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I've got a decent number of folks on Twitter who are also in my OS X Address Book and I wanted an easier way to keep their Twitter avatars in sync than just manually downloading and updating the images. Enter Taabu [297K DMG], my Twitter Avatar to OS X Address Book Updater.

As long as your OS X Address Book contacts have one URL field with their http://twitter.com/twitterid account in it (and you are following them), you will be able to use Taabu to update their OS X Address Book pictures with their Twitter images.

This currently works for up to ~98 contacts (all depends on your current Twitter API rate limit status, which you can use the widget in the previous post to keep track of) and is fine for me since I have far fewer than that I need to sync. Post a comment if you need that functionality as it will mean some coding to allow processing of your local contacts in batches (due to the rate limit situation). There's a "README" in the DMG download that gives a bit more info and some additional screenshots.

Requests, bug reports, complaints, accolades, etc are all welcome. (And, yes, there is a spelling error in "Downloadig" - will fix when I post the next release which will also contain the full, ugly Objective-C source code :-)