Minecraft Snapshot 12w30a/c/d

August 1st is almost there and Mojang team is working hard on 1.3 version

These are the  some updates of 12w30a

• Made creepers stronger.
• Depending on difficulty, creeper damage is scaled now.
• Easy: ~50% less damage.
• Normal: same damage as before.
• Hard: ~33% more damage than before.
• "In full diamond armour + hard difficulty a creeper can knock you down to 2 hearts".
• Creeper explosions, Fire Charge explosions, and TNT give off a knockback.
• Stairs, when placed on the upper half of a block's side, will now be placed upside-down
• In F3 mode, the y coordinate now shows both the feet level and the eye level.
• Survival mode's command: /gamemode 3 is changed to /gamemode 0
• Added Snooper Settings.
• Allows you to toggle whether your data are sent to Mojang for analysis and improvements, shows which data will be sent to Mojang.
• Improved performance.
• Accelerated chunk loading.
• Decreased lag spike frequency.
• Made the Nether less laggy.
• Made chat work smoothly even when the server is lagging.
• Decreased unnecessary world updates.
• Decreased packets sent between client and server.
• Added Vertical Synchronization.
• Has to be toggled manually in options.txt.

Amazing Alex - the new Rovio title

The Amazing Alex is a game where a kid, Alex, has a huge imagination and begins to invent chain reactions in his messy room. The challenge is to create a harmony between the player and the ideas of Alex in order to help you achieve the goal of each level: hit the ball to the basket, put books in the basket, etc..

Depending on the levels, you need to grab, move and adjust wood decks, books, balloons, scissors and more, all to achieve the goal and progress in the game. There are 100 levels available immediately and are guaranteed updates with new levels.

• Home Page: Rovio - Amazing Alex 

• Download Android: 

• Amazing Alex Trial
• Amazing Alex Premium
• Amazing Alex HD

• Download iOS:

• Amazing Alex Premium
• Amazing Alex HD

Minecraft on a Scale of Universe

If you go to this Universe scale, you can find a minecraft world next to Neptune.
You can check it here: http://htwins.net/scale2/

Minecraft Snapshot w27

The release date to Minecraft 1.3 is in August 1st.

• Performance improvements, including reduced CPU, RAM & bandwidth requirements.
• Updated Pistons to make them less error-prone, thus they also appear to update slower. This also altered the way Pistons work, so you might have to adapt your repeater delays and similar.
• Added /debug <start|stop> command.
• Signs are stackable up to 16.
  • Crafting them now gives 3 signs instead of 1 with the same recipe.
• Creative mode inventory now shows potion effects.
• Boats now drop the boat item when destroyed by a player.
  • In creative mode, Boats and Minecarts are destroyed in one click.
• Gaining Experience from mining ore is now different for each type of ore. (Mining Coal will give you the least amount while Diamond Ore & Emerald Ore will give the most amount of XP).
• Fortune enchantments no longer affect Experience drop rates
• The Debug (F3) Pie chart now shows the game rendering performance (White)
• Nether Wart can now grow in the Overworld and The End

Bug Fixes:

All text on the signs is gone upon loading the world, the text is actually still saved but not shown. Additionally, pigs show in all spawners. Both have been confirmed fixed for next snapshot. The snapshot may give "Internal Server Error" randomly, kicking the player. Quickly reconnecting may result in a crash of the Minecraft client. When the server is set to spawn-monsters=false The server still naturally spawns them. Client: http://assets.minecraft.net/12w27a/minecraft.jar Server: http://assets.minecraft.net/12w27a/minecraft_server.jar  You can also check more information about Minecraft 1.3 here: http://www.mojang.com/2012/07/minecraft-1-3-info-snapshot-w27/

Microsoft announces upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for $ 39.99

Microsoft has just confirmed the price to upgrade from previous versions of Windows and is clearly demonstrated that the bet is towards a mass update, especially for those still using Windows XP or Vista.

The method of upgrading to Windows 8 will be as simple as possible, from an older version, without the usual complications of formats and "boots" from another drive. The assistant that allows you to do so online, is capable of generating a complete compliance report detailing the problems that may arise after the upgrade, which may stop working and what needs to be done to avoid such problems.

There will also be able to choose whether to keep some information from your old Windows. In three