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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Gates Hints at Microsoft MP3 Player

 More news on the subject of Microsoft building a MP3 Player! Rumors continue to spread that Microsoft may finally be ready to try and take on Apple in the portable media player market. Many are speculating what Microsoft may have planned to try and combat Apple in the MP3 player market.  While speaking at a Seattle area high school, one

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So, what exactly is Zooomr, anyways?

Ever heard of Zooomr? Started on a late October, 26th in 2005, Zooomr was born to explore the information inside of photos. It aims to be not merely another photo sharing service, but something that helps connect people together through photos. Perhaps one of the most important features of Zooomr is that it’s localized. With over 10 locales worldwide and

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New website design for February 2006

Hey everyone as you may know, in the last couple of days or so I’ve been working on a new template design for my main homepage: (http://www.darrenstraight.com/) And well what can I say it’s been a fun experience experimenting with all the different designs I kept on coming up with that I could implement but it wasn’t until I found

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Happy Birthday Flickr

Flickr celebrated it’s 2nd Birthday yesterday! The Flickr team hopes you can join us as we enter our terrible twos. Adaptive Path will be hosting our event on their fabulous 2nd floor (2nd birthday, 2nd floor!). Our friends at O’Reilly are sending us copies Flickr Hacks hot of the press from the printers and QOOP is planning a little surprise.

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The Perception Laboratory’s Face Transformer

You can use the Perception Laboratory’s Face Transformer to change the age, race or sex of a facial image, to transform it to the style of a famous artist, to make an exagerated caricature or even make an ape of yourself!  Some of the results I got were pretty funny so why not give it a go your self! The