Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Speed-Reading Techniques

I have just been reading this article which was posted on Digg which is about Speed-Reading Techniques and I think some of them are quite good, I wont copy the whole article here. But here’s the introduction to it! I was a Bible college student when one of our chapels featured a guest speaker who taught us how to speed-read.

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How File Sharing Reveals Your Identity

Here’s an extract of an Article I’ve came across which tells you about how file sharing can reveal your identity to the RIAA and then how they can sue you! Following the death of Napster, all of the file sharing networks that rose to main-stream popularity were decentralized. The most popular networks include Gnutella (which powers Limewire, BearShare, and Morpheus)

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28 Hour Day A New Clock for a New Age

Ok now I know the 28 Hour Day system has been talked about loads of times before all over the web, but I still find it interesting and well I could do with some more time so what better moment then now to post this blog post, just remember this a six day week means longer days! Did you ever

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The Blogcast Repository

I have only just came across this site called The Blogcast Repository today, it’s a site which contains links to Microsoft related technical videos along with RSS feed, it’s quite good though I do wish I had found out about this site earlier! The Blogcast Repository

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Rumours mount over Google’s internet plan

More News from Google this time it’s about Google working on a project to create its own global internet protocol (IP) network, a private alternative to the internet. I know this is only a rumour and hasn’t been confirmed yet, but I don’t like it one bit, I think Google need’s to start focusing more on it’s existing services and

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Google.cn Blocked By China’s Government

Google Inc’s recently launched China portal was inaccessible in the Chinese cities of Shanghai and Beijing on Friday, although the US-hosted Google.cn site could still be reached from outside China. Preliminary tests from Shanghai indicated that the service is inaccessible due to blocking by the government. Source: Forbes.com

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Remote PC scan now available in Windows Live Messenger

Now here’s an intersting update from the Windows Live Safety Center, it’s just a shame that it’s only for Windows Live Messenger and only those of you in the US can get it! Who’s your buddy? Remote PC scan now available in Windows Live Messenger   Do friends and family members call you at odd hours for computer help? Have you

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Cyber Security and Computer Forensics joint honours degree

About 30 minutes ago or so I was having a general chat with Krishna C Mandava, one the moderators from Google Community, and he was telling me about this new course called Computer Forensics might be a good idea for me to do, and I thought wait a minute I like Forensics and I like Computers, would Computer Forensics not

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Own a square inch of land in the US for FREE !

This sound’s crazy but read on anyway! Over 10 years in development, this extraordinary opportunity is now available exclusively on the internet. The land was purchased one acre at a time, state by state, by American Acres Inc. Now you can claim it one square inch at a time, state by state, in all 50 States of the United States.

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WordPress 2.0.1 Released

I have just noticed that WordPress 2.0.1 was released 2 days ago, I’ll be installing it very soon, but for now here’s what WordPress.org has to say about this release. It’s been exactly one month since we released the well-received WordPress 2.0 release. In the past 4 weeks we’ve been listening closely to feedback, squashing bugs wherever we find them,