Archive | June, 2009

News Meets Photo Uploads and Link Shortening

Jun/18 in Online Apps

A mashup of link sharing plus news aggregation, Virl is a place to shorten your URLs, upload photos, and spread the news. 

What would you like to do?

The first thing you see when you check out the site is this blue monster guy asking you what you would like to do?  You can tell it you want to upload a photo or shorten a URL.  Pretty simple right?

 Get the popular news on Virl

Well that is only half the web site.  The other half gives you the popular posts from a number of different resources, like Digg, Delicious, Reddit, Hulu, Yahoo Buzz and more. 

A virtual mix of both link sharing and shortening – this web site has a lot of potential, however my first suggestion would be to shrink down their monster guy on the top of the page.   Why?  There is no way I would want to scroll that far down every time I check out the page to see some of the popular headlines out there from their various news sources listed on the site.  Go see how viral Virl is for you.

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The Game Drawer – PS and PS2 Games

Jun/17 in Video Games

PS1 and PS2 Games

Welcome to part two of my expose on my video game drawer.  This time around we take a peak into my PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games.  There are located in the second drawer, under my mobile and NES game collection.  Of course, I am screwed if I get anything else cause I’ll start running out of space again (everything is pretty tightly fit into there).  However, sure I can come up with some other wacky way to organize if needed.

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Atari Cartridge Turned into Wallet

Jun/16 in Hot Web Topics, Video Games

This is beyond awesome…

I love the classic Atari 2600 games, mainly because with some of the old art they had on them, you can tell somebody spent a lot time on them.  Now you can get your favorite Atari cartridge as a neat (and really geeky) wallet.  You can buy the wallets yourself (although they are a little on the expensive side) from this store.

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The Game Drawer – Mobile and NES Games

Jun/15 in Video Games

Mitch's Mobile/NES Game Drawer

I recently did some reorganization of my various video game collections – to make things a little more manageable.  Sorting most of the newest game systems seemed to make sense.  Here is the top drawer in my filing cabinet collection which has all my PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, NES, Gameboy and Gameboy Advance games. 

The PSP, Nintendo DS and NES games fit in really nicely.  The Gameboy and Gameboy Advance games though have to be just tossed into a plastic bin – for the sake of keeping them in the same general area. 

For the Nintendo DS, I have:  Brain Age, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, New Super Mario Bros (missing from picture), and Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings.

For the PSP I have: Lumines, World Poker Tour, Burnout Legends, Twisted Metal: Head-on, Mega Man Powered Up, and Ultimate Ghosts ‘n Goblins. 

For the NES I have:  Bad Dudes, Super Mario Bros 2, Pro Wrestling and Batman

For the Gameboy I have: Arcade Classic 3: Galaga/Galaxian, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, Arcade Classic 2: Centipede/Millipede, Paperboy, Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3, Mega Man IV, Metroid II: Return of Samus and Final Fantasy Adventure.

For the Gameboy Adance I have: Metroid: Zero Mission, The Legend of Zelda, The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Castlevania: Circle of the Moon, Fire Pro Wrestling 2, Final Fantasy IV Advance, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, Metroid Fussion, and Earthworm Jim. 

Also in the drawer (between the Nintendo DS and PSP games) are a handful of PSP demo discs I got for being a member of PlayStation’s Gamer Advisory Panel.

Maybe not the biggest, nor the best collection out there – but I like them all.  Stay tuned for more video game drawers in the future.  I’m only getting started here.

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Ninja Entry Traffic Sign Rocks

Jun/11 in Odds & Ends

Watch out for Ninjas!

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. Found via (about:blank)

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Mix Multiple Feeds into One

Jun/10 in Online Apps

Mix Your Feeds with FeedMingle

FeedMingle is an interesting tool that will combine multiple feeds into one to produce a combined RSS, Atom, JSON, or widget.  This can come in handy when you need to track multiple feeds, however you would like to have them all in one general location. 

The tool itself is easy enough to use.  No need to login for now.  All you do is plug your feeds into the web site, and you are done.  For example, I merged together the feeds for the Web Hosting Show, Firefox Facts and Mitchelaneous into one super Mitch-loving feed here:

The widget that the script produces (which could be copied and pasted onto your own site or profile) is a little on the simple side – but there is still plenty of room for improvement. 

FeedMingle Widget

Overall, FeedMingle is worth giving a shot if you need to merge multiple feeds into one huge feed.  It is there to make life simpler for web designers, developers, feed readers, bloggers or anybody else who may need a new way to deliver their content.  I am very excited to see what they do with this service down the road.

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Find Similar Sites on the Web

Jun/08 in Online Apps

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What SimilarSites does is simple, it matches you up with web sites that are similar to the one you search for.  For example, when I searched for Mitchelaneous.com, it gave me results for Boing Boing and Lifehacker.  When I searched for WebHostingShow.com, it gave me hosting sites like WebHostingStuff.com and RateMyHost.com.  The service works very well, and might also help you judge if you are targeting your own web site in the right ways. 

SimilarSites also has add-ons you can download and use in both Firefox or Internet Explorer.  That gives you two more ways to get more out of this excellent service. 

Overall SimilarSites is a fun service to check out, just in case you want another web site like just like this one, or another favorite of yours around the Web.

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Mitch’s Best and Worst e3 2009

Jun/03 in Video Games

e3 Winners and Losers I have either watched, or seen summaries of each of the press conferences from e3 of the big game consoles, so I thought I would give my opinion of what I liked and what I didn’t like so much.

Sony’s Best – ModNation Racers looked like the most fun thing they had to show, I really like the mix of the Mario-style kart racing with the do it yourself track building.

Sony’s Worst – Final Fantasy XIV was one of those moments of the show where you get really excited, till they say the word Online then you get sad again.  I never played the first “online” Final Fantasy, so maybe I should give it a fare shake first – however I am more of a fan of the more traditional Final Fantasy series.

Nintendo’s Best – It would have to be a tie, because I am really excited about Super Mario Galaxy 2, New Super Mario Bros Wii (horrible name though) and Metroid: Other M. 

Nintendo’s Worst – Wii Vitality Sensor is really weird.  Being somebody that owns 4 nun-chucks, 2 classic controllers, a Wii Wheel, the Wii Zapper, and 4 Wii-motes – I am running out of places to store all these accessories.  Also, why do I need a biorhythm sensor to play games?

Microsoft’s Best (and Worst) – Project Natal.  Now I don’t have an Xbox 360, so I am not a fair judge here – however I see this full body motion control to be a real winner or a really big loser.  Now, I understand where kicking a ball might be fun with this, but what about shooting a gun?  Are they expecting me to yell, “pew! pew!” at the screen? 

Overall, I think this year’s e3 show, from the point of view of the big three consoles will be, “Oh, you know that motion control stuff we made fun of from the Wii, we do that too… but better!”. 

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Send Files via Twitter

Jun/02 in Free Hosting, Online Apps

Free File Hosting Mixed with Twitter

Want to do a little file sharing via Twitter?  The new service FileTwt does just that.  You can now easily upload and tweet about your files for free.

You can quickly share any file that is up to 20MB in size with your entire Twitter network or just a single follower.  All you do to get things to work is give the FileTwt web site your Twitter details, find the file you want to upload, and then tweet away.  Your newest tweet that you send out will have a special link attached that will let those who got the message download the file in question.

To get started, head over to FileTwt’s web site, and get signed up or try out the limited services for people who do not sign up for the extra features.  File sharing via Twitter has never been easier.

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There Will Be Brawl

Jun/01 in Hot Web Topics, Video Games

There Will Be Brawl

Not often do I find original content that I really like to watch or flock to like a giddy school girl, however every so often I find a diamond in the rough as far as the independent content being delivered out there.  That is where the web series There Will Be Brawl comes into play. 

This dark, dramatic parody of Super Smash Bros Brawl is just fun to watch for any older Nintendo fans out there.  Yes, this web site does come with a warning that the series is not intended for anybody under the age of 17. 

A new episode debuts the second Friday of every month over at The Escapist web site, which is where I found the videos in the first place, however you can also find out more about the cast and crew at ThereWillBeBrawl.com. 

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