If you have premium account and setup direct download from rapidshare.com but can not download with flashget on Windows Vista. You should disable User Account Control (UAC)  by following steps below:

How to disable User Account Control (UAC) on Windows Vista:

1. Open Control Panel.

2. Under User Account and Family settings click on the “Add or remove user account”.

3. Click on one of the user accounts, for example you can use the Guest account.

4. Under the user account click on the “Go to the main User Account page” link.

5. Under “Make changes to your user account” click on the “Change security settings” link.

6. In the “Turn on User Account Control (UAC) to make your computer more secure” click to unselect the “Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer”. Click on the Ok button.

7. You will be prompted to reboot your computer. Do so when ready.

In order to re-enable UAC just select the above checkbox and reboot.

Source:  The images and guide for disable the User Account Control (UAC) is taken from http://www.petri.co.il/disable_uac_in_windows_vista.htm

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Gtalk, Google’s best shot in IM market. It’s been fairly successful although Yahoo’s Y! and Microsoft’s MSN is beating in most of the parts. As a Gtalk user, I’ve been looking for solutions to log in as invisible and keep my privacy against people whom I don’t want to talk at the time. Gtalk itself does not include Invisible option while you can break the rules in couple of different ways.

1- Gtalk is Jabber based IM tool. Although Gtalk supports invisible mode on server side, Gtalk team did not include this function on client side which all of us are using. If you’d like to get that option that you will need to go back to Gtalk’s ancestors which is Jabber client. Some says “use Jabber client instead of crappy Google Talk client.” So you have the option of using PSI or Pidgin (originally gaim). You can download those clients from:
PSI: http://psi-im.org/
Pidgin: http://www.pidgin.im/

Check out the video for PSI below:

Invisible In Gtalk!!! - Click here for another funny movie.

2- Invisible mod from GMail interface:
This one is very simple but not useful with Gtalk. In order to login as invisible to Gtalk, you should log out from Gtalk client application and log in to the Gmail account, and choose invisible mode from the chat window on the left. You can find invisible option from the list where you change your status message.

Good luck

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Most desktop administrators quickly become familiar with the need to make adjustments to the Registry on remote computers. The free PolicyMaker™ Registry Extension is a true client side extension (CSE) to Group Policy, providing full registry management capability. The interface is simple and configurations are communicated to client computers through Group Policy. When Group Policy refreshes on a client computer, the registry is updated.

Microsoft announced October 2, 2006, that it acquired DesktopStandard Corporation, a leading developer of Group Policy-based enterprise desktop management products.

When you try to download Policy Maker from DesktopStandard website, you will be redirected to Microsoft’s website because Microsoft put this tool into their roadmap for Windows Server 2008. Good news, you can use the link that I found for Policy Maker Extension below:

http://smallvoid.orgfree.com/files/polreg.msi.zip

1. Download and install the polreg.msi file

2. Go to program files folder and copy the following file to the network share that all clients have access to. Here is the file to copy…
   C:\program files\DesktopStandard\PolicyMaker\Client\polregcl.msi

3. Open your domain group policy editor and right click on Administrative Templates

4. Now add the desktopstandard.adm file and set some policies…start with the software deployment policies.

5. Now, in the group policy editor, go to User Configuration section and expand user settings… here you will find the registry.

6. Simply right click on registry and select New–> Registry Item.

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Mio’s got quite the interesting duo set up at Computex: the Windows Mobile 6.1-packin’ G50 and the two-faced LEAP K1. As for the former, you may know it better as the Lovebird, but it seems a more corporately accepted monicker was chosen at the last minute for the quad-band GSM handset. As for the latter, this mysterious creature actually has two faces to fondle — one of which packs a traditional numeric keypad, while the other features an expansive panel perfect for serving up routes. Check the links below for more details on both.

Read - Mio G50
Read - Mio LEAP K1

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Seasoned tech pundit Gary Krakow has a real puzzler here. He’s claiming that while the Android OS should be ready for launch through a couple manufacturers by the end of the year, an unnamed source has told him that the actual “Gphone” from Google has been delayed into next year. That’s great and all, but we thought the whole Gphone buzz was pretty much killed dead when Android got real. Sure, there was that one-off Samsung rumor about a couple Google-branded handsets supposedly due for September, but there was never much followup there. Google itself has never done much hinting at a Google-branded handset, instead choosing to work with Open Handset Alliance in building an OS for everybody. We’ll be keeping an eye on this rumor, but obviously if it proves true we won’t be seeing anything out of Google until next year — which basically puts us right where we started. Thanks, Gary.

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Truth be told, Fixed Mobile Convergence still isn’t talked about much (comparatively speaking) ’round these parts. Yeah, we’ve seen a few FMC routers scattered about, but Vodafone’s taking a stand by rolling out its Station in Italy. The box, which was developed in cooperation with Huawei, is an integrated switch / router with ADSL2+, WiFi, UMTS / HSPA (via a removable USB key) and four Ethernet ports. Essentially, it’s designed to combine voice with fixed and mobile broadband services, and it enables users to make calls on their handset through a fixed line connection when they’re kicking back at home. We’re also hearing that the device will eventually make its way to other Vodafone markets, but there’s been no word yet on future rollout dates.

[Via GigaOM]

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First, the good news: we don’t think the global roaming Samsung i770 Windows Mobile phone for Verizon is actually going to look like this. Now, the bad: it’s probably pretty close. We’re not here to bum you out, though — come get the lowdown on Verizon’s plans for the remainder of ‘08 by accompanying us on a magical journey through one of its fancy slide decks over on Engadget Mobile!

[Thanks, HTCkid]

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Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds, Laptops, Portable Audio, Portable Video

NVIDIA is launching a full-frontal assault on Intel, its burgeoning MID market, and smartphone makers with its forthcoming “mobile computer on a chip” architecture, dubbed Tegra. We’ve shown you snippets of what this would look like before, but plans are now well underway to take this technology mainstream, with numerous partnerships, and products planned for Q4 2008 and Q1 / Q2 2009. We had a chat with the company, and we’ve got a slew of info about the chips and their intended products after the break.

Update: We’ve added some videos from World Mobile Congress showing off the UI.

Continue reading NVIDIA launches Tegra, hopes to change the smartphone / MID game

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Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

Apple’s relentless quest to spread the iPhone to every corner of the universe has officially nabbed yet another carrier. Movistar has been announced as an official partner for Spain, though no clues have been given about the launch date — a common trend with the iPhone carrier partnership press releases as of late, we’ve noticed — and the best that interested parties can do right now is sign up to be notified when more information becomes available. Any suckers out there want to bet us that they’ll be launching the EDGE model? No?

[Via Engadget Spanish and AppleWeblog]

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Filed under: Cellphones, Digital Cameras

Look, we’re just as down on crazy Japanese stereotypes as the next guy. We watched Lost in Translation. We’re with it. We know it’s not all cosplay and weird game shows (but seriously, that human Tetris one? Awesome) and people dressing up as vending machines (pictured). That said, this story isn’t doing Japan any favors. A homeless woman was recently arrested in Tokyo after living undetected in a man’s closet for a year and sneaking food out of his kitchen. It was the missing food that tipped him off, so he installed some security cameras in his home to transmit images to his phone. Some motion was detected, so he called the police, and soon enough they spotted her in the closet — where she had planted a mattress. Moral of the story? Move to Japan. Better cellphones and bigger closets. You can’t lose.

[Via ixplora]

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