. In early 80s I was contacted by the Unicode
consortium. It was then in statu nascendi (sorry for my Latin). A few
times I did some input then - after that none since I'm very small shot
(5'5'"). Since then, however, Unicode standard developed tremendously and
has followers almost everywhere (except Corel - what is so strange, since
WordPerfect was one of the first word processors allowing me to write in a
few languages - already in early 80s).
Anyway, due to several serious system crashes during past few years I have
contact information scattered in several places, formats, etc. and would
like, finally, to put them together into one place or into programs that I
use now.
Marek Kalisz
"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <> wrote in message
news:550AF431-3633-4074-8B88-...
> Greetings,
>
> Been a long time since I heard someone mention this. With Windows
> Messenger (not Live) and Outlook Express combined used to automatically do
> this for you. Unfortunately since MSN Messenger 5 and above this
> functionality has been removed.
>
> I think eventually we'll see integration like this again (automatically
> that is) as Vista opens a few doors but it's difficult to make everyone
> play nice.
>
> It actually wouldn't be too difficult to build a synchronization tool like
> what you're describing (for Messenger anyway), I'm just curious as to why
> you wish to have your contacts in the WAB.
>
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> Associate Expert
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
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>
> "Marek Kalisz" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> It's not particularly MS Live Messenger issue (yet) but - since it
>> suppose to work with Yahoo Messenger and use its contacts I would like to
>> share some of my Yahoo! experience. Below are the excerpts from my
>> correspondence with Yahoo! support:
>>
>> "I'm trying to use Intellisync 4 to transfer/synchronize contacts with
>> Windows Address Book (OE) without any
>> success. I'm setting my proper (I believe) User ID and password (I can
>> sign always with those to Messenger,
>> etc.) but when I open IS4 Yahoo it wouldn't sign me in.
>> What's wrong and what's remedy?
>> Marek Kalisz
>> PS. Some time ago I was asking same question and didn't receive any
>> answer from you - even some confirmation that you received my
>> correspondence."
>>
>> Yahoo answer:
>> "Thank you for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care.
>> Intellisync is a free downloadable product that you can use to sync your
>> Yahoo! Personal Information Management products such as Calendar,
>> Notepad, and Address Book, to your handheld device. At this time, help
>> for the Intellisync product can only be found online and it only supports
>> the devices and programs currently listed. We do not support this
>> product in any other fashion.
>> We apologize for the inconvenience, we appreciate your feedback and hope
>> to expand our service in the future.
>> If you would like to uninstall the Intellisync for Yahoo! product, you
>> can do the following: (simple steps how to use Control Panel to do it).
>> Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care.
>> Regards,
>> Yahoo! Customer Care"
>>
>> It ****ed me of, so I answered them as follow:
>> "I know that it's free. I also learned that Puma Technology was acquired
>> by Nokia. However - this gadget is still advertised on yours (and your
>> associates) pages saying clearly "IS4Yahoo!" (and not, for example,
>> IS4MacDonald) so - you should feel some responsibility. Especially that
>> the only problem with it is (at least, what I had) that it CAN'T SIGN IN
>> to your YAHOO!
>> If you have no idea how to deal with it and don't intend to do it -
>> REMOVE IT from your offers/pages!
>> Marek Kalisz"
>>
>> Anyway - someone can suggest some gadgets to synch/transfer contact
>> information en gross from/between Yahoo, MS Messenger (dead or Live),
>> Windows Address Book or so?
>> Marek Kalisz
>>
>>
>>
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