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*APPLE/GOOGLE ‘CONTACTS SYNC’*
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-‘contacts’ is a ‘computerized address book’ included with the [apple operating systems iOS, iPadOS and macOS, previously ‘Mac OS X’ + ‘OS X’]-
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It includes various cloud synchronization capabilities and integrates with other Apple applications and features, including…
iMessage,
FaceTime
and the iCloud service
(and previously its predecessor MobileMe)
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History
An application known as Address Book was included with Mac OS X from its release in 2001 and in preceding beta versions.[1]
Address Book was rewritten for Mac OS X Jaguar (2002) and as of 2020 has remained in roughly the same form ever since.[2][1]
The iPhone also included contacts storage from its release,[3][4] which starting from iPhone OS 2 (2008) was also broken out into a standalone application.[5]
In 2010, the iPad with iOS 3.2 introduced a new two-pane contacts app, featuring the skeuomorphic design style popular with Apple around this time under the leadership of Scott Forstall.[6][7][8][9]
OS X Lion (2011) featured a redesigned Address Book application in the style of the iPad Contacts app, also in a two-pane design.[10] In 2012 with OS X Mountain Lion it returned to a three-pane design and changed names to match iOS.[11]
The following year, both versions of Contacts switched with their parent operating systems to a more flat design style, a change attributed to Forstall’s departure from Apple in the autumn of 2012.[12][9]
In 2013 iOS Contacts switched to the new UI along with the whole of iOS 7, while with OS X Mavericks the skeumorphic design was removed leaving a basic UI.[12][13]
With OS X Yosemite (2014) the OS X Contacts app switched along with the rest of the operating system to the iOS 7-style UI
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Features
Exports and imports cards in vCard 3.0 format.[15]
Imports cards from LDIF, tab-delimited, and comma-separated files
C and Objective-C API to interface with other applications.
Prints labels and envelopes, mailing lists, pocket address books
Can configure page setup and paper size before printing
One-click automatic look up for duplicate entries
Change of address notification
Contact groups
Smart groups based on Spotlight
Look up addresses on Apple Maps
Auto-merge when importing vCards
Customize fields and categories
Automatic formatting of phone numbers
Synchronizes with Microsoft Exchange Server
Synchronizes with Yahoo! Address Book[16]
Synchronizes with Google Contact Sync
Speech recognition searching
Capability to query an LDAP database containing person information
Plugin interface allowing third-party developers to add functionality to the program
Integration with macOS[edit]
Integration with Mail, iCal, iChat, Fax, Safari, iPhone
iSync compatibility to sync contacts to phones, PDAs, iPods, and other Macs
Contacts are indexed by Spotlight
Address Book stores previous recipient addresses used by Mail
URLs in Address Book cards appear in Safari’s Address Book bookmarks
Buddies in iChat can be associated with Address Book cards
Birthdays saved in Address Book appear in iCal if enabled
Address Book Dashboard Widget
AppleScript support for querying, adding, modifying, and removing people and groups
User interface[edit]
Contacts 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 releases prior to Lion, in View Card and Column, the Contacts 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:
Picture
Name pronunciation
First name
Last name
Job title
Company
Phone number
Email address
Home page
Birthday
Instant messaging username
AIM
ICQ
XMPP
Windows Live Messenger
Yahoo! Messenger
Address
Related Names
Note
Contacts 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.
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b Wichary, Marcin. “Screenshots: Address Book”. GUIdebook. Retrieved June 27, 2020.
^ Siracusa, John. “Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar review”. Ars Technica. Retrieved June 27, 2020.
^ Thurrott, Paul. “10 Years Later: My Original (and Epic) Apple iPhone Review”. Thurrott. Retrieved June 27, 2020.
^ Horwitz, Jeremy. “Review: Apple iPod touch (8GB/16GB/32GB)”. iLounge. Retrieved June 27, 2020.
^ Richie, Rene. “iPhone OS 2.0 review”. iMore. Retrieved June 27, 2020.
^ Mathis, Joel. “Why I’ll miss skeuomorphism in iOS”. Macworld. Retrieved June 28, 2020.
^ Dilger, Daniel Eran. “In-depth review: Apple’s IPad and iPhone OS 3.2”. AppleInsider. Retrieved June 27, 2020.
^ “iOS: A visual history”. The Verge. Retrieved June 27, 2020.
^ Jump up to: a b Ken Segall (April 26, 2012). Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple’s Success. Penguin Books Limited. pp. 199–200. ISBN 978-0-670-92120-1.
^ Siracusa, John. “Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review”. Ars Technica. Retrieved June 27, 2020.
^ Siracusa, John. “OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: the Ars Technica review”. Ars Technica. Retrieved June 27, 2020.
^ Jump up to: a b Siracusa, John. “OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review”. Ars Technica. Retrieved June 27, 2020.
^ Macworld Editors (January 22, 2014). Total OS X Mavericks Superguide: Everything you need to know about Apple’s newest operating system. IDG Consumer & SMB, Inc. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-937821-38-8.
^ Siracusa, John. “OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review”. Ars Technica. Retrieved June 28, 2020.
^ “Address Book 6.x: Export and import vCards”. Apple Inc. July 12, 2012. Retrieved February 25, 2013.
^ “How can I sync my Yahoo! contacts to the Mac address book?”. Archived from the original on December 31, 2007. Retrieved September 2, 2009.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Contacts_(Apple)
Contacts (Apple)
Contributors to Wikimedia projects7-8 minutes 10/26/2003
Contacts
Address Book.png
Contacts 9.0 under Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite
Developer(s) Apple Inc.
Stable release
13.0
Operating system macOS, iOS, iPadOS
Type Software Address Book
License Proprietary
Website support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/contacts/welcome/mac
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Contacts is an address book app that was first included as part of the Phone app with the launch of the iPhone in 2007 but was split off into a standalone application with the release of iPhone OS 2.
Contacts can be synchronised over iCloud and other online address book services and allows for the storage of names, phone numbers, email addresses, home addresses, job titles, birthdays, and social media usernames
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Contacts
Contacts, called Address Book before OS X Mountain Lion, is a computerized address book included with Apple Inc.’s macOS. It includes various synchronizing capabilities and integrates with other macOS applications and features.
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 releases prior to Lion, 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. 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.
The computer must be connected to a local area network on which the directories reside. If the location has changed or the network connection has been lost, Address Book can’t look up contacts in directories on the network. If the computer is set up to access directory services on one’s local area network, Address Book automatically searches the directory services for addresses.
One 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 one is 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 one’s personal address book, drag the card from the directory to All in the Group column.
For instructions about setting up one’s computer to access directory services on one’s ‘local area network’, open Directory Utility and choose Help > Directory Utility Help
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