Review of Contaqs

John reviews Contaqs. The main feature he needed, good search, it doesn’t do. Why are most 3rd party iOS contact apps so bad?

iCloud Duplicates

I’ve been so busy I’ve not had time to figure out all the duplication problems I’ve had since I started using iCloud more. My main problem are duplicated contacts and duplicated calendars. I think one big problem is just not being sure if iCloud is the store or is a sync service. (i.e. is it [...]

Address Book Server

So I was revisiting the old problem of syncing address book information. There are a few ways to sync just the contacts. Syncing the groups along with the contacts is a much more difficult problem. There used to be a few apps that synced computers among your local network. However it appears most don’t work [...]

Contactizer Pro to FedEx

So one of the things I’ve historically done when dealing with any address book or CRM program is write a program that quickly generates a FedEx packing slip. I do this since I find myself needing to print packing slips all the time. Having to cut and paste bits of addresses and name is just [...]

Combining Scripting and Quickeys

One reason I switched my macro program of choice from iKey to Quickeys (beyond some reliability issues) was Quickeys’ ability to store shortcuts and then call the shortcut via Applescript.  If you’ve ever spent hours trying to figure out how to script something using GUI scripting simply because Applescript support was lacking you can probably [...]

Testing Contactizer Pro

Regular readers know that I’ve been having an ongoing search for the perfect Address Book and Contact workflow. Honestly this has been one of the weakest aspects of OSX in my opinion. For about a year I used Salesforce.com and had a few “hacks” to make it a bit more integrated into my regular workflow. [...]

Applescript: Things that Make You Go Huh?

Applescript is one of those things that just annoy me. Not the language but the system. (i.e. Apple Events) Apple has this fantastic system that lets you control applications. However Apple really hasn’t given it a lot of love. I could understand some of the shift from Sys9 to OSX. While I’m anything but a [...]

Lion’s Address Book

So I got the opportunity to play around with Lion yesterday. In case you missed all the press Lion is the new version of OSX expected to be available for sale this summer. A developer’s beta was released about two weeks ago. I think most of the features have been reported at various blogs. Also [...]

Thoughts on Google Apps

I’d mentioned a few weeks back about my switching much of my mail over to Google Mail. The reasons were two fold. Firstly my server somehow got put on a spam blacklist and I couldn’t get it off. Needless to say this led to a lot of lost mail. The second reason was to have [...]

Address Book to Sales Force

Here’s an other little script I wrote for using SalesForce.com. We take the selected contacts in Address Book, open up a new contact entry in SalesForce and then fill in the data. Now I could have made this a bit more advanced, copying in all the emails, addresses, phone numbers and so forth that are [...]

Salesforce and the Mac

I just started using Salesforce for CRM. I’ll probably have some posts on automating stuff with SalesForce over the next few weeks.. One thing I already found is an open source Mac sync that looks quite useful. It syncs contacts, events and tasks from Address Book and iCal to Salesforce. What I’m not sure about [...]

Proximity Address Search Script Revisited

OK. This is an update to a script I wrote back in July. It scans through your Address Book returning all addresses within a certain distance of a specified location. It’s very useful if you have people ask if you have distributors for your product nearby where they live. But there are lots of other [...]

Address Book to Numbers

I’ve had some manipulation of Address Book I’ve had to do the past few days. So I’ll be presenting a few Address Book scripts I’ve found useful. This one takes some selected Address Book contacts and enters them into a Numbers spreadsheet. It’s fairly simple and in the past I normally would have used Excel [...]

Address Book Selection as Text on Clipboard

I had a need today to extract a bunch of addresses from Address Book as nicely formatted text to email. I’ve done hints like this before, but with some of the changes to Snow Leopard I had to modify them slightly. Since I suspect this is something many people need to do I thought I’d [...]

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