Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Happy Birthday Flickr

Flickr celebrated it’s 2nd Birthday yesterday! The Flickr team hopes you can join us as we enter our terrible twos. Adaptive Path will be hosting our event on their fabulous 2nd floor (2nd birthday, 2nd floor!). Our friends at O’Reilly are sending us copies Flickr Hacks hot of the press from the printers and QOOP is planning a little surprise.

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The Perception Laboratory’s Face Transformer

You can use the Perception Laboratory’s Face Transformer to change the age, race or sex of a facial image, to transform it to the style of a famous artist, to make an exagerated caricature or even make an ape of yourself!  Some of the results I got were pretty funny so why not give it a go your self! The

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A complete guide to web design

Check out this website which has a complete guide to designing web sites that work. A complete guide to designing web sites that work Ben Hunt has been a successful web designer and developer for over 10 years. He publishes this site to share his experience in making web sites that are appealing, easy to use, and successful. This site

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Britain’s Top 10: Bendiest/Twistiest roads

Here’s an article from Msn which tell’s you Britan’s top 10 bendiest/twisted roads! Britain’s bendiest road exerts as much G-force on drivers as a rollercoaster or a racetrack according to scientific research. A one-mile stretch of the B3081 between Cann Common in Dorset and Tollard Royal in Wiltshire has been named the twistiest by Continental Tyres. Rather than test all

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Amazon Contextual Advertising

It appears that Amazon are planning to launch a contextual advertising network much like Google’s AdSense Amazon is apparently looking into the feasibility of starting their own ad network like Adsense. They’ve been contacting select members of their associates programs, including myself, asking if we’d like to be beta testers. The way they want the beta test to work is

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AJAX Design Patterns

Here’s another Ajax tutorial on the web this time from Snyke’s Blog. By now the entire World has heard about AJAX, even those who don’t care about Web-Development have seen the potential of this new technology. Everybody is tired of endless introductions on how cool AJAX is and those endless lists of good examples like Google Suggest, GMail and alike,

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7 simple steps to grow your fortune!

Here’s something that may be of use to you! Who doesn’t want to have more money? Most everyone it seems! Just look at their spending and borrowing habits. Clearly these people want to be poor. They think poor. They act poor. Their comfortable being poor. They’ve made the decision to value their lifestyle over and above their financial and personal

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Speed-Reading Techniques

I have just been reading this article which was posted on Digg which is about Speed-Reading Techniques and I think some of them are quite good, I wont copy the whole article here. But here’s the introduction to it! I was a Bible college student when one of our chapels featured a guest speaker who taught us how to speed-read.