Chapter 9. Using Address Book

In Chapter 8, "Using .Mac Sync," we covered how to turn on .Mac Sync to synchronize your Safari bookmarks, iCal calendars, Address Book contacts, Mac OS X keychains, and Mail accounts to your .Mac account. Once you've done that, you're ready to start tapping into one of .Mac's most powerful features: the ability to access all of that luscious contact information from anywhere in the world using a Web browser and an Internet connection.

After you've performed a synchronization, you can look up contact information in your .Mac Address Book from any computer, and you can also use those contacts to quickly address e-mail messages from within .Mac's Webmail interface.

In this chapter, I'll show you how to set Address Book preferences, add and remove contacts from Address Book, and browse and search through the contact information stored in your .Mac Address Book using a Web browser. I'll also explain how to edit contacts and share the contact information stored in your Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Address Book with others.

An important note: In this chapter, we're talking about two separate things that are both named Address Book. Your Mac OS X Address Book is an application that lets you store and organize contact information; your .Mac Address Book is an area of your .Mac account that stores contact information. Through Mac OS X synchronization, you can keep the information in your Mac OS X Address Book and .Mac Address Book identical.