Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

DMCA complaints on Google Search

Today while searching on Google for some windows live messenger winks, I came across a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) notice message at the bottom of the Google Search Results page, which goes as follows: In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish,

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Is 06/06/06 anything special?

Is today (06/06/06/) set to be once again just a normal day, or will something else happen. Well the people at St. Louis Post-Dispatchre have posted an article on what they think today means, so go ahead and check it out. Revelation’s author is having a big laugh. Sure, his book of the Bible is filled with dragons, locusts, plagues, oceans

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June Chat with IE7 team

Members of the IE team will be online for an Expert Zone chat this coming Thursday June 8th at 10.00AM PST (05:00PM GMT / 06:00PM British Summer Time). As always these chats are a great opportunity to have your questions answered and hear from members of the IE product team. A transcript will be published after the chat and transcripts of

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Yahoo integration in Windows Live Messenger Coming Soon

The long awaited Yahoo integration for Windows Live Messenger is Coming Soon, or so Leah from the Windows Live Messenger team tells us: Well, I wanted to let you know –we haven’t forgotten! As it turns out, it’s been a hard problem to solve, and the team has been working hard,  I still don’t know exactly when you’re going to be

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Windows Live Space Helper 2.0 Preview

Windows Live Space Helper 2.00 Preview (2006.6.4) is now released for download. Enhance your Windows Live Space More Easily! Windows Live Space Helper is a powerful Tool for your space. It is very simple and easy to use. You can get HTML Codes from Windows Live Space Helper easily. Now enjoy it! By the way don’t forget that this isn’t

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Planet Child Launched!

David Dehghan has now launced Planet Child, but what is it? PlanetChild is an international non profit organization aimed at improving teaching methods and practices in developing countries and at making them more effective. It is very much influenced by http://path.org/. PATH develops programs that have huge return on investment in the heath care sector. For example they have invented

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Microsoft to Drop PDF Support in Office 2007

Microsoft has now admitted that it’s now going to be dropping PDF Support in Office 2007, but why? After all haven’t customers been asking for this support feature for ages, plus the PDF format is apparently classified as an open document format so there shouldn’t be any problems with adding it into Office 2007, after all OpenOffice and Apple’s Mac

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Windows Live Mail now uses new Windows Live ID sign-in UI.

Just thought I would let you all know that you can now try out the new Windows Live ID sign-in UI on Windows Live Mail. To get this experience, you must: 1) be a Live Mail user, and 2) sign in through http://mail.live.com/ (as opposed to http://www.hotmail.com/). Update those browser bookmarks to the new URL so you consistently get the new sign-in

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Windows Live Insider Club Levels 3 and 4 Now Open!

For those of you that don’t know, the Windows Live Insider Club has now opened up Levels 3 and 4, so why not go ahead and check it out, good luck on wining a prize! 😀 There are thousands of USB keys to be won on Level 3, a Da Vinci code game to crack, and if you visit Level