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Add URLs to Address Book contacts for use in Safari Apps
A somewhat-hidden feature of Address Book is its ability to add a URL to a contact. This feature used in Safari 4, which has a special Bookmarks section for Address Book entries, where it will use URLs from Address Book contact records. (For instance, if you take a look a the Address Book entries in Safari 4's Bookmarks area, you will find that the Apple Inc. card has a home page associated with it.)

It's not obvious how to accomplish this, as a Home Page field does not appear by default on a new blank card, nor when editing an old one or when adding fields using the green (+) button. The solution is in the Card » Add Field menu. From that menu, select the URL entry to add the field to any card. After entering a URL, it will then appear in Safari's Address Book bookmarks.

[robg adds: This is a somewhat obvious hint, though we've run hints on using Add Field in the past. If you'd always like the URL field to appear on new cards, open Address Book's preferences, go to the Template section, then click the Add Field drop-down menu and add the URL field to your standard template.]
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Add URLs to Address Book contacts for use in Safari 4
Authored by: ChaChi on Jun 15, '09 07:52:30AM

Just wanted to note that this feature has been in Safari for quite some time now. It's not new to Safari 4.



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Add URLs to Address Book contacts for use in Safari 4
Authored by: marook on Jun 15, '09 08:33:32AM

Yeah, this feature has been in Safari since at least 2.0! Although you need to turn it on in Safari's prefs -> Booksmarks.

ROB: Please change the title to not include the '4'.. ;-)

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/Marook



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Add URLs to Address Book contacts for use in Safari 4
Authored by: robg on Jun 16, '09 06:47:07AM

Done.

-rob.



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Add URLs to Address Book contacts for use in Safari 4
Authored by: robogobo on Jun 15, '09 01:22:44PM

I've had a URL field in Address Book ever since I can remember, and didn't put it there intentionally. I wonder if it stuck around from when I used the Missing Sync with my old Treo. Palm had the URL field by default.



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Re: Add URLs to Address Book contacts for use in Safari
Authored by: Uncle Asad on Jun 16, '09 01:44:38PM

Camino and OmniWeb have had support for populating a collection from URLs from Address Book for quite some time now, too. ;)



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