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getting photos from my PC to my iPhone? (without email?)

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dgates

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Nov 24, 2008, 3:04:51 AM11/24/08
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I've decided to try adding some photos of friends to their Contact
entries on my iPhone.

The most obvious way to get photos to the iPhone seems to be to email
them, then check my email on my iPhone and save the attachment(s) to
"Photos."

Is there another way? I'm test-driving MobileMe right now, so I
thought maybe I could do it with MobileFiles, but althought I can now
get files from iDisk to a folder on the iPhone, I can't actually move
them to Photos (or to Contacts).

I could try paying $6 or $7 for OneDisk (formerly A.I.Disk), but I
can't read from the description if that'll let me get the photos into
Photos or Contacts either.

Maybe using something like Air Sharing? It's certainly popular, but I
can't tell from the reviews if it will do what I want -- or even if
it's stable on the PC.


Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Jon Ribbens

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Nov 24, 2008, 3:43:23 AM11/24/08
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On 2008-11-24, dgates <dga...@somedomain.com> wrote:
> I've decided to try adding some photos of friends to their Contact
> entries on my iPhone.
>
> The most obvious way to get photos to the iPhone seems to be to email
> them, then check my email on my iPhone and save the attachment(s) to
> "Photos."
>
> Is there another way?

In iTunes, from the screen about your iPhone, click 'Photos', tick
'Sync photos from', and selected a place or places to copy photos
from. The images in this folder or folders will then be copied to the
iPhone when you sync.

dgates

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Nov 24, 2008, 4:00:03 AM11/24/08
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Ahh...

Dang...

Of course.

Thank you.

Marc Stibane

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Nov 24, 2008, 6:52:23 AM11/24/08
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dgates <dga...@somedomain.com> wrote:

> I've decided to try adding some photos of friends to their Contact
> entries on my iPhone.
>
> The most obvious way to get photos to the iPhone seems to be to email
> them, then check my email on my iPhone and save the attachment(s) to
> "Photos."

The most obvious way is to add photos to the contacts in your computer's
addressbook, then sync your contacts with your iPhone.

Do the work on your computer, not on the iPhone - same as with music
playlists, movies, mail accounts, browser bookmarks...
Then just sync.

--
In a world without walls and fences,
who needs windows and gates?

dgates

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Nov 24, 2008, 2:48:25 PM11/24/08
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On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:52:23 +0100, spamf...@arcor.de (Marc Stibane)
wrote:

>dgates <dga...@somedomain.com> wrote:
>
>> I've decided to try adding some photos of friends to their Contact
>> entries on my iPhone.
>>
>> The most obvious way to get photos to the iPhone seems to be to email
>> them, then check my email on my iPhone and save the attachment(s) to
>> "Photos."
>
>The most obvious way is to add photos to the contacts in your computer's
>addressbook, then sync your contacts with your iPhone.
>
>Do the work on your computer, not on the iPhone - same as with music
>playlists, movies, mail accounts, browser bookmarks...
>Then just sync.


That's not a bad idea, except that as an Outlook user, I'd have to
crop in some other program (I'd probably use Photoshop) and then
import the photo in for the contact.

Doing it on the iPhone allows me to "crop" (really more like a zoom)
while I'm adding the photo to the contact.


But I was suprised to see that the photos had all made their way into
Outlook! I hadn't ever considered that element of it.

4phun

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Nov 24, 2008, 10:43:22 PM11/24/08
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On Nov 24, 2:48 pm, dgates <dga...@somedomain.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:52:23 +0100, spamfal...@arcor.de (Marc Stibane)

Add pictrues in Contact on the PC and they are crappy thumnails when
displayed on the iPhone. When pciture is assigned to contact on the
iPhone a much larger picture (and better in Outlook too when synced to
PC) will display when the phone rings or you call someone.

There are all kinds of apps for editing photos on the iPhone or you
can zoom and move the picture around when adding it to contacts so you
can get a clear face for your incoming phone calls.

dgates

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Nov 25, 2008, 11:44:10 AM11/25/08
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On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:43:22 -0800 (PST), 4phun <vic.h...@gmail.com>
wrote:


Excellent tip. Thanks.

I only just realized yesterday that the picture I assign to the
contact is not only the little square thumbnail I see when editing the
contact, but also the full-screen picture I see when talking to the
contact.

I suppose that might explain why the "Move and Scale" tool didn't make
it more obvious what final shape I was producing for the contact. I
was, in fact, producing two: a square shape for the thumbnail, and the
portrait shape for the full-screen view.

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