Gwabbit is one of those applications that people rave about. Gavin May, one of the top directors at accounting firm Sage, introduced me to the product last year at the EMEA BlackBerry Alliance Summit (see my Mobile Developer TV video interview with Gavin ). He simply adored the product. I thus thought I’d better give it a look. Indeed this week having got my new BlackBerry 9700, I decided to christen it with a few premium applications. Gwabbit was my first install. Now I did give some thought to deploying the free version (which annoyingly emails folk to say you’ve added them as a contact) then I thought, ‘screw it’, and I blew a whopping £7.95 on Gwabbit Premium. It simply sits in the background until you receive an email. If the recipient is not already in your address book, Gwabbit looks to see if they’ve got a contact footer at the bottom of their email.
If there’s a footer, then Gwabbit processes it and asks if you’d like to add the recipient to your address book. It then pops up an address book entry screen with all the information magically completed already. Sometimes I review the contact data and change the phone numbers to international format. But usually I just press save. Genius. Really, really quick and definitely worth the money.
Do check it out. It’s only on BlackBerry — but there’s also an Outlook Plug-In that you might enjoy.
(BlackBerry AppWorld, £7.95)
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