Sync gmail with adress book

[Cams]

I'm running Leopard with all the latest updates. I did some googling to see if I could sync my gmail contacts with the OS X address book. I found this link:

http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2008/05/mac-os-x-1053-sync-google-contacts.html

Magic, I thought. However the prefs pane in address book on my system does not have Google listed, only Exchange, Yahoo and MobileMe. How do I get it to add Google to the list? Failing that, are there other methods for syncing gmail contacts with address book?

Thanks
Cams

 

[Ashka]

I used 'address to gmail' software to send my address book to gmail, it doesn't sync but at least all the addresses are there just in case..

http://bborofka.com/atog/

 

[QuarterSwede]

I'm running Leopard with all the latest updates. I did some googling to see if I could sync my gmail contacts with the OS X address book. I found this link:

http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2008/05/mac-os-x-1053-sync-google-contacts.html

The Address Book application in Mac OS X 10.5.3 now lets iPhone users sync their Address Book with Google Contacts.

Yeah, pretty crappy of Google eh?

 

[Cams]

Yeah, pretty crappy of Google eh?

Yeah, crappy indeed. Oh well.

 

[dlandin]

Here's the hack that you need

Hey Cams,

You need to perform a very simple hack and Sync with Google with magically appear in your Address Book preferences. Just follow this link:

http://lifehacker.com/393855/enable-google-contact-sync-without-an-iphone-or-ipod-touch

Good luck!
Dan

 

[mynameisraj]

I just use soocial. Easy and simple - phone, mac and gmail in sync.

 

[Cams]

Hey Cams,

You need to perform a very simple hack and Sync with Google with magically appear in your Address Book preferences. Just follow this link:

http://lifehacker.com/393855/enable-google-contact-sync-without-an-iphone-or-ipod-touch

Good luck!
Dan

That was a neat trick and I got Google to appear by manually creating the plist file. However how do I get the actualy syncing to happen? I've hooked up to my gmail account and also tried a Yahoo account and no syncing takes place. It's almost as if there should be a big SYNC button somewhere to make it all happen, but I can't find that. Is it supposed to happen automatically?

Cheers
Cams

 

[heyp]

That was a neat trick and I got Google to appear by manually creating the plist file. However how do I get the actualy syncing to happen? I've hooked up to my gmail account and also tried a Yahoo account and no syncing takes place. It's almost as if there should be a big SYNC button somewhere to make it all happen, but I can't find that. Is it supposed to happen automatically?

Cheers
Cams

same question... anyone have a solution?

 

[Cams]

same question... anyone have a solution?

I just gave up and bought a licence for Spanning Sync. It does my iCal / Google calendar too.