Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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HelpSpot a pretty cool web based help desk

I’ve been testing out HelpSpot for a some hours now as part of an assignment on Help Desks I have to do for college and I must say I’m pretty impressed with HelpSpot even if I did encounter some problems when installing it, at first it wouldn’t let me install in on my home PC which is running WAMP. And

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In what language do deaf people think?

I’ve always thought about this my self so when I saw this story on Digg this morning I just had to read it: Dear Cecil: In what language do deaf people think? I think in English, because that’s what I speak. But since deaf people cannot hear, they can’t learn how to speak a language. Nevertheless, they must think in

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Park your car on your balcony

I’ve never seen this mentioned before so I thought I would mention it: I first read about the idea of the Loft Car in one of Nicolas’ post. German architects Manfred Dick (who sought a patent for his concept) and Johannes Kauka want to help drivers park their car right on their appartment’s balcony. You’d drive the vehicle straight on

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Tagnautica – Explore the Flickr Tag Space

Flickeur is the last of three current Flickr creations created by Mario Klingemann using flash 8 and the Flickr API, I hope you have enjoyed them as much as I have. Tagnautica is an experimental navigation tool built to explore the space of related Flickr tags. Type in one start tag, confirm with the [Enter] key and dive into tag space. When there are

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Clockr – It’s Flickr Time

Clockr is the second of three Flickr creations created by Mario Klingemann using flash 8 and the Flickr API. Clockr uses random digit images from Flickr to display the current time. Click on a number to change the image, doubleclick it to view the full image. Use the mouse wheel to cycle through. In case you see a message box from Flash: The Flickr

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Flickeur – Every Picture Tells a Story

Flickeur is the first of three Flickr creations created by Mario Klingemann. Flickeur (pronounced like Voyeur) randomly retrieves images from Flickr.com and creates an infinite film with a style that can vary between stream-of-consciousness, documentary or video clip. All the blends, motions, zooms or timeleaps are completely random. Flickeur works like a looped magnetic tape where incoming images will merge with

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PersonalDNA – Your True Self Revealed

This personality test is one of the best I’ve ever seen, it’s very detailing! We’ve developed a new kind of personality test which is free, fun, fast and accurate. Our test has been designed by a team of professional psychologists. It employs innovative answering techniques, allowing for increased accuracy and an enjoyable process. Try the test now and see how

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Depot robbers left behind £1.3m

As I live in Kent I’ve been pretty up to date with the news about this robbery, and as of yet I haven’t posted any news about this so I thought I would just try and keep everybody up to date with it, with the latest news from the BBC Website! Robbers who stole up to £50m from a Securitas

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Timeline: Employee Headcounts for Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft

Hey check this post out below, I know it’s directly copied from Gabor Scelles Blog, but I just fealt the need to post it here as well, full credit goes to him of course! 😀 It’s good to keep an eye on headcount when comparing companies. The number of employees you have pretty much defines what you can do: How