10.4: Add Phone Book widget search results to Address Book
May 25, '05 08:52:00AM
Contributed by: matthewroth
I stumbled on this by accident and thought I would share. I'm sure you all know the Phone Book widget, and have used it to search for services in your area. It returns a list of matches for your search, in this format:
The little plus sign next to the address field will add the contact info to your Address Book, which is great if you order chinese and pizza a lot.
[robg adds: I provided the screenshot above, just so non-Tiger users can see just how small this UI element is.
One of the first things I did when I got Tiger was to run Mac Help and search on Widgets. If you do that, you'll find nice little writeups on each of them. I figured this was a good way to learn about all the features in each widget, since their UI is so minimalist.
In the Phone Book Help entry, of course, there's ... absolutely no mention of this Address Book functionality. The closest it comes is saying "To view more information about a business, you can do the following: Click the address to view a map in your web browser. Click the phone number to display it in a larger format on your screen. Click the business name to view information from the DA+ website." It'd be nice if Help were a bit more helpful at times!]
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