Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

US Public Beta of Windows Live Expo is now Live

Just got this email this morning, which the US Public Beta of Windows Live Expo is now Live! Thanks for your interest in Windows Live Expo, our new classifieds listings service. With Expo you can buy, sell or trade stuff, post jobs, services or announcements – all for free. We’re launching the beta service to the public today – give

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Security certificate problem on Google Adsense UK

Not long ago I just loaded up the Google Adsense page from http://www.google.co.uk/adsense instead of the normal USA Google Adsense page http://www.google.com/adsense, and I was quite surprised when I got the following message with Internet Explorer Beta 2 Preview: There is a problem with this website’s security certificate. The security certificate presented by this website was issued for a different

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Chris’s Second Interview with Phil Holden

Chris from LiveSide.net has now posted his second interview with Phil Holden the Director of Windows Live. This interview with Phil mainly focuses on Windows Live Mail and the upcoming Windows Live Desktop Client. This is the first of several interviews we will be posting this week. Timing information to be posted shortly 🙂 Download Interview Podcast Feed Previous interviews:

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Windows Live ID to Replace Passport

Just came across this Article, it looks like Microsoft will soon be replacing their current passport system with Windows Live ID, but is this just another name change or is it something more, read below for more details: EXCLUSIVE Microsoft plans to roll its Passport authentication service into the Windows Live family of Web services by 2007, renaming it to

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Windows Live Messenger 8.0.556: Tonight!

Leah from the Windows Live Messenger team has recently announced on the Windows Live Messenger Team Blog that an upcoming version of Messenger will be released today, this being Windows Live Messenger 8.0.556, here’s a list of what’s new: New Feature Live Contacts are Live! Click the button on the back of your contact card to enter in all your

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Windows Live Local Technical Preview: street-side edition

This week the Windows Live Local team (formerly MSN VirtualEarth) will be releasing a Windows Live Local technical preview (pre-beta version) at http://preview.local.live.com that will be demonstrating the new “street-side” low level imagery feature for two US Cities: Seattle and San Francisco. Now at this point in time we only know that the low level imagery will be limited to the core downtown areas of Seattle

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Hosting blog post images on my site once again!

Tomorrow and for the next few week’s or so I’ll be updating a whole lot of my Blog Posts with better quality Images, when I first started of this Blog I started to host all my images on my own site but then I started using ImageShack as I was worried about Bandwidth and Space. But now I’m seeing that