It seems that Google has extended their Gmail mobile phone invitation to a few extra asian countries.
Below is the full list of countries supports signing up for Gmail using your mobile phone.
• Australia
• Indonesia
• Malaysia
• New Zealand
• Phillipines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Turkey
• United States
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MSN Messenger 7.5.0322 full install is out!
This update is considered important because of the sign in fixes, if you have been getting error 80048820 since updating to MSN Messenger 7.5, give this one a try and see if it works!

I’ve installed it and everything works fine.
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Every new version of Acrobat Reader that is released by Adobe seems to be slower and slower.
I’ve used Adobe Acrobat Reader since v4 and it was fast. When it gets to v5, the loading speed is still fine.
But when it gets to v6 and v7, the loading speed is quite ridiculously slow!

Good news, because I’ve found a software that is able to speed up your Adobe Acrobat Reader launch time.
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A newer version of unofficial MSN Messenger QFE patch is out to fix more bugs especially the 80048820 sign in problems in MSN Messenger v7.5.0311.

Rough Outline of Fixes in 7.5.0320
- a lot of people were experiencing sign in issues with v7.5.0311, we took some changes to fix that or to give better error messages to figure out whatwas going wrong. And there was another fix to get our error reporting correct.
- in Korea, if you were using an IME (Input Method Editor), you would type shortcut for your favorite emoticon and get an extra character. Now emoticons are key to any IM program and it didn’t make sense to not fix this (and we found a simple code fix).
- if you had a Dynamic Background from Blue Mountain, bought it and installed it, then the Text Ads which you should have been getting weren’t showing up.
- there is a DLL which is central to our Audio / Video features, we had to take a new version of that to fix a bug where Messenger would crash if you unplug a USB device after running the Audio Video Tuning Wizard on that device.
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Two days ago I talked about how to Update Windows using Mozilla Firefox. You’d have to install a third party unofficial plugin from another website which I do not recommend.

Today I found another better and more stable way of doing it.
You can open WindowsUpdate from Mozilla Firefox using IE Tab.
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I found a leak of the brand new QFE Patch for MSN Messenger.
The 2.33mb patch updates your MSN Messenger 7.5.0311 version to MSN Messenger 7.5.0319 and comes with the enhancements of improving the sign in process (80048820 error) more thoroughly, as well as the error reporting linked to it.

Something else that’s been fixed is a bug with emoticon shortcuts via the IME (Input Method Editor) in Korea.
On a commercial note, the conversation window text ads will show properly on Dynamic Backgrounds from Blue Mountain.
Finally, build 319 says goodbye to a bug in a DLL that would make MSN Messenger crash if you unplugged a USB device after running the Audio Video Tuning Wizard on that device.
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I was trying out something that I don’t think it’s possible by default. That is Updating Windows using Mozilla Firefox browser.
When i browse to Windows Update using Firefox this is what I got.

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