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Add to Existing Contact from Mail.app to Contacts.app
I am looking for an option to add the choice "Add to Existing Contact" from the Apple Mail.app From address field. As you all know, we have "Copy Address, Add to VIPs, New Email, Add to Contacts, and ...
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where are the pictures of the skype contacts saved (see if someone is invisible)
i just thought you could see if someone is invisible in skype, if you just delete (reset) his profile picture. Because i know if you install skype on a new device the profile pictures are saved only ...
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How can I sort by phone number type or length in Contacts in OS X?
I use Contacts on my work Mac to manage my phone numbers. I want the internal phone extension to display first. This is currently stored as one of three "work" phone numbers for most of my contacts.
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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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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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Link Contacts between Facebook and iCloud
I have iOS6 and OSX 10.8. Both bring Facebook integration. It was smart enough for some of my contacts to merge (or "link") them. However for some on my iPhone I manually edited the contact card and ...
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Is there a way to see which contacts are “VIPs” outside of Mail.app?
Obviously, with Mountain Lion, users may define VIPs in Apple’s Mail.app. I would like to see which contacts are marked as VIPs outside of Mail – for example in Contacts.app (smart list??), or in ...
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OS X Contacts (Mountain Lion) with CardDav - “CoreDAVHTTPStatusErrorDomain error 500”
I've recently setup a CardDav account with a hosted Atmail Cloud account. It works perfectly on iOS, and seems to pull in some of the contacts, however every time Contacts re-syncs I am getting the ...
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How do you correct when Facebook picks the wrong contact?
I have Contact cards for my father- and brother-in-law, let's call them John Smith and Johnny Smith (he's a Junior). My father-in-law doesn't use Facebook, but my brother-in-law does, and since he ...
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Why is my “Synchronize with Google” option grayed out in Mountain Lion Contacts?
I have been syncing Mac OS contacts (Address Book) with Google for a long time. For some reason, though, that option is now grayed out in Contacts preferences.
Why? How do I get it back?
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Sync Google Contacts in Mountain Lion
I am having trouble with keeping my Contacts sync'd with my Google Apps account. In "Mail, Contacts & Calendars" there is no Contacts option:
In the contacts program, I did get it to sync by ...
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How to change the contact photo in mountain lion?
I have iPhoto library in which all my photos exist. I want to pick a photo from iPhoto library and apply it to a contact. But I don't find any such option in new Contacts app (picking a photo form ...
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What is the recommended way to flag a contact as being deceased in the Contacts app on Lion or Mountain Lion?
Death is a sad fact of life and over the years some of my old contacts have died. I still wish to keep a record of their details, birthday, day they died, notes, spouse, kids etc in my Contacts and ...
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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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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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Manually Add Twitter Account in Contacts.app in Mountain Lion
With Mountain Lion providing integration it is possible to have a contact's twitter username listed as a part of the contact. I don't see any way to manually do this before an account has already been ...
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As of Mountain Lion, Google Chrome has asked for permission to view my contacts. Does this mean that it has likely had unrestricted access before?
I'm not sure why Chrome wants this access, but since prior to Mountain Lion there wasn't a prompt for this, it makes me think that it must have been looking at them this whole time. Right?
