Coe’s Quest is the YouTube web series I ran across when I was looking for a way to do more inside of the game of Minecraft. He has a very pleasant tone about him and his videos are not filled with cuss filled rants just for the sake of cussing.  Not that I have anything against adult language – but I have been even able to show my two nephews an niece the videos without worry of having to cover their ears every two seconds.

Here is the first video – just to give you a sample of how neat this series of videos is:

You can learn more about Coe’s Quest from coesquest.com. I hope you find it as useful as I have when it comes to navigating around the world of Minecraft.

Mages might only have four hearts for health, but over time they have become a great melee character used to turn the tide of any battle. The mage class in Fat Princess has two stages to it too. Before that mage hat machine is upgraded, you can use the mage’s hat to burn people. After the mage hat machine is upgraded, you can freeze them with the upgraded ice mage ability.

Level One – Burn, Baby, Burn!

The default mage, the fire mage, is helpful at the first in rushing to the middle to capture any important outpost. As the workers gather wood and ore, the mages keep the other team at bay with the area burn. If a mage is targeting one opponent they can throw a fire ball. The longer they hold the charge button, the stronger the fireball attack will be. If the fire mage just holds down the charge button without targeting one opponent, then they can build up an area attack which will burn anybody on the other team that happens to be inside the circle of fire.

Here are a few more fire mage tips and suggestions.

• You can light bombs with a charged area fire attack.
• Thaw out your frozen teammates with the charged area fire attack too.
• You can set wood on fire with the area fire attack, so warriors can light their swords or glaive and the rangers can light their bow or gun.

Level Two – Cool as Ice!

Once your mage hat has been upgraded, you can then play as the ice mage. The ice mage does everything the fire mage does, except with ice rather than fire. If a mage is targeting one opponent they can throw an ice ball. The longer they hold the charge button, the stronger the ice ball attack will be. If the ice mage just holds down the charge button without targeting one opponent, then they can build up an area attack which will freeze anybody on the other team that happens to be inside the circle of ice.

Here are a few more ice mage tips and suggestions.

• A charged area ice attack can defuse bombs
• Put out your teammates that are aflame with the charged area ice attack
• Since the fire charge works faster, you could charge up an area or targeted attack as the fire mage, then switch to the ice mage.

Chicken Potion – Also, once the mage hat machine is upgraded – you gain access to the chicken potion. You can pick this up, toss it at the opposing team and turn them all into easier to kill poultry.

More Mage Class Tips and Tricks

Here are a few other things to remember about the mage class in Fat Princess:

• Keeping a mage with the princess is a good way to stay on defense, and keep any princess rescuers and kidnappers at bay.
• If frozen by an ice mage attack, you can rapidly hit the jump button to break free faster.
• If burned by a fire mage attack, quickly jump into a body of water to keep from losing too many hearts.

The mage might be my second favorite class to play with, after the worker, in Fat Princess. There is just so much fun to be had when you can jump into a mosh pit of players from the other team, with a fully charged area attack. Nothing beats watching them all scream and run around on fire.

I hope these tactics helps out, next time you do battle in Titania.

It is that time of the year where every news source out there gets so lax in creating content, they can only muster up the strength to put together a year in review for this, that or the other.  Never to be one to disappoint, I thought now would be the perfect time to join the masses and share with you your favorite things I have posted.

Here are the ten most popular stories, tips, articles and tutorials I published in 2009 on Mitchelaneous.com.

#10 – Instant Drama Sound Effect

My new favorite web site, when you need that instant sound effect action is DramaButton.com.  Once pushed, you get that duh duh DUHHHH that has always been a favorite for the old dramatic moments on your favorite old TV shows and movies.

• More Sound Effect Fun: Six and a Half Instant Sound Effect Sites to Keep Handy

#9 – Top 10 Horror Movie Villains

Since it is October, time to look at even more things that go bump in the night.  Growing up in the 80s to early 90s era, I had a lot of great horror villains to fighting me.  We might not have had Dracula or Frankenstein, but we did have Freddy and Jason.  So, to keep with the holiday spirit of the month, I decided to take a look at my top 10 horror villains of all time.

• More Top 10 – Top 10 Favorite Red Dwarf Moments

#8 – 10 Free Ways to Search for Files Online

Need to find a file fast?  Over the years, I have collected some of the best (and maybe not so best) free file search web sites out there.  Here are the ten best resources to search for a file online.

• More Free Stuff – Hundreds of Free Online Tools I’ve Reviewed

#7 – Ninja Entry Traffic Sign Rocks

When is a No Entry sign not a No Entry sign?  When it has dropped the smoke bomb and turned into a Ninja Entry traffic sign.

• More Oddness: The Green Ranger Morphed into a MMA Fighter

#6 – Need a Wiki? Top Alternatives to MediaWiki!

Looking to setup a new wiki, but don’t know which script you should pick up to do the dirty work?  Many might say that MediaWiki is the best and the most popular, since it is what is used to run Wikipedia.  However, there are some great alternative wiki scripts you might have (or might not have) even seen before.

• More CMS Help – 9 WordPress Alternatives

#5 – EMFF – Easily the Best Audio Player via Flash

The Easy Musicplayer For Flash, or otherwise known as EMFF, is in my opinion easily the best free audio player, built in flash.  I have been using it to provide a player on up to six of my latest shows on webhostingshow.com.

• More Web Dev Help – Best of the Blogging Scripts

#4 – Down Right Creepy Mario Wallpaper

Why is it that we are all kind of amused by making Nintendo’s favorite plumber, Mario, so darn creepy looking?  There have been some real oddities posted out there in the past that have put a new light on the overall wearing hero,  but this one might take the cake on being the creepiest thus far.

• More Desktop Decoration – All My Favorite Wallpapers I’ve Blogged About!

#3 – Decorate Your Desktop with Mushroom Icons!

Time to do another free desktop icon release!  This time around, I figured I would focus on Mario’s favorite treat, the mushrooms of the Mushroom kingdom.  It always kind of freaked me out that a power up was a decapitated head of one of the Mushroom Kingdom citizens.  What do you think Toad would say if he saw Mario eat a mushroom?  Would he be shocked?  Could be they are all cannibals anyways.

• Level Up! – Free Mega Man Desktop Icons!

#2 – Charge PS3 Controller on Your PC

As I shared with you yesterday, I purchased myself a PlayStation 3.  One of the first questions I had after taking it out of the box was, “How do I charge the controllers?”.  With my Wii, it uses rechargeable batteries, so that solution was a ‘bit easier.  it looks like the PS3 controllers though have no option to do that.

• More Video Game Fun – Free Video Game Based Desktop Icons!

#1 – Best of the Free Zombie Flash Games

Nothing can get better than beating up a few mindless zombies, right?  Put that together with some of the creative and cool flash games out there, and you my friend have a good time.  Here is my collection of some of the best free “zombie-related” flash games.

• More Flash Games – Best of the Free Ninja Flash Games

I hope you have enjoyed this year of Mitchelaneous fun, and hope 2010 brings in even more readers, visits, fun stories and more.  Happy New Year to you all!

EXTRA – Best Firefox Facts Posts of 2009!

Need to share a screencast in a hurry?  Have a Twitter account?  Screenr will help you create and share your own mini tutorials from your desktop with the world.  The benefit here is that you can use a web-based recorder, on Macs or PCs to share how to do something or how something might look.

Here is the video tutorial I created, while testing out the service:

Screenr is simply the easiest of the online desktop screen capture solutions out there to use. All you have to do is hit the record button, choose the size you want to record and start capturing.  While I did not, you can also record a video track if you want to do commentary as you record. I like the fact that you can also download the video (as a .mp4 file) or publish to YouTube too.  I wish the video screen was a ‘bit more customizable, but hopefully that will be a feature to come in the future.

Once you are ready to publish, you can instantly share it on Twitter – or wait, and publish it elsewhere first.  You can tell the target for this tool is to be another Twitter companion, however you don’t have to use it that way if you don’t want to.  The developers have kept that part of the equation very free and open.

When push comes to shove, I could see myself using this tool again to create more quick tutorials.  Screenr is simple, to the point, and doesn’t waste your time with fluff.

Sticky posts, will let you bump a story to the top of the homepage – without the need of editing the time stamp over and over again.  This is handy for me, because with the Web Hosting Show’s site, I wanted to keep the most recent podcast pinned to the top of WebHostingShow.com – with new content following bellow it.  With a little template editing, WordPress interface knowledge and some hard work – you can do the same.

How to Get Started with Sticky Posts

The best guide thus far on how to use this WordPress feature that was introduced back in WordPress 2.7 is Nathan Rice’s Definitive Sticky Posts Guide.  Here you can learn how to make a post sticky from within WordPress, and how to edit your theme’s templates to reflect the changes.

Show More Than One Sticky Post

What if you want to get more than just one sticky post in your WordPress blog?  Then you might need to check out how to get the latest sticky posts via WPRecipies.com.  That have a code snippet up that goes right before the loop, that retrieves X most recent sticky posts.

All in all, it is a fun weekend side project to try out – if your looking to add a little something special to your WordPress powered web site.

Want to learn how to use Google Analytics better?

While checking out what it takes to become an authorized Google Analytics consultant, I stumbled across a series of videos online that anybody can use to get to know their own Google Analytics account a little better. 

• Check Out the Google Analytics IQ Lessons

I am still debating if I will or if I will not take the Google Analytics Individual Qualification (IQ) test, however it is good to know these tutorials are here for people in the world who just want to become a more knowledgeable Google Analytics user.

I really like it when any FTP program can give me better integration with my operating system, and WinSCP does do that and more.  You can create your standard shortcuts to it, add it to Window’s “Send To” context menu, and it can also be setup to be the default handler for SFTP and SCP URL addresses.

The WinSCP installer can also install drag&drop shell extension to improve WinSCP capability of downloading files using drag and drop.

Not sure where to start, after you downloaded it?  They have a plethora of guides and useful tutorials to help get you setup. So next time you are looking for a free FTP program, and you have tried the other popular names out there, give WinSCP a shot.  It might be the free FTP program experiance you’ve been looking for.

Bonus: Need more help? Check out the FTP FAQ from the Web Hosting Show!

Here is a screen shot of the program’s interface:

Here is a little more about the program from the developers:

Photobie is built upon .NET framework 2. It contains all general photo editing and painting features. It is a perfect screen capture tool for you to do screen capture and editing in one place. It is also a perfect digital scrapbooking tool that allows you to apply embellishment, masking and templating easily and efficiently. And it is a perfect animation tool that allows you to create GIF animation efficiently. It supports many embedded filters as well as Photoshop free 8bf filters. It supports user customized brushes, textures, masks and regions.

Now that might look like a lot of bells and whistles to play with.  Thankfully, they have a lot of tutorials too. Here a few of my favorite Photobie tutorials I have found thus far out there (I’m sure I’ll find many more later!).

• Photo Editing Tutorials
• Paint and Graphic Project Tutorials
• Screen Capture and Manipulation Tutorials

You can pick up this free image editing tool at Photobie.com.  How do you think it stacks up to some of the other free image editors out there?

• Display Tags In A Dropdown Menu
• Automatically Insert Content In Your Feeds
• Display Most Commented Posts In 2008
• Display Related Posts Based On Post Tags
• Display The Future Posts
• Randomize Posts Order

Plus a whole lot more.  That is barely scratching the surface.  You can check out the full collection here:

• 20+ WordPress Recipes (Codes)

Also, for more WordPress code snipits you can use in your own layouts and designs, be sure to check out WpRecipes.com, another great resource for neat ways to modify your WordPress powered web site.

Many people out there are looking for an easy way to learn more about DHTML and AJAX code, so to help you learn like I did – try MiniAjax.com.  This web site provides you with many nice looking, simple DHTML and AJAX code examples to play with and learn from.  Here are a few tutorial examples I found there:

• Facebook Style Input Box
• AJAX Star Rating Bar
• GreyBox: An easy javascript popup box
• Tabbed content browser

Check these code examples out (and many more) at MiniAjax.com.