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RIM Places Contacts Cleaner on Best Blackberry App List

mrath — Wed, 05 May 2010 01:22:55 +0000

Alongside of nationally known brands like CBS and The Sierra Club, our Contacts Cleaner App was chosen by RIM as a top 9 Best Blackberry App. RIM is the company behind the award-winning Blackberry smartphone. Two weeks ago, they created this list of the top Blackberry App picks that people will enjoy while they are experiencing spring fever. This is a cute theme and it could be that Blackberry wants to target the audience that seeks fun from their smartphones.

Berry Review summarized this top 9 list beautifully and it’s a huge honor that in their opening paragraph, the author states, “I have to wholeheartedly agree with their choice of Contacts Cleaner.” The article highlights how RIM often puts together lists of the best Apps for a season. By using the theme of the spring season, Contacts Cleaner is a great choice for “spring cleaning”.

It’s been an exciting few months with our iPhone App making the list of best iPhone Apps just last month. Sharing that list with the likes of Digg and Bing really put that App on the map! Now, we have another reason to celebrate!

Contacts Cleaner V2.0

martykube — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:05:15 +0000

We are pleased to announce the release of version 2.0 of Contacts Cleaner. The two major improvements made in this version are faster processing of the address book and improved matching of duplicate contacts.

Since releasing Contacts Cleaner I have been surprised by the number of address books that have 10,000 or more contacts in them, often with the majority of the contacts being duplicates. It has been a challenge to find and merge duplicates in a reasonable amount of time given the modest processing power of a phone. I’m on the 4th version of the find and merge algorithm, and this version seems to be pretty darn good. The customer feedback on processing speed for version 2.0 has been overwhelmingly positive.

With respect to duplicate matching, one constant source of duplicates is Google Sync. To make matters worse, Google Sync tend to put the first and last name in the last name field of a contact. With version 2.0, we have changed the duplicate match algorithm to correctly recognize these cases of duplicates.

Enjoy!

Contacts Cleaner Support Page

martykube — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:33:33 +0000

If you are having issues with Contacts Cleaner, or just want to know more about how it works, please visit our users guide at:

http://beavercreekconsulting.com/contacts-cleaner/user-guide.html

We recently made several updates to the FAQ and you will find answers for the most common questions.

Contacts Cleaner Matching Algorithm

martykube — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:44:38 +0000

One of the key ingredients of Contacts Cleaner is identification of duplicate contacts. We have put a lot of effort into the algorithm, and concluded that less is more.

Most folks love Contacts Cleaner. There are a lot of really messed up address books out there. I heard from a customer today who had 13,000 contacts, of which 10,000 were duplicates. Bummer Dude! This person needs a simple solution which will fix the mess that is their address book. Contacts Cleaner to the rescue!

We have settled on a lights out, robust, and repeatable algorithm that will tame the chaos which is your address book. Contacts Cleaner “just works”. It will make you address book better without bothering you. Contacts Cleaner is not perfect, but it is better!

Contacts Cleaner FAQ

martykube — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:51:20 +0000

I just updated the FAQ for Contacts Cleaner. I went back through the customer support tickets and extracted common issues to create the new FAQ entries. If you are having issues with Contacts Cleaner, do check out the FAQ. Chances are good you’ll find an answer.

Contacts Cleaner 1.0

martykube — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:52:53 +0000

Beaver Creek Consulting is pleased to announce the release of their new product, Contacts Cleaner. Contacts Cleaner is a BlackBerry App that removes duplicate contacts from your address book. Contacts Cleaner is available from BlackBerry App World, as well as popular BlackBerry sites such as CrackBerry and BBGeeks.