May 30th, 2006 in Lifehack

Gmail Tidbit: Add a Picture

Brian at Hybernaut showed me something new in Gmail that I hadn’t noticed. In the “for-what-its-worth” category, you can go into settings now, click PICTURE (which is near the top), and you can add a picture to your email address, such that other Gmail users can see the floating image when they mouse over your “from” address.

Clearly not the most world-expanding hack you’ve ever seen, but kind of neato for Gmail users.

Gmail — [via Hybernaut]

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    • Suchitra Kaul says on May 30th, 2006 at 10:58 pm

      I can’t see any Picture link in the setting page… :(

    • ChrisBrogan says on May 30th, 2006 at 11:02 pm

      Go to Settings (upper right of the main screen). Select the GENERAL tab. About four down, you should see PICTURE.

      (Unless this is a slow rollout kind of update?)

    • mahdoum says on May 31st, 2006 at 4:44 am

      Nah not a slow rollout, it’s been 1 month since that feature has been placed in everyones gmail account.

      You can also add pictures for all your contacts (through the contacts book), or if your contacts have already added a picture you can choose theirs (btw they see what picture you uploaded of them)

    • Circuit.Boarder says on May 31st, 2006 at 5:09 am

      Well, this feature isn’t present in my account, so I am pretty sure it must be a slow rollout?

    • dagfooyo says on May 31st, 2006 at 7:06 am

      Yes, I saw this feature posted on digg when it first came out a couple weeks ago. It is indeed a slow rollout. I don’t have it yet. Hopefully it’ll expand to everyone soon.

    • Bill Mill says on May 31st, 2006 at 12:49 pm

      You can also add a picture for any of your contacts – just go to your contacts, click “edit contact”, and there’ll be a picture field.

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