Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Windows Live Jacket UK

Romain from heaven.fr, an online marketing and communication agency for MSN Europe, has just emailed me to tell me that I can now order my first Windows Live Gift, a Windows Live Jacket. I’ve seen some pictures of the Windows Live Jacket and it looks very cool, I was thinking about getting a Microsoft one not long ago from Microsoft’s

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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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How to get ready to climb Mount Everest

Climbing Mount Everest for me would be like a dream come true, it surely must be a great experience to climb it and see the world from above, just think of them fantastic views on the way up! But theres a problem, I’ve never really done any professional rock climbing before so I would have to learn rock climbing before I

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How to Manage the IT Helpdesk by Noel Bruton

As part of my College Course Degree in IT, I’ve bought a copy of the book: How to Manage the IT Helpdesk – A Guide for User Support and Call Centre Managers (Computer Weekly Professional) by Noel Bruton. I’ve started to read a bit of it and it seems to be quite informative, as it seems to address most of

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My Half-Life 2 Club Website

It’s been more than two years now since I stoped updating my Half-Life 2 Club website (http://www.iespana.es/halflifeclub), and I still seem to get feeback every so often from people about it, look here’s two of the most recent ones! From: Gin comments: your information is bogus what the fuck is a arsehead and why do ppl get thrown around like

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A review of Box.net a virtual storage space for your computer files

At the beginning of this month I was fortunate enough to be contacted by Dylan Smith the guy in charge of Sales and Finance for Box.net, a virtual online storage service. He asked me if I would interested in a Beta Account of their upcoming revamped (Version 2.0) online file storage service Box.net so I could search for bugs and

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The Weather Pixie

I’ve seen quite a few people have Weather Pixies on their Blogs and well I thought id look into them and see what they are all about, their pretty interesting don’t you think! 😉 The WeatherPixie is a little graphic that shows a representation of the weather using data reported (mostly) by airports and aerodromes around the world. As the

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Windows XP Expert Zone Chat Room

Earlier today I loaded up the Microsoft’s Windows XP Expert Zone Chat Room in Internet Explorer 7 as I wanted too see how well IE7 worked with it in time of response etc. Anyway it worked pretty much ok, no surprise there though after all IE7 is made by Microsoft and the Windows XP Expert Zone Chat Room is hosted

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Google Community Redesign at Googlecommunity.net

Last night I was up quite late and was thinking to myself that maybe it’s time we started to redesign Google Community from scratch removing all unnecessary PhpBB mods that have been installed over time and are just slowing down the forums and creating more troubles for updating the forum on every new release. Randy one of the staff members