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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Minecraft Beta 1.8 Adventure Update Released

Im sure you Minecraft Addicts know by now, but the Minecraft Beta 1.8 Adventure Update was released for download this morning not long ago. If you play on my server YAMS (Yet Another Minecarft Server) please remember to read the latest info here: http://www.darrenstraight.com/minecraft/index.php?/topic/910-07092011-yams-and-minecraft-beta-18-adventure-update I will update the server to 1.8 as soon as bukkit is released and I’ve had time

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Minecraft Beta 1.8 Prerelease v2 Download

This “Minecraft Beta 1.8 Prerelease v2” post as quoted below was posted 2 hours ago on the minecraft forums at this link here by Opeth. This prerelease/leak is certainly giving me some insight into how I need to prepare my minecraft server for 1.8 and beyond. My server is called YAMS (Yet Another Minecraft Server) and the ip for it is: play.yams.me Due to

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Minecraft Beta 1.8 Adventure Update Gameplay at PAX 2011

The title of this post “Minecraft Beta 1.8 Adventure Update Gameplay at PAX 2011” pretty much says it all – enjoy! 🙂 Thanks goes to the uploaders. I suggest you click the videos to go to the main youtube channels where the videos come from for more information on what you are seeing in each video at what point. These

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RIM Announces BBM Music – A New Social Music Sharing and Discovery Service

Research In Motion (RIM) today announced BBM™ Music, a new BBM (BlackBerry® Messenger) service for socially connected music fans. BBM Music is an easy-to-use cloud-based service that enables social and viral music discovery by allowing users to build an evolving, community-based music library that is shared amongst their BBM Music friends. The size of the music library continues to grow

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Notch the creator of Minecraft codes a new game in 48 hours!

Right now Notch is participating in the Ludum Dare, live! Ludum Dare is a regular accelerated game development Event. Participants develop games from scratch in a weekend, based on a theme suggested by community. This contest’s theme is “escape”. Notch has just over 4 hours left at the time of posting this… You can watch him too below.. Though be

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“Revenge” – A Minecraft Parody of Usher’s DJ Got Us Fallin’ in Love – Crafted Using Noteblocks

Youtuber CaptainSparklez brings the world a Minecraft parody of Usher’s DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love. Download the song on iTunes here at this link. Lyrics: TryHardNinja: So we back in the mine, got our pick axe swinging from side to side, This task a grueling one, hope to find some diamonds tonight, Heads up, you hear a sound, turn around and

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DIY website builder WebEden.co.uk launches blog feature

Award winning do-it-yourself website building tool WebEden.co.uk today announced the launch of their new, long awaited, blog feature. The new blog tool opens up blogging to anyone with a PC who has little or no technical knowledge. Much like websites created with WebEden building system, it can be set up and stylised using simple drag and drop software and is aimed

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for July 2011

5066 different keyphrases were used to find my site in July 2011, here are the top 10 with the amount of times they were used plus their overall usage percentage. 5066 different keyphrases Search Percent desperate dan 230 2.3 % minecraft public servers 206 2 % yams minecraft 105 1 % minecraft demo download 100 1 % public minecraft server

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Handshakes by The Carpels (One Beat Records)

Remember my post back in april about The Carpels and their song Sand? Well fresh from a storming  appearance at London’s coolest club night This Feeling, Birmingham band The Carpels are about to launch their new single Handshakes. Snapped at the Queen of Hoxton by Libertines photographer Roger Sargent, the buzz around this band is growing – you may have

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