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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Windows Live Local comes to Australia

According to this Windows Live Local Australia Blog, Windows Live Local has now arrived in Australia. So you can now start navigating around Australia with detailed imagery, mapping and places of interest. However I’ve checked myself and as of yet can’t find a single detailed image of Australia on Windows Live Local, only the screenshot on that blog, and the only reason for

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Disappointment over Dolly cloning 10 years later

It’s now been 10 years since the cloning of Dolly the Sheep at the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, Scotland, where she lived between 5th July 1996 to the 14th February 2003. But the creator of Dolly the Sheep, Professor Ian Wilmut, has now said that he is “disappointed” that Britain did not develop cloning technology involving animals, as more could have been done

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Shuttle Discovery Launched Successfully for July 2006

The Space Shuttle Discovery has now launched successfully from the Kennedy Space Center on the 4th of July 2006 (US Independence Day) at 1438 EDT (1838 GMT) heading it’s way to the International Space Station (ISS). However though it was a successfully launch, NASA is luckey to be lauching at all as this is the first shuttle flight of 2006 and

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Microsoft Windows Live will be recruiting on July 25th 2006

Microsoft’s Windows Live Team will be recruiting in Waltham on July 25th. So if you feel like you’re up for a carrer with Microsoft, please send your technology or Program Management Resumes to Susanhan@microsoft.com if you qualify for the requirements as listed below. This Event is invite only. TCP/IP expert to advanced knowledge SQL working knowledge Network design and development

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Review of invisibleSHIELD

Last week on the 26th July 2006 I was contacted by Emily Chipping a Web Marketing Representative from the ShieldZone Corporation, who asked me if I would like to do a review on one of their products. To be more specific their invisibleSHIELD product, which is a super-tough, thin, transparent film that is used to protect small electronic devices from

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Yahoo Messenger for Mac now able to message Windows Live Messenger

Since Microsoft’s and Yahoo’s agreement last year to make Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger interoperable so users could exchange instant messages between each other on the different networks, we now have some more proof that it’s in testing, as found out by inziga a member on the trillian forums. One problem though it seems to be only working on the Yahoo Messenger for Mac so

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MSN Cartoon Creator Beta: Chinese

Hey check this out, MSN (Windows Live China Shanghai) have now released a cool new cartoon creator site called MSN Cartoon Creator which will is currently in beta but is pretty good as it let’s you create cartoon avatars of yourself from your own image you upload. And though the MSN Cartoon Creator Beta Site is only available in Chinese for the time

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for June 2006

Lately I’ve been wondering if to stop these Top 10 Search Keyphrase posts, but as I’ve had some nice comments about them and how some of you like seeing what people normally search  for when finding my blog, I’m going to carry on posting these posts for now, so here I go: 1719 different keyphrases where used to find my site

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ExtremeRadio1077.com is here!

Love Rock Music? Then check out a new internet radio station called ExtremeRadio1077.com I have only come to know about ExtremeRadio1077.com very recently but from the music I’ve heard on it so far, I can safely say that the music is good quality rock music. I came to know about this site after I saw a new commenter on my