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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Microsoft Office Outlook Connector beta available

With Microsoft Office Outlook Connector Beta, you can use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to access and manage your Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail or Microsoft Office Live Mail accounts, including e-mail messages and contacts for free! Outlook Connector Beta enables you to use your Live Hotmail accounts within Outlook: Read and send your Office Live Mail/Windows

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Apple Safari 3 beta available for Windows?

Today at the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) Keynote in San Francisco, Apples CEO Steve Jobs, announced that the Mac OS Web browser, Safari (beta 3), is now available for Microsoft Windows PC’s. Launching in open beta today, the latest version of Safari includes a number of new features, including a new functionality for automatically creating widgets from web page elements. It’s

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My 22nd Birthday and Second Blog Anniversary!

Hey peeps, there’s a party going on and you’re all invited! 😉 As today is my 22nd Birthday and 2nd blog anniversary. And yet again what a great year it has been, there’s so many great things I’ve done and so many new people I’ve met, it’s unbelievable. So for this blog post I thought I would provide you with

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Live Earth less than a month away!

Live Earth is less than a month away but just out of interest are you doing your part to stop/slow Global Warming from happening? If not then you might like to do some research into it or even check out this “50 easy ways to go green” article. And hey while on the subject of Live Earth, How many of

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Mix Messenger by David Guetta

Can you imagine a dance tune made from the Windows Live Messenger notification sounds? Well don’t worry, imagine no more!  The guys over at MSN France have managed to persuade David Guetta to produce such a mix to promote Windows Live Messenger. I’m not sure if it’s to everyone’s taste, but hey at least check it out. The official Mix Messenger page can

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Tech-Ed 2007 Keynote Opening with Back To The Future Spoof/Parody

Microsoft executive Bob Muglia’s appearance at the company’s Tech-Ed 2007 conference this week began with an elaborate video starring actor Christopher Lloyd in his role as Doc Brown from the “Back to the Future” series, taking Muglia back in time to save him from a disastrous keynote address.  The video is now available online, and you can watch it here!

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Microsoft WhyWillYouWorkHere.com

I was just reading my feeds and noticed (thanks Dare) that Microsoft have a new recruiting website called WhyWillYouWorkHere.com, in which they feature a video containing various comments from various Microsoft employees (one of course being Dare ;)) about working at Microsoft, more explicitly with the Microsoft Online Business Group (i.e. Windows Live and MSN). MSN and Windows Live deliver the most

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Microsoft Academic Insight Event June 2007

Hey Computer Science tutors, I’ve just noticed that Academic Connection (part of the The Microsoft UK Academic Team) and DevelopMentor have parterned up to invite you all to join them at the Microsoft Academic Insight Event June 2007, for two days of technical education and discussion, designed to help you better understand and teach Microsoft .NET 3.0 and ASP.NET 2.0. And guess what

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HTC Announces HTC Touch the new Touch Screen Experience

HTC has announced the global launch of the HTC Touch, a deceptively small and stylish mobile phone that features intuitive touchscreen navigation (very much like the new iPhone). The new HTC-designed homescreen provides one-touch access to emails, text messages, calendar appointments and contacts, as well as current weather conditions and forecasts for hundreds of cities around the world. Leveraging the

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Live Earth Goes Live on MSN in the UK

With the eagerly awaited Live Earth concerts only weeks away, MSN, the events’ exclusive online media partner today launches its Live Earth UK website at http://liveearth.uk.msn.com. The site is packed full of information on the artists, events and wider green issues to give people all the information they need in the run up to this monumental worldwide music event. In