Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

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 Navy’s Swimming Spy Plane

It floats, it flies, it eliminates enemy targets. Meet the water-launched unmanned enforcer.   Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, famed for the U-2 and Blackbird spy planes that flew higher than anything else in the world in their day, is trying for a different altitude record: an airplane that starts and ends its mission 150 feet underwater. The Cormorant, a stealthy,

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Timeline: Employee Headcounts for Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft

Hey check this post out below, I know it’s directly copied from Gabor Scelles Blog, but I just fealt the need to post it here as well, full credit goes to him of course! 😀 It’s good to keep an eye on headcount when comparing companies. The number of employees you have pretty much defines what you can do: How

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How they named companies

Now here’s a pretty cool site which names a load of companies and how they got their names, here’s a few of them: Adobe- came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the houses of founders John Warnock and Chuck Geschke . Apache- The name was chosen from respect for the Native American Indian tribe of Apache (Indé),

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London City to be Wi-Fi-enabled

London City is soon to be totally Wi-Fi-enabled now in my opinion I think call great news for a great City because I believe that Wi-Fi is definitely the way to go at the moment especially as it gives so many people more access to the internet when out and about, the internet is now part of a daily lives

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New York pans skyscraper escape pods

Read this, it caught my attention so it might be of some what interest to you as well! NEW YORK (AP) — The idea emerged after Jonathan “Yoni” Shimshoni and a team of aspiring inventors in Israel watched a television documentary about victims trapped on the upper floors of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Shimshoni recalled seeing

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What is Microsoft’s Origami Project?

Ok so the million dollar question that everybody’s been asking today is what is Microsoft’s Origami Project? And how comes I haven’t heard much about it since today? Well one of the reasons is that there hasn’t been much press release on it at all and also for the fact that the domain name http://www.origamiproject.com as only just been mentioned

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Google releases new Page Creator

Well it looks like the rumours about Google creating a website creator were true as Google this morning released an Ajax page creator called Google Page Creator, just one problem though and that is that Google has had to disable registration and access to it until they can increase capacity to it has they received an overwhelming amount of traffic