Welcome to ProPhone for Macintosh! ProPhone for Macintosh allows you to access the National Telephone Directory Databases on CD-ROM with your Mac. The software allows you to download the listings to another drive; import the listings into another application; print customized mailing labels or dial a highlighted number directly. The software for all databases allows for wild card searching, enabling you to search for a word in a string of words. The listings for all databases are updated on a quarterly basis. Each quarter, about 25% of the listings are updated with information from new telephone directories.
The databases that are available with ProPhone for Macintosh are Select Phone, Direct Phone, Home Phone, Free Phone and Canada Phone. Select Phone is a set of five CDs containing business and residential listings from United States telephone directories. Business listings are categorized using the Department of Labor's Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) index. Therefore, you are able to search listings by business classification. All of the Select Phone fields are optimized for fast searching. The first of our global product line, Canada Phone, is a single CD, with both business and residential listings from Canadian telephone directories. The Canadian business listings are also categorized by SIC codes. Free Phone is a single CD composed of business listings from the AT&T 800 Telephone directory. The search software for Free Phone is the same as Select Phone and Canada Phone software. Business listings are also categorized by SIC codes. Direct Phone is a set of two CDs containing business and residential listings from United States telephone directories. The Direct Phone search software is different from the other databases software. The primary index for Direct Phone is the name field. You must initiate the search with a name, and then narrow the search using the other fields. The business listings in Direct Phone are not categorized by SIC codes. Home Phone is identical to Direct Phone, but only contains residential listings.
