Mac OS X 10.5.3: sync Google Contacts By Mike Morton, Google Mac Team Are you one of those people who find that no matter how hard you try to keep your contact info organized, it always winds up scattered all over? Your dad's IM handle is on your Mac, while that business lead’s fax number is on your iPhone, and lots of email addresses are in your Gmail address book — except your eye doctor’s, which is the one you really need right now… We're happy to tell you that starting today, it's easier to sync up your contact lists. Before you try syncing, it’s a good idea to back up both your Address Book contacts and Gmail contacts. Techies may be interested to know that the sync software communicates with Gmail’s contact info using the Google Data APIs. We hope this helps you keep a little more of your information organized and easy to find, at any place and time you need it.
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How to Enable Mac Address Book to Sync with Google’s Gmail Contacts without an iPhone or .Mac [Mac Guide] This is just a quick tip to explain how to sync your Mac Address Book (Leopard 10.5.3 only) with Google’s Gmail without needing an iPhone or a .Mac account. If you have an iPhone then you don’t need this tip and can follow these instructions. If you don’t have a Gmail account you’ll need to go here and sign up for one. After you have your Gmail account ready, proceed to step 1. If you have trouble getting this working please leave me a comment and I’ll be glad to help you out. If this tip works for you please digg the story and be sure to subscribe. Step 1 Open up Terminal.app, but if you aren’t confortable with the terminal you might want to follow this tip instead. plutil -convert xml1 com.apple.iPod.plist Now you should be able to edit the file with your favorite text editor (TextWrangler, vim, etc). Save your changes and run the following command to convert the file back to a binary: plutil -convert binary1 com.apple.iPod.plist <key>000B27111236C6CB</key> <dict> … </dict> Step 2 Step 3