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Its been a fair old while (10 months or so) since I last wrote anything on this blog but lately I’ve had this urge of late to put finger-to-key and start getting things rolling again, so lets see what happens this time

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There are a lot of people in the queue waiting to get Joost up-and-running. Up to an hour ago, I was one of those people - until I discovered this workaround (intentional or unintentional by Joost). Here are instructions of how I activated my account without having received an invitation. Like many of you, several months ago I signed up for the Joost Beta but did not receive an invitation to start beta testing. A few weeks ago I received a ‘we have not forgotten you’ email. If you, like me, are in this situation, I can assume you account status is activated but you have not yet been notified. In order to get running, here is what to do:

1. Installation: This is the trickiest part. You need access to the Joost beta software. You will not be able to progress any further without it. I obtained a copy from a friend who is actually an active beta tester. Once you obtain it, install it on your machine:

2. Account setup: Now comes the interesting part. Previously, individuals were tied to their accounts with their email address. Now, Joost require you to create a username and password pair. Select Get Your Joost Name Here:

3. Account setup cont.: Enter your registered email address which you used to sign up to the Joost Beta, create your username and password and select OK. At this point, the email address is verified and account is created and off you go!

If you use an invalid/unregistered email, you will be presented with this screen:

I was looking on the Joost site for information about this, and this only information I could find was on the Joost Blog where they state that they have given existing beta testers fresh invitations, but the above steps seem to still be different to this as I have not been invited by Joost or by any existing beta testers. So it would appear some other list of approved email addresses exists but has not yet been announced.

In addition to myself, these steps have successfully been confirmed to work by another blogger.

I hope this works for you too!

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I am keen to get in on the Joost Beta Programme, so if any of you kind hearted souls out there would be willing to give me an invitation, I would be eternally grateful.

I can be contacted by email from joost@mobsec.com

Mission accomplished!. Thanks Antonio. You’re a gentleman.

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Trend Micro has discovered a nice little flaw in Windows Mobile which affects Windows Mobile 5.0 and PPC which is reported on their Blog. It temporarily bricks the device for up to 15 minutes when it tries to process a malformed jpeg (nice). They simultaneously reported another vulnerability which relates to IE which when executed makes the device unstable.

I personally am interested in finding out more information about the latter. What does this mean? Is it permanently or temporarily unstable?

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I started this blog around the middle of October 2006 and made my first post on the 24th of October. I’ve submitted this site to Yahoo!, Google plus others and after three months it’s still not showing in Google. Do they have an indexing problem? What gives?!

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