Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Get your Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta Invites here!

Still need a Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta Invite? If so then tell me something I don’t know already or just tell me something you think I would find interesting and if I like it I’ll send you a Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta Invite straight away, bare in mind the following though: Anyone who wants an invite will need to have

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Goodbye MSN Search, Hello Windows Live Search, Soon!

We already know that MSN Search will eventually be retiring to make way for the all new Windows Live Search, but exactly when is a question some people have been asking for some time now. Well I myself as of yet don’t have a definitive answer as to when the exact date of transition from MSN Search to Windows Live

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Second day back at college for pre-term 2006

Well today was yet another interesting day because not only did we get to meet one of our other new tutors but me and some friends also went to check out some of the new buildings on campus which gave me the perfect opportunity to take some photos with my Smartphone. Here’s some of them. Want more? Check out My

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My thoughts of my first day back at college for pre-term 2006

Well as I posted about yesterday, today was my first day back at the University of Kent at Medway where I am continuing to study for a Bcs Honours Degree in Information Technology. And well I have to say it was quite an interesting day in many ways, heres a quick run through of some of the happening of today

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Last year studying for a Bcs Honours Degree in IT

Well it looks like my summer holidays have unfortunately come to an end, as tomorrow I will be setting back off to college with the University of Kent at Medway to study for my final year on a Bcs Honours Degree in Information Technology. And well I’m just looking over what I’m going to have to study and what I’m

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MSN Chat closes on the 18th of October 2006

As part of an overall effort by MSN and Microsoft to provide consumers with a safer, more secure and positive overall online experience, MSN have finally decided to no longer offer MSN Chat in the US as of the 18th of October 2006. So from that day forth which is only 3 years after the closing of MSN Chat in the UK which

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Windows Live Essentials and Dashboard test site up!

Just noticed that Microsoft have now got a Windows Live Essentials test site up on their Windows Live Services Test Server at (http://essentials.live-int.com) and as well as being able to view the Windows Live Essentials Test Site you can download Windows Live Dashboard Beta. However though you can access the Windows Live Essentials Site and download Windows Live Dashboard you

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for August 2006

1302 different keyphrases where used to find my site in July 2006, here are the top 10 with the amount of time they were used and their percentage. vtunnel | 454 | 11.8 % msn conspiracy game | 113 | 2.9 % sorry we are unable to complete your task at this time. the windows live spaces service is experiencing difficulties. please