Here are my favorite wallpapers from the past year.  My hope is that you might browse through these awesome digital creations and find one that you might want to switch to today.

Mortal Kombat HD Wallpaper Going Green (Lantern) Wallpaper Distraction Free Christmas Wallpaper More Mario Wallpaper Amazing Train Wallpaper Old Wooden Wallpaper Castle Crasher 3D Wallpaper Portal on Your Desktop Space Invaders HD Wallpaper Old School Atari Wallpaper 9 Favorite Mega Man Wallpapers

Ghostbusters Wallpaper More NES Box Art Wallpaper NES Box Art Wallpaper – Take 2 NES Box Art Wallpaper Bring Ms Pac Man to Your Desktop 8-Bit Mashup Wallpaper Wallpapers Organize Desktop Icon Clutter Deviant 1920 x 1200 Wallpaper Super Wallpaper (for Any Man) I’m Batman (the Wallpaper) 3 More Masterful Zelda Wallpapers Zelda’s Master Sword Wallpaper

Hope you enjoyed all of these great digital downloads.  If you have found or created an amazing wallpaper you would like to see me feature on Mitchelaneous.com, be sure to drop me a message and let me know.

Favicons are an important part of any website these days.  They are your tiny 16 by 16 identifiers for your brand, your store, your blog or your business. If you are looking for a great tool to help you create the favicon you want to use – give favigen a shot.

On this website, you can browse your computer for any image:

Choose the image dimensions you want to use, in your next step.  Once you have done that, then hit the submit button.

Once you have done that, then you will be given a link where you can download your new favicon from to use on your own website.

Favigen is one of the nicest looking favicon creation tools I have seen in a long time.  Sure, it does not have a lot of bells and whistles, but if all you are doing is generating tiny images – do you really need a lot of bells and whistles?  Give it a shot for yourself over at favigen.com.

Now there are hundreds of FTP clients you can choose from when it comes to uploading or downloading content from your web hosting account, but none are better at the job that FileZilla.  This open source FTP solution is by far the best of the best when it comes to your file transferring needs.

Now you might say, “But I like this, that or the other” and I can tell you from experience – no other FTP program holds a candle to just the stability and awesomeness of FileZilla. The program is solid, does what it is suppose to do and I have never had it crash, choke or die on me.

Some of the best features include:

• Really Easy to Use Interface
• Tabbed user Interface
• Powerful Site Manager and Transfer Queue
• Drag and Drop Support
• Bookmarks
• Directory Comparison
• The Ability to Keep an Connection Alive

It also features a built in updater that will check for updates, and help you with the upgrade process, so you are always using the latest and greatest version.

You can go grab this cross platform FTP program over at filezilla-project.org.

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.

Looking for a specific type or kind of icon for your next big design project?  Well, I have found three different icon search engines to help you in your pursuit of the perfect icon.

FindIcons – This tool features a sophisticated search filtering and result matching system both make it possible for you to get an icon you need in every design tasks. In other words, you type in the keyword that describes your icon, hit search and then grab the one you need.

Iconfinder – This is one I have been using for a while now.  Featuring over 164,000 icons and over 550 icon sets, you are bound to find an icon you like or that will fit in perfectly with your design here.

ICONlook – Last, but not least – you have ICONlook, which also serves as a great way to search and find new icons from all over the web.  It also includes search filters, so you can search for a file 12×12, 16×16, 22×22 and well, you get the general idea here.

So there you have it, three great ways to go search for new icons and images.  Out of the three, I really like Iconfinder the best.  If you have another you think does the job better – be sure to leave it in the comments!

The forum script phpBB might be the king of kings when it comes to free forum scripts.  However, the script itself if often susceptible to security problems and hacks due to its success.  So, with that said you might be looking for an alternative to this message board suite.

There is nothing wrong with have a few more scripts to choose from, and there are many great forums scripts in the sea.   Here are some of the best phpBB alternatives out there.

SMF – I had no knowledge of Simple Machine Forum till I had to use it when I used to work at Lunarpages.  Now, I really love it.  It is a free professional grade forum script with all the bells and whistles.

FluxBB – With a proven track resourced when it comes to security and stability, FluxBB is another great script to try. FluxBB was designed as a lighter, faster alternative to some of the traditional feature heavy forum applications.

Vanilla – If you are looking for a forum script that gives you a different appearance than your average message boards can provide, give Vanilla a try.

bbPress – Love WordPress?  Then you might want to try out bbPress.  This is forum software put out by the same people who brought you the blogging script WordPress.  It shares many of the same great features.

UseBB – This next choice is a light and Open Source PHP and MySQL based forum package, distributed freely under the GPL license. Developed with simplicity and usability in mind, UseBB is ideal for small to medium sized websites which need a clear and efficient forum script.

AEF – The full name of AEF is Advanced Electron Forum. This bulletin board software is free software. It is written in PHP and MySQL. AEF has a very simple and easy to use Administration Panel and installing this software is a piece of cake!

PunBB – There is nothing funny about this suggestion.  PunBB is one of the fastest and most lightweight PHP-powered discussion board scripts out there.  It is written to be less graphically intensive too.

IceBB – IceBB is a powerful, fast, free, and open-source forum solution powered by the free PHP and MySQL. IceBB scales well, no matter how many users or posts, due to it’s clean and efficient code.

NinkoBB – Last, but not least this script is an open source forum script written in the PHP language and uses a MySQL Database. Small in size, big in features, and still simple as can be.

BONUS – miniBB – This small, yet powerful forum script is perfect for when and where you need just a simple forum without 1,000 extra bells and whistles your users don’t want or need.  Might be the best simple forum out there.

Now this is no nock to phpBB, which is a perfectly fine forum script for some people out there. It is time though some of the other choice out there got some time in the sun too.  Did I miss your favorite thread starting online tool?  Let me know in the comments.

The last Metroid is in captivity, the galaxy is at peace…

Ridley’s Theme from Super Smash Bros Brawl (and Metroid)

Pit’s Theme from Kid Icarus

M. Bison’s Theme from Street Fighter

Dark World Theme from The Legend of Zelda: a Link to the Past

The Fanfare Music from Final Fantasy

The Super Mario Bros Theme (Well, DUH!)

Simon Belmont’s Theme from Super Castlevania IV

Samus’s Theme from ANY of the Metroid Games

Setzer’s Theme from Final Fantasy VI

The Overworld Theme from The Legend of Zelda

Did I miss an obvious choice?  Let me know!  Also, I want to point you towards SupraDarky’s YouTube page where he has tons of themes for you to listen to and enjoy.

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Hope you enjoyed, and if there is something you’d like to see more of or less of coming into November, please let me know. 

I usually don’t invest much time into flash games online, but after finding this depository of some of the most popular flash games out there, I might have to save Friv.com for a rainy day.  Once you start playing a game, they always have the controls in a graphic towards your left – so you never have to spend too much time figuring out how to play.  There are tons of games to play, and once one isn’t being played any more – they toss it out, and bring in a new one. 

What does that mean?  You are always getting the best of the best.