Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Google Community Redesign at Googlecommunity.net

Last night I was up quite late and was thinking to myself that maybe it’s time we started to redesign Google Community from scratch removing all unnecessary PhpBB mods that have been installed over time and are just slowing down the forums and creating more troubles for updating the forum on every new release. Randy one of the staff members

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A new version of adCenter is coming soon 2/18/06

Earlier today I visited the MSN AdCenter Site and got the following message: A new version of adCenter is coming soon All campaigns will remain active during the upgrade, but account access will be unavailable. Please check back on Sunday, February 19, 2006 at 2:00 A.M. Pacific Time. So it looks like we MSN will be releasing a new version of AdCentre today,

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Digitalx’s Blog posts about Google Adsense

Ok so the other day I’m browsing my Microsoft Discussion Forums as usual just to check up on new posts and I come across a post which has only just been posted by a new user called Digitalx, here’s what it said: Well good news to second gen(invited) beta testers. Visit my blog to download latest version and i can confirm

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US attacks UN Guantanamo report

You’ve probably already heard about this by now but I thought I would post about it because it’s something that caught my attention last night when I heard about it on the Radio on the way home. The White House has savaged a UN report demanding the immediate closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp calling it “a discredit to

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Flying car ready for takeoff?

Great news for those of you looking forward to flying cars, if you can afford it. This summer, graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will try to get an idea aloft that has intrigued people for decades: the flying car. Terrafugia, a start-up created by Lemelson-MIT Student Prize winner Carl Dietrich and colleagues at MIT’s Department of Aeronautics

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Will Apple Adopt Windows?

Here’s an interesting article about Apple and if they should consider using Windows on their Apple MAC’s.  Bigger companies than Apple have dropped their proprietary OSs in favor of Windows—think IBM and OS/2. IBM also jumped on the Linux bandwagon over its own AIX version of Unix. Business eventually trumps sentimentality in any large company. Another issue for Apple is

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Microsoft hits back at EU threats

Looks like the European Commission is trying to get money from Microsoft once again, this isn’t good at all! Microsoft has hit back at European Commission accusations that it has not complied with demands to provide data relating to an anti-competition case. It was given until Wednesday to prove it had provided rivals with computer codes that would let them

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UK Government holds Microsoft security talks

Read the following article below and tell me if you think this is good or bad news for us, surely the purpose of encryption is so nobody can get into it, though saying this yes I believe the law enforcement should have some way of getting into the hard drives content because if they couldn’t get into the hard drives