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WhoPaste can create contacts in Address Book, Daylite, Entourage, or Google Contacts by extracting the name, email addresses, phone numbers, street addresses, websites, even instant message handles. WhoPaste supports plain text, rich text, and spreadsheet data clipboard information.
WhoPaste also provides a single hot key for creating a new blank contact. Ever scrambled to jot down a phone number or email address - now just use the hot key to store the data where it should be stored!
On Mac OS X 10.6 just highlight text and use the context menu! On Mac OS X 10.5 use a hot
WhoPaste also provides a single hot key for creating a new blank contact. Ever scrambled to jot down a phone number or email address - now just use the hot key to store the data where it should be stored!
On Mac OS X 10.6 just highlight text and use the context menu! On Mac OS X 10.5 use a hot
What's New
Version 4.6.3:
continuous progress on extraction and recognition
CHANGES
- Daylite: Linked Opportunity for Organizations (optional)
BUG FIXES
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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| Downloads:5,246 |
| Version Downloads:923 |
| Type:Business : Personal Info Managers |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:09 Jun 2010 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $15.00 |
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WhoPaste can create contacts in Address Book, Daylite, Entourage, or Google Contacts by extracting the name, email addresses, phone numbers, street addresses, websites, even instant message handles. WhoPaste supports plain text, rich text, and spreadsheet data clipboard information.
WhoPaste also provides a single hot key for creating a new blank contact. Ever scrambled to jot down a phone number or email address - now just use the hot key to store the data where it should be stored!
On Mac OS X 10.6 just highlight text and use the context menu! On Mac OS X 10.5 use a hot key or the contextual menu plugin.
WhoPaste puts a citation for the source of the information in the notes field, allows the user to review the data.
Other features include: contacts straight from spreadsheets; automatic citations for data sourcing; post-processing scripts; SMS address lookup; multiple group assignments; configurable hot key; Automator support; and more.
WhoPaste also provides a single hot key for creating a new blank contact. Ever scrambled to jot down a phone number or email address - now just use the hot key to store the data where it should be stored!
On Mac OS X 10.6 just highlight text and use the context menu! On Mac OS X 10.5 use a hot key or the contextual menu plugin.
WhoPaste puts a citation for the source of the information in the notes field, allows the user to review the data.
Other features include: contacts straight from spreadsheets; automatic citations for data sourcing; post-processing scripts; SMS address lookup; multiple group assignments; configurable hot key; Automator support; and more.
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ngc4900 reviewed on 14 Jan 2012
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Mikejt reviewed on 21 Nov 2011
Anyway, it's a pretty good app, but with some quirkiness where the address book entry is created, but WP gives an obscure error. Could be better, but there isn't anything else like it (that I know about, anyway).
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Dozens of Mac apps are working again, exactly as expected, WhoPaste is the only exception. I've attempted to reach Mac-Chi, the developer of WhoPaste, by contact form and email. Thus far, I've had no response.
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I'd spend all my time corresponding with developers instead of working. Particularly for this kind of two-bit utility.
A developer who spends more time on copy protection than on improving his or her app is not the kind of developer with whom I want to be involved.
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I'd spend all my time corresponding with developers instead of working. Particularly for this kind of two-bit utility.
A developer who spends more time on copy protection than on improving his or her app is not the kind of developer with whom I want to be involved.
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That's not only a bummer for those customers like us now left without access to software we've paid for, but for potential new customers as well. While it had issues that never did get addressed by the developer, WhoPaste was off to a good start.
Sometimes supporting small developers pays off -- in fact most of the time I've found it does. In this case, however, not so much...
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Steve Cronin lists yoga and peace as some of his hobbies on his twitter page. Not very compatible with lockout software which stiffs paying customers.
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Problem: A ridiculous licensing scheme and reprehensible support.
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Uncoy reviewed on 15 Sep 2010
First, you as the user of WhoPaste are obliged to delicense this two-bit utility when you move to a new computer. Personally, I carry a startup disk between three or four Macs in different locations. Ergo, the software is not usable. Not unless I want to become a full admin for Mac-Chi.
Any utility software which requires delicensing when you move to a new computer is putting the developer's comfort above that of his paying customers. A business which is run for the benefit of the developer and not the customers is not a business with which I want anything to do. Can you imagine if all two hundred software programs and utilities on your computer required this much maintenance. Linux and FOSS here I come. Fortunately many shareware developers are a lot less short sighted than this guy, including Apple itself.
Not only that but the author is a rip-off artist as he will neither finally fix my licensing issue nor refund my money.
As for the software itself, it is next to useless on anything except North American addresses in standard format. The configuration menus scroll over five pages. If you have unlimited time to fiddle around getting WhoPaste to work on your data, it might be useful. But if it works on one set of your data, it won't work on another set.
I.e. this software steals a lot more time than it saves. For the five hours spent fighting with configuration and licensing, I've saved five or ten minutes of manual input into Address Book.
Here's a tip for more efficient work. Just copy all the data for your new contact. Switch to Address Book, command-n for a new contact, paste all the data into the notes field and then move the necessary details into telephone and last name and company fields. 100% reliable and free.
Stay far, far away.
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while I can honestly understand your frustration expressed here the situation you were applying (carrying a startup disk inbetween four macs) is hardly to be described as standard. Since this unusual way of handling your data caused about 95% of the hassle I think the rating is a littlebit tough...
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My alternative workflow will save almost anyone more time than hassling with WhoPaste.
Unfortunately.
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WhoPaste is to be actively avoided. In the meantime, the block paste into the notes field of a new contact (you can create it with a right click in email) with subsequent copy and paste into important fields gets the job done much faster than attempting to fully automate it.
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I tried the demo using this simple, unremarkable, entry to the clipboard: Name, address, phone, email, remarks.
Jane Q. Doe
2113 Kaahumanu St.
Aiea, HI 88108-4443
808-555-1212
john.doe@sneakemail.com
Jane just got divorced
Whopaste made the following errors:
Categorized the entry as "Work"
Categorized the phone as mobile
It placed the city, state and zip code in a blank titled "2"
It placed the first 2 remarks words as city
It placed the second 2 remarks words as state
In light of the above errors, why should I buy the product?
I'll withhold the 1-star rating. Maybe there is a trick to getting it to work properly. Oh well.
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Without "Jane Doe just got divorced" WhoPaste only had one mistake. The phone number is indeed added as a Mobile phone. The solution -which took less than a second- was to drag it to the Phone field.
Another solution may be to set it up via the application's Preferences. I think you'll find it under Defaults > Policies.
For me, in this example even if I have to manually drag the phone information the result was that I saved time and got results with minimal effort.
I hope this helps.
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Five hours fiddling to save five or ten minutes total.
Make work ware. See my full review above.
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Corpjester reviewed on 08 Dec 2009
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Lectrohowie reviewed on 26 Oct 2009
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nicksloan reviewed on 09 Aug 2009
The klunkiness of Address Book's own editing interface, and the global availability of WhoPaste makes this an extremely useful trick, but it's a tall order: parsing relatively predictable US addresses is one thing, making sense of very variable UK data is quite another. Yet over recent versions WP has leaped ahead in it's fine-tuneability, and the ease with which data can be edited in the WP dialog before being sent off to Address Book.
WhoPaste is not perfect, and by its nature it probably never can be, though it is improving all the time. It could certainly do with some documentation on the far-from-simple preferences, but it is a very effective tool which I shall be keeping in my menu bar.
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This app looks great, and I'd like to buy it using Kagi but it fails making a connection.