Since Gmail is all the rage, here’s another way of getting your contact information out of Address Book and into Gmail‘s web interface or into Thunderbird.

A Swiss web site offers a web-based utility that will convert vCards dragged out of Address Book into CSV format for Gmail or LDIF format for Thunderbird.

Just drag the cards out of Address Book, and upload them into the converter.

The interface is easy to navigate and understand:

It also offers the option of filtering out contacts without email addresses. A non-Gmail-specific CSV format separated by comma, tab or semi-colon is provided as well.

Of course, you can also use Ken Ferry’s AddressBook2CSV to convert your contacts into a format that Gmail understands.

Now moving over to Thunderbird should be as painless for your contacts as switching from Thunderbird to Mail.app.

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Tags: Address Book, CSV, GMAIL, LDIF, mail.app, thunderbird, vcards

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