Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 275
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 275. Here are my solutions to them.
1: Traced in epidemics and in emergencies, it replaced 2.
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Contacts
Traced in epidemics (contact tracing) and in emergencies (emergency contacts), it replaced 2 (Contacts replaced Address Book in Mountain Lion in 2012).
2: Formal speech and memory location publication until superseded by 1.
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Address Book
Formal speech (an address) and memory location (an address) publication (book) until superseded by 1 (from the first beta of Mac OS X until 2012, when Contacts replaced it).
3. Packed lunch came in 2008 to integrate 2 with a table of dates.
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Bento
Packed lunch (in Japan, bento) came in 2008 (first released by FileMaker in 2008, and discontinued in 2013) to integrate 2 with a table of dates (what it did so well: it was a lightweight database that integrated address book and calendar data).
The common factor
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They all work with address book data.
I look forward to your putting alternative cases.