Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Namco Arcade on Facebook

The Namco Arcade is open! The new digital discovery and delivery service from Namco Bandai Networks Europe (NBNE) is available on Facebook now. Users will be able to try out popular games, and have exclusive sneak previews of exciting forthcoming titles. Launching with classic NBNE games including Time Crisis Elite, PAC-MAN™ Championship Edition, Rolling with Katamari, PAC-MAN™, Inspector Gadget, PAC-MAN™

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Melcrums Social Media Conference live via ipadio

ipadio – the live phonecasting & social media service, has announced that its technology is being used to share exclusive content and speaker insight in the lead up to Melcrum’s Social Media Conference on 9th and 10th February 2010. In the run up to the conference, interviews with all the speakers will be broadcast live via ipadio at, http://www.melcrum.com/socialmedia/index.html, allowing

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Snow around the Aral Sea in early January 2010

Snow surrounded the Aral Sea in early January 2010. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this true-color image on January 8, 2010. A band of snow extends from southwest to northeast, crossing over the Aral Sea. The band of snow thins along its southeastern edge, so snow barely covers the southeastern shore of the water

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Sn0wbreeze Public Beta Download For Windows

iH8sn0w.com, the creator of iREB, the utility that allows you to bypass certain errors returned from iTunes during/before restoring to a custom firmware version for your iPhone and iPod Touch, has now released Sn0wbreeze into a public beta download. Just in case you don’t know, sn0wbreeze is a tool for Windows that will jailbreak your iPods and iPhones, setup custom

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BETT 2010 Next Week!

BETT 2010 (The world’s largest educational technology event) is on next week: Wed 13th January 10.00-18.00 Thurs 14th January 10.00-18.00 Fri 15th January 10.00-18.00 Sat 16th January 10.00-16.00 But have you registerd yet? If so what day are you going? And what stands are you hoping to visit? Theres a lot going on from what I hear, here’s a list

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Snow across Great Britain on the 7th of January 2010

Snow blanketed Great Britain on January 7, 2010, as the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite passed overhead and captured this image. Snow covers most of England, from the east to the west coast. (The large image shows snow cover over the entire island of Great Britain.) The cities of Manchester, Birmingham, and London form ghostly gray

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Skyfire Mobile Browser 1.5 Launches for Windows Mobile

Skyfire 1.5 has been released for Windows Mobile. For those of you with high resolution (VGA) screens on your mobile phones, you will appreciate the crisp text and stunning graphics of this new browser. The Windows Mobile version has launched, and the company designing Skfire expect to have news for Nokia Symbian touch screen and high resolution phones very shortly. Skyfire Labs has recorded

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Microsoft Demonstrates Muscle-Computer Interfaces (muCIs)

Many human-computer interaction technologies are currently mediated by physical transducers such as mice, keyboards, pens, dials, and touch-sensitive surfaces. While these transducers have enabled powerful interaction paradigms and leverage our human expertise in interacting with physical objects, they tether computation to a physical artifact that has to be within reach of the user. As computing and displays begin to integrate