Minecraft new update 1.7.7?

I updated my minecraft and I went to my usual multiplayer server, play.legitplay.net. I went to play creative and it told me, Kicked whilst connecting to creative: Outdated server! I asked other players if this is happening to them and it works fine for all of them. Can someone tell me what is wrong with it? And how I can fix it. I also tried going into other portals like Minigames and Survival and those work find for me. Can anyone help me?

Can't connect to minecraft multiplayer servers?

I have a windows 8 laptop which I got for Christmas. As soon as my minecraft updated to 1.7.7 last night, I wasn't able to connect to servers. I can still play on a vortex server but my cubecraft and city craft servers won't allow me to connect!
I'm not a total genius with computers so if someone could give me a step guide to sorting this out, rather then telling me 'check the blah folder'.

Do you consider minecraft to be art?

Someone today tried to tell me that you make art when you make stuff in minecraft and personally, as an artist who has been drawing for three years now in school, i'm offended that someone can learn to play a videogame after a few weeks and be considered at the same level or greater of an "artist" than i'm

Added (1). @jason so what your trying to say is that as long as the observer considers lets say a piece of paper with a pencil stuck through it art then that must mean its art?

How to make a server on minecraft? - 2

This is kind of a two part question.

1) how do I make a server that me and my friend could play on for minecraft on PC? I'm more interested in this question so if you can't answer the second one that is ok.

2) how do I make a local server on minecraft PE?

I really just want to play with my friend and creating a server to play on has baffled me so far.

Minecraft connection to launcher problems?

When i started minecraft the play box says to play offline, i know i have good internet access and it always worked for the past years or so. Then i logged off to try if it will work then and i log back in, but i couldnt! It says "Sorry but we couldn't connect to servers" It dosent make sense! Since i have perfect internet, computer is defintly not blocking since it worked for so long, updated java, reinstalled mc, and restarted my computer. I have no idea why, and i know the servers aren't off because i can get on with my moms laptop. SOME Please Help!

Minecraft, press play button and nothing happens?

I have re-installed java (multiple versions and yes deleted after use so don't have more than one java), reinstalled minecraft (deleting.minecraft and updating launcher). The Dev console shows continuously this:
[16:51:34 WARN]: Couldn't download https://libraries.minecraft.net/io/netty/netty-all/4.0.10.Final/netty-all-4.0.10.Final.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'
javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: java.security.cert.CertificateException: No subject alternative DNS name matching libraries.minecraft.net found.
^ It does that 23 times and need a fix As soon as possible, It was working fine till the servers where down for maintenance but I mistaken for error so I fiddled with it and see now what it has got me into, been figuring this out for about 3 hours and Is getting me really frustrated

Downloads not finishing on laptop?

I have a Toshiba Satellite C660. Recently downloads have been stopping at 99% e.g 32.4 gb 33.4 gb.(chrome) and 20% on IE

Additional info. Got latest Java, Troubles outside of browser (e.g trouble updating games (league of legends) and playing on a particular minecraft server.) Videos will cut out part way through. And rarely images will fail to load