Address Book is a nice, compact, and quick application for your contacts. However, if you’re looking for an even faster way to quickly look up a contact from anywhere on your Mac, then hit F1… or any other key you define.

TapDex is a wonderful freeware program that will find your contacts at the press of a button. Hit F1 on your keyboard and up comes the little TapDex box. Partially type in your contact’s name and hit enter. All close matching names appear in a new, larger box on the right side. Click the one you were looking for and up comes your contact’s information. Left click on an address (home, business, etc.) and a pop-up menu appears with some useful choices. You can click the first choice, Map of, and quickly be whisked away to Google Maps, highlighting your location. Or if you’d rather, you can copy the Google Map URL for sending via an e-mail or adding to a document. If you need to see that address really large, hit the Large Font option and up it blows onto your screen. Last, you can simply copy the address as plain text.

Yellow Mug Software also offers a Pro version which deactivates the sponsor’s message (little text messages at the bottom of each contact with hyperlinks), gives you unlimited upgrades of future versions, and e-mail tech support coverage. But if you can live without these three options, then you’ll probably be just fine with the free-bee version. Heck, we are!

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