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!

De-Animator – In this game, you are a fragile looking old man with a gun.  Shoot zombies, reload, shoot more zombies.  Couldn’t get any easier.

Ninjotic Mayhem – Zombies + Ninjas = Fun (that is all the needs to be said)

Zombie War – Here is what would happen if the Lemmings went to war with a zombie horde.  Help your little army dudes lay waste to the zombies coming right at them!

Have another one that should be on the list?  Be sure to share!  Nothing helps to kill the time more than beating up a few mindless zombies.  Oh silly zombies, will you never learn?

Welcome Digg.com readers, and thanks for these awesome additional zombie games:

• The Last Stand 2
• Zombie Hooker Nightmare
• Left 4k Dead
• Boxhead: The Zombie Wars
• Sonny

Keep those suggestions coming in! Know of another fun zombie-based game? Grab your boomstick and head down below to the comments.

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A few tips of “How to make your signature look nice”

Darken + !!!

Smoothing Line & Circles (Wrinkle & Blemish Touch-up)

Cross-Processing

Photo Enchancements Made Simple

Easy, old/dirty paper.

Pencil-Sharp Edges

Convert frames with white bg to be used with CustomFrames

“True Ink Sketch” Tutorial

Whitening the Teeth

Paint.NET continues to be an inspiration for my creativity.  The more tutorials I find, the more things I want to try out myself – or tweak to fit my own needs.

Saving the best for last, check out these three special Mega Man icons!

+ Download the the Regular Mega Man Icon! (.zip)

+ Download the two 8-bit Mega Man Icons! (.zip)

The icons are compatible with the following sizes:  256 x 256, 128 x 128, 64 x 64, 48 x 48, 32 x 32, 24 x 24, 16 x 16.  It is also in both .ico and .png format.  Feel free to use, share and more.  Just wanted to give one more present to the awesome Mega Man fan-base out there (which I too am a member of).

Download the Desktop Icons for the other Mega Man 9 Villains!

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Color and Black and White – The Pleasantville Effect

The Process of Antiquing

Vampire Teeth!

Turning ‘Grass’ into ‘Lush Grass’

How to Airbrush like a Professional

Soft Portrait

Remove Tricky Backgrounds

Channel That Hair Color

Fixing A Damaged Photo

Spliced Frames

How to Whiten Teeth Using PDN

It is amazing how advanced Paint.NET has gotten over the years. Also, if your used to the graphic editor layout – it is really easy to pick up and use too.  Know of any other great tutorials?

Wii Zapper with Link’s Crossbow Training

Yes!  Finally Link gets his name in one of the Zelda games!  Ok, this one I didn’t have much choice about due to the fact it came with the Zapper itself but I do have to say it is much more fun than I thought it would be.  Having the anticipation that it would just be a demo title showing me “how to use” the Zapper it ended up being an entertaining “pick it up when you have nothing else to do” game.

Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles

I have been a fan of the Resident Evil series, even though this is my first actual game in the series to own.  This game’s controls kind of makes you feel like the Zapper was a second thought (due to the fact you have to move your hand up on top to hit the “A” button a lot.  Other than that it is another cool “on rails” shoot’em up that ends up being very entertaining.

Go through some of the historic places from past Resident Evil games and shoot a lot.  That is this game in a nutshell.

Ghost Squad

Now I am not usually a big fan of the Army/Police first person shooter type games but for some reason this one looked as if it might be a lot of fun.  I have not gotten to spend much time with it yet but from what I have played it looks great.  There are also a lot of side routes you can take so one level never has to be the same twice.  Another great thing about it is you change your weapon type up as you go to suit the situation.  Tons of fun.

House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return

This title, as the name tells you right off the bat, gives you both House of the Dead 2 and 3 to play with your Zapper.

The voice acting in this game is so bad, it’s good.  I’m a big fan of your campy horror movies though.  I missed out both of these days the first time around but now I get to finally see what all the buzz was about.  You would be amazed how gratifying blowing the head off a zombie really is.

Any More Games for the Wii Zapper?

From what I have seen, only other one I’m missing is some army/war game (Metal of Honor?) but that really isn’t my cup of tea.  Know anymore Zapper ready games I should pick up for Wii?

Found both of these via Deviant Art:

• Download the Luigi Widescreen Wallpaper!
• Download the Mario Widescreen Wallpaper!

But if they are on your desktop, then who will save the Mushroom Kingdom?

More Here:

http://garfieldminusgarfield.tumblr.com/

Greasemonkey Scripts for Google Calendar

• Add Google Calendar to Gmail
• Google Calendar Show Week
• Force Secure Connections
• Fully Maximize Google Calendar with F12 Toggle
• Google Calendar Header and Navigation Switcher
• Optimize Google Calendar
• Google Calendar – colorize Sat/Sun (start on Sun)
• Textwrap Events
• Google Calendar (“Slate Series”) theme
• Scroll Through Calendar with Mouse Wheel

Sync Google Calendar with Other Calendars

• Incorporate Google Calendar Into Outlook
• Stay in Sync with GCal and Thunderbird
• Get Google Calendar to Sync with Windows Calendar
• Get Apple iCal and Google Calendar to Sync

Add Google Calendar to your Start Page or Web Site

• Add Google Calendar to iGoogle
• Add Google Calendar to Netvibes
• Add Google Calendar to Pageflakes
• Add a Public Calendar to Your Web Site

Extra Tips and Tricks for Google Calendar

• Add Calendar Information to a Map
• Google Calendar as a Todo List
• The Firefox Extention, Better GCal
• Get Remember the Milk into Google Calendar
• Google Calendar in Your Sidebar (iPhone Version)
• Google Calendar in Your Sidebar (iGoogle Version)

If you know of anymore or have your own awesome tip list be sure to share. I always love adding a little ‘bit more to any online or offline application to get a little more use out of it – and I have to say Google and the other brilliant minds out there make that an easy thing to do.

1. Network-Tools.com – Ugly interface but a little something for every network tool loving freak.
   
2. Pingdom Tools – The best looking set of network tools, ping, traceroute and page loading tools included.
3. DNS Goodies – Lots of goodies here to love from whois, ip check, ping and more.
   
4. Traceroute.org – Need to do a traceroute from more than one location? The interface is horrible but the info is handy.
5. DNS Stuff – Another list of your generic domain name tools. Also has a paid service for more perks and choices.
6. My Nameserver – Tons of DNS related lookup tools here. Also good to look up abuse, domain name worth and more.
7. DNS Tools – Ping, traceroute, whois and more. I really like the fact you can “search for all” here too.
8. DomainTools.com – Probably my all time favorite, DomainTools.com has everything you could want under the sun.
9. Ajax DNS – Look up your DNS info in a crazy cool ajax powered interface. Not just eye candy here though, good all around resource.
10. IP Tools – Another “we do everything” network tool web site. Dozens of search boxes with dozens of tools.
11. Internet Tools – A handful of Internet query tools so you can do quick searches for things such as various whois searches.
12. Ajax DNS Bench – Drop and give me 20! 6 ajax powered DNS tools here to pick from.
13. My IP Neighbors – Now you can use this site to do a reverse DNS search to find out who else is on your server.
14. Who is Hosting This – Find out the host or server that a domain name is using. Quick and effective (for nosey people only).

Now I wouldn’t recommend trying to use all of these, as many of them preform the same functions. Find the ones that work best for you, and next time you need to do a ping, traceroute or whois search you should be more than ready for the job.