Time to build myself my first cactus farm. With a little red stone and some pistons I turn the walkway at the end of my chicken/cow farms into a cactus churning machine. It might not be the most perfect way to go about things – but it works, and gives me about a stack and a half of cactus per harvest.

Time for part two of my old Minecraft world tour. In this video we will take a look at my mob trap as well as some more buildings I created in Minecraft. Hope you enjoy!

While this might not be the most efficient pumpkin farm design in Minecraft, it is still easy to do and will not take that much time at all.  On today’s episode of Mitchcraft I tackle the topic of pumpkin farming and show you my design process when it comes to working with redstone and trying to automate the process.  Would love to see your own designs or comments on what I have built.  Also, remember to subscribe to the YouTube channel to show your support.  I am nine people away from reaching the next milestone of 100 subscribers!

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As Mitchelaneous moves into it’s seventh year of bringing you the best of well, whatever I happen to be bringing you for the day, I want to spread the love around.  I’m looking to accept your articles, tips, resources and more to be published right here on Mitchelaneous.com. At the current date and time, you would be exposing your work to around 15,000 visitors a month and over 800 RSS subscribers.  What do you have to lose?

So what kind of content am I looking for?  Here are some basic ideas:

• Online Application Reviews or Tips
• Desktop Program Reviews or Tips
• Great Wallpaper
• Web Development Help or Tutorials (CSS, HTML, PHP,etc.)

That is just scratching the surface though.  If you have an excellent idea for a tutorial or series of articles you’d like to write, just let me know and I promise you we will find something that works.  I am looking for original work only right now, no reposting content from other websites and really I want to give a person out there a shot to get some attention that has not had it before. 

Each post will be followed up with a short bio and a link back to your own website, so hopefully I can help generate some traffic back to your website too.  If you are interested, please feel free to use the contact link above to reach me or drop me an email at mitch@mitchkeeler.com.

I have found some more great classic video game wallpaper I am sure you will all get a kick out of.  Frogger 3D takes the traditional look and feel of the classic Frogger arcade classic and tilts it up a little ‘bit.

By doing so, we are given a new 3D aspect of the world we have never seen before.  This fantastic wallpaper by Justin Buonvino can be found at, admired and downloaded from DeviantArt.

Now to get to all the geeky details, for those of you wondering…

First things first, I would like to thank LayeredTech (and formerly FastServers.net before the merger) for hosting my websites for free.  I was with them for years, but here in the last few months – I really started to outgrow the free sponsored hosting environment.

So, who’s VPS plan did I decide to go with? I signed up with Site5 (yes, that same place that I work).  They offered the most bang for their buck with the VPS1 plan – and I really liked the fact that they do 100% of the management.  This means they take care of all the updates, security, monitoring and more. For $53 a month, you too can get:

• 736 MB of Memory
• 40GB of Disk Space
• 600 GB of Bandwidth
• 30 Days of Remote Guaranteed Backups

Ok, that is about as infomercial as I am going to get here.  So I hope you all forgive me for the time it took me to transfer the files from my old host to my new one (I elected to move my own files, even though Site5 offers free migrations.  What would I learn if I let them do it? *snicker*) and you keep enjoying the daily goodness I have to offer across mitchkeeler.com, mitchelaneous.com, firefoxfacts.com and webhostingshow.com.

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The best feature of this camcorder has to be that it is really simple to use.  You honestly point it in the direction you want to film and then push the big red shinny button on the back.

Here is a sample video I took of my dog a few months back, so you can get an idea of the video quality.

Here are some of the other features worth mentioning too:

• Easy-to-use, pocket-sized HD camcorder featuring one-touch recording and digital zoom
• Simple user interface lets you start capturing HD video just seconds after powering on
• Captures 120 minutes of HD video on 8 GB of built-in memory; no tapes or additional memory cards required
• Convenient flip-out USB arm plugs directly into your PC or Mac to launch FlipShare software
• Pre-installed FlipShare software lets you easily email videos, edit individual clips, make custom movies, capture still photos from video, and even upload video to sharing sites like YouTube and MySpace
• FlipShare’s advanced compression technology allows for quick and easy sharing of high-resolution HD video in compact-sized files (via email or publishing online)
• Comes with Flip Video rechargeable AA battery pack (recharges when connected to USB); also supported by standard AA batteries
• Large 2-inch anti-glare color LCD screen to play back and delete videos
• HDMI output (mini-HDMI connector) makes it simple to watch video on your HDTV
• Video: 16:9 widescreen, HD 720p (1280 x 720) at 30 frames per second (fps) progressive scan; recorded as MP4 files

Now, I can’t hold a camcorder steady to save my life – but for people like me, you can easily screw a tripod into the bottom of the camcorder for hands free recording.

Overall, it has been a few months now, and I think I made the right purchasing decision. Having recorded more than a few birthday parties, and just my nephews and niece messing around the the backyard and can really say nothing but good things about the Flip UltraHD Camcorder.

Spent the better part of yesterday afternoon moving out my old desk and getting a brand new one set up.  Now, my old desk and I had some fun times – must have had it at least five or six years.  However, the fact that any time you slightly bumped it made everything on, in and under the desk rumble finally made me decide it was time to upgrade.

The desk I decided to go with is the Walker Edison 3 Piece Home Office Computer Desk.  From now on, I will just reefer to it as the PlayStation 3 desk – because the glass top is so shinny and black.

Now it will take me a little while to get used to typing with the slide out keyboard, and not sure yet where I will keep my mouse.  Other than that though, I love this new desk.  It feels reliable, tough and with the steel frame – I don’t have to worry about it going though the wear and tear like my old compressed wood desk did.

So there you have it.  This is where I will be bringing you the latest Mitchelaneous posts, Firefox Facts and Web Hosting Show podcasts.

Over at the Web Hosting Show website, some of you might have noticed I have a little giveaway going on there.  Just in case you missed it though, I thought I would share it here.  Want to win a free Apple TV?  All you need to do is subscribe to Ping! Zine, one of the greatest web hosting magazines out there today.   Check out the details on how to get your chance at the free Apple TV over at WebHostingShow.com.  A free magazine subscription, a chance to win a free Apple TV, does it get any better?