Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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Microsoft Live Clipboard – Wiring the Web

Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s CTO has been working on a new web application called Live Clipboard which will let you copy and paste information over the web, this is something I’ve always thought would be a good idea to do so I’m glad to see it being implemented, here’s a bit about it from his Msn Space Blog: Simply stated, I’d

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Live.com upgrades include new Windows Live Search

Live.com, Microsoft’s personalized start page, has just been upgraded with some impressive new features, the new features of Live.com are as follows, found via Richard MacManus Blog: Improved user experience and features Pages – you can have multiple pages for all the gadgets and feeds you want. One of the nice things about PageFlakes (the new kid on the Ajax Homepages block)

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Pandora: Find Music You’ll Love

Pandora is the music discovery service that helps you find new music based on your old and current favorites. About Pandora When was the last time you fell in love with a new artist or song? At Pandora Media (formerly Savage Beast Technologies), we have a single mission: To help you discover new music you’ll love. To understand just how

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Intel shows Origami-like device

More news is out on what Microsoft’s Origami Project is all about! SAN FRANCISCO–Intel on Tuesday plans to show off the minitablet device at the center of Microsoft’s Origami Project. In a preview of Tuesday afternoon’s demonstration, Intel Marketing Director Brad Graff showed CNET News.com several of the Ultra Mobile PC devices, including an example of the kind of hardware that will

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Inventor of Hotmail turns his attention to weblogs

Intersting Artticle about Sabeer Bhatia, the Bangalore student who with his colleague invented Hotmail and went on to make a fortune by selling it to Microsoft. Sabeer Bhatia, the Bangalore student who with a colleague invented the iconic Hotmail e-mail service and went on to make a fortune by selling it to Microsoft, is returning to fix what he describes as

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Flagr: share your favorite places

Flagr, share your favourite places with your friends and family or the world from anywhere! About Flagr The Story Flagr is a small web startup operating out of San Francisco, California. It was founded in late 2005 by three young entrepreneurs who shared a vision … one so strong they dropped everything (including college) to pursue it. The Idea The

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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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Are you Living in a Computer Simulation?

The Simulation Argument with the phrase “Are you Living in a Computer Simulation?” is one area of study which has nearly always interested me, because I believe there is always a significant probability that we as are living in a computer simulation. If the simulation hypothesis is true, you exist in a virtual reality simulated in a computer built by an advanced civilization.