IPhone Address Book Grouping
Since I stood in line on the first day to get my iphone, I've had one major complaint. (well, ok, three — No MMS and no flash so I can see the stupid website that AT&T sends me to when people try to send me MMS are the other two…) I wanted to add my entire company directory to the phone so I'd know who was calling me, but I didn't want it cluttering up the list of people I actually call.
I'm not sure if I'm just totally blind or this wasn't available back then, but at any rate, you can do it now, and it's quite simple, at least on a Mac. No clue how it'd work in Windows because that's not what I synch my phone with.
If you add a new Group within the Mac Address Book, the itunes interface for synching your iphone changes. Instead of simply synchin gcontacts, it lets you choose whether to synch all contacts or to synch a given group. And the iphone remembers what group you're looking at, so you don't have to go through the group-choosing process every time you want to make a call.
So, now, I have "Work" "Food" "Business" and "Friends/Family" groups, with work having the complete phone directory for my company, and a bonus of splitting out my clients and other business contacts from my small business off to another group, as well as having a single group to make it easier to call in advance for reservations/pre-order if I'm on the way to a restaurant.
Also — if you didn't know, you can take screenshots on the phone by holding down the Home button and pressing the power button. The screen will flash and the screenshot will be in your film roll as if you'd taken it with the camera.
Filed by JC at July 17th, 2008 under Random