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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Space-elevator tether climbs a mile high

I’ve blogged about the effort to build a space elevator before and will do again in the future until that day comes when we finally see a fully functional one from earth to space, but I guess for now all I can do is keep you updated on the latest news, and this times it’s news on how the LiftPort

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Another Chance to Sign up for the Yahoo! Publisher Network Beta Program

Look’s like Yahoo is giving me once again another chance to sign up for the Yahoo! Publisher Network Beta Program, but I’m afraid I’m still in the same situation as I was before, I don’t live in the United States and even though I have an overture account I can’t use it because I need a United States Social Security

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Happy Saint Valentine’s Day 2006

I’m going to bed soon but before I do I just wanted to post a Blog entry about Saint Valentine’s Day and what it’s all about. St. Valentine’s Day falls on February 14, and is the traditional day on which lovers in certain cultures let each other know about their love, commonly by sending Valentine’s cards, which are often anonymous.

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Download Windows Defender Beta 2 for Windows XP

Microsoft today released the download of Windows Defender Beta 2 for Windows XP, originally called Windows Antispyware; this newer version includes the following Specific features: A redesigned and simplified user interface Incorporating feedback from our customers, the Windows Defender UI has been redesigned to make common tasks easier to accomplish with a warning system that adapts alert levels according to

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Add photos to your site or blog with Flickr Photo Album Maker

Flickr is a wonderful web service with an opened API. This album maker can help you to build an album and slideshow with your favorite photos. It can output HTML code for you to embed to your blog or homepage with fully style controls by yourself.       Flickr Album Maker

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Gates Hints at Microsoft MP3 Player

 More news on the subject of Microsoft building a MP3 Player! Rumors continue to spread that Microsoft may finally be ready to try and take on Apple in the portable media player market. Many are speculating what Microsoft may have planned to try and combat Apple in the MP3 player market.  While speaking at a Seattle area high school, one

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So, what exactly is Zooomr, anyways?

Ever heard of Zooomr? Started on a late October, 26th in 2005, Zooomr was born to explore the information inside of photos. It aims to be not merely another photo sharing service, but something that helps connect people together through photos. Perhaps one of the most important features of Zooomr is that it’s localized. With over 10 locales worldwide and

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New website design for February 2006

Hey everyone as you may know, in the last couple of days or so I’ve been working on a new template design for my main homepage: (http://www.darrenstraight.com/) And well what can I say it’s been a fun experience experimenting with all the different designs I kept on coming up with that I could implement but it wasn’t until I found

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Happy Birthday Flickr

Flickr celebrated it’s 2nd Birthday yesterday! The Flickr team hopes you can join us as we enter our terrible twos. Adaptive Path will be hosting our event on their fabulous 2nd floor (2nd birthday, 2nd floor!). Our friends at O’Reilly are sending us copies Flickr Hacks hot of the press from the printers and QOOP is planning a little surprise.