Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Competition to develop a Shop/Cash Mod for Invision Power Board v2.1.5

About half an hour ago or so I posted the following post on the Invisionize Forum’s to see if I can finaly get the Mod I need for MS Discussion, some people might thing I shouldent do what I’m doing right now, but let me tell you this I’m doing this for the whole community of Invision and my Microsoft Discussion forums for

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MSN Spaces Social Networking trial goes live in Australia

MSN Spaces Australia was tonight updated to include a new Social Networking trial which enables customers to communicate and connect in a more meaningful way with their friends and their friends of friends, read more below: This week I’ve had the pleasure of hanging out in Sydney spending time with customers, partners, a bunch of cool bloggers as well as the folks from

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Writely who has been acquired by Google actually uses ASP .NET

I must say I find this kind of funny. 🙂 Congrats to the team who made Writely for getting acquired by Google. They built it in .NET. It used to be uncool to startup a company with Microsoft technologies, but I’ve seen more and more .NET stuff being done in the Valley. Who’s next? Via: Robert Scoble

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Installed Invision Community Blog on MS Discussion

A couple of hours ago I installed Invision Community Blog on my Microsoft Discussion Forums (MS Discussion), I’m hoping that by doing this we can attract even more visitors to the site especially with all the features the blog system has to offer: Invision Community Blog is a plugin for Invision Power Board. It uses the same skin, member, language,

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Windoes Live Safety Center Beta has come to an end.

The Windoes Live Safety Center Beta has now come to an end, which means the Beta Tag should be removed very soon. The Windows Live Safety Center team would like to thank all of you for being part of this beta. You have done an amazing job in identifying bugs and making suggestions for improvements. Some of the stuff we

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The New Microsoft Office 2007 User Interface Overview

New screenshots of the new Office 2007 UI (User Interface) have now been postsed on Microsoft’s Site, look’s pretty cool if you ask me! The New Microsoft Office User Interface Overview Published: September 13, 2005 | Updated: March 9, 2006 When planning the release of the 2007 Microsoft Office system, formerly code-named Office “12”, we took on the challenge of making

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Park your car on your balcony

I’ve never seen this mentioned before so I thought I would mention it: I first read about the idea of the Loft Car in one of Nicolas’ post. German architects Manfred Dick (who sought a patent for his concept) and Johannes Kauka want to help drivers park their car right on their appartment’s balcony. You’d drive the vehicle straight on

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Windows Live Jacket UK

Romain from heaven.fr, an online marketing and communication agency for MSN Europe, has just emailed me to tell me that I can now order my first Windows Live Gift, a Windows Live Jacket. I’ve seen some pictures of the Windows Live Jacket and it looks very cool, I was thinking about getting a Microsoft one not long ago from Microsoft’s