Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Google is to launch purchases.google.com

Looks like Google is launching Google Purchases (purchases.google.com) The new ‘Google Purchases’ service (purchases.google.com) will be launched in a few days, and is to allow users to make micropayments within ‘Google Base‘ (buy and sell all kinds of items), to acquire licences of ‘Google Earth‘, non-free videos from ‘Google Video‘, and to pay products of the Google Store. Users only

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Microsoft’s Origami project video

A minute ago or so I was just visiting my MS Discussion forums and came across a post by Randy which pointed to a Blog which supposedly had a video of Microsoft Origami project, a video I thought, already wow and we have only just seen some pics that were not even sure yet if they are the real deal

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Mobile tracking devices on trial

Just saw this posted on the BBC Website and found it pretty interesting! Your mobile phone is a beacon – a radio transmitter in a box. Therefore it is possible to trace the signal and work out where it is. There are now several web companies which will track your friends’ and family’s phones for you, so you always know

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Depot robbers left behind £1.3m

As I live in Kent I’ve been pretty up to date with the news about this robbery, and as of yet I haven’t posted any news about this so I thought I would just try and keep everybody up to date with it, with the latest news from the BBC Website! Robbers who stole up to £50m from a Securitas

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Google Page Creator open up to the public again.

Google Page Creator is once again open up for registrations from the public, though to be honest it still seems to be having some problems every so often! Google Page Creator is having a little trouble right now. This is not because of anything you did; it’s just a little hiccup in our system that will hopefully go away soon.

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A review of Box.net a virtual storage space for your computer files

At the beginning of this month I was fortunate enough to be contacted by Dylan Smith the guy in charge of Sales and Finance for Box.net, a virtual online storage service. He asked me if I would interested in a Beta Account of their upcoming revamped (Version 2.0) online file storage service Box.net so I could search for bugs and

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The Navy’s Swimming Spy Plane

It floats, it flies, it eliminates enemy targets. Meet the water-launched unmanned enforcer.   Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, famed for the U-2 and Blackbird spy planes that flew higher than anything else in the world in their day, is trying for a different altitude record: an airplane that starts and ends its mission 150 feet underwater. The Cormorant, a stealthy,