One of the best included applications in OS X is Address Book. Not only does it allow management of people’s addresses, you can access them across the entire filesystem, share them via email easily, sync them with Exchange servers and access LDAP servers.
Unfortunately, the only way to synchronize or share your Address Book real-time is with .Mac. .Mac, for those who don’t know, is basically a glorified WebDAV and IMAP server system that Apple’s got integrated into OS X. It also costs $100 a year, a price I’m not going to pay for something that doesn’t offer PHP, MySQL, Perl, or shell and FTP access, like my beloved hosting company.
Unfortunately, this means I can’t share my Address Book with my wife without paying $200 per year. (Need two .Mac accounts.) Or can I? Since it’s just WebDAV, there must be a way for me to set up a proxy on my local machine to shunt requests to our Mini, which is running WebDAV that’s hosting our iCals.
It’ll take some looking into, but figuring this out will be quite the accomplishment, if it’s possible.
Posted by: Paul in Mac OS X
