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Windows Mail<br />

Windows Mail, included with Windows Vista, is essentially a renamed version of<br />

Outlook Express. You set it up to sync with the <strong>iPhone</strong>’s Contacts program just<br />

as described in the previous paragraphs—except in iTunes, choose Windows<br />

Contacts, rather than Windows Address Book, before clicking Apply.<br />

Yahoo Address Book<br />

The Yahoo Address Book is the address book <strong>com</strong>ponent of a free Yahoo<br />

Mail account. It’s therefore an online address book, which has certain advantages—like<br />

your ability to access it from any <strong>com</strong>puter on the Internet.<br />

Plug the <strong>iPhone</strong> into the <strong>com</strong>puter, click its icon in the iTunes source list, and<br />

then click the Info tab in the main part of the window. Turn on Sync contacts<br />

from:, and choose Yahoo Address Book from the pop-up menu. (On the Mac,<br />

just turn on Yahoo Address Book; no menu is needed.)<br />

Since Yahoo is an online address book, you need an Internet connection and<br />

your Yahoo ID and password to sync it with the <strong>iPhone</strong>. Click Configure, and<br />

then type your Yahoo ID and password. When finished, click OK. Now click<br />

Apply in the bottom corner of the iTunes window to get syncing.<br />

Because it’s online, syncing your Yahoo address book has a couple of other<br />

quirks. They’re a little bit tweaky and geeky, but here they are for the record:<br />

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Ordinarily, if you sync your <strong>iPhone</strong> with one contacts program and later<br />

try to sync with another one, iTunes asks if you want to replace the original<br />

list of contacts or merge the new ones with the ones already on the<br />

<strong>iPhone</strong>.<br />

But when you choose Yahoo’s address book as the new source, you’re<br />

offered only the Merge option.<br />

Usually, if you delete a name from your Mac or PC address book, it gets<br />

deleted from the <strong>iPhone</strong> the next time you sync. But if you delete a<br />

contact from the Yahoo Address Book that happens to contain a Yahoo<br />

Messenger ID in its fields, it won’t disappear from the <strong>iPhone</strong>. To delete<br />

such a contact, you have to log onto your Yahoo account online and<br />

delete it from the Yahoo address book itself.<br />

Mac OS X Address Book<br />

Apple products generally love each other, and the built-in contact keeper<br />

that <strong>com</strong>es with Mac OS X is a breeze to sync up with your <strong>iPhone</strong>. With the<br />

<strong>iPhone</strong> plugged into the <strong>com</strong>puter, click its icon in the iTunes source list, and<br />

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