Xobni is much cooler when your contacts have photos. Recently we added the ability for Xobni to import photos from the Outlook address contact book. But you can also add a photo directly to Xobni, which has a great image cropping tool. Here is how you do it:
1) Right click on grey holder image of a person’s contact card in Xobni
2) Select Edit Info
3) Click Change below the photo placeholder. You can choose a photo from your PC, or there is a cool trick to grab an image off the web. Here it is:
a) Use something like Google Image Search or Flickr to find a picture of the person on the web
b) Copy the location of the photo. You can do this by right-clicking on the photo in your browser and selecting “Copy Image Location”
c) Paste the image location in the File Name: field and click on the Open button.
Viola you are done. Xobni will grab the image off the internet and you can crop from there.
June 14th, 2008 at 3:40 am
This post is useless without pics!!!
June 14th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Why not make this a feature?
“Get Photo from Google!”
July 4th, 2008 at 9:21 am
A drag and drop feature to the picture holder from what ever source would very cool.
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:00 pm
In my company we have photos in corporate directory but it is protected by Single Sign-On web system. The copy & paste URL into the location does not work. Drop & drop might be the best way to do it.