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100 Mac Tips #38: How To Remember Birthdays
Now you have a Mac, what’s the easiest way to remember people’s birthdays? Apple thought of that, and built a useful tool right in. Open Address Book (you’ll find it in your Applications folder), and...
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How to Give Address Book A Clean and Simple Look in Lion
In OS X Lion, Apple redesigned Address Book with a new look that resembles a physical hardcover book binding. This type of design choice is called “skeuomorphic,” because it was, “deliberately...
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iOS 5.0.1 Won’t Fix Your Battery Life, But It Will Forget Your Contacts
Apple issued its first iOS 5 update to the public yesterday — an update which was released to fix “bugs affecting battery life” under the latest firmware, amongst other issues. Following the update,...
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Easily Backup Your Address Book Contacts To External Media And Maintain A...
I ran into someone the other day and he told me that he had over 700 contacts in the Address Book app on his Mac. He expressed concern about losing those contacts. I asked him, “are you performing...
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Quickly Add Missing Contact Info To Your Address Book By Syncing Contacts...
Adding contact information to your phone can be a tedious task, especially with devices like the iPhone, which allow you to add a whole lot more than just a name and a phone number. But there is one...
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Apple Seeds Yet Another OS X Lion 10.7.3 Build To Developers
Developers have already received several pre-release builds of Apple’s OS X Lion 10.7.3 software, and we had expected last week’s release to be the last one before the update goes public. But it seems...
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If Apple’s Address Book Bugs You, Try Out The Fantastic Cobook Beta Today...
There’s been a lot of ohhing and ahhing about Cobook in the last few days, but spend just a few minutes playing with it and you’re likely to be ohhing and ahhing too. I know I am. Cobook is an...
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Sync Your Contacts With Twitter To Add Usernames & Photos To Your Address...
We’ve already shown you how to sync your address book with the Facebook app for iOS to add profile pictures and other credentials, but what if you prefer to use Twitter instead? Well, fortunately for...
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Path Uploads And Stores Your iPhone’s Entire Address Book On Its Servers
In what can only be considered the very definition of irony, it has been discovered that Path 2 for iPhone secretly uploads and stores your entire address book to its servers. In case you didn’t know,...
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How To Keep Apps Like Path From Accessing Your Contacts Data [Jailbreak]
We told you yesterday that Path was secretly uploading your iPhone’s entire address book to its servers. Users of the inclusive social network voiced concern, and many decided to remove the app...
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Like Path, Hipster Also Uploads Your Address Book To Its Servers Without...
Social networking app Path hit the headlines yesterday after it turned out the company was taking users’ entire address books and uploading them to their servers. It’s a big privacy violation, but...
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Just Buy Yearly And Stop Forgetting Other People’s Birthdays [Review]
Hands up if you forget birthdays all the damn time. Hey, whoa, slow down. I can’t see all of you at the back. Waaaaay too many hands. Wait. No, OK, hands down. Let’s do this differently. We’ll forget...
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OS X 10.8 Beta 2 Forces Third-Party Apps To Ask For Permission When Accessing...
We finally have control over our contacts in Mountain Lion. In addition to the new features we detailed earlier today, Apple’s second OS X Mountain Lion beta adds a nifty security feature that will...
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ownCloud Brings Flexible Open Source Cloud Sync To Business
Open source ownCloud offers private business and personal clouds One of the consumerization of IT trends is the use of cloud storage. Most of us already have experience with iCloud and other personal...
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Want To Know Which iOS Apps Are Accessing Your Personal Data? Clueful Tells...
Clueful promises to identify "misdemeanant apps on your iPhone." There has recently been a lot of concern into the way in which our iOS apps access our personal data, and then what they do with it once...
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Things You May Not Already Know About The New MacBook Pro’s Retina Display
If you’re the lucky owner of a new MacBook Pro, here are some things you should know. We’ve been drooling over the next-generation MacBook Pro since Apple unveiled it at WWDC earlier this month, and we...
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WriteThat.Name + HistoRecall Tackle Your Address Book [Last Chance!]
I’m betting your address book is a royal mess. It doesn’t take long for it to happen, really. Sync in gmail contacts, then iCloud, then that CSV of leads from your CRM… You get the idea and you feel...
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Get Rid Of The Disgusting Fake Leather Texture In iCal & Address Book Under Lion
Do you hate Apple’s increasing tendency towards skeuomorphic designs? In other words, do you hate how Apple keeps on slathering their beautifully designed apps with a revolting faux wood or leather...
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19% Of iOS Apps Access Your Address Book Without Your Permission… Until iOS 6...
Do you know which apps are accessing your personal data? Antivirus software specialist Bitdefender has found that nearly 19% of iOS apps access your address book without your knowledge — or your...
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Cobook Does Contacts Right, And For Free [Review]
A new look for contacts We liked Cobook first time round, when it appeared on OS X as a clever little contacts database hidden inside a tiny Menu Bar icon. Now it’s on iPhone, and just as clever as...
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LinkedIn’s New iPhone App Brings All Of Your Contacts Together In One Place
LinkedIn has launched a new iPhone app today called LinkedIn Contacts, which promises to make it easier to stay in touch with your most important relationships. It brings all of your contacts together...
View ArticleShake To Call And More Comes To Live Address Book App, Addappt
The problem with the native Contacts app on your iPhone is that you have to keep the addresses, phone numbers, and emails updated on your own. If your friend moves, or gets a new number, it’s up to you...
View ArticleHere’s how Apple should reinvent the address book
The address book is outdated. On the iPhone, while most of my contacts reside in the Contacts app, I rarely go in there. Instead, I connect with people on Facebook, via SnapChat, WhatsApp and more....
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