Address Book Article Index for
Address
Website Links For
Address
 

Information About

Address Book




An address book or a '''name and address book''' (NAB) is a , Telephone number, E-mail address, Fax number, Mobile Phone number). Most such systems store the details in alphabetical order of people's names, although in Paper -based address books entries can easily end up out of order as the owner inserts details of more individuals or as people move. Many address books use small Ring Binder s that allow adding, removing and shuffling of pages to make room.


SOFTWARE ADDRESS BOOK


Address books can also appear as Software designed for this purpose, such as the Address Book included with Apple Computer 's Mac OS X . Simple address books have been incorporated into E-mail software for many years, though more advanced versions have emerged in the 1990s and beyond; and also in Mobile Phone s.

A Personal Information Manager (PIM) integrates an address book, Calendar , task lst, and sometimes other features.

Entries can be imported and exported from the software in order to transfer them between programs or computers. The common file formats for these operations are:


  • .vcf), which are roughly comparable to physical Business Card s. And some software applications like Lotus Notes and Open Contacts can handle a vCard file containing multiple vCard records.



SEE ALSO



EXTERNAL LINKS