Software developer Crytek decided to give away the Beta version of the game Crysis. First you needed to pay to play the Beta. To download, you'll need an account on FilePlanet.

You'll probably know them. They're created by the most creative smart-asses on the net. They don't really have a good use, but they make me smile: Demotivational Posters. Here are my favorite 40 of them.

Oh, now I think I'm going to be replaced by a robot.

There's no doubt that I like to design. Next to coding, I also love to edit photos, designing websites etc. My personal favorite tool to achieve this, has to be Adobe Photoshop. Next to a good tool, you'll need some good resources. Fonts, Plug-ins such as Brushes and Textures, Stock photos can help you tremendously when designing. Here's a list of my personal favorite photoshop design resources.

Fonts, Stock Photos, Patterns, some Textures and Inspiring sites do not require Photoshop. Also, always check the compatibility of the plug-in with your software; Don't download Photoshop CS3 brushes when you're using Photoshop 7. The other way around (Photoshop 7 plug-in using in Photoshop CS3) can be possible.

If you think that there's a top-source missing from the list, share it with us by posting them in the comments. The sites listed here offer their services for free and are placed in random order.

Here's a nice little time killer that I stumbled. It's a video containing a 10 minute compilation of different kinds of internet videos. This saves you a lot of time, instead of going to Break, Yourdailymedia or any other fun video website, just watch this. For those who watch a lot of those internet video's (like me), it should bring back memories.

Today, the 27th of September, is a day to remember. BlogCatalog 's Blogging for a Great Cause Challenge has launched. A while ago I posted about this phenomenon and today it's there: Bloggers around the globe will blog against abuse.

Here's my submission to try to make an end to abuse. Everybody unite to make an end to the most common form of internet abuse: Spam.

Here's a top 16 of things that annoy or irritate you about your colleagues. Check with yourself and make sure that you're not one of them.

If you have something what annoys you about your colleagues, feel free to post them in the comments. Just make sure your co-workers don't know it's you.

A few days ago I posted an article how to boost up your traffic and get more readers on your blog for free. Here's an article that'll make you think again about BlogRush. Does it really work? For me it did: It got a couple of more readers on my blog and have more visits than before.

I'm not writing this article to get more BlogRush users. I just write about the up- and downsides about the service and give you some tips. Now it's up to you to decide whether or not to use it.

Nobody likes to receive spam. There are several ways to avoid your email address found by a spambot. For example you could use HTML character entities, Javascript, CAPTCHA etc. It just makes the address readable for humans and not for spambots. Some of those techniques work better then others, but here's a new way of hiding your mail address. Simply by using CSS

Too bad that there's just one big catch when using this technique: It doesn't work on Internet Explorer (IE) (yet). This is because IE doesn't support CSS generated content, something which is implemented in Firefox and other webbrowsers. I'm still sharing this knowledge with you, because I think this is very useful and IE will support generated content later on.

In these days technology is everywhere. Laptops, cellphones, the television etc.; It has become part of our lives. Most people use Google or Wikipedia as a good information source, but you shouldn't forget the "old" way of searching for information: Books.

I have to admit: When it comes to loyalty and stability, technology isn't such a good friend as a book. A book will never let you down. That fact is powerfully illustrated in the next advertations.

Even though the battle between the two formats that want to follow up DVD, naming Blu-ray and HD-DVD, is still going on, doesn't mean that the DVD is already kicked out of the market.

This is, if designers such as Yeon-shin Seung keep on making concepts like this one. Here's the coolest PDP (portable DVD player) concept that I've ever seen.