Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Last year studying for a Bcs Honours Degree in IT

Well it looks like my summer holidays have unfortunately come to an end, as tomorrow I will be setting back off to college with the University of Kent at Medway to study for my final year on a Bcs Honours Degree in Information Technology. And well I’m just looking over what I’m going to have to study and what I’m

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MSN Chat closes on the 18th of October 2006

As part of an overall effort by MSN and Microsoft to provide consumers with a safer, more secure and positive overall online experience, MSN have finally decided to no longer offer MSN Chat in the US as of the 18th of October 2006. So from that day forth which is only 3 years after the closing of MSN Chat in the UK which

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Windows Live Essentials and Dashboard test site up!

Just noticed that Microsoft have now got a Windows Live Essentials test site up on their Windows Live Services Test Server at (http://essentials.live-int.com) and as well as being able to view the Windows Live Essentials Test Site you can download Windows Live Dashboard Beta. However though you can access the Windows Live Essentials Site and download Windows Live Dashboard you

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for August 2006

1302 different keyphrases where used to find my site in July 2006, here are the top 10 with the amount of time they were used and their percentage. vtunnel | 454 | 11.8 % msn conspiracy game | 113 | 2.9 % sorry we are unable to complete your task at this time. the windows live spaces service is experiencing difficulties. please

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Windows Media Player 11 Beta 2 Officialy Released!

Just like Volkan said it would be, Windows Media Player 11 Beta 2 (11.0.5705.5043) is now available for customers to download and now includes a new Media Sharing feature, as well as improvements to the Beta 1 release that are based on customer feedback. A list of changes since Windows Media Player 11 Beta 1 (11.0.5358.4827) to Windows Media Player 11 Beta 2 (11.0.5705.5043) for Windows XP include: Fixing

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Microsofts Mac Business Unit has launched its first official blog

Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit (MBU) has launched its first official blog, which is available on the company’s website. Called ‘Mac Mojo’, the blog is focused on the company’s Office for Mac development. “We decided to create a team blog because we wanted to offer a broad range of voices and perspectives across MBU. Bloggers on this site include developers, testers,

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Windows Live OneCare Family Safety beta now available!

Following the recent Windows Live OneCare Family Safety Invites being sent out to Windows Live Butterflies and the appearing of Windows Live OneCare Family Safety on Connect we thought that this Beta would be resticted to only those who had been approved to use it. However the Windows Live OneCare Family Safety Team have announced that the Windows Live OneCare Family Safety

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Flash Tenth Anniversary

Just got word from my friend Eric that Adobe have finally rolled out their Flash Tenth Anniversary Micro site, and well I couldnt agree more with what Eric said to me in his email: I would like to say, this site is just a masterpiece… featured a selection of flash videos combined with flash contents seamlessly. This experience is something you

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Spiralfrog to provide Free Music from Universal

I’m not sure if you’ve heard about this or not yet, but SpiralFrog, the new music download destination, has signed an agreement with Universal Music Group (UMG), the world’s leading music company, to make UMG’s extensive catalog available for legal downloading in the US and Canada via SpiralFrog’s advertising-supported service. SpiralFrog will offer users of its no-cost web-based service the