Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

So, what exactly is Zooomr, anyways?

Ever heard of Zooomr? Started on a late October, 26th in 2005, Zooomr was born to explore the information inside of photos. It aims to be not merely another photo sharing service, but something that helps connect people together through photos. Perhaps one of the most important features of Zooomr is that it’s localized. With over 10 locales worldwide and

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New website design for February 2006

Hey everyone as you may know, in the last couple of days or so I’ve been working on a new template design for my main homepage: (http://www.darrenstraight.com/) And well what can I say it’s been a fun experience experimenting with all the different designs I kept on coming up with that I could implement but it wasn’t until I found

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Happy Birthday Flickr

Flickr celebrated it’s 2nd Birthday yesterday! The Flickr team hopes you can join us as we enter our terrible twos. Adaptive Path will be hosting our event on their fabulous 2nd floor (2nd birthday, 2nd floor!). Our friends at O’Reilly are sending us copies Flickr Hacks hot of the press from the printers and QOOP is planning a little surprise.

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The Perception Laboratory’s Face Transformer

You can use the Perception Laboratory’s Face Transformer to change the age, race or sex of a facial image, to transform it to the style of a famous artist, to make an exagerated caricature or even make an ape of yourself!  Some of the results I got were pretty funny so why not give it a go your self! The

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Fossett approaches decision time

Adventurer Steve Fossett has reached the US as he pushes on with his bid to make the longest, non-stop flight in aviation history. After arriving just after 1900 GMT, he is now heading for Florida, where he must decide if his Virgin GlobalFlyer has enough fuel to cross the Atlantic. Mission engineers’ calculations suggest it could be touch and go.

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Search site retires iconic Jeeves

Jeeves the valet who for a decade has overseen searches on the Ask website is about to be sacked. By the end of February the iconic valet will disappear from the site he has graced since it debuted in 1996. The decision to axe Jeeves was taken in September 2005 but he stayed in place while the company investigated how

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Windows Live Messenger 8.0.0562 released to testers

Great news for us Managed Beta Testers or Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Messenger 8.0.0562 exclusively to us, all non-managed beta testers like the people who got invited by a friend and do not have the Windows Live Messenger Beta on connect will have to wait, as we have instruct instructions from Microsoft not to leak this beta, not that

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IE7 classifies my blog as a suspicious phishing website

Well it seems as IE7 (Internet Explorer 7) has classified my Blog as a suspicious phishing website! Somehow I don’t think this sound’s right at all and well it didn’t take long to find out what the problem was, I figured out it would be something that I have in my Blog’s sidebar, probably the shout box as it collects

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A complete guide to web design

Check out this website which has a complete guide to designing web sites that work. A complete guide to designing web sites that work Ben Hunt has been a successful web designer and developer for over 10 years. He publishes this site to share his experience in making web sites that are appealing, easy to use, and successful. This site