Every Mac user has probably noticed that the Address Book application that ships with your Mac has the option to show an image for each contact card. This of course holds true to the contacts application on your iPhone or your iPod touch. Getting an image for every person in your Address Book could take you a while. However, if any of your contacts use Facebook, and of course if you do also, there is a simple and free way to get their profile picture in to your Address Book. Of course if it can get into your Address Book, it can get onto your iPhone or iPod touch when you sync with iTunes, or if you use MobileMe. The Application is called AddressBookSync and the developers name is Dan Auclair.
AddressBookSync is a Mac OS X appliation that does one thing, and does it well; and that is to download Facebook profile pictures to Address Book cards. The only thing that holds this application back, and by no fault of the developer, is if the name in the Address Book is different than the persons Facebook account it probably won’t present you with an option to download their picture. You have the option to narrow the search to Last names only and this will help if you have people for example with the name Tom Piraino on Facebook, but in your Address Card they are Thomas Piraino. Although this helps with some contacts, it creates problems with Facebook friends with the same last name, but have no worries, AddressBookSync will prompt you and ask whether the person on FaceBook should sync with the person in your AddressBook.
Each time the application runs it presents a window that shows you the current image in your AddressBook, and the persons image on FaceBook, that way you can see if it has changed and you can choose whether or not you’d like to update the picture in your AddressBook. If you do not want to sync the image you simply “uncheck” the box beside their name.
You can find AddressBookSync over at http://danauclair.com/addressbooksync
