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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Coming Soon: @live.com and @windowslive.com domains

The title of this post says it all, on the 20th of June 2006, two new domains will be available for customers signing up for a new Windows Live ID. According to the Windows Live Mail Support Team Blog the two new domains @live.com and @windowslive.com will be available to register when you sign up for a new account with Windows

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Msn Spaces Mobile now has Stats

Starting today, when you go to your space from your mobile phone (http://mobile.spaces.msn.com/) and sign in you’ll see statistics for your space at the bottom of the page: you’ll see the number of page views from the last hour, today, the current week, and total page views since the inception of the space. The page views are tracked when your

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The bugs, beauty and benefits of beta testing

Just found out about this article which has some advice for becoming a beta tester along with the bugs, beauty and benefits of beta testing, it’s quite an interesting read. here’s an extract of the last paragraph: Advice for beta testers Beta tests are not something to enter into lightly. You may need to put lower priority projects on hold or delay other

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Windows Live Messenger 8.0 Managed Beta Comes to an End!

The Windows Live Messenger 8.0 Managed Beta has now come to an end, and what a great beta it was, congratulations goes to the Windows Live Messenger Team, it was very well managed and it was great to talk to other beta participants. I don’t think it could have got any better, well not unless we were all invited to

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CGI Animated Meteorite Collision Simulation Video

Check out this impresive CGI-animated meteorite collision simulation video, it’s pretty cool but scary if you ask me. The diameter of the meteorite is slightly bigger than the breadth of Honshu Japan. The collision point is located at the 3,000km south from Japan in the ocean. The velocity of the meteorite is 70,000km/h Via: TecheBlog | A Welsh View