Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Just upgraded my Free Flickr Account to a Pro Flickr Account

Today I thought I would treat myself to something special, especially after all that running I did yesterday plus taking photographs with my digital camera, and well what better thing to buy than a Pro Flickr Account, here’s what I get with my new Pro Flickr Account: 2 GB monthly upload limit Unlimited storage Unlimited bandwidth Unlimited photosets Permanent archiving of high-resolution

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$399 a month email account for for the upper class millionaires!

Surely not even the rich would go for this! New exclusive email service for the upper class – US$ 399.00 monthly Munich, Germany, April 11. 2006 – Welcome to the 21. century! Do you own a luxury car and enjoy the exclusivity? Of course… But why restrict yourself? Now the time has come to define your financial status even in

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Windows Live ID team is Blogging

Looks like the Windows Live ID team has started blogging about their developments with the new Windows Live ID the upgrade/replacement for the Microsoft Passport. Welcome to the Windows Live ID team blog!  This is our inaugural Hello World! post to introduce Windows Live ID.   Windows Live ID is the upgrade/replacement for the Microsoft Passport service and is the

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£13.37 as a thank you to Founding Members of Prize Fight

What another cool email from the heart of my inbox, prize fight has just credited my account with £13.37 (1337 amounts of cash) in order to say thank you for being a Founding Member of Prize Fight, I first found out about Prize Fight (win money gaming) last month when I read a review about it in the .net magazine

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Microsoft Announces Windows Live Academic Search

Today Microsoft Corporation has announced the beta release of its Windows Live Academic Search service in English in seven countries which include the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, and Australia, the new tool is designed to help students, researchers and universities conduct research across a wide range of academic journals. Windows Live Academic Search Beta currently covers

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What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content

Would you like to learn what you can do to protect your rights to original content owned and posted by you on your own blog, if so then I recommend you take a look at an excellent guide titled “What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content” written by Lorelle VanFossen. Just because information is on the Internet does

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Auction site rewards unique bid, not lowest bid.

Anybody heard of UniqueAuction.com before, I’m wondering whether or not to try it out and see how good it really is, here’s what I’ve found out about it from Cnet: Imagine paying 92 cents for a new Xbox 360. Or $700 for a brand new Nissan 350z sports car worth $60,000. UniqueAuction.com says it auctions off hundreds of new “luxury

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Cl1p.net – The Internet Clipboard

The Internet Clipboard is here, with cl1p.net you can copy and paste between computers. Just enter in any URL that starts with http://cl1p.net (example: http://cl1p.net/darren/) and post. Then from any other computer enter the same URL and copy. Usefull for… Getting around firewalls. With cl1p.net you can easily move data from one machine to another. All you need is a

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Interview with Jean-Philippe the International Director of Microsoft

Lapytsh.com has now posted their pretty cool interview with Jean-Philippe Courteous Courtois, the International Director of Microsoft, the interview though in french covers a very broad area of subjects such as the XBOX 360, Windows Vista, Windows Live and Web 2.0. Via: Lapytsh.com Translation tools: Google | FreeTranslation.com

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Switching hosts on Microsoft Office Live Basics Beta

I’ve been wondering for a little while now if it’s possible or not to switch domain name hosts on the Microsoft Office Live Basics Beta, and well I’ve now had my question answered, seems it is possible, here’s what somebody did, shame about the grammatical errors in his post though: Microsoft is offering to give you a free domain if