WhoPaste supports Apple's Address Book, Marketcircle's Daylite, Microsoft's Entourage, and Google Contacts.
You can any of these you wish or, using WhoPaste's 'MultiDB; option you can use all of them together!

By default, WhoPaste will use Apple's Address Book because it is available on every Macintosh.

To specify which database you wish to use, open the WhoPaste preferences and select the 'Database' toolbar item.
Choose the 'Selection' tabView to specify your desired database.
Entourage and Daylite will be enabled only if these applications are installed on your computer.
Google will be disabled until you specify your account information.

You can examine the options for the various databases by selecting the specific tabView
The various options will only be enabled for the 'selected' database(s).

In order for WhoPaste to offer useful information for Entourage and Daylite, WhoPaste will start these applications if they are not running.
After you have set them up in WhoPaste preferences, WhoPaste will start either Entourage or Daylite when you 'Save' a new contact.
Apple provides tools which allow WhoPaste to use Address Book without starting the application.

Most people will use the 'Single Database' option and simply choose the one database they want to use.

You can specify 'MultiDB' and then select a set of databases to use.
If you do select more than one database make sure you understand the impact of any synching software you might be using!
WhoPaste does not sync - WhoPaste simply creates new contact records in databases.

Back to FAQ