Comments on: Dressing up Apple’s Address Book With Plugins

By: Ergolad

Ergolad — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:35:14 +0000

These are just a few of the *many* solutions out there that might meet your specific needs:

http://www.jonn8.com/dialectic/
http://www.sustworks.com/pa_guide/index.html
http://www.macronsoft.com/pages/en/abdialer.html

If you use Vonage, TapDex may be a solution: http://www.yellowmug.com/tapdex/

If you use Skype, installing it will add a right click solution to your address book.

Finally there were a few scripts written that seem to do what you need.

Google is your friend!

By: MK

MK — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:19:25 +0000

I use my Mac mainly for business. I find I go the the address book often to look up phone numbers for various contacts throughout the day. It would be nice to be able to simply dial that number straight from a pop-down menu option, hear the ring tone through the speakers, then pick up the connected phone once I hear the person on the other end pick up. You used to be able to do this through the MYOB address book decades ago – when we all had dial-up service! However, surely this could still be done through the small USB modem?

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:10:20 +0000

How about autocomplete entries? If I add a new contact from a company that’s already in my phonebook, the company name should autocomplete and be smart enough to ask if you want to use an existing address.

By: contact.amarks@gmail.com

contact.amarks@gmail.com — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:40:15 +0000

What about plug-in that added “delete” to a right-click drop-down menu!

By: @sdMatt

@sdMatt — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:27:54 +0000

I’d like to see a plugin that pulled in the latest status updates of my friends on Twitter and Facebook into my contact view.

A plugin that would search for social profiles based on email address and provide it for you would be nice as well.

By: BN

BN — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:03:31 +0000

By the way, I forgot to mention that your other scripts look fantastic and I can’t wait to try them out!

By: BN

BN — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:02:32 +0000

I too would LOVE a script that would allow me to highlight an address and phone number on a webpage in firefox (or safari, I suppose) and with right click get the option to add it to your address book. I keep expecting it to pop up in my right click menu with each OSX update, but no such luck! Please keep me updated!

By: Paul Travis

Paul Travis — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:31:32 +0000

Indeed, I did find some code snippets to modify AddressBook as described…

http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-64569.html

By: G. Zahl

G. Zahl — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:28:19 +0000

Paul, if you find something let me know. Apple’s address book is an incredibly weak and useless application. When I used Outlook I thought that it is really a sick piece of software, but Apple managed to fall even below that standard.
That’s why so many people build their own address database with just some normal features in an awful database named Filemaker, quite laboriously. There must be millions of those Filemaker database remains on all those Macs. The problem is that it takes forever to create a complete system that links a useful calendar (not made by Apple or MS), mail application (not made by Apple or MS), address database (not made by Apple or MS) with activities, projects, some basic math capabilities and a word processor (not made by Apple or MS).

By: Paul Travis

Paul Travis — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:33:09 +0000

I am amazed that nobody has mentioned a plug-in that would make batch changes to notes. For example, I send 73 friends an email about a motorcycle show and would like to make a note about that. Or I highlight 42 contacts and want to add “Sep. 15, 2009 — pinged about hockey next spring”. Call it “mini crm” — any suggestions?