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Shark007, a fellow member of MSFN Forums and author of Vista Codec Package, has released his new version of Adobe Reader Lite. It is now version 9.0 made from the latest version i posted about.

This Lite versions leaves out many plugins and has customized preferences so it opens faster and has less features than the average users needs. Also, the file size is a lot smaller.

I use his Lite installer in all my unattended installations and in my personal computers. I totally recommend it.

Right now it is only available in english, but soon all other languages will follow. Visit the discussion thread to keep an eye on new releases for other languages.

I recommend to uninstall any previous version of Adobe Reader and restarting your computer before installing this Lite version. This way you reduce the chance of having problems when installing it.

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From the makers of Comodo Firewall Pro comes this great free backup application.

With Comodo Backup, you can make copies of your data, use incremental or full backups.

The scheduling capabilities are great because you can make backup sets that run in different time intervals to make sure you have everything up to date and copied only as often as you want.

The feature i like the most is Synchronization, because it can monitor folders for changes and make backups as soon as something changes. This way you can maintain folders, external or network drives up to date with the information you need on them without worrying to run a backup set.

Features advertised in their website:

• Easily backup files or folders anywhere on your computer, network, DVD-RW, CD-RW or FTP server
• Files can be written to a multi-session DVD if it already contains a file with the same name
• Email, FTP, zip and configuration passwords are stored in the registry with encryption
• Protect yourself against ever losing those critical files that took hours to create
• Quickly recover your data in the event of data loss
• Schedule backups to run automatically at a time that suits you
• Synchronized backup feature – save a file and it gets copied instantly
• Send E-mail notifications to team members about the status of a backup job
• Save Disk space by compressing your backups as ZIP files
• Configure in minutes with our intuitive interface

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My Belkin wireless router started to give me problems about 15-20 days ago.

After some research i ended buying an old Linksys model, but with many advantages. I will make a post later today to talk about it and the open-source 3rd party firmaware that are out there for a variety of models and makers of wireless routers.

Yesterday i was trying to send a compressed file to a cousin via e-mail. He told that he never got anything on his mailbox. He was using Hotmail and i sent the file using my ISP’s account in Outlook 2007.

After several tries, nothing happened: I didn’t receive any errors on my side and he didn’t got the file.

I tried to re-send it but this time i add my GMail account to the recipients.

I got this error from GMail: 552 5.7.0 Illegal Attachment so i knew GMail blocked the mail because of the attachment.

The problem is that i don’t know if my ISP or Hotmail were blocking the other tries.

I will try to contact my ISP to see if they are blocking because i didn’t receive any error from the mail server.

The compressed file i was trying to send contained a little .exe program along with other text files.

This a new way of blocking, so if you ever need to send an executable file using Gmail or other ISP’s, you will need to change the extension of the .exe files in order to bypass this, even if you compressed them.