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Yet Another Minecraft Clone Crafted

Believe it or not, at this moment in time there’s a Minecraft Clone called Crafted on the Apple App Store, the game is a cross between Minecraft and Terraria, in the sense that it’s basically Minecraft but in 2D and it can be yours 69p / 99c. I’ve added some screenshots below that I’ve taken. I wonder if anything will be filled

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Ancestry Family Tree Maker 2012 Deluxe, Platinum and World

Avanquest Software Publishing has announced the release of Ancestry.co.uk Family Tree Maker 2012 Deluxe, Platinum and World editions to help unlock rich family history as never before. Perfect for the amateur through to the more experienced genealogist, Family Tree Maker 2012 has exciting new features including a mobile app and syncing capabilities to help users bring their family history to

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Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs dies aged 56

In the early hours of this morning Steve Jobs has died at the age of 56 after a long battle with cancer. His death was announced by Apple in a statement saying: Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with

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Unboxing the New Samsung Central Station Wireless Hub Monitor

Not you average unboxing of the New Samsung Central Station Wireless Hub Monitor! It is a stop motion film to promote the Samsung Central Station range of USB hub monitors, that help clear your desk of messy cables. They include a wireless USB 2.0 dongle that connects to a USB port on the portable computing device. The monitor then apparently

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100 years of East London style in 100 seconds

A little late on posting this one. But it’s still worthy news. This showrt film video was a 100 year countdown to the grand opening of Westfield Stratford City which took place on September 13th 2011, and celebrates a century of East London fashion, dance and music. Directed by Jake Lunt with The Viral Factory, the film was shot over 4 days in east

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Tangerine by Dry Riser

Tangerine by Dry Riser from their forthcoming Album. Dry Riser have evolved into a band whose music is generating generous comparisons with some great names in British music history. Whilst quick to play down such high acclaim, there is no doubting the quality of the song writing which is at its roots. This and the live performances combined have resulted

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Nikki Reed Asks You to Give a Shit for Charity

Give-a-Shit.org a new non-profit organization has a totally new way of approaching and awakening  public opinion to the world problems. Take a look at the video below – they claim the following on their homepage “Give-a-Shit.org is not like all those other charities. We’re not asking you to give us money. We’re asking you to Give a Shit. Now, don’t be packaging

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for September 2011

7463 different keyphrases were used to find my site in September 2011, here are the top 10 with the amount of times they were used plus their overall usage percentage. As you can see my “Minecraft” posts playerd a keypart in driving traffic to this site. If you fancy checking out my minecraft server YAMS short for “Yet Another Minecraft Server” you

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for August 2011

5548 different keyphrases were used to find my site in August 2011, here are the top 10 with the amount of times they were used plus their overall usage percentage. 5548 different keyphrases Search Percent desperate dan 300 2.6 % minecraft demo download 151 1.3 % minecraft public servers 140 1.2 % public minecraft server 94 0.8 % excel 2010 easter egg