Mini Welt

Die Grillzange sollte zu jeden guten Haushalt gehören, denn erst durch sie wird das Barbeque zu einem tollen richtigen Erlebnis.
Deswegen ist sparen am falschen Ende ein Funkiller und sollte unterlassen werden.
Mit der richtigen Grillzange wird der Tollste zum Barbeque König.
Also mit der richtigen Holzgrillzange in der nächsten im Sommer richtig anfangen.

 

Hundezubehör für den Wauwau, das lese ich sehr oft als Überschrift in vielen   on-line Outlets, die Dinge für unsere vierbeinigen Herzchen an den Mann (die Frau) bringen).
Hundezubehör für den Welpe, das hört sich an für mich, irgendwie als ob ich eine Sache erweitern oder   verbessern wollte, aber dabei möchte ich meinen Flohtaxi etwas wertschätzendes tun,   indem ich ihm z.B. ein Hundebett kaufe, auf dem mein hund sich ausruhen und erholen könnte.
Meiner individuellen Ansicht nach klingt z.B. Artikel für den Wauwau besser als Hundezubehör,   da mein hund unser geliebtes Haustier eher als biologisches Lebewesen, denn als ein Ding darstellt.
Es sagt ja auch niemand “Menschenzubehör”,  sondern z.B. “Hygene Artikel”,”Kosmetik Artikel”,”Pflege Artikel”,”Hautpflege Artikel” oder   “Artikel für die Freizeitbeschäftigung”. 
In diesem Augenblick werden manche von Eich denken, das ein Welpe eine Sache entsprechend BGB (typisch Beamten deutsch) ist,   trotzdem könnten wir, meiner persönlichen Ansicht nach, unser treues Haustier nicht   zu einem Gegenstand degradieren, dafür lieber ihn gebührend Achtung entgegen bringen,   da er doch bei einem Abschnitt unseres Lebensweges, ein lieber Wegbegleiter ist.
Was sagt doch ein altes Zitat so liebevoll?   Dein Welpe ist Dir im stärksten  Sturm treu,   der Mensch nicht mal im Winde.   Eure Ansicht dazu interessiert mich,   ich freue mich schon und bin wirklich neugierig auf Eure Ansichten dementsprechend.

Jetzt war es endlich soweit ! Ein cooles Hundekissen muß her!!! Ich bin es Leid, das unser Hund immer meinen Stammplatz auf der Coach belegt. Was sind unsere Kaufkriterin für ein Hundekissen, damit unser Hund es auch gemütlich hat? Dafür sollte es groß genug sein, damit er ganz draufpasst und abwaschbar, falls er mal sabbert.
Also ging es  los unser Bummeltour auf der Suche nach dem passenden Hundekissen.

Wir fanden auch ein geniales, leider war Fachgeschäft am anderen Ende der Stadt
und so haben wir beschlossen, eins im Web zu bestellen.
(Danke der Beratung im Laden wußten wir ja was wir wollten, wir hätten auch sehr gerne dort gekauft, aber wenn die nicht liefern … selbst Schuld)

Auf jeden Fall hat es unser Hund, jetzt richtig gut auf seinem Hundekissen.

Ich war jetzt beim Esprit Werksverkauf in Ratingen. Die Kleidung dort sind toll.
Etwas Ellbogen ist das schon angesagt bei den vielen Hausfrauen,
das ist dort ein ganz schöner Theater und ich war glücklich das ein oder
andere Schnäppchen zu machen.
Eine Reise zum Esprit Outlet in Ratingen solle jeder mal gemacht haben, der einen Faibel für  Werksverkauf hat und Günstiges liebt.

 

Jetzt war es mal wieder soweit ! Ein tolles Hundekissen muß her!!! Ich war es Leid, das er immer meinen Stammplatz auf der Coach belegt. Was sind unsere Kaufkriterin für ein Hundebett, damit unser wandelnder Flohzirkus es auch gut hat? Dafür sollte es groß genug sein, damit er ganz draufpasst und abwaschbar, falls er mal sabbert.
Also ging es  los unser Streifzug auf der Suche nach dem richtigen Hundekissen.

Wir fanden auch ein geniales, leider war der Laden am anderen Ende der Stadt
und so haben wir beschlossen, eins im Web zu bstellen.
(Danke der Beratung im Laden wußten wir ja was wir wollten, wir hätten auch sehr gerne dort gekauft, aber wenn die nicht liefern … selbst Schuld)

Auf jeden Fall hat es unser Hund, jetzt richtig gut auf seinem Hundebett.

We're just about one month away from Apple's usual fall iPod event, wherein the company typically introduces new iPod models in time for the holiday buying season. iLounge recently rounded up several rumors from a reportedly solid source, while Hardmac posted a photo illustration of a purported new iPod touch from a case manufacturer. These rumors were also accompanied by alleged details of revised iPhone and iPad models expected in early 2011. 

That Apple is already working on such products is no surprise, but we're doubtful of some of the revealed details.

iPod rumors

Regarding new iPods, iLounge's source said to expect a new iPod nano and an iPod touch, as well as third iPod that may or may not be a new iPod shuffle. The last iPod shuffle—which relegated all controls to a small inline control on the headphones to achieve a monolithic design—garnered a lukewarm response on its unveiling. iLounge posited that Apple will make a complete 180 on the shuffle, designing it around a tiny 1.7″ Apple-branded touchscreen that

CDMA is far from dead.

Besides… they won't be able to completely turn off CDMA for 3 or 4 years…. until Verizon has switched every single tower to LTE *and* every customer has a shiny new LTE phone in their hand. This transition will take years.

Didn't it take almost a decade for analog to shut off? And I still knew some people who were pissed that they had to give up their old analog Motorola StarTACs at the last minute.

Basically… take the date when the last CDMA phone is sold… and then add 2 years so that customer can finish out their contract. And since that date has never been announced… there's really no reason to discuss it. CDMA is here… it's got 140 million customers… and Sprint and Verizon are too big to ignore.

Also… if CDMA is so bad… I guess Motorola and HTC didn't get that memo. Do you think Motorola is having regrets about their CDMA Droids? Or HTC for the Incredible or EVO? Nope. Neither did RIM, Samsung…. and EVERY cell phone manufacturer that makes CDMA phones.

Roughly half of all the iPhones in the world are in America. America has 2 cell technologies. If Apple doesn't wanna take the time to make a phone for the “other” network… then that's their mistake. They can stick with AT&T and never see any more huge growth.

We're in the 4th year of the iPhone. If you want an iPhone you probably already have one by now. If 1/4 of AT&T customers have iPhones… Apple will never have 1/2 of AT&T customers using iPhones. That's where a 2nd carrier comes into play.

Apple sells the iPhone on 5 carriers in the UK. Why? To sell more phones! But, Verizon has more customers than the entire population of the UK. Sure, Apple would have to make a CDMA phone. Boohoo… everyone else has figured it out.

If not… plenty of other companies are making phones for Verizon… whether you think they should or not.

It’s been quite a while since Apple gave their iPod touch line a major refresh in terms of hardware. In fact all models since the 1st-gen iPod touch pretty much does the same thing. Although the 3rd-gen iPod touch, which is also known as iPod touch 3G is really fast compared to the previous generation iPod touches, but that is pretty much about it as it does the same thing – only faster. But now according to a leading UK retailer, Apple is going to pump up the next-gen iPod touch 4 / 4G with iPhone 4 like features such as FaceTime, 5MP camera with 720p video recording capabilities, A4 processor, gyroscope and a lot more!

Leaked iPod touch 4G Prototype from May 2010.

According to John Lewis’ sources, the next gen iPod touch will boast tons of new features:

The new iPod touch will come packing a 5MP camera with HD video shooting skills, according to John Lewis which has just spilled the new specs at its Xmas in July event in central London. It detailed the new iPod Touch specs saying it’s based them on “noises we’re hearing from suppliers”.

The rest of the John Lewis slide predicts the new iPod touch camera will add a Flash to the 5Mp camera and capture HD video (presumably at 720p just like iPhone 4). It’s also promising YouTube uploading. Most excitingly, it claims the new iPod Touch will be the next device to come packing FaceTime with calls over Wi-Fi so it looks like there’ll be a front-facing camera too.

Finally, John Lewis claims the new iPod touch will pack in an accelerometer and gyroscope to further perk up its gaming credentials.

If this all is true, then the next-gen iPod touch will be an iPhone 4 minus the phone. All these features can certainly make this new iPod touch a dream media player to have, which is expected to be unveiled at the annual “Apple Media Event” in September of this year. iTunes in the cloud, the next-gen Apple TV, and iOS 4 for iPad are also expected to be unveiled at the same event. [via 9to5Mac]

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Eine kleine Weisheiten Sammlung Weisheiten zum Nachdenken

Lange Rede, kurzer Sinn.

Wir geben den Kühen Futter,
dafür geben sie uns Milch und Butter.

Ein Esel, der Bücher trägt,
ist noch lange kein Doktor.

Was wäre Nike ohne Air,
was wär der Gummi ohne Bär,
was wär der Bleistift ohne Mine,
was wär der Zug nur ohne Schiene,
was wäre Becker ohne Stich,
was wäre ich nur ohne dich!
Danke das es dich gibt!

Unter den Blinden ist der Einäugige König.

Der Tag beginnt so,
wie Du ihn dir macht und endet so,
wie und wann Du es willst.

Um das Wunderbare zu erlangen,
muss man das Unvorstellbare denken.

Wenn die Nacht am tiefsten,
ist der Tag am nächsten.

Alle sagten immer das geht nicht,
dann kamm einer der wußte das nicht
und der hat das einfach gemacht.

Ehering: Tapferkeitsauszeichnung, die man am Finger trägt!

Morgens kann ich nichts essen – weil ich dich liebe.
Mittags kann ich nichts essen – weil ich dich liebe.
Abends kann ich nichts essen – weil ich dich liebe.
Nachts kann ich nicht schlafen – weil ich Hunger habe.

Ich mag keinen Sex! Also fangen wir gleich an, dann haben wir es hinter uns.

Ich bin klein, mein Herz ist rein, mein Bett ist leer, kommst du schnell her?

We this ebay tool will help you!

If you’re used to surfing in all the glory that desktop web browsers offer (e.g. bookmarks, download manager, themes, etc.), browsing in the iPhone’s mobile Safari can sometimes prove difficult.

There is no in-page text search (though there’s a bookmarklet); no fullscreen mode, no real tabs (though there’s Tabulate, a bookmarklet that aims to provide a way for you to flag links to read later in new tabs); no orientation lock: it becomes inconvenient when you’re leaning back on your comfy chair and can’t surf without being annoyed by the constant orientation changes in mobile Safari; can’t cache pages for offline reading; no download manager; and no incognito mode (one must clear history/cookies manually).

On other platforms, you have some great options, such as SkyFire, which has no problems with Flash. The iTunes App Store surely isn’t suffering from a lack of apps these days so if you dig deep, you can actually find some very worthwhile web browsers. All of the following are free and most are so chock full of great features (trust me, they’re the best out of the 25 browsers I tried) that once you start using any of these, you’ll think of mobile Safari as IE.

Kidding aside, let’s get started with these browsers for the iPhone and iPod Touch (in this article, “iPhod” for short).

A. Everyday-Use Browsers

1. Opera Mini (for iPhod)

iTunes customer rating:

We talked about Opera Mini before so please don’t hesitate to read it for full feature details. In short, the best features Opera Mini for iPhod offers include:

• Speed Dial (which lets you access your favorite 9 web pages on startup)

• Ability to save web pages for offline viewing (tremendously useful for iPod Touch users who wish to save MakeUseOf articles!)
• Unlimited tabs
• In-page text search and quick navigation to next search result
• Fullscreen mode

• Ability to add search engines (by default, you’ll find Google, Wikipedia, Amazon, and Ebay.)

• Option to load or not the images to save bandwidth
• Set font size to small, medium or large.
• Ability to sync bookmarks, Speed Dial and search engines between computers (Opera web browser for Windows, Mac and Linux) and mobile devices (through Opera Link)

What it doesn’t have:

• Smooth rendering of some web pages (inevitable since Opera Mini fetches compressed sites from Opera’s servers in order to ensure speed, which may drive away those concerned with security)
• Orientation lock
• Bookmark search
• Private browsing mode

2. VanillaSurf (for iPhod)

iTunes customer rating:

Best features:

• Offline webpage browsing: In Options (only available in portrait mode), go to the Tabs section, turn Save Tabs and Offline browsing on. Now open any webpages you want to read in offline mode in a new tab, and they should be saved now even when you’re offline!
• Bookmarks import and export: VanillaSurf has a built-in web server that lets you transfer bookmarks (saved in .html or .htm files) between your desktop browser and your iDevice.

• Screenshot: VanillaSurf takes a full screenshot of any website without any of the toolbars or status bar.
• Startpage: Go to your desired URL and then tap and hold the homepage button till you see the ‘Your homepage is now: [desired URL]‘ message. If you turn on the Save Tabs feature, you’ll see your previously open tabs on startup as well, or you can always keep your multiple favorite sites open and surf in new tabs for a multiple homepage workaround.
• Private browsing mode (off by default): Turning the Private Mode on disables the saved offline tabs, but you can still tap the Homepage button to load your startpage. You can also choose to clear history or clear cookies manually.
• Fullscreen mode: You can access your bookmarks, go back or forward in the browser, and switch or go to new tabs in fullscreen mode. You’ll have to go back to the regular view to change the URL.

• Themes: VanillaSurf has 2 themes: the regular mobile Safari grey and black.
• Additional search engines: VanillaSurf lets you search in Amazon, eBay, Wikipedia in addition to Google and Yahoo, while mobile Safari offers only the latter two and Bing.
• Bookmarklet to open in VanillaSurf from mobile Safari: Find the Javascript code on the iTunes page for VanillaSurf.
• Orientation lock

What it doesn’t currently have:

• In-page text search (I tried the mobile Safari in-page text search bookmarklet with no luck)
• Bookmark search

3. Atomic Web Browser Lite (for iPhod and iPad)

iTunes customer rating:

Best features:

• Real tabs with favicons, but if you don’t particularly go ga-ga for this, you can hide the tab bar and choose List View instead of Desktop Style Tabs. This Lite version also lets you load 5 tabs at one time.
• Fullscreen mode: You’ll be able to go back and forward, and show/hide the tab bar. The cool thing is that you can customize what buttons appear on fullscreen (and how opaque/transparent you want them), and some of these buttons are pretty unique to mobile browsers (like ‘Font – Increase‘, ‘Go to bottom‘, ‘Go to top‘).

  A minor inconvenience with the fullscreen mode is that when you open up a new tab, you’ll have to go back to the regular view to input the URL.

• Additional search engines plus in-page text search: Available search engines include Google, Yahoo, Bing, Amazon, Wikipedia, YouTube and Ebay. You can find and incorporate additional pre-set and customized search engines.

  You can also search for text inside a web page and you’ll get the results highlighted just in a desktop browser (though you won’t get the Next or Previous buttons to navigate to the next/previous search result.)

• Bookmark scripts (think bookmarklets you can add with one click) that range from Translate webpage (to 9 different languages) to Links to Page (search Google for links to current page) and Track FedEx/UPS package, etc.
• Increase/decrease font size.
• Orientation lock
• Private browsing mode
• Bookmarklet for mobile Safari to open webpages in Atomic
• Share URL by email, Facebook and Twitter.
• Fourteen color themes
• Option to load or not the images to save bandwidth

What it doesn’t currently have (but its full $0.99 version does):

• Customizable homepage
• Option to save pages for offline reading
• Unlimited tabs (5 tabs are allowed at max in this version)
• Bookmark importing from mobile Safari
• Bookmark search

Honorable mention goes out to Mercury (for iPhod), which has gotten 3.5/5.0 stars, but kept crashing on my iPod Touch with iOS 4 though I was able to get this screenshot.

Mercury is a fullscreen browser that saves pages for offline viewing, displays real tabs, has a private browsing mode, as well as customizable startup screens showing a Speed Dial-esque bookmark springboard, homepage, or tabs from the last session. It also seems to have a built-in download manager. If you manage to give it a try, feel free to share your experience in the comments!

B. Private/Secure Browsers

You can manually clear history and cookies in mobile Safari, use VanillaSurf and Atomic Lite from above in their private surfing modes or you could use the following ad-free browsers as they automatically discard your list of visited webpages and cookies. Although your network provider or employer (if you’re on a company network) can still monitor your internet activity, these apps may come in handy if, say, you are worried that your personal information might be disclosed should your iPhod ever get lost or stolen.

Therefore, these browsers will have limited functions as your user settings will be cleared every time you exit out of the app (e.g. you won’t be able to import bookmarks, customize the homepage, etc.)

1. Aquari (for iPhod)

iTunes customer rating:

Best features:

• Option to set a passcode option for ultimate privacy

• Guest mode that allows no access of your own bookmarks or history. This mode is activated by entering ‘1234′ as the passcode.

• Fullscreen view on landscape mode
• Multiple tabs (up to 8 tabs)
• Bookmark folder support (there’s no bookmark import feature but you can add bookmarks.)
• Ability to remember bookmarks

When you exit the app, your cookies, search/browsing history and any login information will be instantly cleared.

2. Private (for iPhod and iPad)

iTunes customer rating:

Best features:

• Simple design
• Speedy web page loading
• Supports landscape and portrait modes

This browser is for people looking to just surf without additional features (e.g. bookmarks, tabs, and additional search engines other than Google) and without leaving traces of visited websites.

3. inBrowser (for iPhod)

iTunes customer rating:

Best features:

• Simple design
• Shaking your iPhod will take you to Google’s homepage (though you could still go back and restore your previous page. Alternatively, you could press the Home button to clear your history.)

Like Private, the inBrowser app doesn’t have support for bookmarks, tabs, and other search engines, but it does give you a one-shake offering to go into a safe page while it also clears your history on exit.

C. Download Manager + Browser

VanillaSurf comes with a built-in web server that lets you transfer bookmarks and other files between your desktop browser and your iPhod, but it’s not very intuitive. If you’re looking to transfer a quick file to your iPhod in Linux, for example, which iTunes doesn’t support, these apps might come in handy.

1. Download Manager Lite (for iPhod)

iTunes customer rating:

Best features:

• Intuitive file sharing (share by web server or FTP)
• Supports in-app viewing of common media files (.mp4, .mp3) and office documents (.pdf, .doc, .xls).
• When playing .mp3 files, you can listen to various .mp3 files (all or by folder) consecutively in a playlist, and enable Shuffle and/or Repeat.
• Ability to listen to .mp3 files in the background while navigating with the built-in web browser and file manager
• Option to set a passcode
• Ability to extract compressed files (.zip, .rar, .tar.gz)
• Option to send file attachment by email
• Ability to set a homepage
• Ability to bookmark pages, but not import bookmarks directly, unless you choose to upload the bookmarks (in a .html file) from mobile Safari via the built-in web server.
• Ability to save current page or the next link
• Option to show embedded objects

• Bookmarklets (e.g. Find On This Page, define in Dictionary/Wikipedia, etc) and search engines (Amazon, Youtube, etc) are pre-installed in the bookmarks.

Only 10 files can be downloaded at maximum for this version. If you want simpler download managers with built-in browsers, be sure to check out Downloads Lite (lets you download up to 7 files) or the very similar MyMedia (has no maximum and no computer-iPhod file sharing).

2. Downloader Lite (for iPhod)

iTunes customer rating:

Best features:

• Ability to retrieve and display your last copied URL or image once you open up the app so you can download with one-click.
• Bookmarklet to open up the app from Safari
• Supports in-app viewing of common media files (.mp4, .mp3) and office documents (.pdf, .doc, .xls).
• Ability to extract compressed files (.zip, .rar, .tar.gz, .tgz)
• Has two modes in the built-in web browser: Browse and Download (where tapped links will be downloaded).

Like Download Manager Lite, Downloader Lite (I know, confusing, right?), has a limit of 10 downloaded files. If you have an iPad, you could also try iSaveWeb Lite, which has gotten 3.5/5.0 ratings, though on my iPod with iOS4, it kept crashing.

Personally, my favorite browsers are Atomic Lite and Download Manager Lite. Which browsers, mentioned here or not, do you prefer?

Image credit: MDGraphs

As anyone who has ever taken on the role of Guybrush Threepwood, the swashbuckling wannabe pirate from the Monkey Island series, will tell you – 2D point and click games are engaging and funny. For anyone late to the party or simply still stuck in the 90s there’s SCUMMVM.

SCUMM stands for Script Creation Utility for Manic Mansion. It was brought to life by Lucas Arts as a platform for 2D point-and-click adventures and used for many highly acclaimed titles such as the aforementioned The Secret of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle and Sam & Max Hit the Road.  SCUMMVM is a video game emulator which provides a platform on which to play these classics – on nearly any system you can name.

The Basics

The virtual machine (which makes up the VM in SCUMMVM) comes in over 40 different flavours including the obvious modern Windows, Linux and Mac versions. For gamers on the go there’s an iPhone package as well as Nintendo DS, Sony PSP, Symbian OS and Windows CE editions.

It doesn’t stop there however, and the developers have gone to great lengths to get the platform working on a homebrewed Nintendo Wii, GameCube and N64 as well as the Dreamcast and Amiga OS. Put it this way – if you own a fancy Samsung TV then there’s even a version for that. I’m serious.

I’m using SCUMMVM on Windows, but the process involved in getting your 2D adventures working is the same on any platform. You can download and install any of the versions from the official downloads page. Once you’ve fired up the video game emulator you will be presented with a list of games you have available and a couple of options. As you’ve not installed any games, the list will at first be empty.

Within the Options panel you can tweak graphics and audio settings, as well as MIDI emulation and theme settings. SCUMMVM can be run in full-screen or windowed mode (if you’re trying to work), and has a handy “Aspect Ratio Correction” option for widescreen users.

Available Games

There are eight titles available for download from the SCUMMVM website which have been made available as freeware by their respective publishers. Quality free titles include Flight of the Amazon Queen which sees you stranded in the Amazon rainforest and the devilish Beneath a Steel Sky in which your character can die in the very first room.

All are available from the downloads page here.

SCUMMVM also includes support for many more adventure games, though in order to play these you are going to need an official copy of the game. eBay is a great place to find old games at bargain prices and once you’ve got your hands on a copy head over to the SCUMMVM game data file list to see what files you need to extract and play. MS-DOS and unsupported Windows versions make perfect candidates, simply copy and paste the relevant files to a new directory and point SCUMMVM to it.

Playing Games

Playing games is quick and easy once you’ve added them to the list of installed titles. Folders containing game data files must be added one by one, using the Add Game button.

Navigate your way to the folder containing your game data files and click Choose. If everything’s in order, SCUMM will pop-up a window like this:

Settings for your particular version will be automatically detected and added to the fields above, click OK to add the game to the list. Once a game has been added it will remain in the list until you remove it. You can now select a game and click Start to begin exploring some surprisingly engrossing 2D worlds.

Conclusion

SCUMMVM sits alongside DOSBox as one of those well-intended freeware applications everyone loves. The simple interface means you’ll be up and running in no time – even on your mobile device. The free games alone will keep you busy for hours, and it’s easy to copy the files you need from game CDs or floppies. The developers have provided everything you need to get started on some funny adventure games.

Have you tried a version of the SCUMMVM video game emulator? If you have any tips or favourite games, let us know in the comments.

I've got a load of bike parts, many of them are identical, like 50 Campagnolo chainrings for example.

I need to set up an item to sell repeatedly at a set price for the whole quantity, without doing auctions, and with a flat shipping price to the US.

I'm thinking eBay is the best way to do this. I'm wondering what tips people might have for getting this accomplished, and perhaps any resources for learning to do this effectively.

My concept is that I should get an online store, not just a regular user account on eBay to do this the best way.

Ich ich erinner mich an die Zeit wie unser Hund noch klein war.
Das tolle Hundekissen war damals noch
viel zu riesig für unseren WauWau.
Das praktische war, das wir das Hundebett einfach abwischen
konnten, wenn wir mal nicht schnell genug mit unserem Flohtaxi draußen waren.
Das waren schon gute Zeiten.