Family Address Book is a an organizer for all your contacts. It is meant to be easy to use, yet offering powerful functionality. You can enter, maintain and lookup all your data easily, and the address book integrates with standard Internet applications like your browser and e-mail program.
Requirements
• PowerMac or 680x0 Macintosh
• System 7.5 or higher (some features may require MacOS 8)
• 640x480 screen resolution
• Internet config for Internet integration
Short Manual
Files
Family Address Book works on individual files (address books), and can open multiple address books at the same time. To open an address book, select Open from the File menu. To create a new address book, select New from the File menu. When started, Family Address Book will come up with a new empty address book.
Contact list
On the lefthand side of an Family Address Book document window you will find a list with contact, plus buttons to add a new contact, delete a contact, or limit the list of contacts to match a certain selection or beginletter of the lastname.
Views
Family Address Book uses 5 different views to group all data logically together: Address, Phone, Internet, Birthdays and Overview. The overview is a read-only view that consolidates all data for a contact. You can switch to a specific views by clicking on the matching tab, or via the Contacts menu. The default view to come up with upon startup can be specified from the Preferences dialog under the Edit menu.
Adding contacts
You can add a new contact from the Contacts menu, or by clicking on the Add button on the main window. This will add a new, empty contact where you can enter the data. Note that you shouldn't enter data if no item in the list is selected, the entered data is not stored.
Note: The contact name is split in 3 separate entry fields, for first name, middle name and last name. This is to ensure that Family Address Book can properly sort all your contacts by lastname, and still show and print data in a nice manner.
Modifying data
To modify data, select the contact from the list and go the approriate view to modify whatever data you want. When you change the name data of a contact, you will see the changes immediately being reflected in the contact list as you type.
In the Birthdays view, you can enter any number of persons with their date of birth. Family Address Book will understand most date formats, and transform this to the standard date format that you have setup on your computer.
Deleting contacts
To delete a contact, select if from the list and delete if from the Contacts menu, or by clicking on the Delete button. You will be asked for a confirmation before the record is really deleted.
Browsing the contacts
You can select a contact by clicking on it in the list, or by using the Next, Previous, First and Last entries from the Contacts menu.
Sorting the contacts
You can sort the contacts by selection the Sort entry from the Contacts menu. This will sort the contacts on lastname, then firstname, then city.
Selecting data
To limit the visible contacts in the list based on the first letter of the last name, select a letter from the Show popup from the main window. For more complex selections, choose Selection from the Show popup or from the Contacts menu. This will show a dialog in which you can enter the selection criteria. You can enter up to 5 selection criteria, per selection criteria you can specify the field to check and what expression to use.
If you have made a selection on the data, and then choose Save, all contacts will be saved (so not only the selected ones).
Showing everything
To show all contacts, select Show All from the Show popup on the main window or from the Contacts menu.
Undo/Redo
A number of actions in Family Address Book can be undone: deleting a contact, adding and/or modifying a contact, and sorting the contacts. When a modification on a record is undone, all modifications done on that record, since the last modification on a different record, will be undone. Undoing the modifications on a record is only possible if that record is selected in the list.
Printing
The application offers a number of print options, which can be entered by clicking on the Extra Options button in the Print dialog. You can specify the font, style and size, the type of data to be printed (Address data, Phone data, Address and Phone data or all data) and the layout on the page. There are two basic layouts: a single contact per page or multiple contacts per page. If you select a single contact per page, you can choose where on the page it should be printed. This option is usefull for printing envelopes for example. If you select multiple contacts per page, you can specify how many rows and columns should be printed.
When you have made a selection of data (see selecting data) only these items will be printed.
Importing data
You can import data from any tab separated text file, as can be generated from most other programs. To import data into a document, select Import from the File menu. You can select the file, next you will be presented a dialog that shows the items in the first line of the imported file. You can link these items to the items that Family Address Book knows by dragging each item to the second list. There is a checkbox that lets you specify if the first line should be imported or not, in case the first line contains descriptions of each field in the import file. When you specified all the import links, you can get the actual data into your address book by clicking the Import button.
Drag and Drop
Family Address Book supports drag and drop. You can copy items from one address book to another on by dragging it from one list to another. You can also move items within a single address book by dragging it and dropping it at the right location in the same list. You can delete contacts by dragging them to the Trashcan.
It is also possible to drag addresses into open documents of other applications as text, by holding the ctrl-key when dragging. You can specify the format to use from the Preferences dialog under the Edit menu.
Internet integration
You can automatically compose a mail to a person, or open a web page by clicking on the buttons next to the text fields in the Internet view, or by clicking on the underlined addresses in the Overview view. This feature will only function if you have installed and configured Internet Config.
Shareware
Family Address Book is distributed as shareware. This means that you can freely try it for 30 days, if you continue to use it after that period you should pay the shareware fee. The unregistered version if fully functional, but has a limitation of maximum 30 contacts per address book. The fee for Family Address Book is $15, and can be paid using the Register application that comes installed with this software. After your payment is received, you will receive a key with which you can register Family Address Book and remove the 30-contact limitation. Once you have registered you can freely get and use all future updates to Family Address Book.
Site licenses are available, see the Register program for details.
How to register
You can pay the shareware fee for Family Address Book through the Kagi Shareware system using the Register application.
If paying with Credit Card or First Virtual, email or fax the data to Kagi Shareware. Their email address is sales@kagi.com and their fax number is +1 510 652-6589. You can either Copy the data from Register and paste into the body of an email message or you can Save the data to a file and you can attach that file to an email message. There is no need to compress the data file, it’s already pretty small. If you have a fax modem, just Print the data to the Kagi fax number.
Payments sent via email are processed within 3 to 4 days. You will receive an email acknowledgement when it is processed. Payments sent via fax take up to 10 days and if you provide a correct internet email address you will receive an email acknowledgement.
If you are paying with Cash or USD Check you should print the data using the Register application and send it to the address shown on the form, which is:
Kagi Shareware
1442-A Walnut Street #392-JW
Berkeley, California 94709-1405
USA
You can pay with a wide variety of cash from different countries but at present if you pay via check, it must be a check drawn in US Dollars. Kagi Shareware cannot accept checks in other currencies, the conversion rate for non-USD checks is around USD 15 per check and that is just not practical.
Payments send via postal mail take time to reach Kagi Shareware and then up to 10 days for processing. Again, if you include a correct email address, you will hear from Kagi Shareware when the form is processed.
More info
You can contact me if you have any question or suggestions regarding Family Address Book. I can be reached through e-mail at berrie@kagi.com. For the latest version of this application, plus any other software I have written please visit http://www.kremers.demon.nl. You can also find a localized Dutch version here.
Release Notes
See the separate Family Address Book Release Notes file.
Legalese
Family Address Book is Shareware. You may use the unregistered version for trial purpose for 30 days, if you continue to use it after that period you should pay the shareware fee.
Family Address Book may not be included in any for-profit software compilation or bundled with any other for-profit package, except with prior written consent from the author, Berrie Kremers. Family Address Book may be distributed freely on on-line services and by users groups, except where noted above, provided it is distributed unmodified and including all original files.
You expressly acknowledge and agree that use of Family Address Book is at your exclusive risk. Family Address Book, any related files and documentation are provided “AS IS” and without any warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.
