8-Bit Mashup Wallpaper

So a black mage, Mario, Kirby and Mega Man walk into a bar (and stop me if you have heard this one) and happen to make some really cool wallpaper in world 1-1 of Super Mario Bros. OK, maybe I need to work on the punch line but while we are talking about great wallpaper, I wanted to share this with you.

Super Wallpaper (for Any Man)

How could I share Batman wallpaper with you, without tossing in some Superman wallpaper into the mix too?  Filed under a random Google image search, this background is actually pretty nice in comparison with some of the dull Superman backgrounds you can find out there.  Worthy of any super desktop, no matter if you are from Earth or Krypton.

Over 70 Fun Instant Sound Effects

The instant sound effect web sites are always fun, but I think Instants took it to a whole new level.  This web site has over 70 sound effect buttons you can play with to annoy your coworkers or keep handy for a special occasion.

Wallpapers Organize Desktop Icon Clutter

Looking for a very simple way to organize your mess of icons on your desktop?  Look no further than this very slick and simple wallpaper I ran across a few weeks ago.

Find the Perfect User Name

Need an easier way to find the perfect user name?  When looking for a user name, you want one that has not been taken before, and is available via all the popular social networks – and maybe even as a domain name.  If you are in search of a helping hand in your search, NameChecklist is the place to check first.

20 Best Multimedia Plugins for WordPress

WordPress is a great publishing platform to use when you want to circulate your own collection of video or images on the Web.  Thanks to a few great plugins, you can take your dull text-based blog and really snaz it up with some great internet imagery.  Want to great a photo gallery?  Want to plug YouTube into your web site?  I have collected twenty of the best multimedia plugins for you to use with your own WordPress powered web site.

3 Best WordPress Cheat Sheets

Working with WordPress is almost like learning a new language.  Not only do you need to learn some of the basic fundamentals of PHP, but you also need to learn what WordPress tags go where, and what they do. Since nobody has the time to do that these days, I thought it would be about time to break out my WordPress cheat sheet collection.

3 More Masterful Zelda Wallpapers

The search continues for some of the best Legend of Zelda wallpapers out there on the Web.  Having shared two with you already, I figured I would bundle these three find together and share them with you too.

Fat Princess: Fat Roles DLC Review

Ready to battle as giants, ninjas and pirates?  The PlayStation Network game Fat Princess finally got its first slice of downloadable content, and I do have to say it has made the game a whole lot more fun.   Fat Princess: Fat Roles is out and is a lot of fun.

The Do’s and Don’ts of Fat Princess

I have spent a lot of my free time the last few months playing Fat Princess, a PlayStation Network game for the PlayStation 3.  Over time, you come to lean a few things you should do – and a few things you probably shouldn’t do, to keep the experience enjoyable.

Hope you enjoyed this list and you keep enjoying Mitchelaneous throughout 2010, 2011 and beyond! Thank you for your support!

Mystique

This is the best free WordPress theme I have seen in a while.  It really does a great job at creating top commercial template features in a theme that is free for everybody to use.  You can learn more about it, and download it at its official website.

AllTuts

This theme, put out by Site5 looks great and gives off that vibe of a really professional theme.  The entire theme is very polished looking and doesn’t hold back when it comes to features.  You can grab it (and a few more great WordPress themes) over at Site5′s free WordPress themes website.

LightWord

I really love the simple themes out there too, so LightWord has to go on my list.  This theme comes with two or three column support, it is AdSense ready, and just looks really nice.  If you are looking for a sleek, yet simple WordPress theme, you could not go wrong with LightWord.  You can pick it up on its official website.

Arras Theme

Magazine themes for WordPress are growing in popularity these days, and if you need a free magazine-like theme to get started with, Arras theme is the one to pick.  Simply put, it has tons of features, alternative styles, includes a slideshow feature and really the list goes on and on.  You can pick it up on ArrasTheme.com.

Thematic

Now you might say this theme is a little simple, right?  Well that is the best thing about it.  The Thematic theme for WordPress is simply a framework to use to design your own great looking WordPress powered blog.  You can pick it up at  Themeshaper.com.

There you have it.  These are some of the best WordPress themes I’ve run into that simply do not suck.  Have another theme in mind that should have made it on the list?  Want to tell me which one is your favorite?  Drop your feedback, thoughts and suggestions into the comments.

Ready to battle as giants, ninjas and pirates?  The PlayStation Network game Fat Princess finally got its first slice of downloadable content, and I do have to say it has made the game a whole lot more fun.   Fat Princess: Fat Roles is out and is a lot of fun.

I will do a quick breakdown on each new class, and what is there to love.

Also worth mentioning is the fact that each new class can not press triangle to change from level one to level two of a class.  This has been replaced with a special move that is unique to that specific class.

Review of the New Fat Princess Classes

Ninja – The ninja come packed with ninja stars, a sword and a lot of fun.  Also, as a nice little touch – when a ninja dies, he falls on his own sword.  Also, you can get sneaky by turning invisible, walk through the other team’s castle doors, and pickup the princess.

• Regular Attack: Sword
• Charged Attack: Throws Ninja Stars
• Special: Turns Invisible for a few seconds or until another action button is pushed

Pirate – Cannon balls are a flying with this new class.  With a special that launches a cannon ball attack at your opponents, the Pirate might be the most powerful of the new classes launch into Fat Roles.

• Regular Attack: Sword
• Charged Attack: Shoots handgun
• Special: Bombard the map with a cannon ball attack

Giant – I might have had the most fun playing as the giant class.  There is strangely rewarding about charging up your attack and then bulldozing through a bunch of people that are storming towards your castle.  Plus, as your special – you get to eat people on the opposing team.  How does that not scream out awesomeness?

• Regular Attack: Giant Slap
• Charged Attack: Slaps the ground taking out anything in its path
• Special: Eat Somebody on the Other Team to Gain Health

How to Play as Giants, Pirates and Ninjas in Fat Princess

To play as one of these new classes, look for the special magic hat machine inside of your base.  They spawn slowly at first, but the more machines you get upgraded – the faster the special hats will appear.

The only negatives to the updates posted yesterday that I could find thus far is it does seem you get dropped from games more often and they took away some of the unique jumps in the game.

If you haven’t yet – I would highly recommend buying Fat Princess and the Fat Roles DLC for a fun time on your PS3.

The instant sound effect web sites are always fun, but I think Instants took it to a whole new level.  This web site has over 70 sound effect buttons you can play with to annoy your coworkers or keep handy for a special occasion.

So all you do is bookmark this link, and you should be ready for any sound effects occasion.

Taking over? Try Instant “This is Sparta!”

Win the fight? Try Victory FF!

Ready to epically finish them off? Try, “Finish Him!” or “Falconpunch!”

All the classics are here too, such as the evil laugh, hallelujah, haha, emergency yodel and more.  This web site is tons of fun to play with…

*hits keyboard cat button*

Ok, ok… point is, you can get tons of classic web sound effects all in one location.  It might not be as epic as tossing a link to http://www.sadtrombone.com/ in your next chat with your buddy over instant messenger – but still awesome.

Go play with them all at Instantsfun.es, then reply back here and tell me your favorite!

WordPress is a great publishing platform to use when you want to circulate your own collection of video or images on the Web.  Thanks to a few great plugins, you can take your dull text-based blog and really snaz it up with some great internet imagery.  Want to great a photo gallery?  Want to plug YouTube into your web site?  I have collected twenty of the best multimedia plugins for you to use with your own WordPress powered web site.

Page Flip Image Gallery – Flipping Book plugin helps you to create Image Gallery with Page Flip effects on your WordPress blog.

Post videos and photo galleries – Post your videos and photo galleries/flash slideshows easily and in seconds.

NextGEN Gallery – NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option.

WordTube – WordTube is your Media Center plugin for WordPress.

Flickr Photo Album – This Flickr plugin for WordPress will allow you to pull in your Flickr photosets and display them as albums on your WordPress site.

Lightbox 2 – Plugin used to overlay images on the current page into neat Javascript-powered overlay popups.

Smart YouTube – Smart YouTube plugin allows you to insert full featured YouTube videos into your post, comments and in RSS feed.

SEO Friendly Images – SEO Friendly Images automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes the tags w3c/xHTML.

Thumbnail Viewer – A minimalist image viewer with an effect similar to Lightbox JS, only much faster with a whole lot less Javascript.

Flash Video Player – The flash video plugin for WordPress allows the addition of video (and other media) to a WordPress website using standards-compliant markup

PhotoXhibit – PhotoXhibit provides an interface to set up gallery widgets using Picasa / Flickr / SmugMug / WordPress Uploads and jQuery.

Shutter Reloaded – Darkens the current page and displays an image on top (like Lightbox, Thickbox, etc.), but is a lot smaller (10KB) and faster.

WordPress Video Plugin – A filter for WordPress that displays videos from many video services. Enter [videosite id] at a post and you will see a video.

Random Image Selector – Selects a random image from a specified folder, and provides.

podPress – A dream plugin for Podcasters using WordPress.

Yet Another Photoblog – Convert your WordPress 2.5+ installation into a full featured photoblog in virtually no time.

PhotoSmash Galleries – PhotoSmash – user contributable photo galleries for WordPress pages and posts with options. Auto-add galleries or specify.

All in One Video Pack – Easily add full video capabilities to your blog.

WordPress Media Flickr – You can post with Flickr photo, on visual editor toolbar.It’s very interactive interface than other plugins.

TubePress – Displays gorgeous YouTube and Vimeo galleries in your posts, pages, and/or sidebar. Please visit http://tubepress.org for more info!

With any mixture of the above plugins for WordPress, your web site will be taken from a text-based bore to a multimedia powerhouse.  Have any other suggestions for plugins I might have missed?  Leave your thoughts in the comments!

The larger my computer’s monitor gets, the harder it is to find quality wallpaper out there.  While there are still many places to comb on the Web to find really wide images, I thought I would share some of my favorite 1920 x 1200 wallpapers I have found on Deviant Art.

Here are my personal favorites from Deviant Art:

Have any others I might have missed?  Let me know in the comments.  Also, if you are looking for more, this search link should come in handy.   Also many thanks to the great artists of Deviant Art, who make it such an amazing place to visit.

I do much of my e-mail management from within Gmail.  One of the few annoyances I have found is having somebody tell me they just sent me something, and I have to click through several links to check manually that specific POP account.  By default Gmail uses a common timing algorithm to fetch your POP account mail, but now you can ask them to do it at the click of a button.

Thanks to a new Gmail Labs feature, you can now use the Refresh link to check all your POP mail accounts too.  Just click on the Google Labs green beaker at the top of Gmail, and enable Refresh POP accounts.

Now, if you use Gmail to manage both your Gmail account and your POP mail accounts, you can check all your mail accounts quicker. (via Lifehacker)

How could I share Batman wallpaper with you, without tossing in some Superman wallpaper into the mix too?  Filed under a random Google image search, this background is actually pretty nice in comparison with some of the dull Superman backgrounds you can find out there.  Worthy of any super desktop, no matter if you are from Earth or Krypton.

Go check it out and make your desktop go up, up and away!

Who doesn’t love a little traffic humor?  I’ve done my best to search the Web for some of my favorite traffic signs out there.  Some are real, some are questionable, and well – they are all something that would make you do a double take if you saw them on your way to work.

Are we watching out for falling cars, or crazy people in the streets?

Keep your hands on your brains at all times.

Well, which one is it?

You know they’re right…

Stopping with The Supremes?

… and finally, my favorite sign, warning you about the cautions of the sign.

Hope you enjoyed, and if you know of any other funny traffics signs you know or love, leave them in the comments.  Would love to check them out!

Happened to run across this fantastic wallpaper the other day, and wanted to share it with you all here.  Anybody know knows me well, knows I am a huge Legend of Zelda fan boy – so this wallpaper is just perfect for me.

No idea who the original source is for it, however here are a few different screen resolutions: 1920×1200, 1680×1050, 1440×900, and 1280×800.

Pick the one that suits your monitor best, and enjoy.  (via Fanpop)