Export contacts from Yahoo! & Hotmail to Outlook 2007

I also have this need, but have not found a perfect solution yet. Here is my semi-painful solution:

First I registered at Backupify, they generate a backup of my Facebook data once in a while.
And here is what I do when I want to sync from Facebook to my address book:

1. In the Backupify, open the `***_MetaData` file, where *** is your Facebook name.
2. In each line of this file, retrieve facebook id, name, birthday, current location.

I actually wrote a trivial script that filters out the friends whose facebook id is not already in my address book, to produce an HTML list of links to the missing friends' Facebook info pages, from where I can copy-paste.

Getting the phone numbers automatically would probably require screen-scraping, which I don't do.

I have given up on:

• Full automation.
• Synchronization of contacts that I have already in my address book.

But I would be glad if someone came with a better solution.

Yahoo - @Mehper has it right about Yahoo - left-clicking will open the mail in a new tab. Just click back over to the Inbox tab to see the full list again. This gives you tab functionality, just not at the browser level.

An alternative to doing this is to change your "mail options" to show the email preview pane in your inbox view. To see this you can go to the top left (next to your profile avatar) and select:

Options > Mail Options > In a scrolling list (show preview pane) (under behavior)

This will allow you to open email at the bottom with the inbox on the top (no there is no way to make the split vertical)

Outlook - I don't know how to do this in Outlook.

Gmail - For Gmail, you can try using basic HTML view if you want the middle-click functionality: https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html&zy=h

This is a basic view that allows you to middle click to open email in new tabs.

For more about this go to this link: http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=15049

NOTE: The basic HTML view is a little different from what you're used to because the following features aren't available:

• Chat
• Spell checker
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Ability to manage filters
• Adding, editing, importing, or deleting contacts
• Custom 'From:' addresses
• Rich formatting