For quite a while I've been searching for a way to get my Google contacts address book synced to my new Nokia E71x. I've tried a few methods but none of them work very well. Finally I found a way that works, is non-desctructive (like the Mail for Exchange method), and is easy to set up. Without further ado, the instructions, to be illustrated later. Hit the Read More button to find out how.

Ever since Firefox 2.0 (if I remember correctly), the address bar keyword lookup feature has spoiled me rotten. Who needs to type .com anymore? And if I don't know the site address for, say, OfficeMax, Google does, and it's perfectly happy to oblige my laziness by taking me straight to http://www.officemax.com/ when all I typed into the Firefox address bar was `officemax'. This is just one of the features Firefox sports that I love, but it's the subject of todays rant. Why is it that companies think that I won't mind if the completely break this feature? For quite some time I used OpenDNS. I bragged about it, suggested it to friends, and even set clients up with it by default when I set up their shiny new networks. I loved the keywords feature, where you could just type in `g' and have OpenDNS point you to google.com, or the filtering, or the up-to-the-minute DNS resolution (which is essential for someone like me who builds websites. I can't afford 12 hours for my DNS servers to resolve my nameserver changes). All of the sudden OpenDNS decided to start intercepting my keyword searches. At first if I searched for a keyword that wasn't in OpenDNS, they would just return the error that there's no such url, and Firefox would handle it properly by either taking me to the Feeling Lucky result, or a Google search. Now they forward you to their own ad-ridden (ED: ads have been reported removed) Yahoo search page. It's ugly, cumbersome, and breaks my workflow. Yes, it throws off my groove. I hate it when things throw off my groove.