Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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Free Add-on SRTM, mission STS-99, Released for Space Shuttle Mission 2007

The Space Shuttle Mission 2007 gets today the famous Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), STS-99 as a FREE add-on. This mission is particularly interesting for all Flight Simulation fans as it allows you to perform the mission which made possible the high resolution topology sceneries available for PC Flight Simulation software such as Microsoft FSX and Laminar Research X-Plane. STS-99

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Canon launches European football game for UEFA EURO 2008

Canon the technology giant has launched a pan-European online interactive football game competition to promote its sponsorship of UEFA EURO 2008TM and re-launched online store. Curious, an online EMEA specialist agency is behind both the development of the football game and design and front-end build of its re-launched online store, in partnership with Canon’s retained e-commerce agency Digital River. The

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My WeShow.com Launches in Five Additional Languages

WeShow, the human-powered guide to the online video universe, announced last month that it has launched My WeShow.com in five additional languages. A powerful video-focused social network that enhances Internet users’ online video experience, My WeShow combines the best of video entertainment with social interaction on the web, enabling users to find video, create personalized video communities, and share opinions

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for May 2008

1922 different keyphrases were used to find my site in May 2008, here are the top 10 with the amount of times they were used plus their overall usage percentage. 1922 different keyphrases Search Percent vtunnel 2657 30.6 % vtunnel myspace 365 4.2 % vtunnel website 345 3.9 % windows 223 2.5 % v tunnel 206 2.3 % sites like vtunnel 190

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Avril Lavigne The Best Damn Tour 2008 London

Avril Lavignes The Best Damn Tour is coming to The O2 Arena this coming Wednesday the 4th of June. So looking forward to going along with all the other music festivals, concerts and gigs I shall be going to this year. It’s all good fun! 😀 With all this talk of music lately on my blog anyone would be thinking

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The A-Z Alphabet Search Query May 2008

Ever wonderd what website or page would be at the top of a search query list if you typed a single letter of the alphabet into a search engine? Probably not! But hey I wonderd for you, so here’s my results: Live Search (United States) A is for FunBrain.com – The Internet’s #1 Education Site for K-8 Kids and …

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Madonna The Sticky & Sweet Tour 2008 London

This September the 11th, Madonna will be performing live on stage at Wembley Stadium as part of her Madonna the Sticky & Sweet Tour 2008. I bought tickets for myself and my girlfriend to see her from the Golden Circle Standing Area, so hopefully it will be a good one. I’m just wondering is anyone else going to either the

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Join a new Windows Live user community

Just noticed this post on the Windows Live Messenger Blog: We here at Windows Live love to create software that makes keeping in touch with your personal community fun and exciting. If you love to chat on Windows Live Messenger, use Windows Live Writer to post to your Windows Live Spaces page and post photos from Windows Live Photo Gallery

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88 Days untill Reading and Leeds Festival 2008

There’s 88 Days to go until Reading and Leeds Music Festival 2008, so let’s take a quick look at the lineup so far! 🙂 Can’t wait to go! 😀 Main Stage Reading Friday Reading Saturday Reading Sunday Leeds Saturday Leeds Sunday Leeds Friday Rage Against the Machine Queens of the Stone Age The Fratellis The Enemy Biffy Clyro Serj Tankian

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Open signup for Dropbox Beta Invites

Here’s a little present for all those of you out there that like to beta test web apps and such before they come out, the link below is an open signup beta invite link for Dropbox, the online storage site which let’s you synchronise your files and folders with your desktop computer. http://www.getdropbox.com/beta/go Of course if you love Microsoft 🙂 or not 🙁 then don’t forget