Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Hack the Kit Competition – Win a Jamie Oliver Survival Kit

You can cook with it. You can stack it. And now you can hack it… What’s a hack you say? Well, it’s a way of solving an everyday problem (like, what to do when you get hungry behind the wheel?) with an ingenious solution (fry an egg on your car’s motor!). Tefal want you to think of new ways to

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Here at The Future of Web Apps Conference and Expo

Well it’s lunch time and so far The Future of Web Apps Conference and Expo here in London has been pretty cool. Yesterdays mashup* demo event was also quite interesting, though I do have some things that I would like to see next time… I shall be posting a full review along with photos of both todays Future of Web

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The 100 Year Website – online time capsules

Imagine having your own online time capsule in which you could store treasured photographs, audio, video footage, copies of web pages and text, then have them saved for 100 years! You could virtually bury your capsule until your child’s eighteenth birthday as the most thoughtful of birthday gifts, or keep your capsule open for a century so that generations after

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Chuckle Brothers 20th Anniversary of ChuckleVision

The Chuckle Brothers (Barry and Paul Elliot) are today celebrating the 20th Anniversary of ChuckleVision and wow I can’t believe it’s been 20 years since they first started ChuckleVision on BBC Television, it’s been great watching ChuckleVision through the years! 🙂 For those of you that don’t know what I’m talking about, here’s a bit about it: The Chuckle Brothers,

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Toshiba Tecra A8 Review

For the past week I’ve had in my possession a Toshiba Tecra A8 Notebook which I have thanks to Talk Toshiba and it’s Tecra A8 triallist programme in which they give bloggers, journalists and community leaders the chance to test out their laptops for a week (more if you request) in exchange for writing an honest, objective review on your

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Free Future of Web Apps Expo Passes for Students!

Just over 2 weeks to go now until The Future of Web Apps conference and Expo starts in London on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of October and do I have news for you students! 😀 That is if you can get away from you’re studies! 😉 The Future of Web Apps Expo (not conference) is now free for all

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The Ultimate Steal – Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007

Microsoft has recently announced The Ultimate Steal, a limited-time promotion for college students starting today in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and starting September the 20th in Spain, Italy and France. The Ultimate Steal Promotion offers students who are actively enrolled at eligible educational institutions to opportunity to acquire Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 via the Web at a

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Real Live Moms from Windows Live

Microsoft’s Windows Live division has recently launched a website called Real Live Moms from Windows Live which allows all thoses caring moms/mums/mothers out there to create a personalized Windows Live Space from which they can network with other mums. Here’s a small list of stuff Real Live Moms from Windows Live can let moms/mums/mothers do: Create Windows Live Spaces Blogs Create scrapebook

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Universal Studios Hollywood closes Back To The Future The Ride

Monday was a sad day for many Back to The Future Fans as the Universal Studios Hollywood ride “Back to the Future – The Ride” closed forever to visitors at 8:00pm. 🙁 It’s a real shame to see Hollywood’s “Back to the Future – The Ride” close forever just like it did at Universal Studios Florida, luckily there’s no plans

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Mel Kirk from Carson Systems sings All By Myself!

Mel Kirk from Carson Systems who is responsible for coordinating the Future of Web Apps Event (FOWA) told me that I wouldnt dare post a video of her singing along to “All By Myself by Celine Dion” on my blog “haha, you wouldn’t dare :)” after I told her that maybe I should post it here on my blog “Maybe