Popularity among the masses goes a long way these days to building a successful franchise.  One my my favorite new gaming franchises to follow the past six months or so has been Fat Princess.   This over the top capture the flag game with fat princess is tons of fun, and has an ever growing community.

Here are some of the best Fat Princess community sites out there today.

The PlayStation Forums for Fat Princess

This is obviously the biggest and most active community, because it is run by Sony themselves.  Here you can read about glitches, clans or just discuss your favorite way to rescue the fatty in distress.

The Throne Room

A great new set of forums, more focused toward giving visitors everything that the Sony-run forums do not. You have more specific content and categories here, geared towards the “clan” aspect of the Fat Princess game and a lot of other topics to keep people coming back for more. 

Fan Princess

One of the few blog-based fan web sites out there, Fan Princess seems to come back and die off a lot.  When it is up and running though, they do have a lot of interesting topics and discussions posted there.  If you are looking for more Fat Princess news-like content, this is the place to go. 

The Cake Lair

Another new set of forums for that Fat Princess-loving community, The Cake Lair has tons of potential.  In the future, they hope to have more tutorials and talk about strategy, video tutorials on how to master all the various classes and a lot more. 

That is all that I know of – do you know of any others?  If so, feel free to leave them in the comments.  Also, feel free to come play Fat Princess with me anytime, my PlaySation Network ID is cheasym.

Now that Google Buzz is out in the wild, your Google profile page deserves a little more attention.  So, what all have you done to spruce up your own profile page?  I’ll share with you some of the things I did to make this a much more informative page about me for Googlers to find.

First things first, you need to setup your Google profile page.  If you are logged into Google in any way (for example, with a Gmail account) this is fairly easy to do.  All you need to do is set it up at Google.com/profiles.

Once you fill out all the basic information, then you might want to start thinking about what pages you want to show up in the links section. 

To add custom links, just go to your Google profile page, click on Edit Profile, then scroll down to the Links section.  You should see several links Google knows about, that you have given it before – then you can also add your own.  I have added links to all my various web pages, and then my Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace profiles.

Next, you should setup Google Buzz via your Gmail account.  Once you do, anything you post via Google buzz – you will automatically share on your Google profile page.

Feel free to visit my Google profile page if you need some inspiration.

Now there are a lot more various boxes and basic you can fill out via the Google profile page, but they are all pretty self explanatory.  With the tips I gave you here, you can use your Google profile page as a social landing page for your own work and also a better way to let people know who you are and what you do.

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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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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!

Looking for a new way to shrink links, tweet links, and then analyze your links, to see how well (or not so well) they have been clicked? Then you might want to check into retwt.me.  This online link shrinker is very simple, and stays to the point of wanting to help you shrink links and then check out if anybody has clicked through them. 

Now before you tell me that bit.ly or even ping.fm do this too, let me bring up the point that retwt.me is also brought to you by the guys who developed TweetMeme – the sort of digg-like re-tweeting popular link site.  So, give retwt.me a shot, not as a replacement of the tools you already use, but maybe more as an alternative if your current link shrinking tools aren’t doing it for you.

Does it re-invent the wheel? No.  Should it win the Nobel Prize for link shortening? Maybe not.  It does provide you with one more way to make your long URLs tiny, so what more do you want from a free online link shrinking service?

To start shrinking and sharing your own links, go visit retwt.me.

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?

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.

Everybody these days is promising to make your URLs you share shorter, but not many are making them longer!  Longr.us is a simple web site that will make your web site addresses just a little longer.  For example it took:

• http://www.mitchelaneous.com/free-desktop-icons/

and turned it into:

• http://longr.us/mitchelaneous.com/free-desktop-icons

See, that has to be at least 10% longer!  All kidding aside, there is a purpose to this.  As you can see from the example above, it doesn’t give you a random mix of numbers and letters.  Instead if stays focused on explaining where the link came from and what it is about.  They also promise the long URLs are guaranteed to fit in 140 characters (for you Twitter users).  They even have easy access through a bookmarklet too.

Before you laugh it off as a goofy idea, give it a shot.  You might find longer is better (when it comes to sharing your links!).

I have been using Instapaper for some time now, as my “bookmark that to read it later” bookmarking service.  It is simple, and easy to use.  However there is a new service that does the same on the block, and its name is I Need to Read This.

Once you sign up, you are told to drag and drop the saving bookmarklet to your browser’s bookmark toolbar.  After that, all you have to do is click it to save a page to read later.  Rather than mess up your own bookmarks, by saving a lot of random stuff – I Need to Read This gives you the chance to save that temporary list of links to the Web, where it can be accessed from anywhere.

So if you are looking for a way to save a link for later, give I Need to Read This a shot. 

You can change the background color, add links, remove links, and re-arrange any links that are there too.  Want to sign up?  They use Google apps service, so you can sign in with your Google login information.  So if you are looking for a new way to keep a handful of links handy all the time – give SpeedyMarks a shot.

Using what they promise to be an optimized platform for enhanced performance and reliability, OnlyWire looks like it has all the bases covered.  You can submit your web site instantly to places such as:  ask, bibsonomy, blinklist, bluedot, bookmarksync, connotea, delicious, diigo, facebook, furl, googlebookmarks,  jumptags, linkatopia, multiply, mywebyahoo, newsvine, simpy, spurl, technorati, and twitter.

You can also use the limited service for free, or pay for more features:

• “Pay” version — use fully-supported OnlyWire “ad free” by paying $2.99 per month or prepaying for 1 year ($24.99) and saving 30%. Pay customers are encouraged to embed
  the Bookmark & Share Button on your website to drive traffic and backlinks. You will also have the option to turn off OnlyWire advertisements.
• “Promote” version — use fully-supported OnlyWire for FREE by adding the Bookmark & Share Button to your website or blog. You still enjoy the same functionality as the “Pay” version of OnlyWire, but promote the continued operation of the site through advertising.

Another interesting service they provide in an API to work with, to help you get yourself submitted to a number of different places automatically.

All in all, it is another alternative out there to some of the other “there can be only one” bookmark or link sharing sites out there.  If you are looking to auto-submit your bookmarks, give OnlyWire a shot.

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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.