Organising contacts is an increasingly difficult task no matter who you are - if you add together all of the contacts on your mobile, e-mail and other external devices, it would probably be enough to go round the moon twice - or something like that.

Open Contacts is a brave attempt at trying to tie all these contacts together. The first thing that strikes you is that, it's not exactly the best looking program you've ever seen. It's more like an Excel spreadsheet with a few tasteless looking pink fields here and there. However, once you get working with it, you realise that it's not just an ugly face. The application has presets for various types of contact namely People and Companies. Both follow the same principle and the default layout gives you four fields within each one which you can move about. Each field expands into a whole page which allows you to enter just about everything from their eye colour to their favourite food if you so choose. In fact, few people will want or need to go into so much detail about their contacts but this is supposed to be a definitive kind of contacts book that you will refer to time and again although you get the feeling it's more like a police database at times. The program could have done with a few wizards to take you through the whole process a few times to begin with although the help file is extensive.

Open Contacts does help link and divide your contacts but it could do with a much better looking interface and a more simpler data fields for most people's needs.

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Organising contacts is an increasingly difficult task no matter who you are - if you add together all of the contacts on your mobile, e-mail and other external devices, it would probably be enough to go round the moon twice - or something like that.

Open Contacts Portable is portable version of Open Contacts which is a brave attempt at trying to tie all these contacts together. Of course, if you're on the move a lot and making contacts all the time, then this version is much more suitable because it fits neatly on a Pendrive. The first thing that strikes with Open Contacts is that it's not exactly the best looking program you've ever seen. It's more like an Excel spreadsheet with a few tasteless looking pink fields here and there. However, once you get working with it, you realise that it's not just an ugly face. The application has presets for various types of contact namely People and Companies. Both follow the same principle and the default layout gives you four fields within each one which you can move about. Each field expands into a whole page which allows you to enter more details although the portable version is more limited than the original which is no bad thing. Few people will want or need to go into so much detail about their contacts as the original allows and so I'd rather use this version anyway. Although it's simpler to use as a result, the program could still have done with a few wizards to take you through the whole process a few times to begin with although the help file is extensive.

Open Contacts does help link and divide your contacts but it could do with a much better looking interface although the simpler data fields in this portable version are actually an improvement on the original.

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My Gmail address book must be one of my most trusty contact lists that I have. I constantly refer to it because it's easy to use and intuitive.

However, it's also a pain to have to log into Gmail everytime I want to access a contact. iContact works by using Gmail/Google Apps contacts list as the central database for your contacts. You can still see and edit your contacts in Gmail but iContact allows you to have instant access to your contacts whenever you need them without logging into your Google/Gmail account - great for if you are travelling or don't have access to an internet connection. The program can also integrate with Microsoft Outlook to import your contacts directly from there and add them into Gmail. It also features integration with Skype and Google Maps and allows you to send contacts to your Satnav or TomTom device which is useful for contacting people on the move. iContact also doesn't care which machine or PC you are working on - you can access your contacts on all computers without the need to synchronize them.

This is not exactly a Web 2.0 app but it's about as close as you can come without actually being one and a much more convenient way to organise your contacts.

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ContactKeeper is a free personal information manager to store contact information about your friends, family, and colleges in one database file. You will never forget a birthday any more thanks to the integrated birthday reminder!

The pick of the bunch is the possibility to let ContactKeeper generate a birthday calender based on the dates of birth of the persons in the database!ContactKeeper is consciously very flexible, for example, only first name or last name is required, but not both, ContactKeeper is also consciously equipped with only a few basic fields, you can put extra information in the Note field.

You have also the freedom under wich format you want to save phone numbers of an address, for that reason the address is stored in one field only and the street name for example isn't seperated from the postal code and city name. ContactKeeper can be very usefull in case you lose your gsm with all the numbers of your friends for example, so you still have a back-up.

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Keeping track of friends and family names and addresses is always tricky and I've never come across an app that really integrates well with my online activities. As far as offline apps fgo however, LS Addressbook does a good job of organizing your contacts in a compact and simple agenda. It has fields for the name, telephone number, address, e-mail and notes, etc.

There are many more options than you'll find in an agenda of a modern mobile phone, but the interesting thing is the export options. It supports TXT formats and XLS so you can export the data for simple backups at anytime or for printing. You can also import data from MS Access if you use it for contacts.

Simple and comprehensive with some useful export options, this is a solid contacts organiser.

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This unique phonebook program manages and keep track of all your contacts, adresses, phonenumbers, fax, e-mail addresses, info...! It's a very complete address book with many powerful functions and still very EASY TO USE! Has a autodial, security, inquiry, sort options, e-mail and web support, many print-options, print preview, Currency-calculator, calendar...

You can do mailmerge with MS-Word using your addresses stored in RGS-CardMaster! Export to Excel. This user friendly "phone book" has a low learning curve, but to call it just another "Phonebook" program would not do it right as it gives you the power of DBase but so much more easier that kids would manage it, and still, advanced options are there to please the power users! And yes, perhaps best of all, it's free!

Take a look at what this program features:

• Easy to use and a very low learning curve
• Visually pleasing User Interface
• Unlimmited number of cards and databases
• Easy browsing and locating contacts
• Sort a database on each available item, name, city, country, mail etc.
• E-Mail field which allows to mail them with your default mailer with one click
• Store websites and visit them
• Attached Info-field on each card
• Print This Card Option in complete WYSIWYG!
• Copy a Card to the clipboard or duplicate a card
• Powerful Find-option

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InfoWonder is a new kind of personal information organizer. Not just a list of phone contacts, it extends functionality beyond that of a traditional sticky note program by storing and organizing many different types of information: word processed memos, voice/audio "notes", web pages, pictures, and offering user-created fill-in forms to simplify repetitive data entry. InfoWonder has a comprehensive reminder capability that can pop up a reminder on any item in an InfoWonder file. Reminders can be one-time or recurring at almost any conceivable interval. And InfoWonder is child's play to use, filled with thoughtful behind-the-scenes functionality to insure your data is safe.

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Printable Notebook lets you organize and print your personal data in the same manner a paper notebook does. You can print selected pages so that they fit into your paper notebook. The program allows you to create multiple notebooks with custom fields for each. It includes examples XML print templates, that will fit a standard notebook size.

The template can be edited by hand to fit other sizes as well or to change the page design. The program supports http and email fields, different tab layouts, search across notebooks and more. You can set number of records per page. As result when you add or delete some records, the records placed at other pages do NOT shift. Only one page gets changed, other pages stay unchanged. You can print the canged page and replace it in your paper addressbook.

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Manage and use your contact information in a powerful yet simple way. Contact features plenty of features and great technology that allows you to get the most out of your address book.

Bringing true innovation to the world of contact management, Contact allows you to effectively and easily start creating and managing your friends, family and business contacts. Contact packs a punch to when it comes to using your data effectively, with actions built straight into the user interface that allow you to quickly perform common tasks, like sending emails and writing letters to a contact.

One of the many features that makes Contact truly understandable and easy to use is its perfectly crafted user interface. With smooth icons and a mindful layout everything is always exactly where you would expect it to be. Free from clutter and super responsive Contact provides an all round refined user experience.

Many contact managers allow you to enter a whole plethra of information, which is great if you are a high flying business person with lots of data that you need on the go. But Contact offers all the information an everyday person would require, from multiple email addresses to nicknames. Everything you would expect and need in a contact manager is in Contact and theres none of the bloat.

Contact features a simple search system integrated right into the main application user interface. Just simply type something about the contact you wish to find, it doesn't matter what either, whether it be their name, address, telephone number, email or anything that Contact can store you will return results in a flash. Contact Smart Searching searches any string whether it be part of a name or a full name and is guranteed to find relevant results.

Share a computer with your family or at work? Not a problem for Contact if you are worried about the security of your data, just activate a high level encryption onto your contact database in a single click.

With a powerful Sync Manager built directly into the application you can share you data in seconds. Whether you want to share your contact information across 2 computers on a network or on computers anywhere in the world* you can do now in seconds flat**.

Exporting your data is also just as simple as doing anything else in Contact, simply press the export button and chose your file type and your away. You can share data in industry standard formats so for those who still aren't using Contact 1.5 can still get that all important info. Supported file types include plain text (.txt), vCard (.vcf), Isaac Database (.idb) and Comma Seperated Values (.csv).

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