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I just got five new Gmail invitations, which leaves me with a total of six invitations to send out, but I don’t know to whom. Everyone that I know who might be interested already has a Gmail account.

If you’d like me to send an invite to you, let me know! Add a comment or send an email. While supplies last, so be quick. And I could always go to Gmail Swap instead.

Update: It seems that everyone is getting six invites to send out, even those who just registered Gmail accounts of their own. I guess Google thought it was time to expand their Gmail user base more rapidly.

This website is now pretty much exactly what I had in mind when I started building it. All of the pages and their contents are there. The website is quite accessible from mobile devices (there are XHTML-MP and WML start pages, and the rest of the site should work pretty well, too).

I’ve also created more helpful and better looking error pages and, of course, upgraded the software that I’m using on the site. The weblog software, Pebble, is getting better all the time, and the 1.5 version is no exception.

My host, by the way, is awesome. The server that my account is hosted on is rock stable. I’ve never noticed the server being down. And the customer service is good. They seem to know their stuff, and they’re friendly. I very much recommend them.

If you have a Sony Ericsson T610, T630 or similar phone, and you’re a Windows user with Bluetooth on your PC, you really should give FMA a try. Actually, I didn’t have Bluetooth on my PC before, but that program was such a good reason to buy a USB Bluetooth adapter that I just had to do it.

FMA makes pretty much all of what’s on your phone accessible from your PC. It detects incoming calls and messages, and allows you to send SMS from within the program (i.e. you can type on your PC’s keyboard). You can sync your Outlook contacts with your phone contacts (which is great because I’m no longer able to get the sync program that shipped with the phone working). Also, it can detect that you’ve walked away (out of the Bluetooth range) and automatically lock your computer.

The coolest thing about FMA, however, is its scripting framework. I said that it makes what’s on your phone available on your PC, but it goes the other way around as well. You can control your PC from your phone. For example, you can browse your Winamp playlist and select songs to play, and you can change the volume. And, perhaps more importantly, you can quite easily modify the scripts by yourself to make it suit your needs. I changed them to mute the sound on my PC whenever there is an incoming or outgoing call.

There are quite a lot of bugs in FMA though, but it’s only a beta so perhaps that is to be expected. Still, it’s already very usable and works well enough for me to keep it running all the time. Here’s where to go if you want to give it a try.