Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Free Creativity Website Domain Name Giveaway!

Hey everyone, do you know of anybody, maybe even yourself, who would like to start a Creativity Website or Blog or maybe even a forum based website for discussing creativity, or anything else you can think of with your creative mind that involves creativeness! Why am I asking this well I’m asking this because I have a domain name registered

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David Blaines Drowned Alive Video

As you probably already know David Blaine has recently attempted to hold his breath for 9 minutes under water while trying to escape from chains, all this after already being submerged in water for 7 days in a glass sphere, also know to some as a human fish bowl! Well I’m sure a lot of you didn’t manage to catch

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TIOTI – Tape it off the internet

TIOTI which is short for Tape it off the internet is now in beta, with TIOTI you will have access to resources of over 16,000 television shows, and 88,000 episodes. Here’s a bit more about it from the site:  The good ship TIOTI, she be ready to set sail! Yup, we’re nearly done now, TIOTI is working lovely thank you

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Microsoft Representative for UK Students

Microsoft Representative for UK Students is here: By signing up to be a Microsoft Representative you won’t just get to find out about the best technology out there, you’ll actually get hold of it! Not only will you receive unique access to the representative portal that’ll keep you up-to-date with the latest technology Windows Vista, Windows Mobile, Expression and loads

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DevDays 2006 – Microsoft Application Development Platform

Microsoft’s annual DevDays event is coming soon (01 June 2006) and is designed to give you information on real-world solutions delivered by some of the US product team. This year the event will be themed around developer security and the Microsoft platform. Sessions include “Hacking Revealed: What the Bad Guys Don’t Want You to Know” and Microsoft’s vision for computing

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AllTheWeb Livesearch

Yahoo!-owned search engine Allthweb has now launched it’s Allthweb Livesearch feature which will display keyword suggestions as you type, this functionality is similar to Google Suggest. So far it’s looking pretty good but it would be nice if they also included the image search with this live search feature and I’ve also noticed some minor bugs like text links appearing

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Windows Live Messenger 8 Beta available as public download

Microsoft today announced that the new Windows Live Messenger Beta is now available broadly to the public for download at the Windows Live Ideas Web site. But hasn’t it already been available as a public download for some while now, well yes and no because the download was public but you still needed an invite but now you don’t need

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Office Live Beta Refresh!

The Office Live Beta team have just completed a “Refresh” of their Beta of Office Live and have posted a team blog post detailing what’s new: Essentials now fully supports Outlook Connector Essentials inboxes now have email, contacts, and calendar access enabled for Microsoft Office Outlook connector.  What is that you say?  Outlook Connector (download it here if you have

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Share Your OPML has launched

Web logging pioneer Dave Winer has now launched his new project called Share Your OPML, a Web site dedicated to gathering blog subscription lists for sharing. The site is designed around a top 100 list of blogs and news sites chosen by the people participating in Share Your OPML. To participate all people need to do is create a membership

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Last American Titanic Survivor Dies at the age of 99

Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic has now died at the age of 99, Asplund was the last Titanic survivor with actual memories of the sinking so with her passing away many memories from that night will be taken with her as she never really spoke much to the public about the sinking.Via: