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Universal AddressService

Wednesday 8 November 2006 - Filed under mac

I’ve updated AddressService to a Universal Binary, and relicensed it under the LGPL.

AddressService is an OS X system service that lets you select a part of a person’s first or last name and replace it with their addresses or phone numbers. It’s handy for quick entry into an email or chat session.

I haven’t been able to thoroughly test it on an Intel mac, so please let me know if you find any issues.

2006-11-08  »  mike

Talkback x 2

  1. Ted Wood
    8 November 2006 @ 7:09 pm

    This sounds interesting, but I’m wondering if it’s just a bypass of the People Picker window. Guess I’ll have to try it out. :-)

  2. mike
    8 November 2006 @ 7:47 pm

    Ted: Which people picker window? I wrote this long enough ago that it’s possible something I don’t know about has obsoleted it…

    The main advantage of the service is that it’s available in any text area in any app, the main disadvantage is that it’s annoying to invoke services.

    You can do a similar thing with a few Quicksilver commands, to search your addressbook and then copy the info you want – this is just another way to do it (and AddressService certainly predated my use of Quicksilver, and might predate the AddressBook support in Quicksilver)

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