Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

59th position on the Blog Top Sites technology category!

Today I noticed that my blog has elevated it’s self above other blogs to position it’s self in the 59th position of the Blog Top Sites technology category, I don’t know how this can be and I’m not sure if it’s an error or not but I must say it’s pretty cool being in 59th position especially as it means

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First Ultra Mobile PC Comes to US

Samsung has officially launched its first Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC), dubbed the Q1 that is essentially a cross between a laptop and a PDA. With the Ultra Mobile PC you will be able to write with a touch pen on the screen, play movies and games and stay connected to the Internet through wireless hotspots. And this isn’t all you

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Search Keyphrases April 2006 (Top 10)

159 different keyphrases where used to find my site in April 2006, here are the top 10 with the amount of time they were used and their percentage. vtunnel | 109 | 27.5 % vtunell | 25 | 6.3 % febctp_5308_32bit_main_staged_dvd.iso | 11 | 2.7 % flashchat | 9 | 2.2 % windows vista | 9 | 2.2 % darren straight |

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BeebleX an experimental PHP search engine

Have you ever wanted a search engine that will show you articles and code samples from around the Internet? BeebkeX (http://www.beeblex.com/), a search engine for just php related material does just that. Why is it called BeebleX? The “X” makes it sound cool. What does BeebleX index? Right now, we index: Articles and news that have appeared in php|architect (phpa:)

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Amazon drops Google on A9 and Alexa in the US

A9 (Amazon’s search engine) and Alexa (online traffic monitoring service) have now replaced Google as their default search engine with Windows Live Search. There’s no official information about this change and it’s only seems to be viewable for people from the US but this is the first major success for the new Windows Live Search, the replacement for MSN Search

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Windows Live Shopping Beta Launched

Microsoft has now launched the Windows Live Shopping Service. Today we launch the brand new Windows Live Shopping site! What is it? It is the beta launch of Microsoft’s Web 2.0 shopping experience, featuring one of the world’s largest product catalogs, user-created content and an easier-to-use interface built on 100% AJAX technology. It uses a unified shopping engine to search

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Microsoft’s EU appeal case ends

The week-long anti-competition hearing involving Microsoft and the European Commission has finished – with neither side willing to predict the outcome. Microsoft is appealing against a 2004 ruling when Brussels told it to change how it sells its Media Player software and fined it 497m euros ($613m; £344m). The Court of First Instance may not deliver a verdict until early

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Installed Lush Theme for WordPress

I was going to wait until the anniversary of my blog which is also my birthday, to change to another wordpress theme for my blog but I just found out that the blog theme Lush for Typo has now been ported to wordpress so I guess it was something I couldn’t resist so I installed it and I must say