Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

UK court to unmask ‘file-sharers’

Looks like the police are getting more into depths with software piracy! Ten internet service providers have been ordered to hand over the details of 150 UK customers accused of illegally sharing software. The High Court order follows a 12-month covert investigation by the Federation Against Software Theft (Fast). Among the internet providers are BT, NTL, Telewest and Tiscali. Over

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Spell with Flickr – Get your name(or anything) spelled with Flickr Images!

Like the title says, just type in something(ie: your name, your web address, a small phrase) and this great little online app will take what you typed in fetch pictures from Flickr for each letter. Give it a try! Very cool Flickr app!! Digg post Spell with Flickr

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Can great software live in 130 kilobytes?

We need to see more programs like Utorrent, programs that are not ‘bloatware’. Ludvig can do it, why can’t you?  A few months ago, I pretty much thought having decent software weighing in at 1 megabyte (let alone 130 kilobytes!) was a pipe dream but that’s before I got my hands on a copy of µTorrent (a BitTorrent client).  When

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Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 7 Beta to public

 Great news Microsoft has now released Internet Explorer 7 Beta to the public! Microsoft plans to take the wraps off Internet Explorer 7 on Tuesday, releasing the new “preview” version of its Web browser to the general public for testing. The program, still a work in progress, will be available shortly for download from the Internet Explorer section of Microsoft’s corporate Web

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Updates to live.com

As you may have noticed Live.com has now been updated, here’s a bit about the update from Phil Holden’s Msn Space, Phil Holden is the Director for Windows Live! Yesterday we released an update to live.com that focus’s on a bunch of user experience issues we have received from our customers over the last couple of months. The most visually obvious

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Russia to open moonbase mine

It look’s like the Russians have plans to build a moonbase, could this be the beginning of the planetary wars or space wars or why not Star Wars! RUSSIA is planning to mine a rare fuel on the moon by 2020 with a permanent base and a heavy-cargo transport link, a Russian space official says. “We are planning to build

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Msn Spaces 10.5 Released!

That’s right Msn Spaces build 10.5.2517.0 is now out! We have some great changes in MSN Spaces. Have a picture that has a great story around it…you can now add a description to your photos.  Your viewers can now add comment to photos as well as blogs.  So make sure to go to someone’s photo album and leave a comment