Technology is wonderful sometimes but it can have serious drawbacks. Having recently moved house and finally managed to remember my new address and find out what my new phone number is I set out to send my new contact details around to friends and family. It occurred to me that attaching a vcard with all my details might make life easier for some people to get in sync with my new details. The trouble is if you attach a file to an email people inevitably think it’s important and just have to open it. So my email ends with the words:

Just ignore the attachment if you don’t know what a vcard is. That’s not so bad but it’s a shame I can’t depend on every mail client supporting vcard and providing a nice user friendly button to update this contacts details instead of just showing the attachment. For that matter, it’s a shame I don’t know of any email client that does that. It also now occurs to me that this is entirely irrelevant because I forgot to attach the file. Sigh. I know there are plugins for some email clients that warn you if you’ve said you’ll attach something but don’t actually do it, but I don’t have one for Mail.app unfortunately. My other complaint is that with the very user friendly ability Mail.app has of auto-completing email addresses based on emails I’ve received as well as addresses in my address book it turns out I have pretty much noone in my address book. So if you want into my address book – send a vcard to adrian at intencha.com