Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

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

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for 2009

11694 different keyphrases were used to find my site in the Year 2009, here are the top 10 with the amount of times they were used plus their overall usage percentage. 11694 different keyphrases Search Percent darren 4305 14.9 % vtunnel 1015 3.5 % planets solar system 923 3.2 % ratatouille 312 1 % disable ease of access 285 0.9 %

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for December 2009

680 different keyphrases were used to find my site in December 2009, here are the top 10 with the amount of times they were used plus their overall usage percentage. 680 different keyphrases Search Percent ratatouille 60 5.4 % planets solar system 48 4.3 % vtunnel 20 1.8 % disable ease of access 19 1.7 % desperate dan 19 1.7 % qq