Gmail contacts update

Gmail has finally updated its contacts manager so that users can stop it from automatically adding every address they e-mail to their contacts list. I actually really like the way they’ve done it, by adding recently and most frequently e-mailed lists, addresses from which can then be easily transferred to contacts. It’s a long-overdue fix to the annoying behaviour of a supposedly “helpful feature”. For more info, see the Gmail Blog, here.

Anyway, now that my contacts aren’t going to end up overloaded with randoms, and in the interests of integration between e-mail and IM, I’m going to start using my Gmail address (guy.rintoul@gmail.com) for Google Talk, although I’ll still use im@guyrintoul.com for MSN. Please update your GTalk contact lists as required. My full contact details can be found here.