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Protect Your Home Minecraft Server From DDOS Attacks with AWS

Want to run a Minecraft server from home without revealing your IP address? You can! Just set up a free proxy with Amazon Web Services to protect your server from denial-of-service attacks. We’ll show you how....

Anthony Heddings Sep 23rd, 2019

This Sweet Philips Hue Plugin Brings Your Minecraft Lighting to Life

PC gamers drop big bucks to feel immersed in their games. But some new smarthome tech is enabling amazingly immersive effects with just a few lights. Take this Philips Hue plugin for Minecraft as an example....

Michael Crider Feb 6th, 2019

Minecraft’s Official Website Distributed Malware-Infested Skins

Minecraft skins hosted on the official Minecraft website were infected with malware, according to Avast.

Justin Pot Apr 18th, 2018

The Complete Guide to Giving Better Family Tech Support

It’s that holiday time of year again, and that means it’s over the river and through the woods to…well, fix your family’s Wi-Fi and other tech problems.

The Best Games for Your Low-Power PC or Laptop

PC gaming is experiencing something of a renaissance at the moment, but most people still use their machines as utilitarian web and email access points rather than a platform for video games. But even if your computer has all...

What’s New in Windows 10’s Creators Update

The Windows 10 Creators Update—codenamed Redstone 2—will begin rolling out on April 11, 2017. Like other updates to Windows 10, it’s free, and includes a host of new features. It will be rolled out slowl...

How to Make Minecraft More Friendly for Small Children

Minecraft is a great game for kids, no doubt about it, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a wee bit frustrating for smaller children. If you have a younger player and you’d like to adjust the game to their age a...

How to Disable Player vs. Player (PVP) Damage In Minecraft

If you’re tired of accidentally killing your buddy while fighting enemies in close quarters, or your kids are screaming because one of them 8-bit-murdered the other again, this is the tutorial for you. Read on as we sho...

Jason Fitzpatrick Jun 15th, 2016

How To Easily Access Your Home Network From Anywhere With Dynamic DNS

We all have things on our home network we want to access from the outside: music collections, game servers, file stores, and more. Dynamic DNS makes it easy to give your home network a memorable and easy to use address....

Jason Fitzpatrick Apr 11th, 2016

Why Video Games Make You Feel Sick (and What You Can Do About It)

A significant portion of the population gets moderately to severely nauseated while playing first-person video games, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Here’s why those games make people feel ill, and what yo...

How to Play Multiplayer LAN Games with a Single Minecraft Account

So you want to play Minecraft with your family, but you only have one account. You won’t be able to play online, but with a few tweaks to the configuration files, you should all be able to play over the network togethe...

Jason Fitzpatrick Jan 25th, 2016

How to Make YouTube Kid-Friendly with the YouTube Kids App

Parents worried about their kids and inappropriate YouTube content now have a handy parenting companion. The YouTube Kids app makes it easy to set up a walled-garden of kid-safe videos on any Android or iOS device....

Jason Fitzpatrick Jan 21st, 2016

How to Back Up and Restore Your Minecraft Realms Worlds

It’s easy to invest a lot of energy in your Minecraft creations. Thankfully, it’s just as easy to back them up. Read on as we show you how to ensure your Minecraft Realms worlds are safe and sound....

Jason Fitzpatrick Jan 12th, 2016

How to Back Up Your Minecraft Worlds, Mods, and More

Minecraft is a game that lends itself to hundreds of hours of exploration and building. Don’t let your creations go up in a puff of dying-hard-drive smoke; read on as we show you how to locate and (automatically) back u...

Jason Fitzpatrick Jan 11th, 2016

How to Add Custom Worlds to Your Minecraft Realms Server

Although there is something to be said for starting with a fresh map, it’s easy (and fun) to upload an entire world to your Minecraft Realms server–whether it’s a world you created yourself or downloaded on...

How to Use MCEdit to Speed Up Building in Minecraft

MCEdit is a powerful third party program for editing Minecraft maps. MCEdit has many tools and filters for editing and building, and can speed up the building of large or complex Minecraft creations.

Anthony Heddings Jan 2nd, 2016

How to Make High Quality Renders of Your Minecraft Creations

Do you have a really cool Minecraft world, and want to show it off? If so, Chunky will take very high quality pictures of your Minecraft worlds, which will show off your creations better than a simple in-game screenshot....

Anthony Heddings Dec 31st, 2015

How to Set Up a Simple No-Stress Minecraft Server with Minecraft Realms

There are a lot of ways to go about hosting a Minecraft game but it’s tough to beat the simplicity of buying a server directly from Mojang, the company behind Minecraft (and now it even comes with a free 30 day trial!) ...

Jason Fitzpatrick Dec 23rd, 2015

What Are Some Fun Tech Projects I Can Do With My Kids?

Here’s our selection of some of the best computing kits made for kids and parents to share and learn with together (and yes, almost all of them will play Minecraft).

Chris Stobing Nov 24th, 2015

8 Essential Plugins for any Bukkit Server

Running a vanilla Minecraft server is fun, but the real advantage to using Bukkit is the ability to install plugins to change gameplay. Bukkit plugins can do anything from protecting your world and managing large servers to a...

Anthony Heddings Oct 21st, 2015

How to Uninstall Java on Mac OS X

Java is, and always has been, the source of many woes. And security holes. Lots of security holes. There’s really no reason to have it installed anymore, especially now that Minecraft has its own bundled Java for both O...

Lowell Heddings Sep 29th, 2015

Minecraft Doesn’t Need Java Installed Anymore; It’s Time to Uninstall Java

One of the big complaints Minecraft players have is that Minecraft runs on Java — it’s a pain to deal with because it’s insecure and needs frequent updating to avoid exploits, and they’d rather not de...

The Beginner’s Guide to Command Blocks in Minecraft

Minecraft is one of the best ways to introduce young and new people to coding. Command blocks are easy to learn and use, and Java programming is right around the corner with Minecraft mods and Bukkit plugins. It’s also ...

Make Building in Minecraft Easier with WorldEdit

Minecraft is a game all about blocks, and the beauty of it is that you can build anything your heart desires. Building in Minecraft is like building with digital Legos, but, like Legos, building takes a long time and is ofte...

How to Run a Spigot Minecraft Server for Customized Multiplayer

Minecraft’s native LAN support is great for running games on the fly, but if you want a dedicated, customized server, Spigot is the way to go. Spigot is built on a plugin API called Bukkit, which makes customizing your...

Anthony Heddings Aug 4th, 2015