Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

How File Sharing Reveals Your Identity

Here’s an extract of an Article I’ve came across which tells you about how file sharing can reveal your identity to the RIAA and then how they can sue you! Following the death of Napster, all of the file sharing networks that rose to main-stream popularity were decentralized. The most popular networks include Gnutella (which powers Limewire, BearShare, and Morpheus)

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28 Hour Day A New Clock for a New Age

Ok now I know the 28 Hour Day system has been talked about loads of times before all over the web, but I still find it interesting and well I could do with some more time so what better moment then now to post this blog post, just remember this a six day week means longer days! Did you ever

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Rumours mount over Google’s internet plan

More News from Google this time it’s about Google working on a project to create its own global internet protocol (IP) network, a private alternative to the internet. I know this is only a rumour and hasn’t been confirmed yet, but I don’t like it one bit, I think Google need’s to start focusing more on it’s existing services and

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Own a square inch of land in the US for FREE !

This sound’s crazy but read on anyway! Over 10 years in development, this extraordinary opportunity is now available exclusively on the internet. The land was purchased one acre at a time, state by state, by American Acres Inc. Now you can claim it one square inch at a time, state by state, in all 50 States of the United States.

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Google Redux: a design exercise

I saw this site posted on digg yesterday while on my PDA, it’s worth checking out, I think the redisgn of the Google Homepage this guy has done is pretty good! It seems that now and perhaps into the future, all your base are belong to Google. The company has done a good job becoming the search tool of choice

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How real-time is the blogosphere?

I just came across this blog post after seeing Robert Scoble post a link to it. At 4:02PM (Eastern), Google poststheir Q4 earning results on the Business Wire. The big, big news (definitely the biggest news out of the valley for today) is that their numbers fell short of consensus estimates. At 5:11PM Reuters poststheir summary of this news item

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Spell with Flickr – Get your name(or anything) spelled with Flickr Images!

Like the title says, just type in something(ie: your name, your web address, a small phrase) and this great little online app will take what you typed in fetch pictures from Flickr for each letter. Give it a try! Very cool Flickr app!! Digg post Spell with Flickr

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Russia to open moonbase mine

It look’s like the Russians have plans to build a moonbase, could this be the beginning of the planetary wars or space wars or why not Star Wars! RUSSIA is planning to mine a rare fuel on the moon by 2020 with a permanent base and a heavy-cargo transport link, a Russian space official says. “We are planning to build