Another bolt of lightning from the blue

In an amazingly short period of time, i’ve found solutions to two of my major computer multi-user headaches. The first was a photo management tool, which ended up being Picasa (you can read about that here), and now a solution to my shared contacts issues. Frustratingly, this “solution” i kind of looked at before, but thought there was a required server component. Not so. There is a plugin for Thunderbird called synckolab. It uses imap folders to store, and share, your data. If you have the ability to create shared imap folders, you can then share not only contact info, but if you are using the lightning plugin, you can also share calendars and tasks. I’m just working on integrating this info now, but this is a huge win.