Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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Preparing for Windows Vista retail on windowsvistaretail.com

Confused by which version of Windows Vista you want? Then you need some helpful advice featuring aliens. Microsoft has provided same at Windowsvistaretail.com, a new site designed to provide guidance for those on the shop-floor frontline. Rather than a standard product brief, it’s dispensing wisdom in the form of a series of animated shorts explaining the different versions, the importance of

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Registration full for Microsoft’s UK launch of Windows Vista

Registration for Microsoft’s UK Ready for a New Day Event which will see the launch of Microsoft Exchange Server, 2007 Microsoft Office System and Windows Vista is now full and all current registrations will be put on the wating list, so I hope you’ve registerd in time! 🙂 I myself will be going as a Microsoft Student Partner Representaive for the

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MSN Hotmail celebrates its 10th Birthday

World’s most popular email service reaches double figures MSN Hotmail, the UK’s first free web-based e-mail service, is celebrating its ten year anniversary this month.  Founded by entrepreneurs Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith, MSN Hotmail officially launched in November 1996 and in the last ten years it has become one of the major corner stones of the internet, dramatically revolutionising

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The All-New www.backofmyhand.com

Introducing an exciting new site called enabling you to become a local … anywhere. You can use this new site as a place for all the collections you’ve created on Windows Live Maps Search – collected together in a single online tourist guide. BackOfMyHand allows you to share your knowledge of your hometown, places you’ve visited, or find information on

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MSN Hello Christmas Competition

MSN has ramped up its online ad activity for Windows Live Messenger, ahead of Live.com’s launch in the New Year, with a Christmas campaign site that’s aimed at promoting its video-call service. MSN’s Hello Christmas site, which has now gone live, is a video-sharing portal where users can view and upload video messages to friends and loved ones around the

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A new event is launching in February called Startup!

Startup! is a new event, in conjunction with TechCrunch UK, that has the aim of bringing together people, ideas & money by bringing together the UK’s best technology startups and the best active investors: angels, VCs and corporates. Right now the first Startup! event in central London is in the final stages of planning with a number of interested investor partners. The

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The Robert Scoble Pissed as Newts London Pub Crawl Tour

Wow did I have a great time or what on The Robert Scoble Pissed as Newts London Pub Crawl Tour. Not only did I get to visit like five to six london pubs as well as the Internet People Dinner and Firefox 2 Party, but I also got to meet loads of cool people! Here’s a short list of some of them: Robert Scoble

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for November 2006

1266 different keyphrases were used to find my site in November 2006, here are the top 10 with the amount of times they were used plus their overal usage percentage. vtunnel | 3109 | 43.8 % vtunnel myspace | 352 | 4.9% zune software download | 216 | 3% websites like vtunnel | 132 | 1.8% sites like vtunnel | 110 | 1.5% https//

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MSN Movie Mogul Quiz 2006

Are you a fountain of knowledge when it comes to film trivia? All you have to do is correctly answer the five questions on the MSN Movie Mogul quiz homepage for a chance to win one of hundreds of prizes. Ten lucky entrants will win the Creative Zen W portable media player. Fifteen lucky entrants will win a year’s free movies from MSN

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Telcogames Launches 3D Puzzle Sil For Smartphones

Telcogames, a global publisher, developer and distributor of mobile games yesterday announced the launch of award winning SiL, a 3D silhouette matching puzzle for smart phone devices and PC.SIL the latest Nokia award winning 3D puzzle game to be launched and developed by Telcogames takes on the addictive puzzling antics of shape recognition but with a whole new reverse twist.  Train