Wow those sites seem to popup like nothing else at the moment. Everton from connected internet was writing about streamick and I decided to add an article of my own to give you an alternative to all those other streaming sites out there. Streamick offers more than 300 tv channels to choose from including BBC One, ESPN Starsports, CNN & several other news channels.

TV Links is a site I never heard about before. It has a big listing of many of the most popular tv shows, cartoon & anime series. The site lists the name of the shows and the number of seasons that they link to on their main page. If you click on a link a page with all links to all episodes that are available will load and all that is left to do is click on one of the links to be taken to a website that hosts the movie.

TVU Networks have quietly released a new version of their acclaimed TVU Player which makes it possible to watch many popular tv stations from the internet. You can watch channels such as ESPN, ESPN2, FOX, NBC, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central using TVU Player. It does not deliver the same experience than watching the shows on a big tv though. Due to limited bandwidth the channels look fine if you keep the output window small, if you go fullscreen it becomes pretty blurry.

The first five episodes of the tv series Arrested Development have been released on MSN and can be viewed directly from the browser. As suspected the site only supports Internet Explorer and Media Player. If you are using a different browser or movie player it will ask you to download those programs from Microsoft and use them to view the show. This if of course a big drawback but fans will surely go the extra mile for this series.

Most teens love ringtones, new ones, unique ones that none of their friends have. It almost seems like a race for the newest coolest ringtone which starts again with every passing day. One method to get the newest ringtones would be to buy them for horrendous prices – honestly I never understood why users would pay so much money for a 20 seconds song. A better (cheaper) way would be to create the ringtones on your own which ensures two things:

Line Rider (flash, download) is a work of art, not a game per se. There is no goal to achieve and the only satisfaction you will get is a to create a animation that is worth recording and uploading to video sites like Youtube. Your weapons: A pencil, a tool to move the screen, the play button, pause button, trashcan and save. You draw lines with the pencil which will later be the course for a little man and his sled.

Halloween – Hate it or love it. The time of the year when most adults and teens alike rejoice at the prospect of dressing like superman, the simpsons or south park characters. I tried to find costumes and accessories that could be made instead of just purchased, it does feel better to wear something that you created with your own hands instead of buying something that thousands of other people might wear as well; dont you think ?

Hi everyone, I justed wanted to write a short introduction to my new poker blog which I started a few days ago. I thought it might be of interest to some of you who are playing poker online or would like to know more about the game and maybe play online as well. The poker blog is mainly about my ups and lows in the poker world, I tend to play at partypoker and when something very nice or very bad happens I blog about it.

You see keyless doors all the time on tv, in series like 24 and alias for instance and every movie in which the military plays a part. They never have normal doors, they use keyless doors that work either by using fingerprints to identify the person and grant / deny access or keycards to do the same. It still sounds a lot like science fiction and I bet you never seen something like this on your neighbors door – so, why not be the first one who has this kind of device ?

I decided to post some quick links to interesting sites that are not worth a complete story. Not worth is maybe not the right phrase – there is not much to write about so I decided to compile them in a list with just a short explanation. The first big news that seemed to hit every blog on the planet was the release of Firefox 2.0 Release Candidate 1. The release candidate is finally out of beta and firefox 2 is on schedule to be released next month. You find versions for windows, linux and mac as usual on the mozilla ftp site.

Ever wondered where those guys in stormtrooper armor got their suits from ? Look no further, the Shepperton Design Studio is selling a complete Stormtropper armor for a very reasonable price. You can purchase the battle helmet for 299 British pounds and the suit (without helmet) for 999 British pounds. Both combined sell for 1299,95 pounds. The offers seems successful because currently all items are out of stock and will be available again in October.

Jönköping, Sweden, November 30th to December 3rd, Dreamhack. The place the biggest lan party on earth takes place. The aim of the organization for the winter event (there is also a summer event) is 10000 attenders. Last winter saw more than 7000 attenders and it is most likely that the 10000 goal will be reached. Why I’m writing about this ? Well, I’m considering going there, if you see the pictures and videos of previous events you know why. This is unbelievable.

This is a video from the dynamic graphics project at the University of Toronto named: Keeping it Real: Pushing the Desktop Metaphor with Physics, Piles and the Pen in BumpTop. Big title, ain’t it ? What they did is project the concept of the normal desktop, the real one not the one from your computer to your computer by making it 3 dimensional. Files are shown as three dimensional items as well that can be placed on top of each other, sorted, deleted and manipulated manifold.

Mydeskcity is a hugh, and I mean really huge, high quality wallpaper website that is not overloaded with advertisement like most of the other wallpaper websites out there. The only drawback that I could find is that this website is not in english but Chinese (?), at least I think it is Chinese. Navigating it is easy nevertheless: The thumbnails on the main page depict the theme of the category, clicking on one of the numbers above the thumbnail leads to the corresponding page of the category.

I have seen many crazy things being invented in the last couple of years but this could top it all. A shirt with air conditioning that can be plugged into a usb port ? Now, we know that all kinds of strange gadgets exist that are usb powered like beverage coolers and air fans. This shirts actually have two fans build into them that run on a low frequency and keep the temperature level of your body at a cool level.

It seems that Sony is still able to produce innovative products. I read that this one is not totally new but it is the first time I see something like that. They seem to be using a projector at the back of the transparent material (glass ?) to display the image. The speakers seem rather big for this television, you will need lots of free space to place the tv in a room.

Sometimes I´am writing about things that are great but are not that closely related to the overall theme here at ghacks.net. The approximately hundred drawing lessons at drawspace.com are one of those exemptions. After a free registration you may view a drawing lessons in the beginners, intermediate or advanced class.

Geeks do love comics, so bare with me when I´am writing about this big comic books archive. You find more than forty comic series and lots of single issues of ever serie. The archive consists of more than 2800 comic books and is a treasure chest for comic book lovers.

I thought I pass this great find on to my readers here at ghacks. Google Maps Flight Simulator is a nice little application that uses various google map locations like London, Paris and Tokyo and add a plane that you can steer on the map. If you ever wanted to fly over a town this [...]

Onlinetvrecorder.com is a completly legal service that allows you to record European tv shows online and download them later to view them on your computer. The main focus is on German tv but you also find Belgian, Swiss and some English stations like CNN. All you have to do is register at the website which offers a German and an English interface for its users. After creating the account you are free to create new recordings using the EPG schedule, a EPG search or a manual mode.

You might have seen those prank signs everywhere on the internet, especially in signatures on forums. A blank space on pictures is used to write a custom text to it and can be used as a forum signature, a reply to a forum post or a simple prank for a beloved friend. The “Your text on any picture or choose an image template” website has links to 167 websites that offer you to create custom text signs.

Yes, I´am a football fan. Football, that is European football which is called soccer in the United States of America. I decided to post a collection of great football moments on video here at ghacks. Hope that everyone will enjoy the movie clips and see some that he did not knew of. Videos include goals, [...]

When a work’s copyright or patent restrictions expire, it enters the public domain and may be used by anyone for any purpose. All the movies, concerts, documentations and animations on the free movies website are public domain. The site holds currently 93 movies and 85 documentaries plus additional animations and concert videos.

Yeah this sounds crazy at first glance but a friend of mine and I thought of something similar just a few days ago. So, let us destroy some websites. My first target: Microsoft, the weapon: Muddy Footprints. After approximately one minute the complete site was full of mud. Great, now something more devastating. I placed some nasty landmines on the website of my good old friend Derryck from connectedinternet.

Open Movie, what does that mean ? It means that the movie has been created with open source tools and that all production files are available under a creative commons license. Graphics and sound of Elephants Dream look incredible but the story is somewhat confusing. I guess the movie aims more towards a presentation of what can be done with open source tools which is fine with me.

Maybe some of you do like cycling and watching the Tour de France. I found a live tracker that displays every stage of the tour de france. Shown on the map are of course start and end of the current stage as well as information about mountain and sprint stations along the way.

You just signed up for this cool forum where everyone is having a great signature and you desperately need one as well. My advice would be to visit the coolsig website and take a look at their signature archive. Categories include People and Society, Oddballs, Humor and Geeky Signatures.

I think this is worth an article. A guy running the website digg drop found more than 900 complete cartoons and animations on youtube and listed them all on his website. I have no idea about the time that it must have taken to collect that many youtube links. I do know that I would not like to do something like this..

Fabchannel is offering a big online archive of concerts that took place either in Paradiso or Melkwegs. Both of which seem to be dutch clubs / concert halls. The archive consists of more than 50 concerts covering genres like Hip Hop, Rock, Metal and Pop. You are able to watch concerts of bands like Simple Minds, The Gathering and Wir sind Helden for instance.

Ah childhood memories, wonderful. If you grew up like me in the 80´s you might remember the time when they began playing music videos on television. This was a great experience and watching some of those videos again is really bringing back some childhood memories.

Sometimes even I get to see something new on the internet. I knew that that entire movies (machinima) existed that were created using game engines like quake, unreal tournament or world of warcraft. What I did not knew was that there were people (and I mean 50+) who apparently created whole choreographies using this technique.

What a great idea. A flash movie called Animator vs Animation about a flash artist who creates a stickman called victim who does not want to get killed by the artist. You see a fight of the animated stickman in the flash toolbar and workplace against the artist. Enjoy this fantastic movie..

The football world cup starts in 16 days and 22 hours and every football fan in the world is already getting excited about it. The worldcupkickoff website offers a way to generate listings of matches from certain groups / teams in your own timezone and download them for microsoft outlook, iCal, generic calendar file (ICS) or rss feed.

If you are from the USA or Canada you will be able to get a free copy of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 standard edition. All you have to do is watch three webcasts after you´ve signed up at the site. What else will you get ? A Microsoft Developers Security DVD, a 50% discount on a Microsoft Certified Professional Exam and a voucher that allows you to buy Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition with an MSDN® Professional Subscription at renewal pricing (a $400 savings).

Maybe you have been thinking for a while to create your own website or a new website but have no idea how the design should look like. Maybe you aren´t the type to design a website at all (like me). The open source web design site offers you more than 1500 free templates that you can download right from their site. You can browse their designs by rating, date or name. Every page shows thumbnails from the website and the option to view it in fullscreen or download it directly.

Yes, this is even better than the website that offered about 700 shows. Actually the 700 show website used content from guba.com as a source for their shows, but guba offers more of them. All videos belong to one of eight categories (cartoons, comedy, documentary, drama, foreign, miscellanous, music videos and sports).

This seems to be the watch Tv Online day, it´s crazy how all those sites pop up at the same day. Peekvid.com offers more than 700 episodes of well know tv series like 24, Buffy, Desperate Housewives, Family Guy aso for free. You can view them online or even download them to your pc. I´am not sure if this site will be online much longer but enjoy it will it´s there.

Channelchooser lets you view more than 70 Tv stations fore free using your favorite web browser. All you need to do is visit their website and click on one of the channels displayed there. You find all sorts of tv stations there, for example Music stations, Cartoon Tv, Game Network, Poker TV and even Adult channels.

Ok ok, I know that many people hate electronic music but the design of the guide to electronic music is great. You see various genres like house, trance and techno on the left side. Clicking a genre leads to a roadmap of subgenres starting in the 70s ending today. You recieve a description of the selected (sub)genre and see the development process over the years. Now, clicking on a subgenre leads to a short article about it and various tracks that let you experience the genre.

Jamendo is a community website that lets you discover a growing collection of currently 1010 free music albums released under Creative Commons using latest p2p technology.That´s right, you are free to download everything using bittorrent. But that´s not all Jamendo is about. They have a very active community that reviews albums, rates and tags them and offers personal recommendations.

To get Yahoo Mail Beta, just switch your content preference to Germany, Frence or UK. Then you will be asked if you want to join the beta when you log into your Yahoo Mail. Say yes, and join the beta. Then from the options menu, change your content preference what it was before. Then go to Yahoo Mail again. You should still see Yahoo Beta. If you don’t see it, go to options and click “Try Beta� button. That’s all.

Ok this looks extremely cool and seems to work quite well. Zerosign have a movie of a guy who is using a powerglove instead of a mouse to play unreal tournament. The powerglove is, or better was, actually a hardware addon for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and failed miserably. If you are interested in the history of the powerglove check out the wikipedia entry.

Until now I´ve heard a lot about the music service pandora offers but I never happened to test the service myself. Well, I tried it today and have to say that the concept itself is fantastic. You tell them a song or artist that you like and the service tries to find similar artists using characteristics of the artist or song. So, if you enter The Beatles for instance you will be connected to a radio that plays music that offers the same characteristics as the Beatles.

Head over to the Mystery Solved site of microsoft.com and click on the usb stick on the right where it says Get Yours. You need to sign in with passport.net and answer the following questions:

Everyone knows the map service of google and the google maps nighttime shows the earth at night (and dusk). Looks great if you ask me. Lets you zoom in and out like in every other google map.

I found an interesting section at interfacelift.com which lets you icon packages for windows and macintosh. You find more than 90 pages each with 10 icon packages for macintosh and 24 pages with 10 icon packages each for microsoft windows. Downloads are free of course and icons look great. The site opens a popup with advertisment as well, if that annoys you use a popup blocker.

I know that some of you like a fresh look for their desktop every other week. Therefor I decided to post another link to a wallpaper site that has no annoying popups and all those advertising garbage that most seem to have.

I was not sure how to name the article appropriately. You can convert any image on your computer into a text image at text-image.com. The result looks great, just take a look at the sample image that I reduced in size. The normal size looks much clearer and brighter.

The 50 best music videos of 2005 features 50 music videos with links to the videos. I´am not sure how the author selected them because there is no information whatsoever about the selection. Only 50 entries neatly sorted from 1 to 50.

If you have nothing to do pay the moving image archive site of archive.org a visit. They offer more than 26000 movies to watch and download for free. Everything is neatly categorized including categories like open source movies, featured films and prelinger archive. You have lots of old movies from the black and white era but also new ones that were made with computers.