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extremely useful to have with you, and the settings and bookmarks save you
a lot of tedious setup on the iPhone.
If you’re a subscriber to Apple’s data-in-the-clouds MobileMe service, you won’t
see the controls described on the following pages. That’s because MobileMe, not
iTunes, is now handling synchronization with the iPhone. Instead, all you see is a
message to the effect that, for example, “Your calendars are being pushed to your
iPhone over the air from MobileMe.”
Syncing Contacts
If you’ve been adding to your address book for years in a program like Microsoft
Outlook or Mac OS X’s Address Book, you’re just a sync away from porting all
that accumulated data right over to your iPhone. Once there, info like phone
numbers and email addresses show up as links, so you can reach out and tap
someone.
Here’s how to sync up your contacts with the iPhone. The steps depend on
which program you keep them in.
• Outlook 2003 and 2007. Turn on Sync contacts from:, and, from the
pop-up menu, choose Outlook. Finally, click Apply.
Note that some of the more obscure fields Outlook lets you use, like
Radio and Telex, won’t show up on the iPhone. All the major data points
do, however, like name, email address, and (most importantly) phone
number.
If Outlook gives you grief and error messages, you might be missing the
necessary plug-in. Visit http://tinyurl.com/39hfaw for Apple’s tips on getting
it to play nice with the iPhone.
Having weird syncing issues with Outlook’s contacts and calendars? In iTunes, go
to EditÆPreferencesÆSyncing and click Reset Sync History. This function doesn’t
wipe out the data you’ve synced, just the Windows memory of it. The next time
you sync the iPhone, it’ll be like the very first time.
Outlook Express.
• Microsoft’s free email app for Windows XP stores your
contacts in a file called the Windows Address Book. To sync it with your
iPhone, turn on Sync contacts from:, choose Windows Address Book from
the pop-up menu, and click Apply.
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