Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Problems Installing OS X Tiger on a PC

My Primary OS is Windows XP PRO SP2 and for the past week I’ve been trying to find a way of installing OS X Tiger on my PC very quick and simple so far I’ve found various solutions, but each time I run PearPC I find a problem that once I correct brings another problem with it which can be

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Windows Vista Auxillary Display for laptops.

While searching on the web last night for anything interesting related to Windows Vista, I came across a very interesting blog article on how to make a “Windows Vista” (Longhorn) Auxiliary Display (now) for your laptop. I currently don’t have a Laptop so I wont be able to try it out, though I do have a pda so I guess

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Windows Genuine Advantage 1.0 Goes Live

Microsoft has now gone live with its blocking technology that will require people to validate their copies of Windows before being allowed download access to updates. Genuine Advantage 1.0 program will check that anyone accessing Windows Update, Microsoft Update for Windows or the Microsoft Download Center has a genuine Windows operating system before allowing any downloads. Security updates will however

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Discovery launches successfully.

NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery has finally returned to space after more than two years of hard work by the entire NASA team to get the shuttle up to the standards it needed to be, so a reoccurrence of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster that happened two years ago does not happen ever again. NASA says that the shuttle has not

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Miragraphy – RFID enabled mirror

Hitachi announced yesterday a new mirror that functions as a computer display. It will be available for purchase in Japan on Septermber 30. It combines a half mirror and a diffusion film to directly display digital information (text, photos, video, tv shows, websites, flash movies etc.) on a mirror surface using an LCD projector. This technology, called Miragraphy, also integrates

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New .mobi Domain Approved

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved the .mobi domain name extension. The mobile phone industry has created this domain name becuase they say it will improve the way mobiles surf the net. They also say that the .mobi domains will create a “reliable and recognizable mechanism for internet content and services that are specifically tailored

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When is Software Ready for Users?

Just found this article on the IBM Website by Amy Wohl, and I must say it’s quite an interesting read to say the least. When is Software Ready for Users? Once upon a time, developers worked on software in the privacy of their offices, writing and testing it until it was finished. Only then would they ship it to users.