Yahoo! Autosync is basically an easy way to upload your Microsoft Outlook contacts to an online contact manager (Yahoo). Since my iPhone supports yahoo contact synchronization, and I am trying to switch away from using the Microsoft Office suite, I decided to give it a try. It worked really well, once the program is downloaded, it’s a simple installation. You then enter your Yahoo ID and password, select what to synchronize, and it works! The problem is, to get the program in the first place you have to go through yahoo mail “Classic” – the old version! (or use my link below!) The newer, supposedly better (finally out of beta!) version directs you to a third-party synchronization service called trueswitch.

I only used it to synchronize my contacts, but the program is also supposed to synchronize your calendar, tasks, and notes. Once the contacts are online, they are easily editable through both the Classic and “new” Yahoo Mail interface. The only problem is that just like during importing, to export them you must switch back to the Classic interface. They can be exported to an Outlook CSV, a Netscape/Thunderbird .ldif, a Yahoo CSV, or zipped vCard files.

Hopefully in the future Yahoo will not discontinue the Classic interface, or if they do, at least bring useful tools like this to the new interface!

[Autosync via Yahoo Downloads - Windows only, Yahoo account required]

Posted on October 14, 2007 at 6:35 pm

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