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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

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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Yet Another Minecraft Server – 29th January 2011

Well my Minecraft Server “Yet Another Minecraft Server” a.k.a. YAMS only went public 4 days ago, after I did quite a lot of back work before hand on setting up a decent spawn base and well the structure builds I am seeing coming from people are already pretty good (even great) and everyone’s been really friendly so far, well except “i_am_sex”, he was just a troll. Here’s

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Yet Another Minecraft Server (YAMS) Now Public!

Calling all minecrafterians looking for public minecraft servers… My London based multiplayer Minecraft server titled “Yet Another Minecraft Server” a.k.a. YAMS is now public, so no more hiding as it’s free for anyone to join. There is currently no whitelist however due to increased popularity whitelist is sometimes on, in which case please visit the forums to get yourself whitelisted. I’m putting a lot of

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Goodbye Windows Live Butterfly Heaven Tagline!

Well it’s been a long time coming but it’s time to say goodbye as I have now removed my blog tagline of “Windows Live Butterfly Heaven!” and replaced it with “ICT Systems Manager by Day, Blogger by Night.” I’m not sure if I shall be keeping the new one, but the Microsoft Windows Live Butterfly program closed in June/July 2009

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Samsung Project Space Planes Finally Launch

Remember Samsung Project Space Planes back in September? Which had the idea of launching a balloon to space where there it would release lots of paper planes with Samsung SD memory cards (with your messages). If not quickly see video below! Well they have finally managed to do that, amidst awful weather, from a place called Wolfsburg in Germany! The

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SoundCloud Launches North American Presence

SoundCloud, the audio platform that enables everybody to upload, record, promote and share the sounds they create across the web, has today announced it is to extend its operations into North America with the opening of a presence in San Francisco and several planned new hires in the city within the coming months. The fast-growing company was launched in Berlin

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Review of Serif CraftArtist Gold

Hi all, it’s been a while since I’ve posted a full review of this scale, so before I begin I would like to give thanks to Clare Homer PR Manager at Serif for proving me with this opportunity. Now that’s over 😉 Here is my Review of Serif CraftArtist! 😀 First of all for those that don’t know, Serif CraftArtist

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January 2011 Screenshots of My Minecraft Server.

A little taster of My Minecraft Server, called “Yet Another Minecraft Server”. Also known as YAMS. Been quite busy on it though it’s hard work alone and it doesnt help that either minecraft.net is down or theres some other problem. Ahhhh Betas… and thats coming from the one who’s supposed to love beta testing. 😉 Edit: Server now up at play.yams.me