Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Free ASP.NET Hosting Trial

Do you need Free ASP.NET Hosting for your Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition package or maybe for your beta copy of Microsoft’s Expression Web Designer? If so then try VWDHosting.net which lets you sign up to a Free ASP.NET Hosting Trial so you can start testing Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition and ASP.NET 2.0 out straight away by

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MSN Spaces Live Sessions!

I have just found out about a new site and blog called MSN Spaces Live Sessions, it’s a place where you can promote your music online, with the launch of MSN Spaces Live Sessions they have two competitions, one for artists and the other for fans both with some fantastic prizes! Read below for more information: What is Live Sessions? ‘Live Sessions’ is

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Google becomes ‘evil’

I thought I would post something about Google today, and well it was either going to be about Google facing a lawsuit in Belgium over Google Suggest or this other piece of news I found with some Dilbert comics strips, I’ve chosen the comic strips, read below for the full story on what I’m talking about: A series of recent Dilbert comics could be

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50th position on the Blog Top Sites technology category!

Great news for my Blog, it’s now made it to the bottom of the first page on the Blog Top Sites technology category, putting it in 50th position out of all the technolgy sites registerd with Blog Top Sites. I was recently in 59th postion on the second page of the technology category and thought at first that maybe it was some mistake but with ever stats reset I’m seeing my blog

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Windows Live Account

The Windows Live Account system is now up and running so all you need to do to try it out is go to account.live.com and sign-in to Windows Live Account with your Windows Live ID, previoulsly known as Passport. With Windows Live Account you can change your settings and get help with your Windows Live ID Account, you can also manage

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New Windows Live Local Aerial Photography Available for the UK

That’s right you read the title right, I’ve just noticed that Windows Live Local now has some new Aerial Photography for the UK, I’m really happy to see this as this was something I actually asked Phil Holden about last night when I did my interview at the Windows Live Session in London. The imagery is pretty good, but still

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Windows Live Dev site coming soon at dev.live.com

I was told last night at the second windows live session that the Windows Live Dev site would be coming very soon at dev.live.com, but I haven’t said anything about it so I thought I would share with you this blog post by Ken Levy a product planner on Microsoft’s Windows Live Platform team working on on developer API services, portal, and community. The Windows Live Platform is

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Windows Live Search Released Again!

Microsoft has now announced Windows Live Search which is due to go into beta later in 2006, confused yet? I bet you are, basically Microsoft has decided to rename their upcoming enterprise desktop search application as Windows Live Search, the smae name as their web search service, crazy or what? Read below for some more details on this crazy idea!

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Windows Media Player 11 Beta Officialy Released

Windows Media Player 11 Beta has now been officialy released to the public after the recent Windows Media Player 11 Beta Leak last sunday. This official public beta is build number 11.0.5358.4827 compared to the leaked build which was build number 11.0.5358.4826 so make sure you download this version as it’s URGE enabled.