Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Windows Live Spaces Roadtrip to Live Earth

Here’s your chance to score the ultimate summer job representing Microsoft! Windows Live Spaces has partnered up with MSN Live Earth the Concert for a Climate in Crisis, to sponsor an adventurous cross country road trip from Seattle to NYC over 5 weeks while meeting folks from across the nation (USA) and doing your part to make the earth a better

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Windows Live Hotmail Launches ‘Email Britain’ Campaign

  To celebrate the UK launch of the new Windows Live Hotmail, the UK’s no 1 email service has announced a unique collaboration with the British Library, to create the first ever archive of British emails today. The ‘Email Britain’ campaign, which will run throughout May, asks the British public to make email history by forwarding a memorable or significant

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Windows Live Hotmail Beta Signature Badges!

Got the following invitation message in one of my Windows Live Hotmail Beta account inboxes today inviting me to download some cool Windows Live Hotmail Beta Email Signature Badges as well as offering me some great Windows Vista Offers, though the Windows Vista offers are US Only it’s still cool to see the Windows Live Hotmail Beta Team at Microsoft sending

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eBay.com to Support U.S. Live Earth Concert

eBay.com has announced it will support the U.S. leg of the seven-continent, 24-hour Live Earth concerts on July 7, 2007 as the authorized tickets resale provider. eBay is also working with Live Earth’s organizers to produce a series of high-profile charity auctions on eBay.com for autographed concert memorabilia and other items to benefit The Alliance for Climate Protection. Tickets to

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for April 2007

3368 different keyphrases were used to find my site in March 2007, here are the top 10 with the amount of times they were used plus their overal usage percentage. vtunnel | 2303 | 18.7 % mkt004 | 638 | 5.1 % msn conspiracy game | 365 | 2.9 % https// vtunnel.com | 352 | 2.8 % https //vtunnel.com | 307 | 2.4 %

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My HP iPAQ rx3715 Mobile Media Companion

I’ve owned a HP iPAQ rx3715 Mobile Media Companion Pocket PC (PDA) since March 2005 and I have to say that I absolutely love it, because not only was it one of the best Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition Pocket PC’s available on the market at that time, but it was suited to all my entertainment needs, from taking photos

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Download New Microsoft Silverlight DreamScene

According to Brandon LeBlanc who is now posting at the new Windows Vista Experience blog over at Microsoft’s official Windows Vista blog. The Microsoft Sliverlight team have put together a Microsoft Silverlight DreamScene called “Dusk” which they are releasing at MIX07 this week, in both standard 4:3 and widescreen 16:9 aspect ratios. And though I have yet to see the offcial download links go up on the Microsoft Silverlight Homepage,  Brandon

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Windows Live Maps/Virtual Earth New Imagery April 2007

The Windows Live Maps Team have recently announced new and improved aerial /Birds Eye imagery footage in many areas around the globe as well as seven new and updated 3D cities. Here is a list of the cities with new or enhanced coverage. Italy – Aerial and Birds eye coverage was already very good here. 73 new cities now have 15cm resolution aerial coverage

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Microsoft Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live

Microsoft has today announced a new collaboration service between Silverlight (previously named WPF/E) and Windows Live called “Microsoft Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live”. Microsoft® Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live is a companion service for Silverlight that makes it easier for developers and designers to deliver and scale rich media as part of their Silverlight applications. The service offers web designers and developers