Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual

Address Book

Address Book is Mac OS X's little-black-book program—an electronic Rolodex where you can stash the names, job titles, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and Internet chat screen names of all the people in your life (Figure 19-23). Address Book can also hold related information, like birthdays, anniversaries, and any other tidbits of personal data you'd like to keep at your fingertips.

Once you make Address Book the central repository of all your personal contact information, you can call up this information in a number of convenient ways:

• You can launch Address Book and search for a contact by typing just a few letters in the Search box.

  GEM IN THE ROUGH: To Dos and Notes: The Big Sync

  Whether you edit your To Do list and Notes in your email program (Mail) or your calendar program (iCal), they're always just one sync away from a Palm organizer, a cellphone, or an iPod.

  You do the iPod syncing in iTunes, of all places. Just connect the iPod to the Mac, select its icon in the source list, and click the Contacts tab. Scroll to the Calendars area and turn on the calendars you want to copy to the iPod. Finally, click the Apply button in the corner of the iTunes window. Once you've synchronized iPod with Mac, you can find your calendars and To Do items on the iPod at iPod→Extras→ Calendars→To Dos.

  And what about the iPhone? If you have that glorious comination of a .Mac account and an iPhone, your To Do items sync right over from your Mac to the iPhone. Find them on the ...