Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Review of invisibleSHIELD

Last week on the 26th July 2006 I was contacted by Emily Chipping a Web Marketing Representative from the ShieldZone Corporation, who asked me if I would like to do a review on one of their products. To be more specific their invisibleSHIELD product, which is a super-tough, thin, transparent film that is used to protect small electronic devices from

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Yahoo Messenger for Mac now able to message Windows Live Messenger

Since Microsoft’s and Yahoo’s agreement last year to make Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger interoperable so users could exchange instant messages between each other on the different networks, we now have some more proof that it’s in testing, as found out by inziga a member on the trillian forums. One problem though it seems to be only working on the Yahoo Messenger for Mac so

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MSN Cartoon Creator Beta: Chinese

Hey check this out, MSN (Windows Live China Shanghai) have now released a cool new cartoon creator site called MSN Cartoon Creator which will is currently in beta but is pretty good as it let’s you create cartoon avatars of yourself from your own image you upload. And though the MSN Cartoon Creator Beta Site is only available in Chinese for the time

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for June 2006

Lately I’ve been wondering if to stop these Top 10 Search Keyphrase posts, but as I’ve had some nice comments about them and how some of you like seeing what people normally search  for when finding my blog, I’m going to carry on posting these posts for now, so here I go: 1719 different keyphrases where used to find my site

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ExtremeRadio1077.com is here!

Love Rock Music? Then check out a new internet radio station called ExtremeRadio1077.com I have only come to know about ExtremeRadio1077.com very recently but from the music I’ve heard on it so far, I can safely say that the music is good quality rock music. I came to know about this site after I saw a new commenter on my

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Official Windows Live MSN Spaces Community?

I have just come across this Windows Live MSN Spaces Community, which is called MSN Lands and is apparently the Official Windows Live MSN Spaces Community, I think not! Let me explain why I think not; first let’s look at their first post: Welcome to the Official Windows Live MSN Spaces Community MSN Lands is still under construction We are

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MSN Cars Roadtrip 2006 Has been launched!

Many people dream of taking the trip of a lifetime. Would you like to make that dream come true? MSN Cars is giving away a spectacular holiday. If you win, you’ll get to choose the destination and who to go with. How about jumping into a jeep on safari in Kenya, or even a fly-drive to Florida? It’s all possible with

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Windows Live for Mobile 10.7 Beta

Haven’t seen what the Windows Live for Mobile 10.7 Beta looks like yet, well take a look at this quick screencapture of it from legendsky. Looks pretty nice don’t you think, shame it’s only for Windows Mobile 5 though and not Windows Mobile 2003, when we asked at the last Windows Live Session if there would be a 2003 version,

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Windows Live Button to let your visitors add your feed to Live.com

Great news for those of you who have been wanting an add this feed to live.com button, as the team have now released one, I would have posted this earlier but I’ve been out all day and have only just got back so if you’ve already seen this somewhere else, then I hope you’ve tried it out and love it,