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.

The c-64 was my first computer. I had an atari 2600 before and it seemed like a quantum leep at that time. The C-64 had many classic games that I enjoyed playing: Archon, Boulder Dash and Pirates for instance. You know have the chance to play some of the alltime classics of that era in your browser. The website c64s.com is the Eldorado for everyone who wants to play that classic games again or take a look at games of a time long forgotten.

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.

This is funny. A parody of Right Said Freds I´am to sexy in World of Warcraft. I like the naked dwarf the most, looks pretty hilarious.

Cororo the maze is a nice little flash game. Your task is to move the ball in a maze by turning the maze around and collect all stars that are in the maze. The game features a practice mode and three additional difficulties: beginners, middle class and advanced.

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.

We all know the numa numa kid who got pretty famous for singing the song on his webcam. Unfortunatly for him it was recorded somehow and spread lightning fast on the internet. I present you ten more homemade music videos that are probably not as good as the numa numa kid but still worth a download.

Star Wars Revenge of the Brick is a short star wars animation entirely done with lego bricks. It´s featured on the offical lego website and looks extremely impressive. If you care, take a look.

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.

There have been lots of great freeware games in 2005 and I decided to present you the five best ones. The games include strategy games, action games, ego shooters and adventures. Should be something for every taste. The freeware scene has developed in the last years producing bigger and better looking games that can sometimes even be compared to commercial products that have been released this year.

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.

I would like to give you the links to two great wallpaper sites that have almost no advertisment on their sites, unlike many other wallpaper sites that seem to bombard you with ads and popups. The first is joejoe.biz, a nice site if you are looking for nature wallpapers. He has some pretty interesting close-ups of animals and plants on his site.

Mikael from Fosfor Gadgets evaluated thousands of case mods to come up with a top ten of the weirdest case mods ever. I could not believe half of the ten because they really look unbelievable.

I selected two of the ten to present to you, if you´d like to see the rest visit his site. Its well worth it, especially the number one which does not look like a pc at all.

Now this one is huge. The attack cruiser was build by Erik Varszegi exclusively for display at Star Wars Celebration III. It even got a framed certificate of authenticity by George Lucas himself.

Stem to stern the model is 97 inches long and 47 inches wide, weighs over 150 pounds and is created using over 35,000 pieces!

Cute Overload, the name alone seems to suggest a site for girls who like everything cute. I think its time for a website that my female readers like, after posting the what boys want site before. The site has tons of cute images of all sorts of animals, even I have to admit that some look really nice.

I normally don´t mention sites at ghacks that want you to signup before you can see their information. This time though, I will be making an exception. The site what boys want is more or less ad free and has a total of 342767 pictures of babes for your viewing pleasure. All free to view, no limitations.

I thought about writing on this topic for some time, I think it started with the movie Independence Day. You know, the movie where aliens invade the earth and destroy some major cities and the like. They defeat the aliens by uploading a computer virus to the alien mainframe which of course is compatible to the virus.

Those crazy japanese again. I´am not sure why I love them that much but it probably has something to do with the fact that they are always good for a suprise (or two). I never thought they would use different smileys until I found this japanese smileys website.

I found an article written by Henry Jenkins, the director of comparative studies at MIT, that counters public perception of video games with scientific research. Everyone has read stories that connect violence in computer games to violence in the real world. “He shoot them because of Doom”, “The drive by shooting was caused by playing GTA” and similar stories made it to the frontline news in most parts of the world.

This is well done. A grand theft auto paradoy in lego. Great Animations, gta music and typical situations that happen in gta, like stealing cars, shooting and bombing something.

It´s been a time that I reviewed a game at ghacks. Mono is a freeware game that deserves to be mentioned here. It has a nice gameplay, great music and the most important part, it is fun to play.

It can be described as a arcade shooter. Your goal is to change the color of the background from white to black / black to white by shooting at colored circles that leave traces of their color on the background and part into two smaller circles of the same color.

Yes i know, its not really related to my site but I thought that the new cool category needs some articles and you´d probably enjoy it nevertheless. Best to use on co-workers, friends aso. All illusions are explained in detail, telling you exactly what will happen when you look at them.

Never thought this would be possible but it seems it is. The following site offers movies scenes in ascii format. Movies include Lord of the Rings, Spiderman, the Matrix and lots more. Detail level is amazing and you can select font size as well ranging from 1 to 12. My 1024*768 was not big enough for the large numbers but the movies look great even in a small size like 2.

Now, this is a great demo of what todays shockwave and flash gurus can create. The game land of the dead looks incredible. Its an ego-shooter, you always start in a van and your objective is to collect items that are hidden in a supermarket.

Well this concept has been new to me and it probably is for you as well. Everyone who feels offended by “normal” nudity should not click the following link. Everyone else should enjoy this fine piece of CSS art.

After all those long winded texts I gave you I thought its time for a change. I found a game made in flash that I loved to play on my Super Nintendo way back. Its called Street Fighter 2.

I had a problem naming this article appropriately. You probably have seen one of those infamous ludicrous “teens sing in front of webcam a famous pop song” sort of videos. I collected some that I found at putfile, I hope that you missed at least some of them.

You probably know worth1000.com: The website holds many photoshop contests where artists submit altered images to a certain contest theme. They recently announced the “If hackers ruled the world” contest and recieved lots of images.

This is just to strange, someone build a clock that looks like the game Pong. The left site counts the hours while the right site counts the minutes. This means every minute the right site wins a point and every hours the left one does. Strange concept but great looking unique clock.

I still remember my first arcade video game, it was xevious, a vertical scrolling shoot em up game with great graphics and playability. I spend most of my money on that game and had some trouble with my parents because of this.

We all love movie parodies, especially when they are well done and I promise you, these are well done. I suppose you know Lego, tiny bricks that you stick together to build big things. Nice invention from Denmark. Well, some people decided to create movies using Lego and nothing but Lego. I found a website that has movie parodies of well known Hollywood movies like Spiderman and Star Wars.

I found another one of those funny homemade movies. This time its a guy who has the talent to throw quarter coins this way that they bump on things and then land in a tiny glass he placed somewhere. The first few are easy to follow and not that spectacular but as soon as he begins the real tricks, like throwing one, it gets deflected from the first glas and bounces right into another one which is placed maybe 15 inches away from the first.

I loved playing Quake and Quake II, it was a great game that was lots of fun. I enjoyed playing the game with my friends using serial connections back then. To my great suprise someone is porting Quake II to todays graphics standards, the gfx already look extremely good.

This is unbelievable but I could not figure out how this is done. It probably deals with a prepared location. I don´t speak this language therefor I was not able to understand a lot (he speaks english sometimes).

It´s cold and dark outside, you won´t find a better opportunity to stay inside in your warm appartement, have a nice cup of coffee or tea and play a game of Castelvania. The game, created by Konami, made its debut on many systems including gameboy and playstation 2. The flash version seems to be a close port of a super nintendo version.

Its saturday, most of us are not working today so I thought I begin it with a link to one of the coolest games ever. I used to play it alot on my old C-64 and Amiga home computers. Defender of the Crown is a strategic game that takes place in England after the death of Richard the Lionheart. You are a saxon prince trying to conquer England from the evil Normans.

Take a look at this beautiful free flash adventure game that reminds me of the old lucasarts classics like Monkey Islands and Indiana Jones. Great graphics, nice sound and from what I could read an interesting story, can´t wish for much more in an adventure game.

Ever played Sonic on a Sega console ? Its the same game only in flash on a pc screen. Looks great, plays great, enough said, go to freeworldgroup.com to play it.

Found this funny titanic movie parody in flash. Oh, one more thing, its re-enacted by bunnies. Enjoy the clip.

This are animations made by artists who actually draw their “paintings” on the web using this flash site. You can see the exact strokes from the beginning up to the final picture. The quality of the pictures is amazing.

I can´t believe it. Even after seeing it for the third time. A Japaneses woman is shown on this tv spot who seems to have been able to train some flies to do acrobatic performances. Actually looks more than bees to me but anyways, the bees turn around when she moves her finger and even start playing with a tiny ball and start even moving it around with their legs.

Maybe some of you still know the game Rick Dangerous, its likely if you ever owned an Amiga or Atari Computer back in the 90´s. The game is an addictive jump and run type of game where you steer Rick, who has some similarities with Indiana Jones, through a temple. Its small and fun, look for yourself. Oh, it needs flash to run.

The first 20 minutes of Star Wars Episode IV in Asciiusing Java. This one is well done and worth a look. Great animations for Ascii, never thought something like this would be possible.

From time to time i add some fun movies to my site and this one definatly deserves to be added. It shows brasilian football star Ronaldinho in a practice session. He does some tricks, comes to the 16m area, shots at the goal four times and everytime he hits the Bar and the ball reflects back to him.

Could not believe it when I first heard about it. Someone ported the board game Risk to Google maps. When you start the game you see a worldmap and some lines drawn that are the borders. They look exactly like the risk game layout.

Now thats one funny idea. This video was taken from the german tv show “verstehen sie spass” who install hidden cameras and try to fool people with all sorts of hillarious setups. This time they placed a water bed into a furniture store, only thing is, its no normal water bed. Take a look at this and be happy that its not you who gave the bed a try ;)

The BBC claimed yesterday that Sonys Playstation 3 console system would be delayed for another year which would mean the system would debut in 2007 and not in mid 2006 as expected. Unfortunatly they did not cite any sources and most readers had the feeling it was simply another rumor.
expected. Unfortunatly they did not cite any sources and most readers had the feeling it was simply another rumor.

Today joystiq.com cites an unnamed ex-gamestop employee who seemingly shed some light into the rumor.

Beginning next year Koreans will have the option to buy their own personal robot for a price of 1000$ – 2000$. The robots have lots of functions, some include cleaning rooms, home monitoring and reading books.

Tomshardware has an interesting article up where they try to build a ” reasonable gaming system that will get you through today’s game titles without breaking the bank for around $500″.

The machine won´t of course allow you to play the newest games in high resolution but thats not what one would expect from a computer that is cheaper than some top graphic cards models.

Lets take a look at the components they selected for the machine.

I found a website that tests the ability of your pc to run a certain game. They have most newly released and soon to be released games in their list, e.g. Age of Empires III and Civilization IV.