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BuddyPop makes Address Book useful

Continuing on my quest for apps that make me go "that should've been in OS X," I found BuddyPop at the ever-useful Hawk Wings. BuddyPop makes Address Book a bit more accessable and useful by offering a searchable pop-up window for your contacts. A user-definable keyboard shortcut calls the highly-configurable pop-up window, and various pieces of contact info are linked to actual applications. Clicking on a phone number can call the contact using Vonage or Skype, while clicking an email address opens a message addressed to the contact. This is the kind of super-handy stuff that really should have been built into operating systems years ago, in my humble opinion. BuddyPop costs 10 € (10 euros) which the Unit Converter widget tells me is just under $12 (USD).

Like Tim Gaden over at Hawk Wings, however, Quicksilver does all this stuff for me already, and much more. But for a lot of people who simply need quick access to contacts and not all the (sometimes confusing) extras of Quicksilver, I'm sure BuddyPop is a great, functional solution.

Continuing on my quest for apps that make me go "that should've been in OS X," I found BuddyPop at the ever-useful Hawk...
 

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sebastien

Just activate Quicksilver and type the name of the contact you need and you can do the same with it. I find quick silver to be the best launcher app around.

December 26 2005 at 7:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
derek

there used to be a quicksilver plugin for buddypop in quicksilver's pre-tiger days but it seems that it never was upgraded. too bad.

December 26 2005 at 12:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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