Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

That Vista Blog for WordPress 1.5.x

I have just installed the “That Vista Blog for WordPress 1.5.x” a wordpress theme by William Lay which makes your Blog look like the windows vista aero theme. But after installing it I noticed that many of you have experienced the same problem as I with the That Vista Theme for your wordpress Blog and that is that some people

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Google’s stock soars higher

Google is quickly expanding day by day and for every day that passes they are worth a little bit more! Will this continue forever? SAN FRANCISCO Google Inc.’s market value briefly surpassed $100-billion (U.S.) for the first time Friday, its stock scaling new heights after an earnings and revenue spike that astonished investors. The on-line search leader’s shares traded as

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MSN Customer Experience Validation

Microsoft is expanding their pool of beta participants for the Customer Experience Validation Program and the MSN Beta Program. If you are already a MSN Butterfly there is no need to sign up for CEV or the MSN Beta Program since you are already enrolled. What is a Customer Experience Validation program? A CEV program is a group of key

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Flock Developer Preview

Just received my email to download the Flock Developer Preview, and I’m testing it out right now just before I go to bed, so far so good it looks very nice! Hello friends of Flock, We can’t wait any longer. Today, we are pleased to invite you to try what will very soon become the Flock Developer Preview. “Developer Preview?”

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Google PageRank Update October 2005

Google has stared their Pagerank and Backlink Exports; I have archived the following results: http://www.msndiscussion.com has PageRank 0/10. http://www.darrenstraight.sizzly.com has PageRank 1/10. http://www.extrememaps.net has PageRank 2/10. http://www.darrenstraight.com has PageRank 3/10. http://www.darrenstraight.com/blog has PageRank 4/10. Check your page rank here: http://www.pagerank.net

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Google Drops Gmail Name in Britain

Woooow now this is News! Due to an ongoing trademark dispute in the United Kingdom, Google has changed the name of its free Web mail service from Gmail to “Google Mail.” The switch was made after the company failed to come to an agreement with financial research company Independent International Investment Research (IIIR). IIIR offers an e-mail service called G-Mail

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Microsoft Windows Vista Build 5231 (Community Technical Preview 2) Review

Paul Thurrott’s has now updated his Microsoft Windows Vista Build 5231 (Community Technical Preview 2) Review page on his SuperSite for Windows. After years of silence and doubts, Microsoft’s Windows Vista project is finally moving ahead with confidence. In September, Microsoft released its first Community Technical Preview (CTP) version of Windows Vista (see my review), a post-Beta 1 (or, depending

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Coding4Fun Developer Center

Check MSDN’s New Coding4Fun site, the boring days of coding are now over because with this site it’s all about coding for fun, read bellow for more info! Coding4Fun: Giving back to the Hobbyist Developer Community Welcome to the Coding4Fun Developer Center! At MSDN, we spend a lot of time talking about professional software development. After all – millions of

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Paper view technology

Now this is awesome but I think I need to see it first to believe it! Cheap, paper-thin TV screens that can be used in newspapers and magazines have been unveiled by German electronics giant Siemens. The firm says the low production costs could see the magazine shelves in newsagents come alive with moving images vying for the customers’ attention