Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Microsofts New Search Bing goes Live!

Microsoft’s new search engine at http://www.bing.com has today gone live! Microsoft designed Bing.com to help you overcome search overload and make faster, more informed decisions when searching online. Microsoft says that research indicates that 66 percent of people are increasingly turning to search engines to assist in making decisions — above and beyond simple navigation or information retrieval, for which

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for April 2009

1154 different keyphrases were used to find my site in April 2009, here are the top 10 with the amount of times they were used plus their overall usage percentage. 1154 different keyphrases Search Percent darren 576 22 % vtunnel 113 4.3 % vtunnel.com 59 2.2 % planets solar system 46 1.7 % google straight view 29 1.1 % disable ease of

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HP announces the launch of the Compaq Mini 110c

 HP yesterday unveiled the latest addition to its growing portfolio of stylish and ultra light mini PCs, the Compaq Mini 110c. Building on HP’s successful Compaq Mini 700, the sleekly-designed yet affordable Compaq Mini 110c is set to deliver a rich set of computing features while enabling users to access the Internet at home or on-the-go. The Compaq Mini 110c features

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Celebrities get Slammed in Doritos Dodgeball Challenge

Hope you’ve all been having fun shooting dodgeballs at celebrities in the Doritos Dodgeball Challenge. I sure have been! So I thought you might like to see this video of some of those celebs being hit! 🙂 Next week MC Harvey will be in the firing line, you can log on to fire dodgeballs at him at Doritos Dodgeball Challenge.

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Packard Bell’s makeover

Packard Bell has very recently undergone an incredible makeover that is hoping to leave anybody breathless! Here’s a snipet from the UK Press Release: The Packard Bell brand is where simplicity, trends and technology meets to create fashionably new ways of living and ultra smart forms for working. Across all products and segments, Packard Bell sets the standard for cool, design-driven technology. “We

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Jennifer Ellison launches The Doritos Dodgeball Challenge live!

If you’ve been keeping up to date with the Doritos Dodgeball Challenge news, a live camera and action game where you can shoot balls at real people and celebrities then you’ll know that it’s gone live. Jennifer Ellison  a English actress, glamour model, television personality, dancer and singer launched it last yesterday with a cheerleaders outfit on – all in a good cuase of course. ! 🙂

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The Doritos Dodgeball Challenge – Slam a Celeb Hour!

From the 1st May a very unique gaming experience will be taking place. Members of the public will be able to log on and with a click of a mouse, fire live dodgeballs at live competing celebrities and teams. Every hit, near miss and eye watering moment will be streamed live to you computer. One for the diaries! At 4pm

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New Search Engine Oparla Launches With First Cash Draw For Users

Oparla, the all new search engine that pays users to surf the net, marked its launch this week with its first ever daily cash payout. The inaugural prize draw was made by the engine’s founder, British entrepreneur Daniel Jupp at Oparla headquarters in London and saw one registered user win a lump sum for choosing Oparla to find information online.

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Who Have You Outlived?

Have you seen the Dead At Your Age website yet? it’s a website where you can enter your date of birth and it will show you interesting people you have outlived. Here’s what it said about me below: You are 23 years and 307 days old today. At your exact age, Ian Curtis died of suicide by hanging. He was a lead singer