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Liven up Address Book with Avatars

Is your Address Book full of web-savvy friends who know what a Gravatar (or a Pavatar) is? Avatars is a freeware plugin for Address Book that searches for, displays, and adds your contacts' avatars to their cards. It installs with a package installer as a SIMBL plugin, and it looks to me like SIMBL is in the package, too, just in case you need it.

It's simple, useful and has the right amount of eye candy to be visually interesting without being intrusive. Now I just need more friends with avatars.

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Is your Address Book full of web-savvy friends who know what a Gravatar (or a Pavatar) is? Avatars is a freeware plugin for Address Book...
 

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John Stansbury

I don't know enough web–savvy people, apparently.

January 22 2008 at 1:41 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Turadg

This is neat. I'd really like to see these two features:

1) do what Adium does and grab the AIM avatars

2) detect Gmail addresses and grab those avatars

January 13 2008 at 12:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mark 2000

Speaking of Gravatars. I'm going to use this as an opportunity to see if mine works.

December 31 2007 at 12:27 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Matt

You guys should add Gravatar support here.

December 30 2007 at 7:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rob

Okay, evidently I'm the only one who can't figure this out. I just downloaded Avatars 1.2 and I can't figure out how to use it. According to the project site, I just select Card > Download Custom Image, but I don't see any such option when I click on a name in my address book.

I installed using the installer package that I downloaded from MacUpdate. Anyone have any idea what I'm not doing right?

Thanks.

December 30 2007 at 2:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
keizo

It's awesome.

December 29 2007 at 9:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris24

That's really cool. Hopefully now that Automattic acquired Gravatar, more people will catch on and get those Gravatars :)

December 29 2007 at 7:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Alan

Alternate way to fill up your Address Book with pictures: Adium can hook up with Address Book and add your IM buddies' pictures to their respective entries.

December 29 2007 at 4:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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