Inspired by my son and daughter, I thought this post would be appropriate. They are the biggest Minecraft fans that I know and inspired me to not only write this but start playing too. It’s obvious that I am not as good as they are, but it’s great learning for children and adults alike.

Minecraft

The creative and building aspects of Minecraft enable players to build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D generated world. Other activities in the game include exploration, resource gathering, crafting, and combat. Survival is where the player must acquire resources to build the world and maintain health. The creative mode where players have unlimited resources to build with and the ability to fly. Adventure mode where players can play custom maps created by other players, and a spectator mode where players can fly around and clip through blocks, but cannot place or destroy any.

Survival Mode

They have both tried to get me to play in this mode, but I just haven’t got the hang out it yet.  In this mode, players gather natural resources (such as wood and stone) found in the environment in order to craft certain blocks and items.

Creative Mode

In creative mode, players have access to all of the resources and items in the game through the inventory menu and can place or remove them instantly. Players, who are able to fly freely around the game world.

Besides the main version, Minecraft Classic and Minecraft 4k for the PC are also available.

Minecraft: Education Edition

The Education Edition gives teachers the tools they need to use on an everyday basis.

There are a few differences between Minecraft and MinecraftEDU. The main concept is the same, an open sandbox world. and MinecraftEDU will be able to retain characteristics.  Finally, the last large difference is that students can take in-game photos. These online notebooks will be sharable with other students.

My favorite mode is creative so stay tuned as I am sure there will be more great construction coming soon.

There are over 84 million XBox 360 consoles worldwide. Someone asked the other day, “Why would my son’s XBox say it needs a hard drive? Well, there is an explanation for that and the reason is, not all the consoles came installed with hard drives. There are consoles that have internal memory, so when something needs saving then it would be saved internally. We are also going to discuss how to install or replace a hard drive in your console.

The original model XBox 360 was first released in 2005. Various hard disk drives were produced that included options of 20, 60, 120, 250, or 320 GB. Inside, the console uses the triple-core IBM designed Xenon as its CPU, with each core capable of simultaneously processing two threads, and can, therefore, operate on up to six threads at once. 

Here is a look at my personal XBox and how to remove the hard drive and replace it.

Original XBox 360 Hard Drive Removal

Steps to remove the hard drive

1. Turn off the console
2. Locate the hard drive on the top of the console.

3. Press the release button on the hard drive

4. Lift the hard drive off of the console.

To replace the hard drive, position the hard drive against the back of the hard drive bay and push the front end of the hard drive down until it clicks in place.

The other two consoles are different than the original 360 console.