Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Windows Package Installer 6.2 beta

I have just received confirmation of my entry into the Windows Package Installer 6.2 beta, here’s my email confirming that. Dear beta tester, Welcome to the Windows Package Installer 6.2 beta! We will be starting within a few days; please take a few minutes to review the information on the Beta Place Welcome page and linked pages. During your first

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AdSense-Deluxe 0.4 released!

AdSense-Deluxe 0.4 has now been released, AdSense-Deluxe is a plugin for wordpress that can insert adsense ads from Google into your posts using quicktags, here’s the release notes for it: Release Notes New in v0.4 2005-08-03 – Fixed QuickTag menu display when Tiger-Admin plugin is activated. – Added preview of your adsense blocks (click the linked Description on any ad

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I’m back on my PC

I have finally got everything installed back on my computer; it took me a while though especial after trying to recover all that data and transferring it to another hard-drive. In other news for the past couple of days I’ve been reading a book called “The blue nowhere” which was recommended to last Sunday and arrived on Tuesday from Play.com,

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Todays post comes from my PDA!

Today’s post comes directly from my PDA because my PCs hard-drive wont boot up my operating system it never finishes loading the Windows XP Boot screen it just keeps loading and loading, I blame my brother for this because he was the last person to touch it while I was at work in London with my Dad but he says

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One blog created ‘every second’

To date the worldwide blogosphere is continuing to grow at a very fast rate with a weblog created every second, according to blog trackers Technorati. In its latest State of the Blogosphere report, it said the number of blogs it was tracking now stood at more than 14.2m blogs, up from 7.8m in March. It suggests, on average, the number

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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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Installed AdSense-Deluxe

I’ve just installed a WordPress plugin called AdSense-Deluxe which can insert my adsense ad’s from Google into my posts, to insert the code all I do is use quicktags. Features for this plugin include: Enable Ads on Individual Posts Enable Ads on Home page Enable Ads on “pages” Enable Ads on any Archive page Globally enable/disable all ads Here’s an