
Click Share and it will open a new e-mail message in Mail with that contact’s vCard attached. When viewing a contact (either as a page in the book or as one of those pop-out windows), there’s now a Share button next to the Edit button. In that second view, you see your contacts list on the left and individual contacts on the right click on a contact in the list on this page and you get a pop-up window with that contact. In Lion, following the book visual metaphor, Address Book breaks that into two sets of “pages”: One shows you a list of your groups on the left and a list of contacts on the right click on a contact in that list (or click on the red-ribbon page-marker) and the page turns. Double-click on a name in that middle column and that card would pop up in a window of its own. In OS X 10.6, you had a window with three panes-Group, Name, and Card. Those pages have a purpose: They separate two distinct views of your contacts. The app now looks a lot like the Contacts app on the iPad.

For starters, it has been made to look like a traditional leather-and-paper address book: Pages fan out from a center with faux stitching and shadowing they seem to be bound by a brown leather cover.

In Lion, Address Book has been radically redesigned.
