Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Skype 2.5 out of beta!

What’s new in Skype 2.5? Easier to call ordinary phones Send SMS messages View and call Outlook contacts directly Buy Skype credit more easily Features Make free calls to anyone else on Skype, anywhere in the world See who you are talking to with free video calls Chat with up to 100 people in group chats Conference call with up

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@live.com & @windowslive.com domains post removed!

Straight after being the first person yesterday to comment and blog about the new @live.com and @windowslive.com domains, I started to let other sites know about the news by sumbiting it to news sites like digg.com and neowin.net as well as posting it on my MS Discussion site, but now I’ve noticed that the Windows Live Mail Support Team has removed the original

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Nokia podcasting application beta coming soon!

Nokia is soon about to launch a new podcasting application that will let you download podcasts straight on to your mobile phone. It will work with mobiles that use the S60 third edition operating system, but Steven Stewart, Nokia’s Podcasting product manager, has explained that it has been optimised for use with a Nokia N91. The Nokia Podcast application, which

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First Internerd of the Month at The Beta Tester

The Other Day on my Birthday I was contated by Joel Monegro from a new Beta Tester Blog asking me if I could help out with the reviews on the site, now normally I would have said yes as I’m always up for helping out new sites but unfortunelty this time I had to say no as I’m quite busy with all my exams coming up. After

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New Windows Live Page Uncovered

Today Zero1 an administrator over at mess.be has uncovered a new Windows Live page which is supposedly planned to be the next up-coming refresh of the live.com portal which we recently heard about on LiveSide.net While he should really be studying, admin Zero1 found a development site for Live.com to be publicly accessible. The Windows Live start page shows a Google-ish search

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Say Hello to the all New Genpets from Bio Genica!

I think I remember seing something about Genpets posted ages ago on some forum, but as I was just reminded about it after seeing it posted on Miel’s Blog I thought I might as well post it here as well. Say Hello to the all New Genpets from Bio.Genica! The Genpets are Pre-Packaged, Bioengineered pets implemented today! That’s right, Genpets are not toys or robots.