Documents To Go

Apple iPhone - Documents To Go

I need an app that will allow me to sinc and use Numbers. This app was recommended earlier but now several reviews complain that it's freezing up and generally not working well since the recent iPhone updates. Is anyone using it now and have the bugs been worked out??

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It used to be a good app. However, since they were sold there seems to be no activity to fix bugs or bring it up to date. I have been using Google docs. It handles spreadsheets and word docs.

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Another really good alternative is QuickOffice Connect. I have them both, and I would say I use QO more than I use DTG.

Sync Google Contacts"

Apple iPhone - "Sync Google Contacts"

Recently, I tried to sync my Google contacts with all contacts in my MacBookPro's Address Book by checking the box in iTunes, "Sync Google Contacts." I have 2300+ contacts in my AB, some of which are duplicates. After the sync was done, both Google and my AB wound up with 9800+ contacts -- and many thousands of dupes.

I had to use Time Machine to restore the contacts in AB. And, I've now deleted ALL Google contacts. (At least I thought I did... not sure that Google Voice did the same.)

I'd like to ensure that if I check the iTunes box "Sync Google Contacts" the same thing will not happen again. The goal is to get the same contacts from AB over to Google, and no more.

Currently, I have canceled my Mobile Me account and am syncing my iPhone directly with the MacBookPro via iTunes only, and it seems to be working OK for contacts.

The various Apple help articles are basically worthless respecting "Sync Google Contacts" -- What happens when this gets checked? What overwrites what? Or do the two systems combine contacts? Will my MacBookPro contacts all get put over to Google? Or, will Google's contact list (now empty) overwrite my MacBookPro Address Book, essentially wiping it out completely?

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I have all my contacts synchronized. GoogleContacts and MobileMe. The only thing is that I need to start my computer sometimes. In my case, I use my computer almost every day, so I have never noticed some delay to have my contacts in sync (including the pictures of the contacts). It´s a little bit different situation, but something can help you.


IMPORTANT : BACKUP ALL YOUR CONTACTS BEFORE !!!!!!!!!!!
The order you follow the steps may cause some duplicates !!!!

Pre-Condition: that your contacts are correct on the phone (or MobileMe), otherwise you can get from Google or AddressBook.

Take that Google removes duplicate and merge contacts !!!!!

1 ) Backup your contacts using iTunes !
2 ) Export your GoogleContacts to a .CSV file;
3 ) Delete all your contacts at your Google Account;
4 ) Start AddressBook on your Mac (that was already synchronized with your MobileMe account e check to synchronize with Google);
5) Started the sync and could see that all my 195 contacts (from my iPhone) (Me.com) were in my Google account;

Test #1:
Insert a contact on Google : 'sync' your AddressBook the contact was there and on your phone; Delete your contact on the iPhone (Me.com). After the sync, the contact was wiped off from Google

Test #2:
Insert a contact onMobileMe:
'sync' your AddressBook the contact was there and on your Google Account; Delete your contact on the Google .after the sync the contact was wiped off from iPhone (Me.com)

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Thanks,

I do not have Mobile Me because I've never had anything but trouble with it. So, I finally let it lapse.

So, I may just pass on syncing to Google. I've already deleted everything there.

Apple prides itself on being intuitive, that "it just works," etc. While they're still better than Windoze, it's all just so much crapola and marketing.

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After the sync at 9800 + contacts, you should have run the remove duplicates from google. The removal is good. Then your duplicates would not be there.

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What is the removal tool for duplicates in Google calendar & contacts?

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Contacts has duplicate removal option which is good. I'm not sure about the calender.

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It really works ! You can combine with the Merge tool !!!

both are available at Google Contacts !!

Google Books cannot figure out

Apple iPhone - Google Books cannot figure out

I downloaded the Google Books app, to check it out. I then downloaded a free book sample. Now I want to delete it (the book sample, not the app), but can't figure out how. Anyone know?

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It is not easy - tap on the i (Info) in upper right corner hten Manage My Books or go to books.google.com and click Manage and you can remove from there...

Check out this application:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-books/id400989007?mt=8

Google Contacts

Apple iPhone - Google Contacts

I noticed something today which I've never noticed before. I no longer user MobileMe to sync my contacts, I've gone to Google to do so. It works perfectly for my needs, except for this one glitch. I have coworkers who recently obtained Blackberry's (company issued). They have "work" - or office numbers, they have personal cell phone numbers and now they have these Blackberry's. I happened to be in front of my desktop when they obtained their new numbers and I made a custom label for the blackberry number, entitled "blackberry".

Well I discovered that the custom label didn't sync with my iPhone. Undaunted I went to my iPhone and attempted to make a custom label in the contact area and found that I could not. Hopefully, all of the guru's here will tell me the secret to make such a custom label. I can make the "blackberry" number another "work" label but as I said earlier, the work label has their desk phone listed and I would like to be as accurate as possible in labeling the numbers.

Any suggestions for me on this? or am I doing something wrong? I would love to be able to change the choices on the iPhone, considering that it has a label for "pager" and who on earth still has one of those? If I could rename Pager to BB or Blackberry, at least it would be more relevant for my needs.

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Perhaps label blackberries as work mobile or company mobile.

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If you sync "over the air" with Google, it will only sync the basic labels. It will not sync custom ones.

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It's a limitation of Exchange which is how you're most likely synching google contacts now. It's a well known limitation and you can't use custom labels. I went through and created a boatload of custom labels in Goigle contacts only to find the phone numbers disappeared at next sync. Had to go back and put them as work and pager numbers again.

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Thank you for this explanation. I shall have to come up with my own system for remembering which number is which.

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When you'll go to Google.com/sync, go to iPhone option and you'll see it's limitations as which fields sync.

Google Voice app for iPhone hits the App Store

Apple iPhone - Official Google Voice app for iPhone hits the App Store

I have a Google Voice number that I never use. Can this feasibly be used instead of my AT&T number? I was just wondering because if it can, I could drop down to the absolute lowest plan that they have and save me some money.

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Google Voice is NOT VoIP it is just a 'one number' forwarding service - if you use your GVoice # it just forwards the calls to your AT&T number. Now if you set Google Voice to use your GV # as the caller ID on calls, you can set it as one of your "Friends and Family" numbers and save minutes that way but Friends & Family isn't available unless you are on the 1400+ plan...

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I know I'm not ...but.....if you use Google voice...it counts towards your minutes, HOWEVER, if you have AT&T's friends list plan...you could conceivably circumvent it and add the Google number as one of your numbers and it wouldn't use your minutes. Hope that makes sense to you!

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Can you please send a link to download the app? I looked it up I saw a few apps
not sure which one is the real one. Thanks :)

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Here's the official Google App:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-voice/id318698524?mt=8

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As the article said, you have to search by GOOGLEVOICE all one word for some odd reason

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To search for it in iTunes type in googlevoice all one word, though the App is Google Voice. Strange.

Google Goggles now available on iPhone in Google Mobile App via Google Mobile

Apple iPhone Google - Open your eyes: Google Goggles now available on iPhone in Google Mobile App via Google Mobile

Searching with Google on your mobile phone can be an eye-opening experience. Now your phone's camera can even help to find out more about the world around you.

Back in December we introduced Google Goggles on Android: it lets you search by taking pictures. Today, we're excited to announce that Goggles is now a feature of Google Mobile App for iPhone. Google Mobile App already lets you speak your queries, and it can also use your phone's location to give you more relevant search results.

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In the new version of Google Mobile App just tap on the camera button to search using Goggles. Goggles will analyze the image and highlight the objects it recognizes -- just click on them to find out more. You can see how this works in this short video:

Computer vision is a hard problem and Google Goggles is still a Labs product. It works well for things such as landmarks, logos and the covers of books, DVDs and games. However, it doesn't yet work for some things you might want to try like animals, plants or food.

Google Mobile App with Google Goggles is now available in the Apple App Store. Just search for Google Mobile App' and download the latest version - it's free. It will gradually be appearing in all App Stores around the world starting from today.

Goggles is enabled only for English-speaking users, and since it requires an auto-focusing camera it is supported only on iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 running iOS 4 or above. Visit our Help Center to learn more or send us your feedback and questions in our Help Forum.

So step away from your computer, get your Goggles on, and search the world around you.

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The Google Voice App is included in this update of Google Mobile.

The Google Voice will pull up your contact list. That is something that Apple would not allow before. This is new.

After further looking, I agree that it is just the web app. t is pulling up some of my contacts but they are not from my Google contact list in the iPhone.

Well, I can get to my Google contacts in the Google Voice app.

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It is nice that it is interfacing with contacts. It has listed my contacts twice and I am thinking it is getting it from my contacts list from my gmail contacts and not my mobile me contacts in my address book. or maybe it is getting it from both places ... not sure.

Will be interesting to see if the google voice feature will become a standalone feature not using Safari and a direct voip type interface would be nice too.

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Thanks for alerting us to this update to the google mobile app ... I am having fun with the google goggles feature. I am using the camera icon to view vacation photos on my ipad and it is recognizing some of the landmarks fairly well and now I can find out the names of some of the places we saw in various cities that I have forgotten. Like all the cathedrals and such that you see in Europe.

It even thought the stripes in my husband's shirt was a barcode and made an attempt at locating a product. LOL

Overall it is doing a fairly good attempt at this camera or image recognition and is amazing that our technology is coming along so fast.

Google Voice Apps

Apple iPhone - Google Voice Apps

The App Store now has both GV Mobile+ and GV Connect at $2.99 each for those of you who use Google Voice. The apps load much quicker than the old web app, and they appear to have more features. I'm still exploring them, more reports later.

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You'll recall that Apple at first rejected the Google Voice app, claiming it "duplicated" iPhone features. Apple apparently has relented on this claim and now there's a complete app for using the service.

One of the nice features of GV is that you can set it up so a call to your GV cell number will also ring on your home phone. Text messages are also free. In addition, going to GV using your desktop, you can send texts or initiate calls from them, then if you're at home your home phone will ring to connect you to whoever you've just called. This requires a WiFi or AT&Ts web connection, but I've found that on my WiFi the calls are as clear as my regular VOIP service from Cox. If you want to use this feature when you're out and about, say at the nearest S*Bucks, just use the iPhone or set the settings to choose your iPhone as the "ring back" number.

But, the service still does not apparently have the capability to send text messages to multiple addressees without doing them one-by-one. And, still no MMS service. You can't send anyone a picture via text.

It's not clear what the difference is between Google Connect and Google Voice. Both permit calls and texts, but beyond that the only difference seems to be the addition of Emoticons to GConnect.

Google Talk on iOS4

Apple iPhone - Better Google Talk on iOS4

I bought my iPhone 3GS a week before the launch of iPhone 4 after seeing the sneak pics on Gizmodo - well aware that the iPhone 4 was around the corner in the US, but also predicting much to my confirmation that Apple would be slow in releasing the product in India, and if it will be, it would be only a few months before the launch of the next launch in the US - whatever they choose to call it - iPhone 4S perhaps.

Anyway, before they launched iOS4, I was using eBuddyMessenger to stay online on gtalk which would give push notifications to my phone if someone sent me a message and the messenger was not running. This was cool. Now after iOS4, with multi-tasking available, is there a better application to have google talk run in the background? eBuddyMessenger has a uniquely high propensity to crash, which I hate - and takes time to sign in, especially in comparison to the expectation that I should be able to respond to a gtalk text as fast or faster than a sms message.

Previously, I used fring on my Nokia E71, and that works just great. But cant say the same for iPhone. Still think there are many places where Apple needs to improve user experience. Many applications available - but not all are smooth and easy to use.

iPhone iOS
I highly recommend Beejive IM.

It supports Google Talk, AIM, ICQ, Facebook chat, MSN Live, and more.

I think it is the best of kind.

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I use Meebo for all my iPhone IM'ing needs and its free. It also has push notifications and the great thing about it is that I also use the client on my PC and Mac and it knows where I am signed on. I can start a conversation on the iPhone and finish it on the Mac and vice versa.

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Google Local

iPhone - Google Local
For those of you using your phone in an unfamilar part of town, while traveling or just in generally might like the new Google Local - the only way to explain it is like having a built in GPS system in your car and searching for the closest whatever (American Restaurant or Walgreens Pharmacy) - you simply tell it what you want and then narrow down the results such as Restaurant then type and it displays ever one within a certain mile range.

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The examples also give ways to plan upcoming trips by researching POIs, staring them, then using the "Starred Places" to pull them up and search through results when you are at your travel destination.

"To access these features on your mobile device, go to www.google.com/m/local, or just click on the Local tab on www.google.com.

The product is available in the US and China, with more regions coming soon."

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You came through to the list - and yes Google does (and has for quite a while) done local searches with zip code or city, state - the difference between that and Google Local is that not only do you need not enter or know the city/zip code, the results are in real time to your location whereas a zip code can cover a 5 sq mile area, the "local" searches can return results within half a mile of your current location via GPS...

If I simply bring up Google Maps on the iPhone, any enter "McDonalds", it shows me the 10 McD's nearest my location with the nearest one highlighted.

No "near", no Google Local....

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Out of all the apps that search for points of interest, I find the white pages app to be my favorite. It works great, bringing up the phone number, directions, map and it is a free app. I use it all the time!