Setting Up and Using an Address Book

Mac OS X includes the Address Book application, in which you can store all your contact information. The most obvious use for this information is within Mail, but other applications can access the Address Book as well. This is useful because it enables you to use a single contact database for other applications that use information about your contacts, such as iChat.

Address Book has been totally reworked for Mac OS X version 10.2. It now provides its services to a wider range of applications, and it offers more functionality itself. You can store as much information as you want, and you can customize each ...

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