Nice stuff. Be aware of the details:

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I always had problems with batteries for my Canon Powershot A350 camera: From the time they were fully charged, they lasted only a few days until they drained to zero.

Even at the time they were new, I only had about a week of benefiting from their capacity. It left even if the batteries were not in use.

I discovered that precharged batteries do the job better: The low self discharge enables dealers to store them up to 12 months and still sell them without pissing off their customers.
Of course, the discharging properties stay after recharging batteries at home..

The other benefit is, that the low self discharge enabled me to leave the batteries in the camera for more then two weeks. Hence I stopped suffering the loss of first class snapshots just because the camera is not ready.

This apllies to multiple camera series: Canon Powershot, Fujifilm Finepix, Pentax K series and basically all models that come with AA or AAA batteries - not with the prebuild own battery models like in the Canon Ixus series.

As for Germany, the dkamera magazine suggests these tested precharged batteries:

• Panasonic Infinium
• Kodak Digital Camera Battery Pre-Charged
• Ansmann maxe
• Conrad energy Endurance
• Duracell ActiveCharge
• Sanyo eneloop
• Varta Ready2Use
• AccuPower AccuLoop
• ELV Combo
• Hama Ready4Power
• GP Recyko
• UniRoss Hybrio

Please compare worldwide vendors and models yourself by regarding to the international brands.
Have fun using those!

What if David Lynch directed a Disney Movie? This is how it looks like:

Really nice spoof made only from original footage of Disney’s “A Goofy Movie”. Director: Cody Richeson

Que privilegio: I am on soundcloud.com now! This platform is a great way to share your music with the world. Not onlyfor downloading the files: In soundcloud, any member can comment directly to his favorite passages of a track. There are more common community functions inside.
Drop me a line if you like to join: I have two invites left.

Check out this mouthwatering Remix by TJ Kong:
Ben Mono - Jesus Was A B-boy [TJ Kong & Nuno Dos Santos Remix]:

Sounds great? Here’s a TJ Kong Promo DJ set:

Read this statement of the Soundcloud scientists, Alexander Ljung & Eric Wahlforss:

As you might expect, over the years we’ve grown tired of getting emails with YouSentIt links or FTP log-ins just to be able to check out our friends latest soon-to-be released tracks. Not to mention how annoying it is to try and email a reply with some comprehendible feedback. Music is just kind of tricky to deal with over email. So, we thought we’d change that. SoundCloud is our way of doing it.

I just gathered some interesting news from Mister Wong:

Zattoo is a RIA [Uhm, just call it a program] that let’s you watch TV on your Compu without extra hardware [PCI tv-card] or a subscription to a commercial service. Zattoo is currently focussed on European channels and licensed content, and it’s completely free.

I was disappointed when I realized that I can’ watch BBC2 or Canal+, because my IP address is recognised as being German, and legal regulations prevent us to watch programs we probably haven’t payed broadcasting fees for. Maybe you can bypass this limitation using an Open Proxy Service, see the link below.

On the other hand, it’s just as simple as switching on the Telly.

Zatto is based on peer-to-peer technology, just like Hobnox, Pando, Joost: or Miro. In a Peer-to-Peer TV system, each user is simultaneously downloading the program to watch it, but also uploading the video stream to other users. This way, all users contribute to the overall bandwidth of the service. The streams are usually slightly delayed to the original sources. But the video quality is better if there are more users, which makes powerful servers farms needless.

Zattoo itself provides very smooth streaming quality and might be considered the service experts were waiting for - due to it’s simplicity.

Check the links for more information:

• Open proxy Services
• Quick summary on popular TV streaming services on ReadWriteWeb
• Interviewing zattoo.com’s co-founders

Zattoo delivers live TV legally, just like a cable network. Presently Zattoo doesn’t create its own channel from archival contents, nor do we yet carry user-generated content. Instead, we work with broadcasters to re-distribute their content simultaneous, unaltered, and unabridged. Compared to Joost, we provide live TV viewing instead of archival content delivered on-demand.

Sugih Jamin, Chairman and Co-founder of Zattoo

Melt!, the Indie & Electro Festival organised by Intro Magazine, now uses widget marketing, just like Daft Punk did in October last year. Widget Marketing might come in disguise of a microsite that is embeddable by a simple HTML code snippet.

The Melt! widget looks like that:

Cool stuff.

• Short definition of widget marketing
• Blog me widgets are powered by french multimedia agency Ibernatus

Why is it so effective and widespread within the new web landscape?
1. This form of viral marketing provides an extremely good ROI based on the resources available. Your embedders become your marketing team.
2. Widgets may take time and manpower to develop, but the deployment and embedding cost nothing.

Boy Friends 010 - Donkey Kong from Team Genius on Vimeo.

via Webmove.org

I didn’t realize it’s 2051 already:

Festo AirJelly

Quoting Engadget: Suffice it to say Festo’s AirJelly is powered by some magical jelly fish properties, a lithium-ion battery, an electric motor and a bit of helium. If that’s not floaty enough for you, there’s also a water version, Aqua Jelly

Festo Air Ray

via Geekologie