Stay connected to all your friends and family, easily. Mac OS X Tiger Address Book 4 works seamlessly across the entire system, offering your contacts in a Dashboard widget, Spotlight-driven Smart Groups, iChat and iCal integration as well as automatic .Mac and Bluetooth-enabled device syncing.

Contacts In a Dash

Quickly locate contact information in your Address Book, browse contacts sequentially or search for specific entries. When you find the right contact, click on its address to look up a map on the Web.

Card Tricks

Each Address Book card displays and labels all the information you want to keep, no matter how many phone numbers and email addresses a particular friend might have. There’s also a space for random notes — birthday, the dog’s name, etc. — and adding a picture is a simple matter of dragging and dropping.

Because Address Book is built on the industry standard vCard format for storing contact information, your friends can send you cards, or even beam them from their Palm to your PowerBook. You can add them to your own list by just dropping them in — no typing required. Of course, sharing your own card with others is just as easy.

But Address Book does more than just display card contents; it also lets you actively use them. Click on address to ask the Web for a map showing the location. Click on a home page URL to launch the website. Click on an email address to send a message — if it happens to be a mac.com address, you can also open that person’s .Mac iDisk public folder or send an instant message via iChat. And if you’ve got a Bluetooth-equipped cell phone, Address Book automatically syncs with it, alerts you when you’ve got an incoming call and displays the Caller ID information.

Book Smarts

Thanks to Spotlight, finding information in your Address Book is a snap. Using the Spotlight menu bar, search your entire computer for a contact name and Spotlight returns the related Address Book card as well as any file or email authored by that contact. Within Address Book, a search sorts through everything on every card, not just the name field, so you find every possible match. You can also look up contact information in LDAP directories and quickly address an e-mail message, make a call or start a chat.

And Spotlight helps you organize your Address Book in one other big way: Smart Groups. You create Smart Groups by selecting certain criteria — say every contact with a birthday in the next 30 days — and Address Book automatically creates a folder containing every contact meeting that criteria. Smart Groups appear in your Group list and stay updated even as you add new cards.

Stay in Sync

Part of what makes Address Book so simple to use with apps like Mail and iCal is seamless syncing. With a .Mac account, your Address Book stays up to date across multiple Macs and your account, so you can access contacts from any computer with an Internet connection. And Mac OS X Tiger Sync automatically keeps your .Mac account, multiple Macs and peripheral devices, such as cell phones or your iPod, up to date with current Address Book contact information. Add or edit a contact in your Address Book and Sync makes the change everywhere you work.

In Print

Whether you want to send holiday greetings to friends and family or send a printed newsletter to clients, Address Book can help by printing all your labels and envelopes. No need to export records to another application: Address Book prints directly onto dozens of supported Avery, Avery metric and Dymo label stocks as well as standard envelope formats.

Going out of town or away from your Mac? Address Book has you covered. Now you can print out a handy, pocket-size book and take your contacts with you anywhere.