Is that going to be a feature you can disable (birthdays automatically replicating to iCal) as well as an option? I already have birthdates for most of my contacts so it would cause duplicates correct?
Hun Kim | GH Kim Photography | www.ghkim.com On Jun 16, 2009, at 06-16-09 06:35pm, Charlie Wood wrote: On Google they're totally different. But if you enter a birthday for a Google contact and then sync it to your Mac (with Spanning Sync 3, which adds support for these new fields), the contact in Address Book will include the birthday, so the special Birthdays calendar in iCal will get updated. And if you've created a Birthdays calendar in Google and are syncing it with your Mac Birthdays calendar, it will be updated too. :-) We hope to have Spanning Sync 3 in beta very soon. Watch for the announcement. Thanks, Charlie On Jun 16, 7:54 pm, Hun Kim <[email protected]> wrote: > Now that you can input birth dates in contacts, does that > automatically > replicate as recurring events to the calendar or are they completely > different databases? > > Hun Kim | GH Kim Photography |www.ghkim.com > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Hun Kim <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 5:52 PM > Subject: New fields for Gmail contacts and better importing too > To: [email protected] > > Sent to you by Hun Kim via Google Reader: > > New fields for Gmail contacts and better importing > too<http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OfficialGmailBlog/~3/Cvo2ivTG8Z8/new-f... > > > via Gmail Blog <http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/> by The Gmail Team on > 6/16/09 > > Posted by Benjamin Grol, Product Manager > > Up until now, Gmail only supported some contact fields. Whenever > someone > imported their contacts from apps like Outlook and OS X Address > Book, we > used to put fields Gmail didn't recognize into the contact's notes > section. > Based on feedback from you, we added support for more contact fields > (like > birthday and website) and now store each of these fields separately, > which > makes syncing and round-tripping your data work better. We updated the > standalone contact > manager<http://googleappsposts.blogspot.com/2009/05/bringing-your-contacts-to... > > >with > this improvement last month and now it's available in Gmail too, with > support for Outlook, Outlook Express, Hotmail and Yahoo in CSV > format, and > OS X Address Book in vCard format. > > With all your contact info in Gmail, you can access it from anywhere, > sync<http://www.google.com/sync/>your contacts to your mobile phone or > other devices, and more easily > collaborate<http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=44677 > >on > Google Docs and > invite<http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=37161 > > >people > to Calendar events. We're working hard to make Gmail contacts even > more useful, so please keep the > feedback<http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Chats-and-Contacts-en/topic... > > >coming. > <http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/OfficialGmailBlog?a=Cvo2ivTG8Z8:7Eaf... > > > > Things you can do from here: > > - Subscribe to Gmail > Blog<http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburne... > >using > *Google Reader* > - Get started using Google > Reader<http://www.google.com/reader/?source=email>to easily keep up > with > *all your favorite sites* --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Spanning Sync" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spanningsync?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
