How to clean up your address book for MobileMe

If you're like me, you've imported your contact list from Gmail which means thousands of names & email addresses you don't really care about - ugh what a mess! What i am now doing is trying to maintain proper groups for family, friends & business contacts. So how do you get rid of all the clutter? First get the contacts you care about into an address book group - doesn't matter what you call it. In my case i called it "Friends & Family". Then create a smart group that looks for your contacts that are NOT in your groups. Go into that smart group, select everything (CMD+A) and delete. You now how have a nice clean address book which will sync between your iphone / mac / pc.

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[Jase Clamp]

I find another way to clean up your address book is to use a service called www.contactgorilla.com. It will email all of your contacts (or the ones you choose) in gmail and ask them for an update. The changes are synced right back into your contact list. It also tracks bounces so you can go and delete all of those.