Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

VTunnel is here to protect your anonymity online!

Feed up of trying to access a Blocked website from school or work, then try VTunnel now! What is VTunnel? VTunnel is what’s known as a CGI Proxy service, that is, I run a website based proxy on my server, and you connect to it to retrieve websites. This can be done to evade website blocking by schools, corporations, or governments,

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Study: Poles Could Start Melting Soon

Ok there’s been quite a lot of news about Global Warming lately so for those of you who are still living under a rock I thought I better post you the latest news about it! Jan. 31, 2006 Global warming could cause ice at both poles of the Earth to start melting this century, driving up sea levels, according to

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UK court to unmask ‘file-sharers’

Looks like the police are getting more into depths with software piracy! Ten internet service providers have been ordered to hand over the details of 150 UK customers accused of illegally sharing software. The High Court order follows a 12-month covert investigation by the Federation Against Software Theft (Fast). Among the internet providers are BT, NTL, Telewest and Tiscali. Over

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Spell with Flickr – Get your name(or anything) spelled with Flickr Images!

Like the title says, just type in something(ie: your name, your web address, a small phrase) and this great little online app will take what you typed in fetch pictures from Flickr for each letter. Give it a try! Very cool Flickr app!! Digg post Spell with Flickr

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Can great software live in 130 kilobytes?

We need to see more programs like Utorrent, programs that are not ‘bloatware’. Ludvig can do it, why can’t you?  A few months ago, I pretty much thought having decent software weighing in at 1 megabyte (let alone 130 kilobytes!) was a pipe dream but that’s before I got my hands on a copy of µTorrent (a BitTorrent client).  When

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Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 7 Beta to public

 Great news Microsoft has now released Internet Explorer 7 Beta to the public! Microsoft plans to take the wraps off Internet Explorer 7 on Tuesday, releasing the new “preview” version of its Web browser to the general public for testing. The program, still a work in progress, will be available shortly for download from the Internet Explorer section of Microsoft’s corporate Web

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Updates to live.com

As you may have noticed Live.com has now been updated, here’s a bit about the update from Phil Holden’s Msn Space, Phil Holden is the Director for Windows Live! Yesterday we released an update to live.com that focus’s on a bunch of user experience issues we have received from our customers over the last couple of months. The most visually obvious