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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Interesting Windows Live Mail Survey

Just got an email from Michele Scotellaro a Live.com fan who has been kind enough to tell me about a post by Andre Da Costa in which he tells us how he got a MSN Research e-mail this yesterday morning asking him if he would like to take a survey, well Andre Da Costa took the survey and in return got to see some

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First Windows Live Writer Plugins Become Available

It hasent been long at all since the first release of Windows Live Writer Beta and already we are starting to see plugins become available for this excellent blogging application. The current list of plugins available for Windows Live Writer Beta, which have kindly been provided thanks to JefTek’s Plugin List are as follows: Photos Flickr Plugin – info – download – 1.0.60810.1 Smug Mug –

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Windows Live Local Beta Van spotted in Billings, Montana, US.

It’s been less than a month since I last blogged about somebody spotting the Facet Mobile360 Van used for the Windows Live Local Beta and well it looks like somebody has yet again spotted it on the road, this time by Trevor Manternach in Billings, Montana, USA who is of course another fellow Flickr user. However though he took the photo below he

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Dr. Azzam Tamimi believes U.K. terror plot was a hoax

As fears rise on both sides of the Atlantic after terror threats, Dr. Azzam Tamimi, director of the Institute of Islamic Political Thought and senior member of the Muslim Association of Britain says the U.K. terror plot was all a big hoax. I don’t believe him but hey why don’t you watch the video for yourself and decide for yourself if you

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Experts meet to decide Pluto fate

Astronomers are gathering in the Czech capital, Prague, hoping to define exactly what counts as a planet. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) hopes to settle the question of Pluto, which was first spotted in 1930. Experts are divided over whether Pluto – further away and considerably smaller than the eight other planets in our Solar System – deserves the title.

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Windows Live: What’s the point?

I’m always frequently searching the Blogosphere for people who just don’t seem to understand what Microsoft is trying to accomplish with Windows Live, and when I find people like Simon Howard (a.k.a sjhoward) who write lengthly posts about why they don’t get windows or live or what’s the point with Windows Live I always try and ask them a question or two about what they

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Microsoft adCenter to Launch in the U.K.

Just got word that Microsoft adCenter is to Launch in the U.K. on Tuesday the 15th of August 2006, here’s the post from the AdCenter Blog: We’re really excited to announce today that Microsoft adCenter will launch in the U.K. this week! For the last couple of months we’ve run a pilot in partnership with a number of U.K. advertisers

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Frucall to be releasing new features for August 2006

Remember my recent post about Frucall the new US Web 2.0 Service which will allow you to find the comparision of shopping prices by calling 1-888-DO-FRUCALL and typing in or reading the product’s barcode number to the system which will then search the product on Amazon.com, Yahoo! Shopping and Streetprices.com and will return the pricing results within ten or so seconds. Well I

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Windows Live Writer Beta is Live!

Following the recent speculation of Windows Live Writer from Gary at menori and then his later post about Windows Live Writer really exsisting because he had confirmation from his source Beau from Inside-Live who also told Logix from MSGworld some information I can now confirm that Windows Live Writer really does exsist and that I had been testing Windows Live

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IBM PC’s 25th anniversary

Computer firm IBM made technological history 25 years ago on 12 August 1981 with the announcement of a personal computer – the IBM 5150. Costing $1,565, the 5150 had just 16K of memory – scarcely more than a couple of modest e-mails worth. The machine was not the first attempt to popularise computing but it soon came to define the