Stephen Withers has updated his Whereis script for Address Book.

This script offers much better mapping of Australian addresses than the default “Map of” service in Address Book provided by MapQuest.

The new version (1.7) has been updated to take account of recent changes on the Whereis site.

It works well for me. And it’s clever, successfully parsing addresses as varied as “1/2 High Street”, “Unit 1, 2 High Street”, “Level 1, 2 High Street” and “10-14 High Street”.

Whereis for Address Book is donation-ware and available from the developer’s web site.Address Book, Australia, Australian addresses, whereis, mapquest, plugins

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This week Address Book and iCal get the lion’s share of the additions to the Hawk Wings Plugin and Addon List.

The following items were added to the Address Book section:

• AddressBookQuickEntry (an alternate entry interface for contact information)
• AusAB (maps, travel directions and Sydney public transport times for Australian addresses)
• iAddressX (Address Book menubar utility)

The following were added to the iCal section:

• DoBeDo (a Dashboard widget for iCal ToDos)
• iCalViewer (“Streaming” desktop iCal events and ToDos)
• MenuCalendarClock (menubar utility for you iCal calendar, clock and ToDo and event information)

Mail.app itself scored two extra entries:

• anentry (AppleScript to email a NetNewsWire headline) in the Integration with other Apps section
• NetShred X (history and cache shredder for Mail.app and browsers) in the Added Functionality section

These additions bring the number of entries on the list to a round 120, all making Mail.app, Address Book and iCal easier, more efficient, more productive and (possibly) more fun to use.

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