Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Adobe Reader X: There was an error opening this document. Access denied.

Found out the other day that there seems to be an an issue with opening up PDF Files within external email programs (Microsoft Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook 2003, 2007, 2010, Windows Live Mail, Eudora, Mozilla Thunderbird etc) and Adobe Reader X (10). When trying to open up a PDF using one of these external email clients or others, Adobe Reader X launches and

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ASUS Hot Panda News! The Weekend of the Panda.

With Christmas just around the corner (Happy Christmas my fellow Blog readers), Santa has sent out some rather unusual early helpers this year. Kevin and Sue Lang, ASUS’ friendly and very cuddly pandas, will be visiting London this weekend (11th – 12th December 2010) in search of Bamboo and to let you, Discover ASUS. With a photographer and film crew

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Nokia N8 – The Commuter, new Nokia film in mobile HD – Nokia UK

Pamela Anderson, Ed Westwick, Dev Patel and Charles Dance star in Nokia’s highly anticipated short film, ‘The Commuter’ which was shot entirely in mobile HD on the Nokia N8 smartphone. The groundbreaking film, directed by the McHenry Brothers, was shot in just four days with the Nokia N8 using no back up cameras, with the streets of London and St

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Wireless technology for the hearing impaired

Siemens Hearing Instruments has announced the launch of its new, multifunctional miniTek™ device, which acts as both a remote control and automatic streamer to synchronise all the latest gadgets with hearing device instruments with a pair of hearing aids. The miniTek is a natural technology progression from the Tek™ that Siemens has been supplying since 2008. Put simply, the miniTek™

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Manic Monday goes mobile as british use smartphones to shop

One in ten Brits will do their online Christmas shopping using their mobile phone rather than a computer this year, according to new research findings from Tesco Direct. The trend of using mobile phones for online shopping emerged in a study of 4,000 consumers. This comes as Tesco Direct gets ready to face its busiest online shopping day of the

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Video: TweetFired – Fired from Job Because Of Twitter

You may have heard of the story of Brian Maupin who got fired from BestBuy becuase of his iPhone4 vs HTC Evo YouTube Video he posted, even though the video makes no mention of BestBuy. Well now he’s back with another video called TweetFired which is the story of Peter, a man who gets in trouble with his boss at

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BitDefenders safego says one fifth of Facebook users subject to malware

BitDefender, an award winning provider of innovative internet security solutions, has released statistics derived from its social networking safety app safego launched in beta at the end of last month. The application, which has scanned over 17 million Facebook posts to date, detected infections on the news feeds of around 20% of its users. Key Statistics To date, safego has

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Minecraft Halloween Update Is Out!

Need I say more? The Minecraft Halloween Update Is finally out (thanks goes to Markus “Notch” Persson and his team at Mojang Specifications). Check out http://www.minecraft.net/ and http://www.minecraft.net/boo for more info and of course the download (if you havent purcahsed already)! 😀 Update (22:57): Seems  http://www.minecraft.net/, http://www.minecraftforum.net/ and http://www.minecraftwiki.net are all having down time problems, hopefuly http://www.minecraft.net/ will be back up soon so we can get

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Tesco Reveals Shopping List Of The Future

This week, Tesco announces it is updating its popular grocery app to include a barcode reader that will enable customers to add items to their online shopping basket more quickly and simply than ever before. The barcode scanner for the iPhone is a UK first for the supermarket industry. It is particularly targeted at busy parents and time-poor professionals who