Last week I sent out a desperate and slightly frustrated tweet about the the most recent Mac OS Address book app. It’s cumbersome to use, and flat out doesn’t work on one of my Macs. I asked about an alternative and @MaxFenton pointed me to Cobook App.
It’s a small widget that lives in your menubar, easily accessible and intuitive to use. It seamlessly syncs with the OS X Address Book, which is what I want, but without having to ever open address book again.
Interesting twist: Cobook also connects to your social network accounts and automatically looks up pictures, companies, phone numbers etc. At this point, I think I like that, but let’s see, over the long run.
Here, try it yourself. Not sure why, but Cobook app is free.
This app is awesome to use, but it jacked up all of my contact categories by adding $ before and after each like this: “mobile” to “$mobile$”. If they fixed this, then it is great.
Apr 12th, 2012 / 12:56 pm
hey, Scott, drop us an email [email protected]
Apr 12th, 2012 / 1:43 pm
I’ve used BuddyPop for years!
No icon, no clutter in your menu bar – just a key command!
http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/buddypop/
Apr 12th, 2012 / 4:52 pm
Awesome Cobook app
Apr 13th, 2012 / 2:25 am
I’m using uptact it keeps your contacts updated with out creating a new address book it uses the ones already in your phone and keeps them updated. it 100% free that’s what pulled me in :)
http://www.uptact.com
Apr 13th, 2012 / 3:30 am
wow thanks !
Apr 13th, 2012 / 5:02 am
If it’s free- ‘you are the product’
Apr 16th, 2012 / 1:36 pm
tina, any luck/advice on replacing the horrible interface for ical?? i find it just as hideous to use!
May 2nd, 2012 / 5:11 pm