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Disappearing plugins


If you have any application that adds buttons to the address book (like the contacts merger), you could have noticed that the buttons recently disappeared. This happened because of a bug in Monorail, the IM file transfer application. Alban already fixed this bug and uploaded a new version to extras-devel. This new version also fixes [...]

Contacts merger in Maemo extras


Just a quick post to inform the N900 users that didn’t enable the extras-devel or extras-testing repositories that the contacts merger has been promoted to Maemo extras. Just look for “Merge your duplicate contacts” in the application manager and enjoy

Contacts merger 0.1.3 in Maemo extras-testing


Since my previous post about the contacts merger, I fixed a crash, made it handle better broken vcards, improved the partial matching and made the installer quit the address book when the plugin is installed, so no reboot is needed. The new 0.1.3 merger is now available in Maemo extras-testing, just look for “Merge your [...]

Finding duplicate contacts in your address book


One of the common complaints about the Maemo address book is that it’s easy to get a lot of duplicate contacts as the address book is able to pull your contacts from various IM services. From the beginning there has been a way to merge duplicates, but it meant manually going through all of your [...]