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.

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!

Google Analytics offers a lot of good information, but not everybody knows how to read it.  Today, I will show you how to compare your best performing keywords that bring people into your web site and compare it to the average traffic of your website.

To get started, you will want to login to Google Analytics, go to your site’s profile.  Next, on the left side of the screen click on Traffic Sources and then Keywords.  This will take you to the Keyword Overview screen for your domain.

Now, you can see your most popular keywords.  This screen shows all the paid and non-paid keywords people use to find your website. By default, the keywords are sorted by highest to lowest by how many visits they have brought to your website.

Click on the comparison view to see how individual popular keywords compare to the website average.

So if I were to start advertising, I would want to target some of these better keywords for my website, such as “paint.net tutorials” and “wordpress alternatives”.  Even when you take advertising out of the picture, you could also say these would be good areas to focus on when it comes to future articles or tutorials.

Hope that helps you out when using and trying to understand Google Analytics on your own.  By understanding which keywords out perform the site average, you can see where you might need to shift your attention to in future marketing or website development.

On the Web Hosting Show podcast, we have done a lot of talking recently about web hosts that use Twitter, and how they use it.  Some use it for support, others use it for marketing, and the best ones use it for both.  Who are the most popular web hosts on Twitter though?

To put that question to the test, I thought I would compile a list of all the web hosts on Twitter that have over 1,000 followers.  Out of nearly 100 web hosts on the Web, here are the 25 that made the cut.

1. WestHost Web Hosting (WestHost) on Twitter = 1,804 followers
2. softlayer_news (softlayer_news) on Twitter = 2,609 followers
3. Sustainable Websites (sustainableweb) on Twitter = 2,946 followers
4. Surpass Web Hosting (surpass) on Twitter = 1,960 followers
5. Slicehost (slicehost) on Twitter = 3,500 followers
6. Six Apart (sixapart) on Twitter = 15,401 followers
7. SiteGround (SiteGround) on Twitter = 1,132 followers
8. Site5 Web Hosting (site5) on Twitter = 1,010 followers
9. PinchHost (PinchHost) on Twitter = 8,891 followers
10. mediatemple (mediatemple) on Twitter = 8,571 followers
11. GoDaddy.com Guy(GoDaddyGuy) on Twitter = 3,060 followers
12. lunarpages (lunarpages) on Twitter = 1,528 followers
13. linode (linode) on Twitter = 1,655 followers
14. LiquidWeb (LiquidWeb) on Twitter = 12,734 followers
15. Laughing Squid (ls_hosting) on Twitter = 1,079 followers
16. Joyent (joyent) on Twitter = 2,350 followers
17. JaguarPC (JaguarPC) on Twitter = 4,637 followers
18. Sunil Saxena (inmotionhosting) on Twitter = 1,259 followers
19. HostGator.com (hostgator) on Twitter = 4,668 followers
20. Hostcats.com (Hostcats) on Twitter = 1,299 followers
21. 123-Reg (123reg) on Twitter = 1,677 followers
22. Gary Jones (bluefur) on Twitter = 46,671 followers
23. dreamhost (DreamHost) on Twitter = 2,934 followers
24. FireHost Inc. (FireHost) on Twitter = 3,783 followers
25. INSANE Deals Only @ (HIVELOCITY) on Twitter = 6,508 followers

There you have it, 25 of the most popular web hosting companies that are on Twitter right now.  You can find a list of nearly 100 web hosts on Twitter on the Web Hosting Show’s web site.  Did your web host make the cut?

Here is some of the best black and white widescreen wallpaper I have found out there.

Know of another favorite, feel free to link to it in the comments and share!

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.

What was the best of the best on Mitchelaneous.com in the past month?

• Google Reader Notifications for Windows, Mac and Linux!
• Zelda Fans? Here is Your Own Personal Triforce Icon!
• A Better WordPress Admin Layout?
• Hurricane Ike Takes Out Geraldo Rivera
• Akismet Help and How-tos
• URL, E-Mail and Text Shortening with kissa.be
• Make Gmail Style Change to Super Clean
• A Look Inside Hosting Bookmarks
• Awesome Metroid Wallpaper
• Zero Suit Samus (and Regular Suit) Desktop Icons

Plus as an extra bonus, don’t forget to pick up the Mega Man 9 villain pack of all the bosses from the latest blue bomber adventure:

• Mega Man 9’s Plug Man Desktop Icon
• Mega Man 9’s Tornado Man Desktop Icon
• Mega Man 9′s Splash Woman Desktop Icon
• Mega Man 9’s Magma Man Desktop Icon
• Mega Man 9’s Galaxy Man Desktop Icon
• Mega Man 9’s Jewel Man Desktop Icon
• Mega Man 9’s Hornet Man Desktop Icon
• Mega Man 9’s Concrete Man Desktop Icon

Did I miss a post you liked?  What else would you like to see me cover?

The Rewards of Being a Good Plurker

The "rewards" feature of Plurk is very interesting too.  You can get a little star by your name if you achieve a certain goal.  Also, certain customizations (such as page styles) are not available to you until your Karma number has reached a certain point.

Go Out and Do Something Creative!

A great inspiration as well is the status messages you can pick from.  You have:

freestyle, loves, likes, shares, gives, hates, wants, wishes, has, will, asks, was, feels, thinks, says, and is

Speaking of inspiration, seeking that great conversation starter? 

• Messages of "good morning" seem to go over well with your following…
• Random messages really do the trick, create snippets from your brain do wonders too.
• You can’t forget the plugs for your own site content or interesting links you have found on the Web.
• Plurk is much more social than the other status and micro-blogs out there.  Many more replies here and much more feedback to be had if you just ask.

Share Your Photos and Videos with Everybody!

You can share photos too, just make sure that link your posting ends with a .gif, .jpg or .png.  Plurk will automatically generate thumbnailed images for you and open them up inside of Plurk when somebody clicks on them.  The same is done for YouTube videos too. 

What Makes Plurk So Different?

The timeline is what sets Plurk apart from the competitors.  This gives you a unique view of all the messages from your friend that may seem a little odd at first, but you quickly catch on.  You also have the option to view all the new message, or mark all messages as read.

Maybe it is just me, but Plurkers seem to be a lot more friendly too.  They are all looking for replies of their own, so they might be more willing to stop by your personal Plurk page and say, "Hello!".  Looking for a friend?  Feel free to click here and add me!

When push comes to shove, Plurk really is becoming a favorite stop for me (or several stops depending on the speed of the day) and I wish them the best of luck in the future. 

This one took me a little while to figure out, but finally found the right way and the quickest steps on how to get this done. I love Google Analytics more so than some of the other web site statistic scripts out there.

Many people get it installed and don’t know what to do next. This should be a good stepping stone in how to familiarize yourself with it.

First, login to Google Analytics, and click on the web site in question’s profile. You just need to click “View Reports” next to the domain you wish to find the popular links for. Next, scroll down the page till you find where it says Content Overview. This shows your pages from most popular to least popular.

Here you only see five, but there is a little “view report” link in this box too. Click it. You can also get to the same place by navigating in your left sidebar to Content and then click on Overview. Here is, well an overview of all your content settings. Now on the left side of the page, under “Overview” click where it says “Top Content”.

Here you have it, your most popular or top content on your web site. By default it should show you the top ten, but you can bump that number up around the bottom of the chart where is says “Show rows:”. To change the date range that you are pulling the content from, be sure to edit the time line you see at the top of the web page.

So there you have the best way to pull up your most popular content on your web site via Google Analytics. If you have any other how to questions with this great tool, send ‘em my way and maybe I can turn this into a series of helpful posts.

Well, that was the case till I figured I would give it a shot.  Drag and drop think link on to your bookmarks toolbar:

Add to MySpace!

To cover all my bases, here is what you do – depending on the browser you use:

Firefox – Drag and drop the above link to your bookmarks toolbar or right-click the link and select "bookmark this link".

Internet Explorer – Right click on the link above, and select "add to favorites".

Safari – Drag and drop the link to your bookmarks toolbar.

I hope this helps out anybody else looking to quickly share interesting articles and sites with your friends and stalkers on MySpace.  If anybody wishes to be my bud – you can find my MySpace profile and add me there!