Apple's built-in contacts manager software for Mac OS X.
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How to sync iCloud contacts with Google?
I recently started using the Gmail app on my iOS devices because it has better search functionality than the native Mail app. However, that means that when I'm writing emails the app is using my Gmail ...
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How can I keep track of twitter usernames in Address Book?
I want to add twitter names to my contacts in Address Book. But I cannot find an obvious place to do so.
The best fit would be as instant messaging username, but twitter is not listed among the ...
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In Mail.app, how can I set a recipient's default email address?
When typing a recipient's name in the "To:" field, Mail.app will bring up an autocomplete menu showing all email addresses for that recipient (e.g., Home and Work). If I don't pay attention and just ...
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Can I sync Address Book to iCloud on Snow Leopard?
I've updated my iPhone to iOS 5, but my Mac(s) are still on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
Syncing Contacts to iCloud is enabled in iPhone settings. Now, I was wondering is it possible to make Address Book ...
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How can I create a Mac Address Book plug-in that also appears in Spotlight?
I've installed a great little app called PushDialer for my Mac that is letting my initiate iPhone calls to contacts remotely from my Mac.
It seems to work by installing an Address Book plug-in, so ...
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How can I leave Gmail for Mail?
I've decided I want to take the plunge and leave Gmail for Mail, using my iCloud account. Why? I've lost trust in Google (incl. their search bias, how they handle my privacy, and how they treat the ...
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How do I enter Dutch names in Address Book?
Dutch surnames are kind of weird, in that a lot of them start with small words such as
de/'t/het ("the"), van ("of"), van 't, van der ("of the"), etc. This makes them a pain to enter in most address ...
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Can I print envelopes/address labels from Address Book?
As Christmas approaches I'd like to send a letter to my friends and family. I currently have their contact information in Address Book. Is there a way to print envelopes with my contacts' mailing ...
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Associating skype contacts with address book
After installation of new Skype version for Mac, each time I search for a contact - it gives me few choices for one person:
the skype contact;
the contact from address book with phone number
Is ...
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Sync google apps (gmail) contacts directory with Mac address book
We use Gmail (Google Apps for business) at my work.
I have set up my Mac (OS X 10.7.5) address book to sync the local address book with my gmail account, however this only syncs "My Contacts" but all ...
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Say name of a caller on iPhone
Is there an app, or any other way, to make my iPhone 4 to say the name of the caller while ringing, just the same way we are used to on Nokia phones? Preferable without jailbreak or sophisticated ...
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What do the checkboxes that appear when editing the card for “Me” do?
When I edit my address card in OS X (10.7) Address Book, checkboxes appear next to all of the entries. What are these checkboxes for?
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How to share entire address book?
Only after setting up my girlfriend's and my own Lion user account to sync with iCloud did I discover that the address book still doesn't lend itself to sharing in the way that calendar does :-(
We ...
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How do I sync Gmail contacts with my iMac's address book and my iPhone?
I enable the sync with Google inside the preferences of address book on snow leopard but I don't know how to set the time between the syncing and how to force to update. I added a new contact to gmail ...
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Mail.app won't recognize a contact's name from my Address Book
I use Mac OS X Mail and have all of my work contacts in Address Book. When I receive email from one contact, the "From" field just displays his email address (as opposed to his first and last name) ...
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Where is Address Book in Mountain Lion?
After I upgrade to Mountain Lion from Snow Leopard, I can no longer find "Address Book" in the application but only "Contact".
The application "Contact" does not allow me to add or remove groupings ...
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Can OS X apps access my contacts even if I don't give them permission?
After I upgraded to Mountain Lion, I noticed that apps have started asking for permission to access my contacts. Very cool.
When Skype initially asked for permission to access my contacts, I decided ...
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How can you email an address book group to another Mac user?
If I have an OS X Address Book group of people I want to email periodic updates to, and I want to send that list to a second person who wants to email updates to this group as well, how can I do that?
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How can I bulk-edit Address Book, in particular to split the contents of First Name into First Name, Last Name?
Following a MobileMe import of a Windows XP AddressBook legacy, there are hundreds of entries in the Mac Address Book like this:
First: Harry Potter
Last:
First: Fred Flintstone
Last:
It appears ...
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Why does OS X Mail fail to recognize that an e-mail address belongs to an existing contact?
In OS X Mail, when I enter the name of a person to whom I have sent a previous e-mail, I'm often presented with a suggested e-mail address, corresponding (roughly) to the most recent frequently ...
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Using an Address Book custom label on a printing label
I have a custom label in my Address Book cards (to indicate the name I'd like to appear on a label, e.g. The Smith Family).
I'm on Lion (so that's Address Book version 6.1 on Mac OS X 10.7.2).
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What's the easiest way to get contact info from gmail into Mac's Address Book?
Do you know how mail.app makes it easy to add address info from an email sig into the Mac's Address Book?
Well, I don't use mail.app, but I'd like to find a similar way to do that with gmail.
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Is there a way to add all of the recipients of an email to a group/folder in contacts from Mail?
In mail, I'll get email to a list of about 50 people, all of whom need to be in my address book. Is there a way to add them all at once? I can tell it to add one at a time, but I can't seem to get it ...
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Last import in Address Book
A little history: I had a old Nokia 5310. Lost it. I had the contacts backed up in a .vcf file. So imported them to a old Sony Ericsson W700i. Used the W700i for sometime, added some more contacts.
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Can I restore Address Book's pre-Lion layout?
I've found Address Book's 2-panel layout in Lion extremely obnoxious because I must change modes to change groups, never remember what group I'm viewing, etc. Is there any way to restore the old ...
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Restore address book
I am running 10.7.2 and had my Address Book synced to the iCloud. I inadvertently deleted all of my contacts from my iPhone (synced with iCloud) and now my address book is empty.
I've attempted to ...
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Script to create iPhone Contacts
Does anyone know of a way to create a Contact list with a defined amount of contacts? They can be dummy entries, but I just need to create an address book with > 2000 entries. An Automator script is ...
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Where does Mac OS X store contacts in my Address Book?
Where does Mac OS X store contacts in my Address Book? Has this changed from Snow Leopard to Lion?
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How to restore the AddressBook database from backup
How do I transfer my address book files in the abcdp format to my new MacBook Pro with Mac OS X Lion?
The files are from a 2008 MacBook running Mac OS X 10.6; the hard drive crashed, and the ...
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How to Add Gmail Contact via iPhone
I have my Gmail account configured via Exchange on my iPhone 4S. When I add a new contact, it only adds it to my phone. I have to add separately to Gmail and then merge duplicates, which seems like ...
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How to export the contact photo in Mountain Lion?
I want to use the photo of a contact in the Address Book/Contacts in another app. What is the easiest way to export the contact photo in Mountain Lion to an image file? Dragging it out to the desktop ...
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iPod touch (iOS4) doesn't sync AddressBook after moving to iCloud
I moved from MobileMe to iCloud. So my iPod2gn blocked in iOS4 is not part of the sync anymore. Well, it's a technical and commercial shame, but well, ok, enough said.
I wanted to be able to have my ...
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Are deletions in Google contacts synchronized to and from the Address Book?
If I select the option to sync my Address Book to Google:
and I delete a contact on the Mac Address Book (or from my iPhone), is the contact automatically deleted in Gmail?
And what about vice ...
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Why is Spotlight listing some people from address book twice?
When searching Spotlight, certain Address Book contacts are listed twice. I have confirmed that I do not have two entries in Address Book for those individuals.
The problem is that one of the ...
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Can the default contact store for Mountain Lion be iCloud?
I'm struggling to manage duplicate contacts and would like to entirely and permanently disable the "On My Mac" category for contacts.
I never, ever want a contact to be added to a Mac and not be ...
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Creating a new iPhone contact from an email in a specific address book
I have two e-mail accounts on my iPhone 4, one of which is my "work" Exchange account, and I therefore have two sets of address books ("From My Mac" and "Work").
From an e-mail, and also from the ...
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Address Book App adds the letter “n” to my notes
The Address Book app adds the letter "n" to notes of contacts in most of my contacts. In the Notes field I randomly see the letter added in front of names, numbers etc.
I have off course tried to ...
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Can I use a different email/calendar/address book provider for Mac OS X and iOS?
I am afraid that the switch to iCloud will make life very complicated, particularly for Snow Leopard users like myself. I am also afraid that Apple will make life generally more complicated.
So I am ...
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Is there a way to change the order of previous recipients in Apple mail?
John Doe is someone I email often. John Dee is someone I emailed recently and will probably email again, but not nearly as often. I don't want to remove John Dee from my previous recipients, but I ...
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Address Book: Is there any way to move the fields up/down?
Is there any way to move the fields within Address Book up or down? I like to have order on my address book and it looks really bad when the phone number fields are all over the place.
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Group Contacts to Send Sms
Instead of specifying each number one by one, is there anyway I can specify a group when sending sms?
For your info, I am using the contacts synced from Gmail, not the iPhone's built-in address book.
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Can you make Contacts show the Twitter username (instead of the person's real name) when it autopopulates data from Twitter?
I had Contacts integrate data from my Twitter account. It worked, but when I look at someone's Twitter name in Contacts, it shows their real name, not their Twitter handle.
Above you can see my ...
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Mail.app doesn't detect address in address book
I have a Company name in my Address Book with an e-mail address assigned to it.
The name is Blast Corporation and I want to enter that into the "TO" field in Mail.
Even though Address Book clearly ...
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1answer
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How to prevent Mail.app to update address book on its own?
Now that the iCloud works (almost) flawlessly on both my MacBook Pro and iPhone I get annoyed by Mail.app on my Mac which seems to update contacts in my address book on its own, without my request or ...
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Making changes to a Smart Group's distribution list persistent
Is there a way to make changes to a Smart Group's distribution list persistent?
Problem Description
In Address Book, I right-click on a Smart Group and select "Edit Distribution List".
I then ...
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Sync multiple gmail contacts with Lion Address Book?
I understand that Address Book, even on Lion, doesn't support syncing multiple gmail contacts. Is there a third-party app that I can use for this purpose? I'm looking for an app that gives me a ...
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Set my default address for auto-fill?
Since updating to 10.7.2, the email addresses in my address book card seem to have re-prioritized themselves. Now when I use Auto-Fill, the wrong address pops up, and I don't see any way to change it.
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Problems with contacts in Mail
I have a problem with Mail and I don't know how it happened. I somehow accidentally added several names for one email address. Now these names are displayed randomly. This problem is driving me crazy. ...
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Mail autocomplete is different for search and compose
It annoys me that Mail “To” field autocomplete doesn't match that of the search bar.
When I start typing name of a person I've had conversation with in the search bar, I can see their full name along ...
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Can I manually connect my Facebook contacts to my AddressBook contacts?
I have the following:
Facebook friends
iPhoto faces
Address Book contacts
Faces and contacts are already linked. Some friends are also linked to the contacts. There is a problem with the friends ...
