iContact is more of a “one to watch” than a fully fledged application at the moment. It’s a desktop application available for Windows which can be used to access your GMail or Google Apps contacts database.
I say it’s not fully fledged as it lacks one very very important feature. It’s read only so you can’t edit your contacts yet. The developer does have this on his to do list and the ability to change and add contacts via iContact will be in the next release.
iContact Main screen
In the meantime though it’s still a worthwhile application, especially if you’ve just recently imported a load of contacts into GMail and things haven’t worked out quite as expected.
iContact Preferences Pane
The interface is very clean and the sensitivity of the search can be refined in the preferences. You can choose the sort order of the contacts and a handy feature is the option to display contacts that only have email information in a different colour, helping you manage duplicates.
Hopefully this will develop into a fully fledged application in the very near future with built in de-duplication and the useful record merge function found in Apple’s Address Book programme.
You can download a copy of iContact for free at www.dataload.com/icontact/
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