vCards

It's possible to store our contact details in a standard electronic format called vCard. Clicking 'Add our vCards to contacts' gives you a downloadable file that can be stored in your electronic address book.

What is a vCard?

vCards are essentially electronic business cards. A vCard contains contact details for a specific person in the same way as a printed business card.

How do I use vCards?

Our contacts page produces vCards for each person listed, which can be saved or opened directly, depending on your computer's settings.

vCards are useful for software which stores contacts or has an "address book" style feature. If you use such software you can save vCards for commonly-used contacts by clicking the "Add vCard to Contacts" button. Here follows a brief guide for common software:

Adding a vCard to Microsoft Outlook

  1. Got to our contacts page.
  2. Click the "Add vCard..." button.
  3. Select "Save As" when prompted.
  4. Save the .vcf file to your desktop.
  5. Open Microsoft Outlook
  6. Click [File → Import → Import a VCARD file (.vcf)]
  7. Locate the .vcf file on your desktop and double-click it.
  8. The new entry will open.
  9. Click "Save and Close".
  10. You can then delete the .vcf file from your desktop.

Adding a vCard to iPod Contacts

  1. Connect your iPod so that it appears as an external drive in your file system.
  2. Got to our contacts page.
  3. Click the "Add vCard..." button.
  4. Select "Save As" when prompted.
  5. Save the vCard into the Contacts folder on your iPod. You will need to save each .vcf file with a unique filename, eg. lastname_firstname.vcf

Saving vCards on your mobile phone

Many mobile phones can import vCards. You can add them directly from our contacts page.:

  1. Open our contact page on your mobile phone
  2. Click/select the "Save to Addressbook" option
  3. Some mobile phones may show additional confirmation prompts to save the vCard
  4. The contact should now appear in your mobile phone's contact list

Some mobile phones can synchronise contact lists with software such as Lotus Notes or Microsoft Outlook. This is different for each mobile phone, so please refer to your phone's manual for details.

Credits

The vCards are in embedded into our contact pages using the hCard microformat. The hCards are translated into vCards by Brian Suda's X2V engine. This user-guide was stolen from the Griffith Phonebook, by Ben Buchanan and Colin Morris.

External links

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