Every so often my good buddy Andrew Mager tags me to participate in some internet meme. Well today it’s the “post the sixth photo from flickr photostream” meme. So here’s my sixth photo. It’s a picture of my buddy Dan standing with the Burger King King guy somewhere along the New Jersey turnpike. We were on a roadtrip to wait in line for tickets to a free Sufjan Stevens show in Washington D.C.. It really was a great trip. I’m going to tag some my ever growing circle of blogging peoples: Teaganita, Pope, Jack, Dean, and Miss Bread. Enjoy.

With the release of the iPhone/iPod Touch App Store and the new Facebook App for iPhone, there’s a cool new way to update the contact pictures for you friends, that’s both quick and pretty easy.  Here’s a quick run through of how to do this on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

First you’ll want to have the Facebook App installed.  Here it’s located in the top left corner so let’s touch it to launch the Facebook App.

Once you’re in the facebook app you can just touch the friends icon at the bottom of the screen to view a list of all your facebook friends.  I want to add a contact photo for my buddy Andrew Mager, so I’ll touch his name to bring up his facebook profile.

No we see Andrew’s profile page, where I can get his current status, chat with him, send him a message, or find his phone number.  It’s too bad I can’t write on his facebook wall, that is a terrible mistake by facebook and I can’t believe they didn’t add that functionality to this app.  I suppose we’ll have to wait for an update to post on people’s walls.  Here I just touch Andrew’s photo to bring up pictures of him.

Once you’re looking at pictures, you can just flick your finger across the screen right or left to look through all the different photos of your friend.  I’m want to set this picture of Andrew as his contact photo on my iPhone.  Once you’ve found the photo you want, just hold the round home button at the bottom of your iPhone and press the power/sleep button on the top of the iPhone.  This will make the screen flash white and take a screen capture of the photo.

Now let’s go back to the iPhone home screen, just press the round home button.  To add Andrew’s picture to his contact info on the iPhone just touch the Contacts icon.

In the Contact listing scroll to find Andrew Mager and touch his name.

Now you can see Andrew’s contact info listed on the screen, touch the edit button on the top right to make changes or add info.

Near the top left of the info screen you can now see a square that says “Add Photo.” Touch it to add Andrew’s photo.

We’ve already captured Andrew’s photo from the Facebook App so touch “Choose Exisiting Photo”

Touch Camera Roll to see all the photos and screen captures you’ve taken on your iPhone.

Find the image you want to use for Andrew’s contact info.  He’s the third picture on the top row, touch it to select the photo.

Now just touch to move the photo around and pinch to contract or expand the photo just the way you want it to appear and touch Set Photo

Now we see Andrew’s picture in his contact info page and we’re all done.

Now you’ll see this the next time you have an incoming phone call from Andrew Mager!

I decided I was gonna spend this weekend goin to visit my my buddy mager in San Francisco. This is the route I took, but I think that approx 13 hour time estimate may be a bit debatable. I’m gonna spend tomorrow driving back to get back in time for work at ms on monday.

you can check out some images on mager’s flickr

i’ve been tryin to get tweets in with my updates regularly too. I’ll write something and post my pics once i get back to washington.

i can say the gmaps feature on my iPhone has been wicked awesome in finding my way around San Francisco on this trip.