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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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Alan said 4:10PM on 12-29-2007
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.
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Chris Thomson said 7:49PM on 12-29-2007
That's really cool. Hopefully now that Automattic acquired Gravatar, more people will catch on and get those Gravatars :)
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keizo said 9:10PM on 12-29-2007
It's awesome.
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Rob said 2:50PM on 12-30-2007
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.
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Matt said 7:51PM on 12-30-2007
You guys should add Gravatar support here.
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Mark 2000 said 12:27AM on 12-31-2007
Speaking of Gravatars. I'm going to use this as an opportunity to see if mine works.
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Turadg said 1:49PM on 1-13-2008
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
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John Stansbury said 1:41AM on 1-22-2008
I don't know enough web–savvy people, apparently.
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