A few nice how to images I found:
How-To: iPod Contact Photos for Non-Mac Users
Image by mtigas
Update: As of 2007, iTunes takes care of this — at least, on Vista when using Windows Contacts. I’m not sure about XP or Outlook.
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Being a Windows user, I was pretty much shafted by Apple from the start, seeing as the "syncability" of the iPod was never as good from the PC side of the spectrum.
Looking at my contacts on my iPod, there was always that little "avatar placeholder" that bothered me. (example of the avatar thing)
As the iPod only supports vCard (VCF) and Thunderbird doesn’t have the tiniest ounce of capability for VCF, I’d resorted to using various converters and such available on the net. The contact photo still eluded me. Hadn’t seen it documented anywhere or whatnot.
Searching for examples, I realized that many people leave their VCF’s on webservers, and since VCFs are essentially text files, Google will index them. So, a search for inurl:vcf begin vcard photo got me plenty of examples to look at. (I’d already deduced that hey, the tag for the picture is "photo".)
Closer examination revealed that all the examples had the image encoded inline, mostly via Base64.
Example header for this field would be:
photo;encoding=base64;type=jpeg:
/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAgAAZABkAAD/7AARRHVja3k(and so on ’til file end)
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So. Here’s how to get your contacts’ pictures working on your iPod. If you’re a Linux user, use your own base64 implementation instead of downloading the Windows one I link to… This is fairly straightforward, I think.
I’m assuming you have an individual VCF file of the contact you wish to add a photo to.
Now get your image ready in MSPaint or Photoshop. I wouldn’t make it larger than 90x90px. The iPod will scale it down, so don’t worry if it’s not 100% square, though the closer it is, the better it’ll look. Save it to JPEG, I’d go with a 40% quality or less, as this shouldn’t be more than 3kB large. GIF is also possible, but I’d rather keep file sizes small with JPEG compression. Save it to C:. No subfolder, just the very top of your hard drive.
Download this base64 converter, put the base64.exe into the C:windows folder.
Open up a command prompt (start->run; type in "cmd" and hit "OK"). Type in cd C:.
Type in base64 -e your_file out.txt ; where your_file is the jpeg image you saved earlier.
Open up notepad and open up C:out.txt.
Copy the entire thing (looks like jibberish), and have notepad open the VCF file for your contact.
At the end of the VCF, make a new line above "end:vcard". Paste all the encoded data (that jibberish looking stuff) in so it sits just above "end:vcard". On a new line immediately above that data (el jibberish), paste in photo;encoding=base64;type=jpeg:.
You should have something that looks like this:
begin:vcard
version:3.0
rev:20060706
n:Tigas;Chris;;;
(…..more data and fields and stuff…)
photo;encoding=base64;type=jpeg:
/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAgAAZABkAAD/7AARRHVja3kAAQAEAAAAKAAA/+4ADkFkb2JlAGTAAAAA
Af/bAIQADAgICAkIDAkJDBELCgsRFQ8MDA8VGBMTFRMTGBcSFBQUFBIXFxscHhwbFyQkJyck
JDUzMzM1Ozs7Ozs7Ozs7OwENCwsNDg0QDg4QFA4PDhQUEBEREBQdFBQVFBQdJRoXFxcXGiUg
(…..many lines of encoded data…)
7b+zEzJ3bluAjfnHCnd/2YipaH9nvj8Y/MycmQjxRf8Ayau8jlJkkBvGfQw8TwNFdlHPjpQ7
uHnhmfRY9T//2Q==
end:vcard
Save this and transfer the VCF file into your iPod. It should come through with the little contact photo. If not, possibly the base64 conversion went bad, possibly a bad copy and paste, or some other problem with your VCF.
Enjoy.
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How to be an Optimist (Short guide:)
Image by Emyan
There was a situation that push me to make notes like that in my moleskine. There are some of my thoughts about how to keep things more positively and to live more happily like I’m trying to do. Comments and your opinions are welcome:)) And have a very positive week!:)
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