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Turn on contact reflections in the Mac Address Book

In Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) you can turn on reflections of the contact images shown in the Address Book. It's not a big deal, but it's a nice touch. Here's how it looks:

Address book contact with image reflection Address book contact with image reflection

To enable this, you first need to turn on the Debug menu in the Address Book. To do this, close the Address Book and then open a terminal window. In the terminal window, run this command:

defaults write com.apple.AddressBook ABShowDebugMenu -bool true

Then restart Address Book. You'll notice a new menu in the menu bar called "Debug". Go up to it and select the "Show Contact Reflection" option in the menu. Once you do this, all of the contact images shown will have a nice reflection effect.
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