Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Top 10 Search Keyphrases for December 2007

2173 different keyphrases were used to find my site in December 2007, here are the top 10 with the amount of times they were used plus their overall usage percentage. 2173 different keyphrases Search Percent vtunnel 3530 31 % v tunnel 418 3.6 % windows 311 2.7 % sites like vtunnel 297 2.6 % vtunnel proxy 245 2.1 % vtunnel myspace 229

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Microsofts DesignIT competition 2008

For those unfamiliar with this exciting competition, the concept is simple! Microsoft are offering IT Professionals the opportunity to demonstrate their expertise and creativity by transforming the technical infrastructure of a charity of their choice or tackle one of the problems put forward by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), Leonard Cheshire Disability, Global Action Plan

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Happy New Year Everyone for 2008

Happy New Year Everyone! I owe it all to you out there who stop by this site to read, comment, subscribe and spread link love. As always, I’m very grateful for your support and encouragement as goodness knows how blogging can be a time-consuming and work-intensive activity. A lot of the fun I derive from it is not just from

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The Magic Condom Panto

Christmas has passed but hey you can still come and roast your chestnuts on the red-hot fire that is The Magic Condom – a racy new online Panto starring Jodie Harsh and Paul Kaye that promises to be the filler in your stocking. Your ticket to The Magic Condom is just one click away, so visit the website and watch the hilarious,

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Virtual Earth updated Imagery for December 2007

The latest Virtual Earth release of imagery and photogrammetrics includes 36.3 TB of photography and models of 58 new cities worldwide! At a high level the Virtual Earth team have updated the Manhattan imagery, added 44 new cities with their Microsoft (Vexcel) ortho imagery, 36 new US bird’s eye areas, 26 new European bird’s eye areas, 5 areas of US orthos from

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Digital Generation risks future without memories

Britons are risking losing valuable images and data forever with almost one in five who own a portable device losing phone numbers and contact details on mislaid items and 40% admitting to not backing up photos on portable devices, according to research commissioned by Network Appliance (NetApp), a leading provider of storage and data management solutions. The YouGov survey of

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The World’s First Talking Message Tag

If you think texting “I luv u” doesn’t capture the emotion and that letter writing can be a bit OTT, then here’s the perfect solution for you, the world’s first talking message tag. From now on, you can personalise your feelings to a best mate or a new date by sending a pre-recorded pre.vu Talking Message Tag. These credit card size mementos let you

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Microsoft Acquires MultiMap

Microsoft has acquired Multimap, one of the United Kingdom’s top 100 technology companies and one of the leading online mapping services in the world. The acquisition will hopefuly give Microsoft a powerful new location and mapping technology to complement existing offerings such as Virtual Earth, Live Search, Windows Live services, MSN and the aQuantive advertising platform, with future integration potential for

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Microsoft.com: What’s the story?

If you’ve ever wondered how microsoft.com uses their technology then you’ll be interested in this post from Jeff Alexander an IT Pro Evangelist for Microsoft Australia. Though unfortunately Jeff’s blog seems to be down at the moment or better said nonexistent as visiting his blog will get the following message (The forum you requested does not exist.), I’ve still got a cached copy