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DESCRIPTION
ABMenu adds a menu item in the upper right hand corner that gives users quick access to the information stored in the Address Book application that comes standard with Mac OS X. When a contact's name is selected from the menu, a semi-transparent window appears that display select information from that person's Address Book entry, such as phone numbers and email addresses.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 3.0b4:
  • Added an option to automatically close the card windows when an action (email, IM, map) is selected
  • Bug fixed in sorting contact names that started with accented characters
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

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Developer:David Blyth
Downloads:10,240
  - Version d/l:596
Business:Personal Info Managers
License:Free
Date:24 Jan 2010
Platform:PPC/Intel

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Jan 25 2010
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CLAUDIO.WILMANNS  That's a great addition to Apples Address Book. Love it!

For future versions I would like to see a Spotlight-like search interface instead of the search inspector and that it is possible to print envelopes or labels from an opened contact instead of printing all contact information as a table.

Great work! Many Thanks!  
(Version 3.0b4)

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Jan 3 2010
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BOBBSTER  I've just installed it and it seems to work pretty good on my 10.6.2 system.

It does what it claim to do.

Personally I don't like the fact that when you select a contact, it open the contact's window in the bottom left part of your screen; I would like to have the possibility to customize where to open the contact's windows.

Very cool the possibility to have the contact's windows in HUD style.  
(Version 3.0b3)

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Sep 21 2009
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HORST HILDEBRECHT  ABMenu was a great application, but under 10.6 it doesn't work.   
(Version 2.1.3)

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Jan 2 2010

MISHA  Have you tried the 3.0 betas?  
(Version 3.0b3)

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Sep 17 2006
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SIDETRACKED  Excellent free app. Quite similar to the $8 iAddressX. Upside, a bit faster and even more user friendly. And free. Downside, doesn't have a couple of features (like auto-dial) that iAddressX has.

But overall a terrific, super easy to use, fast link to Address Book info.  
(Version 2.1.3)

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Mar 31 2006
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PEANUT BUTTER  Within 30 seconds I could confirm that this little utitlity was 5 stars.

Great tool......

it's quick, small, and flexible. I like that I can adjust # of recent contacts, turn off the alphabetical list or groups, and change sort by dispay order.

Very useful that I can launch AB from the menu. Recent contacts are very useful, something AB doesn't have.

Bonus: I can make a new contact from the menu, and edit contacts without opening AB.

Everything works with or without AB launched!

WANTS: to be able to adjust the location of the menu item, not critical, but I prefer it closer to the calender, or at least further from the HELP menu in apps that have lots of menus. (menu meters, a 3rd party app can do this, even though many 3rd party cannot.)

(I can't speak about stability - only used it now for 10 minutes)  
(Version 2.1.3)

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Jul 14 2004
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MARC D.  This app is great, I just wish that you could sort by nickname. I have 5 Chris' and Johns', etc listed, and it isn't always easy to find the right one.  
(Version 2.1.3)

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Jul 8 2004

ANONYMOUS  Only the first couple of letters show up in the categories. I've got half a dozen "kids friends" entries, but only the one starting with "A" shows up.  
(Version 2.1.3)

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Jul 9 2004

ANONYMOUS  I'm sorry, but what exactly do you mean by "kids friends." Do you mean adding the friend field to a card?  
(Version 2.1.3)

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Jul 8 2004
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HOBY  The same could be said of Address Book. Dialing out through the modem/bluetooth/speakers is one of the many seemingly obvious features I've sent in to Apple.

Nice work on this though. It makes sense, has good options and adds effeciency to quickly looking up peoples' info.  
(Version 2.1.3)

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Apr 3 2004
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ANONYMOUS  This is a very nice and sexy utility for OS X users. How ever I believe it would be much more useful if ABMenu is capable for dialing numbers via built in modem and linked mobile phones.  
(Version 1.5)

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Jul 27 2003

CB3  I don't know if anyone else had download problems using the link from this page. I finally had some success by going straight to the source, i.e. the actual url for the file.  
(Version 1.5)

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