How to Remove Duplicate Contacts on iOS

August 2, 2013 Comment

I’m a heavy user of Google services, but prefer iOS for mobile devices. This has always resulted in out-of-sync contacts on my phone because contact syncing isn’t perfect between Google and iCloud. I finally got fed up and decided to make Google the sole keeper of my contacts. Here’s how:

Export your iCloud contacts

Login to iCloud

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Choose Contacts

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Export your iCloud contacts

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Import your contacts into Google

Go to your Google Contacts

Import your contacts

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Merge duplicate contacts

Choose your newly imported contact group and “Find & merge duplicates”

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Verify the merge

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Disable iCloud contacts on iOS

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Done!

You should be left with a clean list of contacts on your phone!

Ubuntu 12.04 Upgrade Failure

May 1, 2012 , , , Comment

Always have at least 2GB overhead when upgrading your Linux distribution! If you don’t you’ll regret it!

I attempted to upgrade my primary desktop from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04 for Long-term Support last night and managed to lock up three of my four CPU cores with kernel processes when I ran out of space on the root partition.

Unfortunately, the only way I know to remove the locks is to reboot, but I’m pretty sure the reboot will fail because half the new packages still haven’t been configured, including the all the ones related to the kernel (hal, acpi, etc). Thankfully, I keep good backups so I’ll just do a clean install of the system and restore my configurations from /etc. My desktop has always been my techie playground so the Ubuntu install I broke is a pretty big mess after years of tweaking system configurations.

I could use a Live CD and chroot into the system to complete the upgrade, but now that I’ve really messed up the system, I’d like to get a clean start. This time, however, I’ll be sure to allocate more space to the root partition. I’m looking forward hopefully to many years of service on a stable LTS release.