Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

“TNT” – A Minecraft Parody of Taio Cruz’s Dynamite – Crafted Using Note Blocks

Need I say more? Watch the video, and check out the youtube video for more info, Lyrics included below for those who want to sing along! 😀 Lyrics: I came to dig dig dig dig I’ll build a city oh so big big big big just wait a sec, gotta kill this pig pig pig pig cook me some bacon

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Yet Another Minecraft Server – 27th February 2011

Hey my fellow minecraftirians, bit of an update on my Minecraft Server “Yet Another Minecraft Server” a.k.a. YAMS. We’ve had so many new people join since I first set up the server, there’s way too many people to list now both old and new! I’m really happy they are all on the server – we even have some girls which is a bonus

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Warner Bros Digital Distribution Launches App Editions of Feature Films The Dark Knight And Inception

Warner Bros. Digital Distribution (WBDD), a market leader in video-on-demand and electronic sell-through, has announced the groundbreaking launch of the “App Editions” of feature films “Inception” and “The Dark Knight,” giving consumers around the world an entirely new way to own special edition movies with the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. The “Inception: App Edition” and “The Dark Knight: App Edition”

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Book vouchers and British Rail cards arent enough say students…

Research shows that students favour budgeting over big incentives Over half of students feel that the current resources being provided by banks to help students manage their finances are simply inadequate, according to research carried out by accounting software firm, Accountz. The survey taken from a sample of 200 British university students identified that when it comes to finances there

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PRFilter – The first press release search engine launched in beta

PRFilter, the first press release search engine, has been launched today to enable anyone to quickly find recent relevant press releases. The service indexes thousands of releases each day and is designed to save journalists and bloggers time and get PR stories in front of the most relevant media. PRFilter’s search results are ranked based on a combination of relevance

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Safer texting for children as bullies and predators move to mobile

With bullies and sexual predators increasingly moving from the Internet to mobile phones, the new Simply Safe SIM from Anvil Mobile automatically scans every text message sent and received to identify potential risks to children or vulnerable adults. With some 90% of under 16 year olds now owning a mobile phone and 1 in 7 children aged between 11 to

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Ge.tt Enables Browser-Based Real-Time Publishing and File Sharing

Danish start-up Ge.tt, an online browser-based file publishing and sharing service, today launches its new tool that makes sharing all types of materials quick and easy. Ge.tt lets users turn any type of file, no matter how large, into web content and publish it in seconds within a browser or email. Users can also share files with one person or

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for January 2011

1996 different keyphrases were used to find my site in January 2011, here are the top 10 with the amount of times they were used plus their overall usage percentage. It seems my fix/solution for fixing an Adobe Reader X problem (see here) helped a lot of people. So I’m pretty happy about that! Also a lot of people searching about being banned