Brilliant. Frickin' Brilliant. Windows users, check out this very nice little Address Book Application.
Then read this blog post about making the most out of managing your contacts in a connected world.
I'm hoping the author of the Address Book Application will one day offer 2 things:
1) an open API to offer a "live view" into the address book data, for both reading and writing
2) an open synchronization API
I'm assuming it already offers vCards ? is it able to recognize duplicate address book data and "merge" it if needed? Anyway, mad props to "Jib".
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As of the last version published, the app does store address cards directly in vCard 2.1 format.
Check here for the Adress Book (for Win) author's homepage:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/ablon/abook/
As you can see, development has stopped - likely to not be taken up again. Perhaps a bit of nudging would incent Jib to open-source the project (minus the copyrighted skins, I suppose). That's the only way your two wishes will come true, I fear. Ideally, until Apple ports its apps to Win32/64 platforms, ahahaha... we'll see this app or something like it open-sourced and developed to continually match/surpass(?) the Apple Address Book.
Of course, if everyone just switched to OSX, we wouldn't have to worry about any of this, or if the Mac Mini really was $500 (as opposed to 700 and change for 802.11g and BT, an 80gb drive, and enough memory to actually run OSX).
Ah hell, what am I saying, all of us XP and Linux power users are just going to be running PearPC (http://richardgoodwin.com/wp/cvsbuilds.php) one day, anyway!
-Don
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