10.6: Improve multi-country support in Address Book
Jan 11, '10 07:30:00AM
Contributed by: winfred
I have written a free Address Book plug-in that addresses two issues I've experienced with Address Book:
- Country names: After using this plug-in, you won't have so many variations for country names (for instance, all contacts will show United States, instead of many variations like USA, US, United States of America, etc.
- Country address formats: The plug-in tells Address Book to use the formatting that belongs to that contact's country. For example, my default format is for the Netherlands, which means that, for US addresses, State is missing and Zip and City are switched. The plug-in fixes that problem.
While the preferred method is to use this as an Address Book plug-in (save it to your user's Library/Address Book Plug-Ins folder), it can also be run in standalone mode. You can specify, in the script, what countries to check and what your preferred country names are. It also has Growl support for the summary.
You can read much more about it, and download the script, in this blog post.
[robg adds: I have mirrored the script here on macosxhints.com, but I recommend checking out the original post for updated versions, more explanatory screenshots, and further installation help. The author submitted this hint as 10.6 only, so I've left it categorized that way. If you test it on a pre-10.6 system and it works, please let me know.]
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