Cool Address Book is a powerful, stylish, and easy to use address book for the Macintosh. It features easy importing & exporting, fast entry with auto-formatting, multiple category indexes, screaming fast search, web application linkage support, web site HTML export, iMac themes, a full help system, and much more. It can handle thousands of records, prints labels, address lists, and envelopes, and can hold pages of notes with each record. On top of all this it only cost $10 to register and all future updates are FREE.
Shareware - $10
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WHAT'S NEW:
HTML Export
Export your entire database to a web site. All you categories and information become available via a set of HTML pages.
Multiple Categories & Indexes
The old Cool Address book allowed you to label records as Mail or Business. This new version allows you to have as many categories as your hear desires. You can access any of these categories as an index from the Index menu. You will be presented with a list of the cards, typing the name of the record you want will quickly scroll you to that record.
Cool Interface With Flavors
Click on the PREFS button at the top of the screen to pick your flavor of interface. You will also note that all the sounds have been updated to give you audio feedback for what you are doing. However these can also be turned off in the PREFS screen.
Clickable Email And Web Addresses
The labels for the e-mail and web are pop-up menus. You can choose a URL or a e-mail address and the appropriate program will be launched to handle it.
Extremely Fast Search
The search function immediately returns all records that match your query. The find again command in the Edit menu will find matches for your query in each record. The search is really screaming fast, I think you will enjoy it. In the beta 6 version, it got even faster.
Easier Import
You can import your other ASCII based files easily. Cool Address Book will attempt intelligently guess the right location for your information, but still allow you full control about how you want to import your file.
Auto-formatting
All appropriate fields have auto-capitalization for easier entry. The phone number field will auto format you phone number for you also. The phone number formatting can be turned off in the preferences.
More Room For Addresses
There is now a Company field. The Street field can have two lines and is also now put in parentheses instead of disappearing when a PO Box is used.
Special Next And Prev Buttons
If you hold down the option key while clicking on the Next or Prev buttons you will be taken to the next record in the last used index or the last search. Holding down the mouse on these buttons quickly flips through the records until you release the mouse.
Easier Registration
You can now use a credit card to register the program. All your information is collected in the registration form (which you can get to by choosing "About Cool Address Book" from the Apple menu). It is then encoded so you can safely send it in an e-mail.
OTHER FEATURES:
Auto-dial Phone Numbers
The Phone label is a pop-up menu and will allow you to auto-dial any phone number in a record.
Export To Standard Ascii File
Cool Address Book can export its information to a standard ASCII file.
Multiple Print Out Formats
Different types of envelopes, address books, and labels are available.
Special Notes Field
Store pages of fully styled text with each record.
Nice Clipboard Integration
Even though information is stored in various field. A simple "Copy Address" command in the edit menu allows you to copy all your address info quickly and easily.
VERSION HISTORY
2.1 (11/18/99)
• A correct error message is now displayed if the user tries to import a text file that is already open in another application.
• Fixed spelling errors in the balloon help.
• Fixed a bug introduced in version 2.0.9 which prevented the ability to print just one record.
• Change the print output slightly to conform better to non-US postal codes.
2.0.9
• Help section expanded and spelling errors corrected.
• Address book now sorts itself before any printing anything.
• Fixed a bug that caused some records to label themselves incorrectly when importing them.
• Fixed the flashing display when importing foriegn ASCII files.
• Fixed a typo in the registration screen.
2.0.8
• Fixed a few small display glitches on the preferences screen.
• Added the ability to set the default font for the edit fields.
• Fixed a bug that kept powerbooks from being able to dial phone numbers using the internal modem.
• Added the ability to specify a default dialing method in the preferences.
• Fixed a small bug when doing a search from the prefs screen.
• Fixed some bugs around the registration process and the display of registration information.
• Fixed small bug in HTML export.
2.0.7
• Small enhancments to make it ready for final release.
2.0 beta 6
• Fixed problems of phone and e-mail buttons moving around. This bug was introduced in beta 5.
• The search speed was dramatically increased for address books containing thousands of records.
• Added more instructions to the registration form and the help section.
• Added two new commands to the Edit menu ("Copy Address" and "Copy All Contact Info") which allow you to easily copy information from a record in this program to paste into another program, like a word processor.
• Added the ability to speak the selected text on a whim that it might be helpful to someone who would like to have a long notes field read to them.
• Added more Command key shortcuts for the menu commands.
• Other minor changes.
2.0 beta 5.1
• Made street address line two lines long to handle bigger addresses.
• Fixed bugs in HTML export involving business names in the indexes and case sensitivity in folder names.
• Fixed terminology in sorting messages to reflect new sorting method.
• Fixed bug in importing files which use the company name.
• Fixed a bug in the indexes when the index contains over 2000 records.
• Fixed a bug in the category tool when there are over 2000 records.
• Fixed color display problems when using over 2000 records.
• Increased the speed of building special indexes when the address book contains thousands of records.
• Made the card number bring up a dialog box when clicked that allows you to jump to any record by the record number.
• Add Record Number information when importing records.
• Made the application save automatically more often to greatly increase the speed of certain operations when there are more than 1000 records.
2.0 beta 4
• Fixed a bug that kept some ASCII files from importing properly.
• Starting using the Company name as the record name if the company name field was filled in.
• Added Label Printing capability
• Made a way for people using older e-mail clients to still use the electronic e-mail registraion metod.
2.0 beta 3
• Fixed bug that kept you for editing the categories.
• Fixed bug that would not let you delete the last record.
• Fixed the registration form not to default to "BoMedia" as the name.
2.0 beta 2
This version is expected to become the full release. Several things have been added and several things corrected from the first version.
• Import from older versions of Cool Address Book files now properly imports the date modified instead of setting it to the current date.
• Importing Cool Address Book 2.0 files now works 100% of the time
• Full Flavor preferences have been added.
• Help section and balloon help added.
• Several other small bug fixes
2.0 beta 1
• First release of the totally redesigned address book.
• Too many new features to discuss. The address book was rewritten from scratch.
1.5 beta
This version was never replaced and became the full release. Nice for the time, but grew very outdated looking. One bug that was only recently discovered is that it does not export it's Mail and Business categories correctly.
