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Use Google Maps in the Address Book widget

Saturday, December 24th, 2005

addressbookwidgetBy default, the Address Book Dashboard widget uses MapQuest to look up and display a map for the location of your contacts.

Rob Griffiths (of macOSXHints fame) provides a script and walk-through on MacWorld that will replace the MapQuest look-up with Google Maps, giving you pop-up balloons and all the other Google Map goodness.

I am not much of a widget man myself. I prefer to use the plug-ins for Address Book itself — Brian Toth’s Google Maps plug-in and UK Streetmaps.

But widget nuts will love Rob’s tip.

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Google Maps Address Book plugin updated

Sunday, December 4th, 2005

addressbookBrian Toth’s Google Maps plugin for Address Book has been updated.

The new version (2.3.0) includes customisable phone number separators, fixes a Preferences-related bug in Panther, manages duplicate names in directions better and fixes a few other minor internal issues.

The Google Maps plug-in is donation-ware and is available from the developer’s web site.

If you live in the UK, check out the UK Streetmaps plugin for more detailed, A-to-Z-style maps.

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