Address Book Software Open Contacts

Martin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:50:54 +0000

Open Contacts is a free Open Source address book software that comes with an extensive set of options and a rather outdated user interface. Several import options are available for new users who downloaded the address book software for the first time. Contact data can be imported from various popular software programs such as Mozilla Thunderbird, Microsoft Outlook, Windows Vista but also file formats such as vcards, ldif or xml.

The address book software will automatically recognize possible duplicate contact information and display a dialog to the user that proposes a few ways how to deal with the data including options to skip or edit.

Important features offered by Open Contacts include:

Unlimited data fields to store any contact info. Along with predefined fields, you may add unlimited data fields grouped by section.
Manage relationships between individuals, organizations and departments.
Comprehensive Categories. You may click on a category to view contacts of the category, or right click to list contacts of subcategories recursively.
Search through any data field, and search birthday of people.
Interact with Windows applications of telephony, Skype, emailing or Web/File browsing etc.
Map service with Google Maps. You may use either single line address or multi-line address. Yahoo Maps and Microsoft Live Maps are also supported through custom action plug-in programs.
Print contact info and labels on papers of different sizes.
Import from MS Outlook, Outlook Express (WAB), Eudora, Netscape/Mozilla Thunderbird, XML (xCard), CSV, LDIF, Vista and vCard.
Export to indented text, CSV, Excel, vCard, XML (xCard), HTML, hCard and XFN (XHTML Friends Network).
Portable. You may bring your address book database and the program in an external device such as a USB flash disk, and run the program on any Windows PC.
LAN supports for multiple users in Local Area Network, using true Client/Server architecture.

Quite a few can be very interesting for users in specific work situations. The only real downside to this excellent address book software program is the rather outdated user interface that feels slow in certain situations. Open Contacts is available as a free download from the developer’s homepage.

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Thunderbird Email Address Crawler

Martin — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:47:29 +0000

The email client Mozilla Thunderbird comes with the option to import address books from various other email clients like Microsoft Outlook, Eudora or text files. There is however no automatic way to import contact information from a set of emails. Why might that be useful? Imagine having to communicate with a group of users. You could import their contact information into a new address book from emails that you have previously received.

The Email Address Crawler add-on for Thunderbird does that. You can point it at any mail folder in Thunderbird and import the contact information into any address book automatically. The add-on comes with a few filters to make the automatic import more reliable. It is possible to specify if mails should be imported from the To, From or CC fields and if there should be a minimum amount of emails from a person before they are imported.

The add-on will automatically select the most complete email if different versions are available meaning that it will prefer Full Name email@address.org over email@address.org

The add-on provides an excellent way of creating new mailing lists by importing contact information automatically into address books.

Tags: address book, Email, email client, import address book, import contact information, mailing lists, mozilla thunderbird, outlook import, thunderbird

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