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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Photo Mayhem Easter 2007

Hope everyone’s been having a nice easter holiday. 😀 I myself sure have been, which is why I would love to share with you all the follwing Flickr Sets. I’m sure you’ll be laughing at quite a lot of the photos! Holly’s Birthday Party: 7th April 2007 Bowling in Chatham: 5th of April 2007 Fun in London: 4th of April 2007

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UK Live Earth Unveiled

Seventeen of the headliners who will play Wembley Stadium in London as part of the 24-hour, 7-continent Live Earth concerts on 7/7/07 were unveiled today by Live Earth founder and executive producer Kevin Wall. Ticketing for the UK concert begins on Friday the 13th of April 2007. “This monster lineup will ensure Live Earth meets our goal of bringing together

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Windows Live Messenger Coming to Xbox 360

Microsoft today announced that beginning the week of the 7th of May 2007, your Xbox LIVE friends list is about to get a whole lot bigger as Windows Live Messenger is launched on the Xbox 360, connecting friends across Xbox 360 consoles, Microsoft Windows-based PCs and Windows Mobile-powered devices. With this update to Xbox 360, friends and families can easily connect and chat

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The road ahead 2007 for Virtual Earth & Windows Live Local

Looks like some cool infomation about what’s happening with Microsoft’s Virtual Earth and Windows Live Local was released at the Microsoft Virtual Earth Partner’s Day some weeks back, and what’s even cooler is that we are already starting to see some of these updates come to light, as announced on the Windows Live Maps / Virtual Earth Blog yesterday. Thanks to the bloggers

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for March 2007

3887 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 | 2514 | 15.8% mkt004 | 777 | 4.9% msn conspiracy game | 710 | 4.4% msn conspiracy | 433 | 2.7% https //vtunnel.com | 346 | 2.1% https// vtunnel.com | 249 |

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3.8 Terabytes worth of Windows Live Maps/Virtual Earth Imagery

A major imagery release just went online at Live Maps and the Virtual Earth platform – 3.8 terabytes worth of imagery to be exact. The 3.8TB update features dozens more cities of Birds eye coverage as well as some high resolution ortho imagery from the Ultracam and GlobeXplorer. And lots of European Birds eye coverage, including some countries that had not

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Windows Vista Debuts with Strong Global Sales

Initial sales figures from Microsoft show its new operating system Windows Vista made a splash in its debut. In the first month of Windows Vista’s general availability, sales exceeded 20 million licenses, more than doubling the initial pace of sales for its predecessor, Windows XP. These initial figures reflect the broad interest in the security and usability enhancements in Windows

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The end of an Era 2004 – 2007 is fast approaching!

Wow the end of an era of being at University/College is fast approaching with only a week left and though I still have exams to attend too in May and of course lots of studying to do in April, myself and my fellow University Friends think we should organise something fantastic while we are still University Students. But what? Some