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Palringo is the new iPhone instant messenger on the block. It enables vocal instant messaging, picrute messaging, and the trusty text-based messaging over your iPhone 3G. This free application does not comes with any limits or messaging or restrictions.

The best part about Palringo is that it offers all the major instant messengers including Apple’s iChat, AOL’s AIM, Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, Gadu Gadu (which I haven’t heard about), ICQ, Jabber (yes, this is new too) and Windows Live Messenger.

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Its always a really painful job reinstalling your Windows XP and the bad part doesn’t end on simply installing the Windows XP but then later setting up your PC to your earlier configuration plus the drivers installation for all your hardware is a real pain.

So, for all of you guys having this problem, i discovered an awesome tool to easily fix your Windows and get your PC back on running like you were when your PC crashed.

You will just need your Windows XP CD, a blank disc and a free software to setup your custom CD with the latest Service Pack 3. Also you might not get the Service Pack 3 on the windows update as microsoft has not yet distributed it but it is on the microsoft servers and you can get it here.

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Earlier, Apple rolled out its lately firmware 2.0.2 for iPhone and iPod Touch claiming the Bug fixes as the 2.0.1 did. Well the typing lag was fixed and the browsing speed was made better too but the signal strength made better is not yet made sure by any customer and firmware 2.0.3 is already expected in September.

Anyhow, for all those people who got their phone locked after the firmware update, the update on the PwnageTool is here. You can easily update the application and help your iPhone.

Check out more from their blog here.

Searching the web is something we all today daily, whether its you want information about a report you are using or the latest iPhone firmware thats coming up. For all of you guys i have a compiled a list of search plugins you can use with your Firefox to make searching even better.

Lookpick is the first on the list which is a new plugin which places a box in your firefox, something like in the screenshot below and lets you setup a personal list, that means that you use your list of favorite search engines from searching anything on the internet. Its amazing must get plugin.

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Lately my 30gb iPod was acting a bit weird, freezing from time to time until i fixed it. I know alot of people out there must be facing this problem so i thought of sharing my solutions with you guys…

If your iPod has freezed for the first time or happens quite a few times then the easiest way to fix it is to first put off the hold from your iPod and then hold the Menu and the action button together for around 10 seconds until the screen flickers to black for a while and then the apple logo appears.If you are using the older version of iPod, you can try holding the menu and play button to reset your iPod.

This reset technique usually helps most of the time whenever you find any trouble with your iPod.

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Although Windows Vista could not bring much anticipation from the computer world as much as the hype was created but still… some of the computer users after getting their hardware upgraded seems to pretty much like the new Vista edition.

For all the Vista users, I found some awesome tips to save time with your Windows Vista. For Windows XP optimization check out this post.

- With Windows Vista, you can send an email right from your desktop. You can save time by not browsing to your account and create a shortcut to send an email to your most frequent person. To do this, create a new email shortcut on desktop and type in mailto: followed by your recipient’s email address like mailto:admin@gravityblue.com. Click the Next button and give a name to your shortcut and then select finish. When you are done a new shortcut would appear in your desktop on which you can double click and send an email easily. You can also change the mailto: email address in place of a different persons email address.

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Wow, you too must be thinking of how quick Apple is on releasing Firmwares. It is hardly been a week since iPhone firmware 2.0.1 came out claiming the “bug fixes” and later 2 days back Apple rolled out its 2.0.2 version. Tough all the claimed versions of removing bugs, it did nothing. Although the typing lag was removed while the low signal strength and slow web browsing issue prevailed.

Well now… Apple has planned yet another firmware to be out soon. It was revealed by an Apple insider piece which reveals that another upgrade will be coming in September.

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Earlier I posted some awesome keyboard shortcuts for windows and lately I found this amazing list of Gmail shortcuts. Most of the shortcuts listed are new to me, I hardly knew them, I guess you too won’t know these shortcuts.

To use the shortcuts below, you need to turn these case sensitive shortcuts, on and off from your Gmail Account settings page.

c – Hitting the “c” button on your keyboard takes you to the compose page. You can try “shift + c” to write your message in a new window.
/ - It takes your cursor to the search box on the top of your Gmail account.
n – Takes you to the next message. You can ht enter to expand or collapse the message.
p – Takes you to the previous message.
e – archives you conversation.
s – stars your message or a conversation
! – Marks a message as spam.
r – reply to the message. You can use ‘shift + r’ to open the reply message in a new window.

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Its hardly been a week since Apple release the iPhone software 2.0.1 which said to have included the bug fixes. After the previous update, the issue of signal strength wasn’t solved and the performance wasn’t impressive either.

So, yesterday Apple rolled out its iPhone software 2.0.2. At the Apple Discussions, people have reported a better browsing speded and no lag while typing. You too can get the update from the iTunes 7.7 easily.

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It is always difficult remember all the passwords of your different accounts passwords and yet being safe from the hackers attacks of using dictionary to break into the accounts.

Well lately some researchers, came up with different mediums to use them as your password like a picture, a song or your favorite video and the answer came in the form a software; ObPwd

First, let my tell you, this is still an experimental tool and please do not use it with your sensitive accounts, read their disclaimer.

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