Address Book 6.0 under Mac OS X 10.7 Lion |
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| Developer(s) | Apple Inc. |
| Stable release | 6.1 (1062) / October 12, 2011 |
| Operating system | Mac OS X |
| Size | 55.3 MB |
| Type | Software Address Book |
| License | Proprietary |
Address Book is an address book for Apple's Mac OS X. It features various syncing features and integrates into the rest of the OS.
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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.
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:
Address Book can search LDAP (network) 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.
Your computer must be connected to a network on which the directories reside. If you’ve changed locations or lost your network connection, Address Book can’t look up contacts in directories on the network. If your computer is set up to access directory services on your network, Address Book automatically searches the directory services for addresses.
You can also set up Address Book to search Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) servers for addresses. LDAP is an Internet protocol used for looking up contact information on servers.
Information from network directories appears only when you’re searching. To search a network directory, select Directories in the Group column and a directory in the Directory column, and then type text in the search field. To add someone from the network directory to your personal address book, drag the card from the directory to All in the Group column.
For instructions about setting up your computer to access directory services on your network, open Directory Utility and choose Help > Directory Utility Help.