Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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Visual Web Developer – FREE Download and 3 months ASP.NET 2.0 hosting

Check this out and see how Microsoft does offer stuff for free, it really annoys me when people say nothing from Microsoft is free because it’s just not true, this is one of the reasons that I really would like to work for Microsoft one day, they really are a good employer and it would be a great experience for

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XBOX 360’s Stand Off advertisement

Late last week, word broke that an advertisement for the XBOX 360, entitled “Stand off,” wouldn’t be aired due to its questionable content. It was shown at Sunday’s “Zero Hour” event in Palmdale, but was hidden until today/last night. It’s on the MSN Video site, but many people have been having trouble getting it to function, so here’s how to

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New Products in The Valve Store!

Check this steam update out! The valve store now has more products than ever and you can actually use PayPal to pay for them with! The releases we have coming over the next few weeks are piling up, which means that over the next month we’re going to be very busy but the communty is going to get a lot

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Live Mail Beta Frisbees on the way!

For all those of you who have participated in the Windows Live Mail Beta there’s a Mail Beta frisbee on the way for you now, depending on what country you live in it will take from 4-5 weeks to get to you! Here’s some pics taken by a kind user of the beta who was the first to tell us

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Domains Registered to Google Inc.

The list of domain names being register by Google is increasing day by day, here’s a small collection of them: My-deja.com Gppglr.com Googlesucks.org Googlesyndication.com Googlegalactic.om Googleuniverse.com Googlegalaxy.com Googlesun.com Googlemercury.com Googlepluto.com Has Google gone crazy with domain name buying or are they just trying to stay in the world of domain names so you never miss their name anywhere you go.

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Introducing Google Analytics, Sophisticated, Easy, Free.

Google Analytics is a bit slow at the moment but I’m sure it won’t be long before they get rid of the bugs in it, hopefully later on today I will have some data about my sites! Google Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site. You’ll

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Microsoft Delays Windows Vista Beta 2 to 2006

Microsoft will soon delay the release of Windows Vista Beta 2 from December 7, 2005 to sometime in January or February 2006. The big question now is whether this will jeopardize the final ship date that was supposed to be in Summer 2006. Exclusive: Microsoft Hits Windows Vista Beta 2 Delays Paul Thurrott InstantDoc #48408 Paul Thurrott’s WinInfo Sources at

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Msn Discussion is now Ms Discussion

That’s right yesterday mine and Henriks recently created Msn Discussion site went through some major changes the first one being a change of domain name from MsnDiscussion.com to MsDiscussion.com and the second being an upgrade from PhpBB 2.0.18 to IPB 2.1.3 we have made both of these changes because of what changes Ms (Microsoft) has done recently to their product