Using Automator to make a new contact in Address Book

Hello.
I would love to create a service that allows me to, for example, highlight text in Safari, the choose a service that would create a new contact in Address Book based on that text.
Anyone know how to do this?
Thanks.

this can possibly work but could be tricky to do.
an address can have several lines for street address, several phone numbers and you'd have to figure out how to parse all the information correctly and also get rid of any extraneous stuff that may be selected along with the address. i confess I don't know quite how to do it. It might be possible though. snow leopard does have address recognition built in so it does it somehow.
try asking in the AppleScript forum under OS X technologies.

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I hope you are doing this over wifi, if you are not then you may have exceeded your monthly data limit, but I doubt that's the problem. All I can say is that Address Book will be getting refurbished soon, and according to Apple, it will be far more simple to transfer data between iOS and Macs.

Transfering new contacts to address book in my Macbook Pro

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sorry where do I find the sync history to reset in itunes?
so if i understand you if i have only 100 contacts on my laptop and 500 on my itouch and i sync the two those 500 will go over to the laptop from the touch with no special resetting or instructions other than hitting the sync button.
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Welcome to the Apple community.
First check that all your settings are correct, that contact syncing is checked on all devices (system preferences > iCloud on a mac and settings > iCloud on a iPhone, iPad or iPod).
Make sure the contacts you are adding are added to your 'iCloud' group and not an 'On My Mac', 'On My Phone' or other non iCloud group (you can do this by checking in groups), non iCloud contacts will not sync.
If you are sure that everything is set up correctly and your contacts are in the iCloud group, you might try unchecking contact syncing in the iCloud settings, restarting your device and then re-enabling contact syncing.

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The symptoms suggest your Address Book is corrupted.
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Have you tried adding a contact from the file menu?
hpr3

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Go to Solution.

You have recently upgraded either your AIM, MSN/Live, Gtalk or Yahoo Messenger.
Remove the app you upgraded and your address book will be fine.
There's a glitch in the upgrade of which I understand RIM is aware of and working to fix.
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When adding a new contact in address book, I want the default for display to be last, first. How can I make that the default?

I want names displayed in my address books in a formal manner:
Jones, Fred
Nixon, Jay
Smith, Gertrude
and I would prefer that display be created in that manner when I enter first and last names.
Thanks
Del

Open the Address Book
Select '''View-Show Name As-Last, First'''

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Smart folders aren't real folders, just sort of Aliases that contain certain criteria in th whole thing.
Like you could make a Smart folder that containd names that had b in the name, that fake folder when clicked on would look like it cantain those that have b in the name, but just really points to only those.
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Huh, well I just poked around in Address Book (on the Mac) for a while, and it (then) became convinced that it was time for a save. So I did (File->Save) And then the synch found the rest. So odd, though. I know that one of the contacts missing was the first one I entered! Between this and very funky behavior after importing vCard files from google (which was so bad I had to wipe the whole thing out), I can't say I'm so impressed with Address Book.

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