What size is the profile picture?

[Will]

I'm editing a new profile picture for my login and I'm wondering it's exact specs.

I should also change the image from a JPG to PNG format to correct?

[Rob Bean]

256x256

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 15:38, Will <wgree...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm editing a new profile picture for my login and I'm wondering it's exact specs.

I should also change the image from a JPG to PNG format to correct?

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[Rob Bean]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 15:50, Rob Bean <papa...@gmail.com> wrote:

256x256 - I think you have to convert to png

[Will]

Cool,thank you.I trying to Google it,but was having a hard finding it.

[Rob Bean]

In dev mode, I used the file command in the shell to find out the dimensions of the image. The Oracle failed me, too. :)

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 16:03, Will <wgree...@gmail.com> wrote:

Cool,thank you.I trying to Google it,but was having a hard finding it.

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[Chacko]

Curious, what is the goal of this?  Change an existing profile image?  If a new one, at the time of login, you can always hold up a photo of whatever you want, or your cat for that matter :)

[Will]

I wanted to edit my Google profile pic to use for Sergey here....

I just some wanted some synergy between the two :)

[CqN]

I see :)

Does this mean you can add pic later even if you did not set one at
the intial log in time? If so how? My cat has been asking me for it
often ...

[Rob Bean]

Didn't work when I tried it, but that was the original build the device shipped with. YMMV. :)

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[Sutty-Jane]

With the latest update- it automatically asked for a picture, I knew what was coming this time; and quickly put my Chrome Stickers in front of the Camera. LOL

[Will]

Nice......First time I took a picture,I used my Time Warner Road Runner Mousepad (beep beep)

[CqN]

Sutty-Jane,
What was the state of your machine when you started the machine after
the latest update? IS THAT BETA or DEV CHANNEL?

Here after the dev channel update, I simply logged in as usual. Only
when I had switched between the beta mode to dev channel, by flipping
the hardware sw, it asked for a new photo, since it was starting from
a total scratch state. I think if you go thru erasing the stateful
partitions, on restart it asks for a photo.

I have read under issues page at google, that they intend to add the
feature a photo at any time later, even if one was not put in at the
initial log in. I do not know if that has been implemented in any of
the later releases, and if so, the steps to add the photo.

CqN

[Will]

No,this "hack" won't work if you opted out of taking a picture during setup :( 

[Caleb Eggensperger]

One of the recent dev channel updates (not dev mode, the one with the hardware switch) reset my account and I had to re-do the entire setup process, including re-taking the picture. (It only reset the account though; all my files and saved tabs and such stuck around).

[Chacko]

Well, a users settings/configs under cr-48 experience are of two groups.  One is the data maintained on the google cloud for a user login account of chrome the browser, which incudes things like the tabs, and other browser things.  This part is very persistent, especially when google sync is enabled.  You can even get this part brought over to any of your other computers where you run chrome browser, almost transparently and automatically when you enable google chrome in those computers.

The second part are the settings --- most likely the designers thought to be -- specifc to an indivdualy computer of a user.  This in the cr-48 is maintained in the stateful partion.  It includes all those settings that are not listed in the goolge sync page, and your saved data files, and if you have google sync enabled for that computer, keyboard configurations, possibly display size, wireless/other networks, related accounts, among other things. Of course this second category gets wifed out often in many of the current cr-48 experimental usage :)

The above is my understanding, not 100% tested to be confirmed by personal experience

CqN

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Caleb Eggensperger <cale...@gmail.com> wrote:

One of the recent dev channel updates (not dev mode, the one with the hardware switch) reset my account and I had to re-do the entire setup process, including re-taking the picture. (It only reset the account though; all my files and saved tabs and such stuck around).

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[Deidre Elizabeth]

so what's the hack?

[Dennis Lockhart]

I looked for the 'hack' in this thread too and didn't find one. I believe, like the others mentioned, if you skip taking a picture when you first setup your account, there's no way to add one later - at least not yet either officially or via a 'hack'.
DennyL@GMail

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Deidre Elizabeth <thissocal...@gmail.com> wrote:

so what's the hack?

[Will]

Sorry for not posting a link,I though this was common knowledge by
now.
http://www.thechromesource.com/replacing-your-profile-picture-on-the-cr-48/

On Feb 21, 3:34 pm, Deidre Elizabeth <thissocalledflo...@gmail.com>

[Dennis Lockhart]

We may have gotten off the beaten track (thread) a little.

I think the original question was about replacing the image and what size it required. The link you mentioned shows a method to do that. You said "No,this "hack" won't work if you opted out of taking a picture during setup :( " which is what Diedre and I were talking about. 

I've tried downloading a .png file and renaming it to my email address with a .png extension but it still doesn't show up on the login screen. I think the image info. gets loaded into the current user db somehow and the command line method doesn't work, evidently only a gui method like the link describes works for now.

DennyL@GMail

[Chacko]

So, DennyL, I am curious.  Are you experimenting to see if somehow a profile image can be added if it was not done during the intial setup?  Or do you know if it can done, but trying to find an alterate way of doing it?  The way I read the posts so far was, if you had not set up a profile pic at the intial setup, it cannot be done later period (without having to wipe clean, restart).  Enlighten me :)

CqN

[Rob Bean]

Chacko, you read it correctly:

If you do not setup an account picture during the iniitial setup, you CANNOT use this 'hack' to create one. The setup will have to be rerun to get an account picture.

[Will]

The reason I said "hack" is because I don't think Google intended for us to change it in this manner.

Do you think they will change that in the future,so we don't have full access anymore?

[Chacko]

OK.

Now it is time to inject something new into this thread :)

My guess is that google's plan was/is to use the intial setup photo as a photo id to authenticate during subsequent login instead of password (sheer speculation now, but if google were not thinking of this before, they can send me the cut of the profits later :) ).  This is like the thumb print authenticator that newer notebooks have.  The problems to solve for photo authentication are non trivial, since somebody can hold up a photo of yours, and that has to be detected as phony.  Yes, thumb print copies also have been purported to have been used for breaking into such secure locks all the time, at least on TV episodes.  BTW, I have significant amount of research in image recoginition, including face recogniton.  So if that was g.'s plan, they have to really do all they can to change that initial image without some security gates of first degree :)

CqN

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Will <wgree...@gmail.com> wrote:

The reason I said "hack" is because I don't think Google intended for us to change it in this manner.

Do you think they will change that in the future,so we don't have full access anymore?

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[Will]

?!?!?...LOL

[Dennis Lockhart]

We use Lenovo laptops at the school where I work and they can employ both fingerprint & facial recognition. The fingerprint recognition asks you to register one, or preferably, more fingerprints and the facial recognition seems to measure the distance between your eyes and possibly other facial features, it doesn't always work too well with glasses on. It wouldn't surprise me if Google decided to do something like this, as you mentioned.

I had pondered this in an earlier thread but I wondered why Google didn't grab your photo that was registered with your account when you first login, if you have one. I would think they could offer us the choice of using that image or snapping a new one, that'd be a handy option.
DennyL@GMail

[Rob Bean]

I understand. I used the quotes to maintain already-used conventions. ;)

I think Google will change it the other direction: Allowing the user picture to be changed after initial setup.

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:50, Will <wgree...@gmail.com> wrote:

The reason I said "hack" is because I don't think Google intended for us to change it in this manner.

Do you think they will change that in the future,so we don't have full access anymore?

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