Sync your Google contacts with their Gravatars
Gravatar is one the most popular thing being used on internet which allows you to associate your email id with a picture you upload with them. Any Gravatar enabled blog will show your picture when you comment there. That’s what Gravatar majorly used for, now lets take the next step.
How about updating all your contacts picture n your Gmail account with their gravatar image ? Sounds Damn Exciting. This way you will not only see the image of that person in gtalk but you will see them when you hover over the email in received mails. This adds more value to the mailing system. However their email should have been registered with gravatar and with an uploaded image.
Ok talked enough, Arik has written a small program which allows you to sync your Google contacts with their Gravatars. You will .net framework to be installed on your computer to use this. Here are the screen shots and how it looks once done.
Software to update Gmail Contacts with Linked Gravatar Image
Gmail Contact Image before update
Gmail Contact Image after update
This could be the perfect way to update without any manual process. However this software is still in alpha stage. I had a good time talking with Arik , last night, to fix the bug I had and he fixed it very quickly. He has promised to make it little more faster once he gets more time. You can get the software from his post link which I had given above the post.
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Posted on 14th October 2008 by Ashish Mohta , A tech blogger who writes about solving day to day problems of people who use computer. He also writes on How to use the applications like Office, PC tips, Online tools,Browsers and more. All posts by Ashish Mohta | Connect with me @
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Check out some information about Google’s new Android phone. But is there a way to sync your contacts to that phone? I’m pretty sure there is.
Re. Android – you just enter your Google account into the phone and it automatically syncs with your Google Contacts, GMail, Google calendar, etc. It works both ways – everything you save on the phone goes to your web account and from the web to the phone. Needless to say, that this Gravatars will be showen on the phone
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