Address Book
Address Book 4.1 under Mac OS X
Developed by	Apple Inc.
Latest release	4.1
OS	Mac OS X
Genre	Software Address Book
License	Proprietary
Website	Apple: Address Book

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Features

• Integration with Mail, iCal, iChat, Fax, Safari, iPhone (via iTunes).
• iSync compatibility to sync contacts to phones, PDAs, iPods, and other Macs
• Exports and imports cards to and from vCard 3.0 format.
• Imports cards from LDIF, tab-delimited, and comma-separated files
• C and Objective-C API to interface with other applications.
• AppleScript support for querying, adding, modifying, and removing people and groups
• Prints labels and envelopes, mailing lists, pocket address books
• Can configure page setup and paper size before printing
• One-click automatic lookup for duplicate entries
• Change of address notification
• Contact groups
• Smart groups based on Spotlight
• Lookup address on map online
• Auto-merge when importing vCards
• Customize fields and categories
• Automatic formatting of phone numbers
• Synchronizes with Microsoft Exchange Server
• Speech recognition searching
• Address Book used to integrate Bluetooth-enabled phones (displaying incoming and missed calls, displaying incoming text messages, lets you send text messages using the phone, etc.) but these features have been entirely disabled in Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard).
• Capability to query an LDAP database containing person information
• Plugin interface allowing third-party developers to add functionality to the program
• Address Book Dashboard Widget

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Description

The Address book Dashboard Widget.

Address Book has two viewing modes: View Card and Column, and View Card Only. The user can switch between modes with a control in the upper-left portion of the window under the close box. Image File history File links Address_Book_widget. ... Image File history File links Address_Book_widget. ... Dashboard is an application for Apples Mac OS X v10. ...

In View Card and Column, the Address Book window is divided into three panes. The first pane has the title Group. This pane lists All, Directories, and each user-made group. Users can add new groups by pulling the File menu down to New Group, or typing Command-Shift-N.

When selecting All or a user-made group, the second column has the title Name. It lists the names of the people with cards in that group, or all the names if the selected group is All, in alphabetical order by first or last name, depending on user preference.

The third pane has the card corresponding to the selected name. The card can include information, some of which the user can classify into customizable categories like Home and Work. Many of the fields can have duplicate entries, for example, if the person the card describes has several email addresses. The user can edit the fields by pressing the edit button below the bottom-left of the third pane. Default fields include:

• Picture
• Name pronunciation
• First name
• Last name
• Job title
• Company
• Phone number
• Email address
• Home page
• Birthday
• Instant messaging username
  • AIM
  • ICQ
  • Jabber
  • MSN
  • Yahoo
• Address
• Related Names
• Note

Address Book can search LDAP directories. Users customize these in the LDAP tab of the preferences. Users search these by selecting Directories in the first pane, selecting a directory or All in the second pane, and typing their search in the search box above the top-left of the third pane. Results appear in the third pane. AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) is a free, advertisement-supported proprietary instant messaging and presence computer program which uses the OSCAR instant messaging protocol and the TOC protocol. ... ICQ is an instant messaging computer program, which was first developed by the Israeli company Mirabilis, now owned by Time Warners AOL subsidiary. ... Official logo of the Jabber Software Foundation Jabber is a collection of open, real-time communication technologies built on the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). ... MSN Messenger in Windows 9x Operating Systems. ... Categories: Computer stubs | Mac OS instant messengers | Windows instant messengers | Yahoo! ...

Integration with other Mac OS X applications

• Address Book stores previous recipient addresses used by Mail
• URLs in Address Book cards appear in Safari's Address Book bookmarks
• Buddies in iChat can be associated with Address Book cards
• Birthdays saved in Address Book appear in iCal if enabled

Criticism

Address book 4.1, included in Leopard has received much criticism for the removal of the bluetooth SMS and call features.

External links

• Portable Address Book - Allows you to open Address Book as portable application from external drive.
• Addza Address Book: An exact Mac OS X address book clone for Microsoft Windows
• Html Dump Adress Book - Exports the Address Book to HTML (for example, to print a pocket phone book)