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TIP: Cool incremental search in Apple's Address Book

Try searching for a phone number in your Address Book (on Tiger), but type the number backwards. Note the following:

• The search works, even though you are typing backwards.
• Because you don't have to start with the country and area codes the search converges much more quickly. This is especially useful if some of the numbers are stored with country code, some only with area code etc.
• The search will find numbers even if they are stored with hyphens, brackets, spaces etc. This is not the case with normal, "forward" search.

This is all very useful when somebody calls you and you want to find out who it is. If you have the number in the Address book this is the way to find it.

Posted by Branimir Dolicki at 18:22

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