Smartr contacts also adds a photo to every person. It also integrates with popular social networks Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, so you can see what your contacts are up to. You can also run searches in the app to find people based on their name, company or phone number. This makes it easy to find a specific person.

I think the coolest feature of this app is the way it ranks contacts by importance. It puts the people you talk to more at the top, making them quicker to find and access. It also lets you know which people in your life you really talk to the most. Another cool feature is that it keeps your contacts in the cloud, so if you lose your phone you are protected.

Features

• Automatically populate contact lists.
• Keeps track of contacts you communicate with the most.
• Integrates with social networks.
• Stores contacts in the cloud for security.
• One click access to SMS, email and calling.
• Similar tools:  TouchPal Dialer and PrankDial.

Find Smartr Contacts on the iTunes App Store

You can find people by name, location, company, job function or a combination right inside Gmail or Google search (you’ll see a Monkey Contact icon that you can use). It doesn’t matter on which network that contact is, it’ll find it. It works as a browser extension for Chrome, Safari and Firefox.

The tool scours through your browser data and your data on various sites to unearth those contacts with ease.

Features

• Find your contacts from anywhere right in Gmail and Google search.
• Add-on for Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

Check out MonkeyContact @ www.monkeycontact.com (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

eGroovy Contacts is a free to use web service that lets you create an online address book. Contacts are added to your address book via ‘cards’.  All users on the site, including yourself, get a virtual card that has your contact information on them. Your address book is a collection of your contacts’ cards. When you invite them to use the web service, all they have to do is update their card when they change their information; the address book of anybody who has added them as a contact will then be updated.

Contacts can be added manually or you can simply import them from your Google or Hotmail accounts. Imported information can be edited anytime.

Demo video:

Feature:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you create an online address book.
• You can import contacts from Hotmail and Gmail.
• Automatically updates your address book when a contact changes his/her information.

Check out eGroovyContacts @ www.egroovycontacts.com (by MOin from Thumb Press)

The app not only allows you to edit multiple entries at the same time, but also allows you to send text messages or emails to a group in one go. You may also wish to add specific contacts into a group, such as all your friends in a “Friends Group” and your “Work Friends” in another.

All a user has to do is select the multiple entries they wish to edit and click the “Edit” button found at the bottom of the screen. Any change made then will affect all of the entries selected.

Furthermore, to send text messages to a group, just select the contacts and click the “options” button, which will allow you to send SMS to a group of people.

Update: The app is no longer free. It costs $0.99 now.

Features

• Free app.
• Works only on iOS 4.3 or later.
• Allows multiple entries  can be edited / deleted.
• Group messaging, email capabilities through app.

Check out Multi Edit @ http://itunes.apple.com/il/app/multi-edit/id476148613?mt=8 (By Hammad from TechnicallyDigital)

TouchPal Dialer is a free to use application for Android devices. The app is sized at 1.8 MB and requires your device to have Android version 1.5 or later. When the app is installed, it helps you reach your contacts faster. With the app you can simply enter the digits without re-pressing them; the app then computes the letter permutations itself and displays the contacts to you.

Other features of the app include automatic area code adding when you are travelling internationally. It can also detect the area code of incoming calls and display the location/city of the call.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Helps you find contacts faster.
• Adds area codes automatically while roaming internationally.
• Detects area codes of incoming calls.
• Similar tool: PrankDial.

Check out TouchPal Dialer @ market.android.com/details?id=com.cootek.smartdialer (via Tech Crunch) (by MOin from Thumb Press)

You can label a contact as family, friend, co-worker or create a completely new label. You can add multiple notes about that person so they are visible any time you are sending or receiving email from them, and you can also add notes about a particular thread of conversation.

MailSlayer also lets you create HTML rich snippets that you can use as templates to send out emails quickly. You can turn any of these features on or off from a little drop down on the top right corner.

• Assign labels to contacts and add notes about them.
• Add and see notes about particular conversations.
• Create email snippets with rich HTML.

Get MailSlayer from http://www.mailslayer.com

You can create as many groups as you want, and then export these groups to Facebook, your email client, or even your smartphone including iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Windows Mobile. You can also export contacts as an Excel or vCard file. Neiio can be very useful if you want to synchronize the contacts between various web services or simply clean your address books.

Features:

• Import and organize contacts from major web services.
• Arrange contacts into groups
• Export contacts to your email client, social network or smart phone.

Visit Neiio @ www.neiioapp.com [Via AddictiveTips]

Once you have contacts, you can star them and Flup will remind you when it is time to follow up with them. You can also sync your Flup account with your Google contacts and calendar. Anytime you add a new contact to Flup it will show up in your Google contacts list and all the follow ups you mark on your Flup account will also pop up on your Google calendar.

Features:

• Add and manage contacts easily.
• Put reminders to follow up with your contacts.
• Syncs with Google contacts and calendar.

Visit Flup @ http://flup.com

LookMobileOnNet lets you install an Android application and then connect your Facebook account with it. You can then visit the LookMobileOnNet website through a computer browser and connect with it through your Facebook account. Through the online account you will be able to view the phone call information, text messages, and contact information on your Android phone.

Features:

• Remotely access your android phone.
• Compatible with Android 2.2 and later.
• Lets you remotely access your phone’s call information, messages, and contact information.
• Similar tools: LazyDroid, Wifi Photo Transfer, Android Screencast, and Webkey.

Check out LookMobileOnNet @ www.lookmobileon.net/login.html (By Umar from TechCityInc)

FX Contacts is a free to use desktop application that is based on Adobe AIR thus compatible with multiple operating systems. The app lets you save new contacts by entering their full name, phone number, address, email address, and date of birth. You can easily search for contacts using any part of their name; the results are refreshed as you type. Saved contacts can be edited and deleted any time.

Although FX Contacts lacks many of the features offered by its rivals such as importing and exporting contacts, the app will be the ideal choice for computer novices looking for a super-simple contact-saving tool.

Features:

• A user-friendly desktop app.
• Based on Adobe AIR.
• Cross-platform.
• Lets you save contacts.
• Includes name, phone, email, address, and date of birth for each contact.
• Similar tools: Scrubly, Gist, AddressBookOnline, Flexadex and BigContacts.
• Also read related articles:
  How To Remove Duplicate Contacts on Windows Mobile
  5 Great Tips To Manage Your Google (& Android) Contacts

Check out FX Contacts @ www.riafxzone.com/2010/05/10/fxcontacts (By Umar from TechCityInc)