Note to self: Enabling Mac OS X Leopard Address Book Sync with Google Mail

I don’t have an iPhone or iPod touch yet, but as a Mac + Gmail Junkie i craved for Address Book Sync with Gmail.

For those of us without a working iPod, paste the following into a text editor and save it as ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iPod.plist

{ Devices = { red-herring = { 'Family ID' = 10001; }; }; }

Alternatively, you could probably add a brand new fake device with any such id and only the necessary Family ID key inside and it wouldn’t mess with your real iPod’s settings.

Found it here. Best Practice for me is as follows:

1. Duplicate the com.apple.iPod.plist,
2. Replace the copy’s content with the code
3. Save the copy
4. Start iTunes (to recognize the fake iPod)
5. Start Address Book
6. Enable Sync
7. Replace the copy with the original

Promising

Yeah, this the really good shit: Google Contacts Data API

Someone write software… please?