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Handle Your IPhone Data Contact With CopyTrans
Well, not when you use CopyTrans Contacts, a Windows program that allows you to manage your iPhone contacts, calendar and text messages all from the same app.
Well, not when you use CopyTrans Contacts, a Windows program that allows you to manage your iPhone contacts, calendar and text messages all from the same app.
Managing Contacts
To start, download and install CopyTrans Contacts. After installing, connect your iPhone to your computer via USB. Now, run CopyTrans and choose CopyTrans Contacts.
Then, click on the ‘Contact’ icon on the left sidebar to access the Contacts page.
You can add a new contact by clicking the ‘+ New contact’ icon.
It will open a new page where you input the details of your new contact. After you’re done click ‘Apply changes’ and it will save to your phone.
You can also back up your contacts using CopyTrans. To do this, just click on ‘Export contacts’.
It will open a new window which will show different types of backup options you can choose from. You can save your contacts to your computer or transfer your contacts to other devices.
After choosing ‘Save your address book’, all of your contacts are now saved in your computer.
Managing Calendar
To manage your calendar with CopyTrans, first, connect your iPhone via USB to your computer, run CopyTrans and wait for it to finish syncing.
Now, click on the ‘Calendar’ icon on the left sidebar.
You’ll notice that all of your calendar events are displayed. To edit your calendar, just click on the selected event and you can drag it and drop it to the time slot you want.
You also can adjust the starting time and the endtime for the event by dragging the bottom line of any hour and extending it to the hour you want.
To change dates of events, navigate your calendar to ‘week view’ or ‘month view’ and simply drag the event to a different date.
Managing SMS
Apart from managing your SMS, CopyTrans also can be used to manage your MMS and iMessage.
Connect your iPhone to your computer via USB. Click on the ‘speech bubble’ icon and your messages will load.
On the text messages list, there’s a small box on the left where you can tick which message history you want to back up. Tick the ones you wish to back up and click on ‘Export selected’
After exporting it, the backed up files will be in HTML format.
Double-click on the backed up files and it will open on your default browser where you can read your messages.
Limitations
The free version of CopyTrans only allows you to do 50 actions, so, when you’re out of actions you can’t edit anything anymore on CopyTrans. However, you can gain more ‘actions’ by helping to spread the word about CopyTrans on Twitter or Facebook.
Auto-Update Contact Info From Email Signatures With WriteThat.Name
Emailing is another medium of communication which is being widely used. For people who are working in social networking or the Web, you might get a lot of emails from different organizations.Spring cleaning the address book is a mindless but important task we have to take to keep our contacts accessible.
Usually in emails, there will be a signature block which contain details such as sender’s name, phone number, social website URLs and more. Changes to these info are usually unannounced, but if you don’t notice them, then you might lose out.
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WriteThat.Name is a tool to help prevent that. It helps users to automatically update their address book by scanning signature block in emails. The app only works with Gmail accounts, Google App emails and Outlook.
Update Contacts Details Automatically
To start updating contact details automatically, browse over to WriteThat.Name and connect your Gmail account to it. When an email reaches a Gmail or MS Outlook Inbox, WriteThat.Name will scan the email for the sender’s signature block.
A sender’s signature block or email signature is usually filled with details such as their name, phone number, email address and the company they are working for. WriteThat.Name will sync all of that info with your address book, keeping your contacts list updated.
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If the signature block that WriteThat.Name scanned is new, it will add it as a new contact. Contacts that are recognized, will be updated accordingly.
Users can set to let WriteThat.Name automatically update the contacts or to update them only after receiving confirmation by the user.
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WriteThat.Name allow users to add multiple email accounts but note that changes will only be made to the master address book. If you have two separate email accounts with two sets of contacts you want to keep separate, connect them to WriteThat.Name independently.
An added feature is the email confirmation feature. Users can send the contacts an email to get confirmation if the latest contact details detected by WriteThat.Name are accurate or if it is their most current details.
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Flashback
For new users who want WriteThat.Name to scan emails from previous years, they can do so withFlashback. However, Flashback is a paid service which cost $35.00 per past year of email scans, and $100.00 for the past 5 years’ worth of email scans.
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To distinguish new contacts in your address book after a scan, there will be a ‘via Writethat.name’ label on the contacts. There will be a full report available after WriteThat.Name does a complete scan.
Pricing
New users will get to try the ‘Premium’ plan for a month. After a month, users will need to choose if they want to continue using other paid plan or a free plan.
There are three plans:
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WriteThat.Name for MS Outlook which is only free for 30 days requires an annual subscription of$48 to continue. If user decides not to subscribe, WriteThat.Name will stop updating contacts on their MS Outlook address book.
Conclusion
WriteThat.Name is a helpful tool to keep address books automatically and constantly up-to-date especially for power users. It can keep track of the same contact if he or she has changed numbers, work place or social accounts. This helps users to stay in the loop and keep up with their network circles efficiently.
