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What are all the Identicon frameworks available to developers?

Identicons are those icons based on a user IP or name or so which provide an automated avatar... just like the avatar icon on StackOverflow. Here are some available systems (hat tip to Roger Browne): http://haacked.com/archive/2007/01/22/Identicons_as_Visual_Fingerprints.aspx http://digitalconsumption.com/forum/Visiglyphs-for-IP-visual...

Uploading images for user avatar

Right now I use Gravatar for user avatars on my website. I want to let users upload images to use as avatars from my website to gravatar so they don't have to visit gravatar if they choose not to, and I don't have to support multiple avatar methods. I don't know how to accomplish this in ASP.NET MVC. In Ruby on Rails they made it eas...

dojo drag and drop Avatar

i am using dojo drag and drop, its working fine, only problem i have is when i start dragging, cursor come little up and left from the Avatar. which look vary bad. is there any solution for that at least move can be inside the Avatar... any solution, css , tables etc... ...

Reducing size of user avatars? - creating thumbnails.

Hi, User of my site upload images which are used as avatars. I have set a upload limit size of 2 MB. At most places I only require thumbnails. But users upload images with far bigger resolutions. I store these files on my file-system. How can i create thumbnails and store them instead of large sized files? ...

Which itch does a gravatar scratch?

This is a very serious question: I've seen lots of threads here about gravatars but I couldn't find and answer to this question: what computer identification/authentication (?) problem, if any, are gravatars supposed to solve? Neither the Wikipedia entry nor the official website are very useful. The official website mentions a "globall...

WordPress: Display Online Users' Avatars

Hi, I'm using version 2.7.0 of this WordPress plugin to display which users are currently online (the latest version doesn't work): http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-useronline/ It's working great but I would love to be able to alter it quickly to display the users' avatars instead of their names. Hoping someone with pretty good k...