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Chapter 1: Utilities and Security
Contacts Cleaner
$ US
Do your contacts need cleaning? The solution comes not in a bottle
but in a Plug-and-Play app that does what it promises all by itself. With
just a bit of regular use, the list of contacts in your Blackberry can
quickly begin to look like the clutter on your real desktop: duplicate
entries with multiple phone numbers and addresses, partial entries,
and other forms of electronic scrap.
Contacts Cleaner is a completely automated process. There are no
settings or decisions on your part. Install it and let it hunt down the
dupes and take out the trash.
Here’s how it works. It begins by identifying duplicate contacts (ones
that have the same name for individuals or company name for organi-
zations). One contact is kept and the other one copied into it; dupli-
cate information is discarded.
The product is quick and efficient, and generally does not cause prob-
lems, although it can sometimes stumble if you have two or more
e-mails listed for the same person. The best way to use this product
is to back up your address list to your PC using the Blackberry Device
Manager before you let loose the Contacts Cleaner; if there are prob-
lems you can always restore the original. Contacts Cleaner will also
allow you to restore any deletions it has made if you act immediately
after it has done its thing.
How to get it
Available from BlackBerry App World and from third-party sites
suchas Crackberry. Beaver Creek Consulting Corporation. www.
beavercreekconsulting.com. Price: $2.99.
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