Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Prince Harrys Leaked Best Mans Speech

As Britain and the rest of the world are gripped by Royal Wedding fever, the pressure will be on Prince Harry when he presents his best man speech to a room packed full of the world’s elite. Last week a campaign launched by Article10 presentations imagined what the young Prince might say in his address to the 1,900 wedding guests,

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Sand by The Carpels (One Beat Records)

I was contacted about a new band the other week, called The Carpels who have real ambition to be at the forefront of modern cutting edge pop music with songs that have indie, punk, dub step & electronic music running through them – Picking up an inspired lead on pop from Talking Heads, LCD Soundsystem, Late of the Pier and The Fall amongst others. In

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Download the Minecraft PC Gamer Demo

Just noticed there’s now a demo of Minecraft, PCGamer Branded! Might help some of you get your freinds to see what they are missing, then buy the full version, and even maybe even join my Yet Another Minecraft Server (YAMS). Minecraft now has a demo. Procrastinating excavators: you no longer have an excuse for skipping our favorite open-world game. Better yet,

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Like A Fire Without Sound by Should

Well today as you should know from my last post, I’ve been listening to music! In fact I’ve been scouring the Internet looking for new music to listen to, and I came across “Like A Fire Without Sound by Should” and I must say I quite enjoy from what I can hear of their music. Seems the album is due to be released

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Music Video: Big City by Cyndi Nabozny

I was just listening to some music and it made me wonder if Cyndi Nabozny had posted any new music on her YouTube channel. Well it seems she hasn’t as her last one was Big City. I’ve heard BigCity before but for those that haven’t I’ve embedded it below for you to listen: Also don’t forget to check out her other

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Republic Signs Facebook Deal With One iota

Leading fashion retailer Republic has joined the likes of Debenhams and Argos to launch a new Facebook Deals service. Implemented and managed by One iota, the mobile and Facebook commerce provider, Republic will give shoppers access to exclusive offers and promotions. Deals will be activated when users ‘check-in’ on their mobile phone through Facebook to Republic stores in Manchester, Sheffield,

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Microsoft Next – Meet Microsofts next generation of innovators

From developing an online platform through Azure that helps ease the devastation caused by floods in Australia, to performing medical operations using Kinect, to developing the next generation of teachers in the Middle East, people are doing amazing things with Microsoft technology. Microsoft Next is a new internal competition that was created to showcase how these innovations are helping people

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Teaching community shares record number of classroom resources and ideas using TES Connect

TES Connect, the world’s largest professional teaching community on the web, saw a record five million classroom resources downloaded in March from its teaching resource bank www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resources – equivalent to a single resource downloaded every 2 seconds. A record five million classroom resources were downloaded by teachers in March 2011, from TES Connect That is equivalent to a single resource downloaded every

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Frequent Mobile Internet Users Love Their Mobile Operator

Research from mobile survey company On Device Research has revealed that the more people use the mobile internet, the more they love their mobile operator. The mobile research, which was conducted directly on the mobile internet, shows that frequent mobile internet users are more satisfied with their mobile operator, compared to those who only occasionally use the internet on their

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Britains superfast broadband lines set to pass 250,000 this month

Virgin Media and BT lead the way to NGA services High-speed broadband is starting to catch on in Britain, with the total number of superfast lines delivering speeds in excess of 25Mbps set to pass the 250,000 mark this April – according to the broadband analysts Point Topic. Whilst Point Topic’s Chief Analyst Tim Johnson says the number is quite