How to Transfer Contacts From Computer (Outlook or Any Other) to iPhone

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm Rokosz, "Your Digital Lifestyle Expert." You want to get your contacts from your computer onto your Iphone. Well I'm going to show you how it's done. It's very important to understand that there's kind of a mish mosh. Your best way to do it by far, is to be part of what's now Mobile Me, used to be Dot Mac, and in which case, all the information sort of syncs to a beautiful cloud in space. No seriously, what happens is that it keeps the Iphone, your computer and your place in cyberspace, your Dot Me or Mobile Me, all in synchronization automatically. Meaning, you had a contact in your Iphone, it appears in your computer, without syncing, and it appears online. So if both of them fall into the ocean for some unknown reason, you go to your place in cyberspace, your web address there at your Dot Me account, and all of it's backed up. It's also an incredible way, just like I mentioned, to make sure that none of it disappears. Now, if you're using Entourage or something like that into your computer, it's simple. The biggest thing that you want to do is that any contact managing program inside computer, make sure you tell it to deal with Contacts. Contacts is the name of the program inside of your computer. Okay? When you set it up, one of the very first setup questions is how do you want to deal with Contacts? Send to Contacts. Don't try to keep into an Entourage or a Bento or a program like that; everything that deals inside of it should go to Entourage, should go to Contacts, rather. Once that happens, it's just as simple as this. Here we are, and Chris Iphone, and then we're up here to Info, and then Info Mobile Me, which we just discussed, and Contacts. Sync address books and contacts, sync all contacts, or just your selected groups. Now you have some sub-configurations; I'd sync Yahoo! address book contacts. I have a Yahoo! account also, so I make sure that those contacts go onto my Iphone, and put new contacts, if I create them in the Iphone, into a group called Experts. That's very handy because when I'm really on the go, nine out of ten times, I want to know. It's a very special occasion when I'm entering somebody's information when we're face to face, so I like to segregate it into a group. It's still mixed in with the Master Experts list. So once you choose your selections, hit Apply and that migrates it over. Where the first time it's putting all new contacts in, or you just want to make some changes. I'm Rokosz, "Your Digital Lifestyle Expert" saying stream you later!"