Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Windows Vista Beta 2 Public Coming Very Soon!

If this is true, and I expect or at least hope it is, today/tomorrow will mark another great Milestone for Microsoft’s new Operating System Windows Vista, as very soon Windows Vista Beta 2 is going Public! Today, Microsoft will make Windows Vista Beta 2 available to the masses for downloading in three different languages. If you can’t download you don’t

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Microsoft Windows Live and Qwest Team Up!

Today Qwest announced that it is now the first communications company to announce plans to offer co-branded Windows Live services in the U.S. providing personalized Internet experiences for customers. Marshall Kirkpatrick has posted on his blog that he thinks this was a very good deal and that this is going to help Web 2.0 take off to the road even more than what it

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CafeMSN UK – April 2006

Hurray goes to me for once again winning a £10 Gift Certificate for Amazon UK from CafeMSN UK, thanks CafeMSN I think you are doing a great job of getting people to participate in the discussions on the Buddy Program at CafeMSN by rewarding them with prizes. My Winning so far: April 2006 Prize winner #5 £ 10 shopping voucher winner

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DMCA complaints on Google Search

Today while searching on Google for some windows live messenger winks, I came across a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) notice message at the bottom of the Google Search Results page, which goes as follows: In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish,

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Is 06/06/06 anything special?

Is today (06/06/06/) set to be once again just a normal day, or will something else happen. Well the people at St. Louis Post-Dispatchre have posted an article on what they think today means, so go ahead and check it out. Revelation’s author is having a big laugh. Sure, his book of the Bible is filled with dragons, locusts, plagues, oceans

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June Chat with IE7 team

Members of the IE team will be online for an Expert Zone chat this coming Thursday June 8th at 10.00AM PST (05:00PM GMT / 06:00PM British Summer Time). As always these chats are a great opportunity to have your questions answered and hear from members of the IE product team. A transcript will be published after the chat and transcripts of

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Yahoo integration in Windows Live Messenger Coming Soon

The long awaited Yahoo integration for Windows Live Messenger is Coming Soon, or so Leah from the Windows Live Messenger team tells us: Well, I wanted to let you know –we haven’t forgotten! As it turns out, it’s been a hard problem to solve, and the team has been working hard,  I still don’t know exactly when you’re going to be

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Windows Live Space Helper 2.0 Preview

Windows Live Space Helper 2.00 Preview (2006.6.4) is now released for download. Enhance your Windows Live Space More Easily! Windows Live Space Helper is a powerful Tool for your space. It is very simple and easy to use. You can get HTML Codes from Windows Live Space Helper easily. Now enjoy it! By the way don’t forget that this isn’t

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Planet Child Launched!

David Dehghan has now launced Planet Child, but what is it? PlanetChild is an international non profit organization aimed at improving teaching methods and practices in developing countries and at making them more effective. It is very much influenced by http://path.org/. PATH develops programs that have huge return on investment in the heath care sector. For example they have invented