Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Check out this great list of Microsoft Windows 7 Beta Secrets by Tim Sneath.  Here’s a few of them, so be sure to check out the full list here for the full 30 Windows 7 Secrets! Windows Management. By now, you’ve probably seen that Windows 7 does a lot to make window management easier: you can “dock” a window to

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Anamigo: Pets and pet lovers unite

Anamigo.com is an online community where you can find everything about pets and the people that love them. Aside from the tips and advice on pet care and the latest accessories, you will find adorable photos of member’s pets. If you’re into dog pictures, cat pictures, puppy pictures and pictures of all the other pets around the world, you’ll love

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An Animated History of the Internet

The “History of the Internet” by Mehil Bilgil is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet. The history is told using voiceover accompanied by PICOL icons, a pictorial communication language created by Bilgil for his university thesis, these of which will be available for download soon. On blog.picol.org you can get news about this

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Microsoft Windows 7 Beta Available for Public Download

Microsoft made the Windows 7 beta available for public download this Saturday after its servers were overwhelmed with users trying to download the operating system. On its Windows 7 site, Microsoft posted a note saying “The Windows 7 Beta is now available for download.” The Windows 7 site lists a page where the beta can be downloaded. Company officials said

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for December 2008

2759 different keyphrases were used to find my site in December 2008, here are the top 10 with the amount of times they were used plus their overall usage percentage. 2759 different keyphrases Search Percent vtunnel 800 13.6 % protect your anonymity online 117 1.9 % mylittlecamparty 99 1.6 % v tunnel 82 1.4 % vtunnel website 77 1.3 % planets solar

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Pc World Reveals ‘L@unch’ the desktop simplifier

PC World has today announced its new desktop simplifying PC interface L@unch. The interface will initially be setup on all desktops, netbooks and laptops that PC World produces, which includes all models from brands including Advent, Ei Systems and Philips. In response to feedback from customers, PC World has created a new user experience on Windows PCs. Many customers have

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PC WORLD Launches two Exclusive Advent all-in-one desktops

PC World has today announced the forthcoming launch of two new all-in-one Advent desktops. The 22in Advent AIO200 and the 18.4 Advent AIO100’Nettop’ which will retail for £880.80 and £382.99 (web price) respectively and both are now available exclusively at PC World stores across the UK and online (at www.pcworld.co.uk). The 22in Advent AIO200 All-in-one desktop Powered by a Q8200

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Microsoft made $1.5 Billion on Windows Vista Capable campaign

Microsoft earned more than US$1.5 billion from the sale of PCs marked as ” Vista Capable ” in the months leading up to the 2007 debut of Windows Vista, according to an expert’s estimate. University of Washington economist Dr. Keith Leffler pegged Microsoft’s income from sales of Windows XP licenses on Vista Capable-labeled computers at $1.505 billion. Leffler has testified

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First look at Windows 7 beta 1 (build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400)

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes over at ZDNet has posted a gallery of Windows 7 Screenshots. The screenshot gallery is one of the first of the new Windows 7 beta 1 (build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400) to be posted on the internet so it’s worth a look if you haven’t had the chance to see it yet! There are no new features in this build. If