Man, I wrote this tool ages ago. I completely forgot about it until I saw the other thread in this forum. Basically I wanted a way to get all my friend's facebook profile photos into my phone really easily.
Your phone syncs your contacts from your Gmail/Google. And Gmail supports contact pictures. I wrote an application that logs into your facebook, and finds any contacts that also exist in your Gmail account. If it finds a matching contact, it uploads that Facebook profile picture to your Gmail contact. And then those pictures show up on your phone! Pretty useful.
Usage (this application runs on your Windows PC):
0) Make sure you have .NET Framework 3.5. The application may crash otherwise.
1) Start the application and input your Gmail username and password.
2) The next screen will ask for your Facebook credentials.
3) Wait for it... Wait for it... Done! (The application will have finished syncing)
4) Wait some more... Your phone may take a while to sync the new images from Google's servers. But they'll get there eventually.
WARNING: This will replace any photos that may already be associated with your contact. Go ahead and modify the code if you don't want it to do that.
Download the Windows application and the source here:
http://www.koushikdutta.com/2008/10/synchronizing-google-and-facebook.html
Whoah dude! I can't use this (Mac!) but sounds great. I'm assuming you have all the API's down, have you considered building this as an Android app?
punkweakling said:
Whoah dude! I can't use this (Mac!) but sounds great. I'm assuming you have all the API's down, have you considered building this as an Android app?
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Just run it on a Windows PC then. Nothing is actually stored on the PC; it's just syncing pictures between servers (Google/Facebook). I ran it once several months ago and haven't thought about it since.
Yeah, I've thought about making it an Android application, but I don't think it would be that useful. Contact management and syncing between two servers is done much easier on a PC, for both the user and a developer. I'm thinking about improving the application to allow syncing between Outlook, Facebook, and Google. That would be handy, but difficult to use on a phone. The results, however, would show up on your phone.
I must say, great little app. I've given up trying to add pictures to my contacts. Worked perfetly once I got Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 installed. I hope you really consider making this an Android App. I can guarantee that it'll get thousands of downloads in the first day.
For those of you who do note have Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, check out the link below.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FD-AE52-4E35-B531-508D977D32A6&displaylang=en
this is very nice. i would love to use it.... if only i wasnt still using myspace... bleh
Facebook pics for gmail contacts...
worked great for me. Thanks!
If it is on Android, every time a new contact is added, the program searches for the profile image from Facebook or Linkedin. It might be cool. Is your source code under GPL? I am interested in converting your code into Java, so it can run on Android.
It's Creative Commons, not GPL. The application itself is less than 30 lines of code. It is just leveraging the .NET bindings to the Facebook and Google Data APIs.
So is this using phone numbers? Email addresses? Names? (to compare between Gmail and Facebook)?
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So is this using phone numbers? Email addresses? Names? (to compare between Gmail and Facebook)?
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Just names. The Facebook API does definitely does not give you access to the email address. And the version I was using (and this may have changed) also does not give you access to phone numbers.
Koush said:
Just names. The Facebook API does definitely does not give you access to the email address. And the version I was using (and this may have changed) also does not give you access to phone numbers.
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Ahh... ok. I have a lot of my friends listed by nicknames etc. I understand that the phone/emails are actually images (I assume to thwart off spammers with automated catchers).
It would be awesome if this wasn't the case though. I have been spending the last hour adding email addresses from Facebook contacts so I can add a picture to their name.
good app but i wish it sync'd contacts by name instead of email...
meaning if two names match, sync. even if i just have a phone number for that contact and not an email.
but good app.
cboy007 said:
good app but i wish it sync'd contacts by name instead of email...
meaning if two names match, sync. even if i just have a phone number for that contact and not an email.
but good app.
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Actually, it only matches by name. You can't access emails or phone numbers through the Facebook API.
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Actually, it only matches by name. You can't access emails or phone numbers through the Facebook API.
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Reading comprehension is not one of his strong points.
How can i change the way it matches? for example instead of names, i put my friends facebok id as "customer id" field on windows mobile outlook. and i want it to syncronize if they matches istead of names. this way there will be no confusion if names doesnt match because of a small difference. do you think it needs much work?
worked pretty well for me.. pic quality was a bit distorted on a few.. but what the hell.. they're photo's I didn't have before Thank You for a neat little app.
pixel-painter said:
worked pretty well for me.. pic quality was a bit distorted on a few.. but what the hell.. they're photo's I didn't have before Thank You for a neat little app.
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Agreed. Nice app, thanks
hate to bring back an old thread, but is there any plan to develop this for facebook/microsoft pic transfers? For those of us that don't have office, but use an @hotmail or @live, this would be great.
Thanks
It would be great if I could link the contacts to their Facebook account manually if their names do not match ^^.
There is also a facebook sync app on the market that works well for me. Hasn't missed a contact or had a false match for me.
These two sure seem like tasty features, only waiting for a developer to incorporate them to their apps. How come no apps use them yet? Am I wrong, and there is an app out there that do?
Found one, it's funny to see it show up in the Android sync menu
http://code.google.com/p/jumpnote/
And http://code.google.com/p/filetophone/
I'm not sure how to feel about C2DM and the way you sign into your google account after being directed from another site.
I know that Google doesn't share your password only your email address with whatever developer is using the google service.
However, this opens up the "precedent" that it's okay to sign into your google account from a link originating from random websites. So incredibly easy to phish accounts in that manner.
Relevant article in case people haven't seen:
Android Cloud To Device Messaging
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/05/android-cloud-to-device-messaging.html
JumpNote is pretty neat!
Check out the web-side on http://jumpnote.appspot.com
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I'm not sure how to feel about C2DM and the way you sign into your google account after being directed from another site.
I know that Google doesn't share your password only your email address with whatever developer is using the google service.
However, this opens up the "precedent" that it's okay to sign into your google account from a link originating from random websites. So incredibly easy to phish accounts in that manner.
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You do have a point, I hadn't looked at it from that point of view.
Android2cloud uses c2dm and is pretty neat. Would link but can't as my account hasn't been verified by mods yet.
File2phone will no doubt be very useful, not a lot of activity going on there tho by the looks of things!
I would have thought more apps would be using c2dm like Facebook for example to notify you have a new message or backing configs for Locale or Tasker to the cloud would be nice .... not much traction is dissapointing.
awaiting a msn app like ebuddy on the iphone, data connection doesnt have to stay open.
Has anyone come across a free OCR app that works on 2.2?
I did a search and came up with this but apparently it doesnt work on froyoyoyo
I just want to scan text from whatever using the camera and either save it and email it or store it some how on the phone or if its a url then open in the browser or if its an email then open gmail etc...
thanks in advance
I am also interested in a general purpose ocr app
Jon
I´m searching for a way to sync FB Birthdates with the Google Calendar like in the HTC Sense Roms this will be awesome =)
Thanks for any help
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ok i found a paid app wich can synk FB Birthdays with the Google Calendar
Name of the app "Birthday Tracker" for 3,99$
I just use ebobirthday... it works really well
ok looks good but no chance to add the bithdays in the Google Calendar..?!
ok i found a paid app wich can synk FB Birthdays with the Google Calendar
Name of the app "Birthday Tracker" for 3,99$
Too bad i cant buy apps from where im from...
You don't need an "app" at all.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=google+calendar+facebook+sync First link br0's.
evilkorn said:
You don't need an "app" at all.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=google+calendar+facebook+sync First link br0's.
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for $0 I salute you!
I use exchange as my primary email app and there doesn't appear to be any search functionality even the email client looks a hell of a lot like outlook in honeycomb. Am I just missing the search feature or is there a better exhange client available?
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For whatever reason, Google has never put a search function in their stock email app. You'll have to use touchdown or your company's web mail portal for searching.
ihtfp69 said:
For whatever reason, Google has never put a search function in their stock email app. You'll have to use touchdown or your company's web mail portal for searching.
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How bizarre... a search company not having search in their email app. Very weird.
earch in email
We need this feature my galaxy s has search in email.
Anyone know of a place to report missing features to google?
Try K9 mail. The search on it is decent.
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Use touchdown, the new one in the Market is designed for honeycomb and looks just like the Google mail app. Has full search even server search.