MacOSX Address Book Fail
Friday, October 31st, 2008There’s two problems with the address book. First, you can’t set a default email account for entries. It sort of uses the first email for each entry, but you can override it for distribution lists. The default address should be explicitly noted. Furthermore, it should be an easier way to set the default address instead of cutting and pasting the new address over the old address. That’s just dumb.
The second problem is that you can’t tag IM accounts correctly. Users are stuck with AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, and Jabber. Want to enter GTalk? Well, you’re going to have to know that GTalk is Jabber, and ideally enter the full GTalk path so that any Jabber client can connect to it. Want to add a Skype contact? Sorry. You’re SOL. That’s just dumb, especially when you consider that you can add your own labels to the front of the IM, like “home,” “work,” “summer home” or whatever. I don’t know Apple didn’t just add that level of customization to the provider labels.
Seems like there should be a plugin or something that fixes this, but I sure can’t find it.