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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

10 Ways To Create Content For Your Weblog

Here’s another interesting article from About.com Top Ten Tips On Beating Bloggers’ Block You know that feeling… the awful sensation that you just can’t possibly blog about anything. Nothing inspires you enough. Everything seems too mundane. And, the more you think about blogging, the less you are inclined to blog. Indeed, if writers can get writers’ block, then bloggers can

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Sign up for Microsoft Mail Beta – Is this real?

Here’s a post from Neowin.net about a site that’s giving Mail Beta invites out, I’m actually in Mail Beta already so I can defiantly say that this site looks very dodgy to me! We think you’re going to really like the clean new look and other features — at least we hope so! We need your feedback to make sure

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Half-Life 2 Limited Edition Lithograph

Here’s the latest Steam News Update from seam, very interesting don’t you think! Speakeasy’s Gamecloud and the developers of Half-Life 2, Valve Corporation, have teamed up to help the American Red Cross in their hurricane relief efforts. Valve has produced 100 limited edition prints of a spectacular piece of art depicting the mechanical takeover of City 17 and the imposing

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Home movie of Kahuna Beta users

Now here’s a nice little post from Imran Qureshi’s Blog: Last week, a number of our beta users flew to Seattle to meet us and tell us what they think about kahuna. (Actually we also flew to Seattle since our team is based in Silicon Valley, CA.) It was a great opportunity for us to meet them face to face

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Google Lauches a RSS Reader

Google hasn now lauched a RSS Reader! Google Reader makes it easier to keep up with your ever-expanding reading list of content from across the web. You can: Automatically get the latest news and updates from your favorite sites. Sort your reading list based on what’s most relevant to you. Organize what you read with labels and stars. Quickly share

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Paint.NET v2.5 beta now available

Paint.NET v2.5 beta is now available to download, so why not give it a try! October 4th, 2005: Paint.NET v2.5 Beta 2 is now available that fixes a critical bug in Beta 1. If you already have a previous build of v2.5 instealled then we prefer that you install this update via the built-in update mechanism within Paint.NET. Simply click

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Google Office?

The rumours have now started to go around that Google and Sun are going to make an announcement today about a certain Google Office, is this really going to be true, is it really going to be web based, check he links below for more information! Article at InternetNews Possible Google Office Site

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Gordon Bell – Tour of the Computer History Museum, Part I

Here’s a great video you might want to check out: Gordon Bell. The name is legendary among geeks. Just read his Wikipedia page to see his accomplishments. About 30 years ago he started collecting computers while working at DEC. That little hobby turned into a sizeable Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley. We were honored to be able to get

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