Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content

Would you like to learn what you can do to protect your rights to original content owned and posted by you on your own blog, if so then I recommend you take a look at an excellent guide titled “What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content” written by Lorelle VanFossen. Just because information is on the Internet does

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Auction site rewards unique bid, not lowest bid.

Anybody heard of UniqueAuction.com before, I’m wondering whether or not to try it out and see how good it really is, here’s what I’ve found out about it from Cnet: Imagine paying 92 cents for a new Xbox 360. Or $700 for a brand new Nissan 350z sports car worth $60,000. UniqueAuction.com says it auctions off hundreds of new “luxury

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Cl1p.net – The Internet Clipboard

The Internet Clipboard is here, with cl1p.net you can copy and paste between computers. Just enter in any URL that starts with http://cl1p.net (example: http://cl1p.net/darren/) and post. Then from any other computer enter the same URL and copy. Usefull for… Getting around firewalls. With cl1p.net you can easily move data from one machine to another. All you need is a

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Interview with Jean-Philippe the International Director of Microsoft

Lapytsh.com has now posted their pretty cool interview with Jean-Philippe Courteous Courtois, the International Director of Microsoft, the interview though in french covers a very broad area of subjects such as the XBOX 360, Windows Vista, Windows Live and Web 2.0. Via: Lapytsh.com Translation tools: Google | FreeTranslation.com

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Switching hosts on Microsoft Office Live Basics Beta

I’ve been wondering for a little while now if it’s possible or not to switch domain name hosts on the Microsoft Office Live Basics Beta, and well I’ve now had my question answered, seems it is possible, here’s what somebody did, shame about the grammatical errors in his post though: Microsoft is offering to give you a free domain if

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NASA Unveils Plan to Go Back to the Moon by 2008

For the first time since Apollo, NASA will be sending a rocket to the moon for the deployment of a probe in 2008! April 10, 2006 — NASA announced today it will send a rocket to crash into the moon, an early step to delivering the first astronauts to the planet since the last Apollo missions more than 30 years

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The nonsense about AdSense

Benjamin Cohen, the former teenaged dot.com millionaire, has run into a problem as he tries to make his next million: Google won’t pay him for ads run on his website This story sounds exactly like what happened to me and loads of other people on the web I know who are honest people that do not click there own ad’s and

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Six pack by summer – Sixpackbysummer.com

Erik Kastner the guy that made “Spell With Flickr” is giving people $1,000 out of his own pocket if he doesnt have a visable 6-Pack this summer. Six Pack by Summer is an experiment in willpower and game theory. I, Erik Kastner, will have until July 4th, 2006 to show the world a 4-pack, then a little more time for

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Half-Life 2: Episode One Website

A new website dedicated to Valve’s up-coming Half-Life 2: Episode One release is now online with some interesting news and a video trailer. The First New Episode Half-Life 2 has sold over 4 million copies worldwide, and earned over 35 Game of the Year Awards. Episode One is the first in a series of games that reveal the aftermath of