For the next twenty hours MacUpdate is offering a 21% discount on BuddyPOP, an excellent “quick look-up” utility for Address Book.

Once installed, pressing a user-definable hotkey pops up a dialog window to search and match your Address Book contacts.

It then displays that contact’s information:

Of course you can do the same thing with Quicksilver, but BuddyPOP has an extra trick up its sleeve. It offers a very quick way to get info out of your Address Book into a Mail.app message (or any other kind of document).

BuddyPOP also handles Skype, X-Lite SIP SoftPhone and Vonage, has support for sending and receiving SMS messages via a Bluetooth-enabled phone.

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Jonathan Nathan has released an updated version of EntourageABMenu, a menubar utility that offers system-wide access to Entourage’s contacts.

The new version offers geographical menu for sorting contacts by city, state and country.

Also, you can now search your contacts by multiple search terms (that is, search by name and company at once) and define your own settings for how the results are displayed.

Remote lookup performance has been improved and it works faster with large numbers of contacts.

Jonathan also has an Address Book version of this utility, which will be released next week with similar improvements.

By itself, EntourageABMenu costs USD 10, but Jonathan is offering a special bundle deal (USD 20) with Jon’sPhoneTools , his dialler app that can call phone numbers in your Address Book or on a web page with Vonage, CallVantage, Skype, IP phones from Cisco or Snom, softphones from the Gizmo Project and others.

You can get EntourageABMenu by itself or as part of the bundle offer .entourage, contacts, menubar, productivity, dialler, address book, phone numbers