Profile Pictures... I've got your free icon pictures here!

Hi Gang.

Most of you have been pretty good with figuring out all the interesting features on the new Trikepilot Social, and that's what I was hoping for when we launched.

One item is still stuck under my fingernail, however, and that is the large number of "blank" Member Profile Pictures.

I know many of you are shy, or don't have a good idea how to get your images up there, so I'm going to help. The bottom line is that I would love to have "zero" blank profiles.

So how can I help? I'm donating some images for you guys to use.

Simply go to my public Flickr Account here: which shows a bunch of great shots from my recent adventure to Trikefest 2007.

When you see an image you like, simply right click on the "icon" image from the front page and choose "Save As" or "Save to Disk", then store it on a memorable location on your hard drive. Don't bother with the full-size image, you only need a minimum of 118px x 118px, which is fine with the Flickr thumbnail shown.

Then, go into the upper right corner of your "My Page" tab and choose "Edit My Profile".

From there, you will be able to click on the left upper side where it says "Change Your Profile Photo".



After a quick password check, you will be on the page that lets you upload that image you just saved on your hard disk.

Hit the "Browse" button, locate the file, then you can select the image you download, hit "upload" or "open" (depending on browser), and you are all set. The program will ask you to verify that you like what you have done and you are ready to go from Nameless and Faceless to super cool.

IF ALL ELSE FAILS... just do like my good friend Damien

How to Bulk-Upload Images to Trikepilot Social from Flickr

At present, the photo upload function in Trikepilot Social is manual upload only. There "is", however, a great alternative... using Flickr.com

Here's a step by step:

First, go into the Photos Tab at Trikepilot Social. Then click on "My Photos". You can add photos manually (as you've been doing), by your email or cell phone one at a time (fun, but not what you want now), or by using a free Flickr account. On the lower right you see the link.



Next you will need to set up a Free Flickr.com account like the one I have at this location:
You need to decide whether to make the images public or private, but EITHER would be fine for us on our site because you are going to use Flickr simply as a place to upload your images in bulk, and then trikepilot will 'slurp' the images from that site automatically...saving you tons of time.

Flickr has built in manual file management, but on windows and mac there are free 'BULK' upload tools that you can use. See this link: Pick the bulk uploader tool for your operating system and then set it up with your Flickr account name (it's all automatic) and then you are ready to go.

Once you've set up your Flickr account and bulk uploaded, then you have a "repository" for slurping the photos over to Trikepilot Social. You can also create a cool RSS Feed from your Flickr page that will let you very easily share your images from Flickr to Trikepilot Social in your member page or in a blog post without reposting them on our site. The only downside of this is that you don't then have them archived with your member site and they don't get action on our search engine or favorite's ordering, etc. So it's best to take the next step below.

So, this is the page you come to on Trikepilot Social where you can now 'slurp' your Flickr photos. You can select any number of ways to get the photos, by last number of images, by photo set, by tag name, by all photos, by description, etc. Whatever works, it only takes time and space, but it is all automatic.



Once you have done that, you will see a page like this below, showing your recently uploaded photos. Now you can organize, edit, rename, do whatever you want at Trikepilot Social.



Last Trick:

If you want to put images from an RSS Feed from your Flickr account into Trikepilot Social:

Go into the lower left corner of your Flickr home page and you will see an orange RSS Feed icon with the words "FEED". If you click on that, you can generate the URL link to your image feed and either copy and paste that code into Trikepilot Social as I will show, or email it to someone or use it to view your images on any browser without logging in to Flickr.



My feed looks like this:

Now, the last thing would be to go to Trikepilot Social and in the lower left corner of your member page, you will see "RSS". Click on Edit, then "paste" the feed URL like the one I show above, into the URL line. You can use my to test, but obviously you want your own photos! ;)



When you are done, you should see something like this:



NOW, you will have an automatic feed of your Flickr images on your personal page at Trikepilot Social!

Keep in mind, however, that the feed photos will NOT get ranked in the Trikepilot Social Photos section for popularity or times viewed or search by terms. Sometimes that's fine... so your choice!

Let me know if you have any questions