Address Book: Other types of IM

I know GoogleTalk chat is Jabber based so I keep it under there, but is there any way to add other types of IM services to store in the Address Book? GoogleTalk, MySpace IM, Xfire, etc...
I use Adium X and their Address Book utility so Screennames stored in Address Book are consolidated on my chat list in Adium, which is quite convenient, but when there's no service listing in Address Book, I'm not quite sure what to do.

Unfortunately I've received no replies Anyone out there have any ideas?

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Create a Contact on an address book other than the default one

Hello everyone,
I am using a professional address book and calendar on exchange provided by my company. I am also using my iCloud account to manage my personal address book and calendar. I have set up my iphone 4S to display both address book and calendar, this works well, same for the sync mechanism.
When I create an event on my iPhone using the standard calendar app, I can simply indicate whether it is a personal or professional event.
When I create a contact using the standard contact app, there is no way to indicate wheter it's personnal or professional. The contact is created on the default address book that I setup in the settings. The only way I found is to hide all categories except the personal one and then create the contact. It is then created not on the default address book but on the only one displayed. It is rather awkward and that does not solve all problems : I have some contacts already created by mistake on my professional address book that I want to move to the personnal one. I found absolutely no way of doing that. The same thing for calendar events is straightforward: open the event for modification, simple toogle the appropriate field from Pro to Personal and you're done.
Does anyone have a hint for this ?
Thanks,
Cyril

Hi sumella, <br>
I think you should try an Add-on like one of these:
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[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/tab-mix-plus/ Tab Mix Plus]
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[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-button-on-tab-bar/ New Tab Button on tab bar]

Address book "other" on .mac

after long time, my newly .mac account (opened to be able to sync two computers with the same info) decided to show my address book contact.
only, it does not show any fields apart from the standard ones. in particular, any phone number in the "other" field is nowhere to be found.
any way to configure it?
any help?
should i get rid of .mac and look for other solutions...?

There is no provision to display information in data fields labeled 'other'—or with custom labels—in your Address Book, on the address book pages of .Mac itself. This information is synchronized through .Mac to other copies of the Address Book on Macintosh desktop and portable computers, but not displayed.
This is a server-side design issue, and the only workaround is to use the labels 'home' and 'work' in the Address Book.

Is it possible to subscribe to dates in Address Book other than birthdays?

iCal can subscribe to birthdays that have been entered into Address Book. Is it possible to have iCal pick up other dates that have been included in Address Book entries (anniversary, etc)?
Steve

Hi Steve,
I wrote an application that would enable you do this. Take a look at Dates to iCal. It is £4 shareware with a 3 week demo.
As well as automatically syncing birthday dates from Address Book, Dates to iCal can sync anniversary and custom dates. It can set up to five alarms for each date in iCal and can also set different alarms for birthdays and anniversaries. It allows the option of only syncing from one Address Book group. It application also allows for the titles of the events sent to iCal to be modified.
Best wishes
John M
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Address Book 'large type' function stopped.

It might be because I loaded Tiger, but now that very useful function that makes the tel no large on screen, no longer works. Can anyone help?

Hmmm, reboot to the Restore Partition holding CMD+r at bootup, try using Disk Utility to repair the drive... does it report any errors?

Can any other email programs use OSX Address Book?

I'm contemplating moving to another email application. Am rapidly heading towards critical mass on things driving me nuts about mail.
Do any other email programs let you use OSX's address book?
OR
Do any other email programs let you sync their address book/contacts with a mobile phone?
I really don't want to have to keep two separate lists of contacts up to date.
PowerBookG4 Mac OS X (10.4.6) Nokia 6670 mobile phone

I recommend Gyazmail out of the mentioned alternatives that can use the OS X Address Book. I've tried and tried to like Mail, and it definitely has some pluses with the add-ons but it just doesn't cut it in the end. Maybe one day Apple will read people's recommendations for Mail and actually implement them.
best features of Gyazmail:
- outgoing rules
- uses SpamSieve
- uses the OS X address book
Other Niceities:
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- has almost never crashed on me in years
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I tried to sync Contacts of my Google account into the address book. I follow the steps after clicking the preferences in Address book and type the google account and password info correctly. I hit the circle icon on the top right menu bar and pull down to select Sync Now. But nothing appears on the Address book while I could trial sync the contacts to an empty google account. It seems it is not a synchonization but one-way data transfer. I read some thread in this community and most of people find this similiar problem.
Apple Support, what could we do?????????

On October 18, 2007—with less than 24 hours notice for most users—Apple announced that .Mac synchronization services would change substantially to accommodate Panther users. Here is the text of that notice, which many users apparently did not receive:
"Dear .Mac member:
Due to improvements being made to .Mac Sync on October 19, 2007, please note the following changes.
Mac OS X version 10.4 Tiger users:
To ensure uninterrupted service, you must be using Mac OS X version 10.4.10. To check which version you’re running, select About This Mac in the Apple menu. If you are not running version 10.4.10, click the Software Update button and install the update to 10.4.10.
Mac OS X version 10.3 Panther users:
To accommodate new enhancements, .Mac Sync will no longer support syncing of calendars between a Panther-based Mac and a Mac running Tiger or Leopard. Syncing calendars between Mac computers running Panther is unaffected.
These changes will help enable .Mac Sync to do more than ever. Thank you for your patience, and thank you for being a .Mac member.
That was ten days ago, and .Mac synchronization services are still undergoing 'maintenance.' There is not announced date by which stable, familiar service will be restored.
You can check the main page of .Mac to determine when the amber LED labeled Sync returns to green, or survey the this forum for information about service restoration. You'll see a previously updated status note at the top of the forum change when service is restored.

How To Change Order of Email Addresses in Address Book / groups / Mail?

Many records in my address book have multiple email addresses.
No big deal but I wonder if there is a way to tell Address Book / Mail which address to pick as the default.
For example I send a litttle news email one a week to a group of contacts. I want to send this email to people's personal -- not business -- email address. I've created a group in Address Book and type that group name in my Mail to line and the group pops up. But a few of the records pick the corporate address and I have to go in and change those addresses.
I just tried editing one record ... I deleted both "work" and "home" addresses from a record. Then reentered them "home" first, "work" second. But when I closed the edit Address Book listed them in the original order (maybe alpha).
Any ideas?
Thanks

jayessemm wrote:
I wonder if there is a way to tell Address Book / Mail which address to pick as the default.
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PM Address Book

Does anyone know the secret to adding names to PM Address Book?
I select Address Book and type in screen name. When name appears on dropdown list I click on it and list dissappears but nothing added to list.
If I click on the Add Contact button it opens simlar screen and go though same process but no contacts are added.
What am I missing?

I had some issues as well with this, but if I used the pop-up to find/select the users, it worked for me.
To do this, click the Select link, and after a few seconds you'll see a little fake-modal dialog which you can search through.

Apple Address Book Won't Open

On my iMac G5, my Apple Address Book won't open. It has been working perfectly and I've never had a problem since buying the computer about a year ago. Though the name appears on the top menu bar and the triangle shows beneath the Address Book icon on the Dock, nothing appears on the screen. I ran the Disk Utility Repair Permissions, but aht didn't correct it. I've rebooted and that didn't solve the issue either. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Verify/repair your disk first (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
I don't know how to troubleshoot Address Book, other than replacing its data with a backup copy if you have one, or just getting rid of that data. Address Book stores the preferences in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist, and everything else in the ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook folder.
You may try moving those files out of there, to the Desktop. You may try removing just the com.apple.AddressBook.plist preferences file (so that Address Book re-creates it again), for example, or removing just AddressBook.data and renaming AddressBook.data.previous to AddressBook.data. Whatever you do, make a backup copy of those files first, just in case.
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Pages and Address book Merge

Hi
I have a simple pages doc with basic merge fields for contact and address details. It all works fine when dragging and dropping address cards from address book when those details are located "on my mac" however the merge fields don't recognise the info when I drag and drop a card from a contact stored in either my hosted exchange address book or my shared cardDAV address book.
When I drag a card from a contact to my pages doc the information reverts back to the merge codes if that contact is being dragged from an address book other than the one located on my mac.
Can anyone shed any light on if this is possible?
Thanks

According to Apple:
http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/features/addressbook-server.html
This is all supposed to just work.
If you find that it isn't:
+Menu > Pages > Provide Pages Feedback+
Also as Snow Leopard is a recent install you are entitled to Apple's support. Contact them and see what they can offer.
I don't know what country you are in but search for the local phone number starting here:
http://www.apple.com/support/contact/
I highly recommend getting AppleCare with your computer as this also offers software support for 3 years and in my experience has been well worth the money.
Peter

Address Book & iPad

Since upgrading to Lion, I have been having problems with my address book.
There are loads of duplicate cards (some of which contain no, or very little information - e.g the name only)
Secondly, and this is worse, on my iPad, I receive emails that purport to come from someone from my Address Book other than the person that sent it. This is a nuisance.
It doesn't appear to be happening on my iPhone.
Any ideas, anyone?

It is the address book that has messed up.
I limited the problem on the iMac by going into System Prefs/ MobileMe / Sync / Advanced / Advanced /Reset Sync Data to copy the iMac's version of address book (relatively glitch free) to MM
Then restored the iPad
Quite a few duplicates and mess ups though - something to do with the links?

HT2486 how to delet contacts from address book

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