Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

PC World and TechGuys first to launch Intel Remote Assist Technology

PC World has today announced the launch of new Intel® Remote Assist Technology, available exclusively on its latest range of Advent PCs, including the massive spec Advent QC6003 and Advent QC8003. Called TechGuys Remote Assist, the new service is only available at PC World stores across the UK and online at www.pcworld.co.uk The 19″ Advent QC6003, (£579.99), has a really

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for January 2009

2234 different keyphrases were used to find my site in January 2009, here are the top 10 with the amount of times they were used plus their overall usage percentage. 2234 different keyphrases Search Percent darren 603 13.6 % vtunnel 218 4.9 % mylittlecamparty 165 3.7 % planets solar system 116 2.6 % bank intern busted on facebook 64 1.4 % disable

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Blog added to Top 50 Best Blog List

Just Checked my stats and noticed incoming visits to my blog from http://www.bestbloglist.com/ Seems I’ve been added to the Top 50 Best Blog List, I’m not sure when the next best blog list update will be but for now I’m on it which is pretty good! 😀 Here’s a list of all those blogs on it at currently: A Little Crazy?

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Madonnas Sticky & Sweet Tour goes back on the road summer 2009

Madonna’s phenomenally successful ‘Sticky & Sweet Tour’, already the #1 Biggest Grossing Tour in history for a solo artist, will embark on another series of shows beginning July 4th in London. (Schedule follows this release). Stops will include appearances in never before played markets such as Werchter Belgium, Marseille France, Hamburg Germany, Oslo Norway, Helsinki Finland, Tallinn Estonia, Ljubljana Slovenia

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Internet Explorer 8 RC 1 has now been released for download!

Internet Explorer 8 RC 1 has now been released for download, please click here. If you have installed the IE8 Partner Build then you will not be automatically updated to this release. RC 1 is short for “Release Candidate 1”. Release candidate software is ready to be evaluated by users while it undergoes final testing. You may experience minor bugs or

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AVG gets five star rating

AVG Technologies, a global anti-virus and Internet security software provider with over 80 million users in 167 countries, today announced that its Internet Security Network Edition (NE) solution has received the “Recommended” designation in the most recent Anti-malware Group Test performed by security publication SC Magazine. Eight companies participated in the test. AVG Internet Security NE received the highest possible

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Microsoft Live Labs Thumbtack

Microsoft Live Labs Thumbtack is an easy way to save links, photos, and anything else you can find on bunch of different Web sites to a single place.  Grab the stuff you want, put it into a Thumbtack collection, then get to it from anywhere you can get online.  Share it with your friends, or just keep it for yourself.

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Microsoft UK Partner Programme Videocasts

Microsoft UK have just launched a new Partner Player to Microsoft UK Partners – a video hosting tool, providing another way in which to consume Microsoft-related information, alongside our e-newsletters, blogs and RSS feeds, designed to drive Partner satisfaction and grow Partner businesses. Along with the launch of the Partner Player, Microsoft UK have also launched a series of videocasts to help

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Lycos Europe closing Email portal service and Tripod Web hosting

The Well known (or less known for some) Internet company Lycos is shutting down its email portal service and web hosting service Tripod, both services will be discontinued as of February 15 2009. Bellow is a copy of the emails being sent out! Email portal Service: Dear User, We regret to inform you that our parent company has decided to discontinue all

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Happy 8th Birthday Wikipedia!

Eight years ago today Jimmy Wales created Wikipedia.  It’s hard to believe it’s been that long. Wikipedia has become one of the senior sites on the web, growing from a top 1000 site shortly after its creation to the fourth most visited site on the web in the last few months. And on its eight birthday Wikipedia exists in 265