It wasn't so bad when I only had the iphone and the blackberry, but now with the droid AND iPad it has gotten difficult.

I tried a few different options for keeping my contacts in sync across all of them and the only thing I've found that works painlessly so far is this setup.

The phones

• The Blackberry is a blackberry tour hooked up to the exchange server at my office.
• The Droid is hooked up to my google account... as an adroid phone should be..
• The iPhone 3GS was using mobileme to keep all of my contacts/etc backed up (with my gmail hooked up for email via imap).. it's now using googles new activesync to hook it up as an exchange account... which I'm loving especially since its seamless and FREE
• The iPad is set up similarly to the iPhone.

Soocial

To keep the google contacts in sync with the exchange server on my blackberry I tried a few different things, but soocial.com seems to be the best of the bunch. It's hassle free.. runs in the background on the blackberry and runs via what I'm assuming is a cron job on their website to connect to google for me. They also have a really nice deduping feature.

They recently came out of beta and I'm thinking about upgrading to a premium account. The free account allows up to 3 connections with up to 250 contacts.. but right now I'm almost at 400 contacts.. so I'm already over the limit.

NOTE I used my computer and not my mp3 player. So this was taken from my entire library.


1. The Chemical Brothers - Hold Tight
2. Jay-Z - Dead Presidents II
3. Tiesto - In My Memory
4. Benny Benassi - Satisfaction
5. Corner Stone Cues - Requiem for a Tower, Movement 4
6. Naast - Mauvais garcon
7. Jesse McCartney - Leavin'
8. Thriving Ivory - Our December
9. Japanese Motors - Single Fins & Safety Pins
10. Jem - Missing You
11. Backstreet Boys - Just Want You to Know
12. Do or Die - Paper Chase
13. Mark Ronson - Stop Me (Oakenfold 2008 Remix)
14. Belle and Sebastian - Like Dylan in the Movies
15. Angie Martinez - Take You Home
16. Metro Area - Piña
17. Lenny Kravitz - I'll Be Waiting
18. Mystikal - Respect My Mind
19. Brian Crain - Butterfly Waltz
20. Keith Murray - Dangerous Ground
21. Jem - Crazy
22. Mutemath - Spotlight
23. DAY26 - Come In
24. De La Soul - Stakes Is High
25. Nivea - It's All Good

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I'm looking for some feedback on some usability testing on some website concepts we've been working on over the last month or so.

If you're 25+ and a homeowner with a couple hours to spare in exchange for a $50 gift card, please get ahold of me.

Thanks!

It's a very simple idea but niche enough to be useful and they executed it very well.

What is it? Basically a catalog of haircuts, with a few comments from the person and information about which salon they used.

For someone like me who has a complete phobia of getting haircuts due to a bad one I received long ago.. this site is a lifesaver!

You can browse haircuts by style, length, city where the salon is, color, hair type (straight, curly, etc.)... so finding a cut that will work on your hair is simple.

There is a bit of a social aspect to it also. People can vote on which ones they love, and comment on the haircut so you can see what other people think of it before you print out the page and go traipsing into a salon with it.

http://mopshots.com

The car is still on it's way here so I'm always on the site and can't believe I did not notice it before.. but then again it may not have been there until now.

Game looks fun.. too bad I'm a mac user and can't play it.

Anyways, here are the instructions for getting a RS tC 5.0 unlocked in Nitto 1320 Legends.

First.. go to http://scion.com/rstc

Next, click on the pulsating light you see to the left of the car.

You should end up on a screen like this where you can fill out your stuff.

Rules:

1. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
4. Tag 25 friends.
5. Everyone tagged has to do the same thing.
6. Have Fun

My list:

1. SOMEONE SAYS 'ARE YOU OKAY' YOU SAY: "Harder Better Faster Stronger" - Daft Punk
2. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?: "Hide & Seek" - Imogen Heap
3. WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?: "Big Girls Don't Cry" - Fergie
4. HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?: "Missing You" - Jem
5. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?: "Saturday Morning" - Eels
6. WHAT'S YOUR MOTTO?: "Virtual Insanity" - Jamiroquai
7. WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?: "Trouble" - Jay-Z
8. WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?: "What Goes Around...Comes Around" - Justin Timberlake
9. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?: "Livin' on the Edge" - Aerosmith
10. WHAT IS 2 + 2?: "Playing House" - Armand van Helden
11. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?: "Summer Love" - Elya
12. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?: "Imagination" - Avant
13. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?: "Acceptable in the 80s" - Calvin Harris
14. WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?: "Viva la Vida" - Coldplay
15. WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?: "Addicted" - Kelly Clarkson
16. WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?: "Technologic" - Daft Punk
17. WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTERESt?: "Work Is Never Over" - Diplo
18. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?: "Destroy Everything You Touch" - Ladytron
19. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?: "Spinal Scratch" - Thomas Bangalter
20. WHAT DO YOU WANT RIGHT NOW?: "My Life" - Erykah Badu
21. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?: "Girlfriend" - Avril Lavigne
22. WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?: "Deeply Disturbed" - Infected Mushroom
23. HOW WILL YOU DIE?: "Way out West" - Mindcircus
24. IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?: "Night Games" - Professor Genius
25. WHAT WOULD YOU POST THIS AS?: "Doll Parts" - Hole

I have to say

• 3 combined with 21 is wtf
• 6 and 16 are scarily fitting for someone with a nickname of "digital".
• 7 & 13 are LOL
• 17 is scary

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To Do This:

1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random” or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to "Random quotations" or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days” or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.

5 - Post it to FB with this text in the "caption" and TAG the friends you want to join in.

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Here are my faves lately.

DailyMugshot - As the title says. You take your mugshot every day. A creative spin on it, I've decided to use it to catalog my shoe habbit.
http://www.dailymugshot.com/authuser/show/17385

Brightkite - A location based networking site. In real time you can see where your friends are and what they're up to. Depending on your privacy settings you can also meet others nearby.
http://brightkite.com/kristin

Readernaut - I recently got a Kindle and have been reading anything I can get my hands on. I've been on this one for a while now and am excited to say it's finally open to public signups! If you're a bookworm like I am.. make sure you check this one out.
http://readernaut.com/kristin/

Also changing - I've decided to go back to a normal commenting system. Google friendconnect just wasn't cutting it.. It doesn't notify me when people comment on blog entries which makes it nearly impossible to track. I haven't decided between Disqus or IntenseDebate, but one will be up asap.

I set an ical calendar to be red, and it messed up the Exchange color on my iphone to be some hideous bright teal color that I couldn't even read.

After much digging through forums and google I finally found the solution.

Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars, > (Your Exchange Calendar)

Turn the Calendrs Off, and then Switch them back on to reset the color.

Check it out at: Google Friend Connect Directory

We've got our boxee up and running on the shuttle PC in the livingroom. It's obviously a work in progress since boxee is in alpha but so far I'm loving it! The kids are really enjoying it also. If you'd like an invite, post a comment below and I'll send one to your gmail account.

While watching unbuntu install on the tv screen the conversation with my kids went like this...

Cody: How long is this going to take?? Like 4 hours?

Kareem: More like infinity hours!

Mom: More like infinity squared hours!

Kareem: More like infinity rectangle hours!

.... ???

I'm sure you've probably seen some images of her on my lifestream already, but here is fergie, our African Grey parrot. This video was shot the first day she came to stay with us. Hoping once my new camera gets here tomorrow I can catch some good videos of her talking for ya. She's quite a character.

In an attempt to make my site easier to use I've gone OpenSocial and integrated the new google friendconnect into this site.

This means that all comments on blog posts can now be commented from your google account if you wish. Since there weren't many comments yet I ditched all of the ones that were on IntenseDebate so I could use this new system. If you'd like access to any of the old comments I still have them hooked into my account over there so just let me know and I will send you a xml of them.

Other than the comments, you can also become a fan of kpishdadi.com by hitting the join button via the google friendconnect widget on the homepage. Any questions can be left as a comment below or emailed to me. (kpishdadi)at(gmail).

For example. I work for Sears Holdings and have a Sears Holdings email address. Other people who register with their Sears Holdings email addresses can see my updates, and I can only see updates from other Sears Holdings people who signup. Additionally you can pick and choose who you want to follow inside the company..

Oh yeah.. they also have an adobe air app which makes it easier to use.

http://www.yammer.com