An era ends. One can truly say that after 62 years of business. What once
happened to Quelle, now hit Neckermann. Neckermann started as a big
department store with mailorder service. You ordered it, they shipped it.
You paid it in rates and you could afford your even-so-expensive goodie.

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The search for the right codec to play back a video file is always a big
hassle. That’s where FFMPEG kicked in and is part of many codec packs.
Also as encoder, the FFMPEG codec library could be universally used.
However the decoder and demuxer have received more changes.

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As posted last month, here’s now this months’ Garfield Top 15.
Again here are 15 assorted strips from the various garfield comics over
the years! Have fun and good laughing minutes while watching/reading
them. For more comics, simply scroll down this page.

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When it comes to sharp displays,one thinks of Apple’s famous Retina display.
In fact, the Retina display has a pixel density of 326ppi. Sharp however has
now increased this already sensational pixel density and produced a 5 inch
display capable of FullHD resolution. That’s a whopping 443ppi.

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Especially when there was an accident where the powerline was torn down.
And if just THEN a car happens to cross that line… well… the car will THEN
learn an acrobatic act. But for me I am imressed how much power such a
powerline can have to even stop a fully-accelerated car. Watch for yourself.

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About 4 years ago, Bluray discs came into the stores and finally eradicated
it’s archrival HD-DVD. Meantime, there are also Recordables that allow you
to burn 25 or 50(dual-layer) GB of data onto them. Quite a lot of space for
Photos, Movies or the like if you use this medium for backup purposes.

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Not often that you’ll get professional fonts for free, but in this case, Adobe
seems to aim at coders, webdesigners and developers that use monospace
(=equal char widths) fonts to have a clear type area. the problem: many
monotype fonts have chars that look equal to each other (1/i O/0)!

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Fast internet is available almost in every bigger city and with the growing popu-
larity of Fiber internet, the speeds grow higher and higher. While cable-bound
networks are ideal for stationary computers, one would not like to have a cable
tangling from his/her notebook. This is where WLAN kicks in.

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Well… 12 hours after the launch, it seems as if the patience of many players
is still stressed to the maximum. A good friend of mine is still unable to log
on to most of the servers she has chars on. Annoying and frustrating.
Blizzard knew what would happen upon the Go-Live of the new addon.

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So there we have the launch of the new addon. Exactly at midnight, Blizzard
activates the quest NPC who allows you to enter the new lands of Pan-
daria. However the euphorism is dampened soon when coming to the NPC
where an estimated 1000 players are also waiting to activate the quest.

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Water taps are for humans only? Nah! There’s a little critter that develops
a distinctive taste for water and how to utilize it. Looks kinda funny when
an everyday item is not used from humans but from an animal.
With this, I wish you a nice sunday. Enjoy the weekend.

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What happens if our beloved Mario goes berzerk because he’s pissed of
rescuing Princess Peach all over and over again? Well… let’s say, he IS
the new Duke Nukem hero although he’s not armed with a big gun and
shooting his way to the goal.

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Memory cards exist in many flavors by now, We have SD, SDHC, microSD,
microSDHC, CF Type I/II, MemoryStick Pro, MemoryStick Micro etc.
The market has a wide spectrum of differend card formats and for almost
every device dealing with data. It’s time for one more thing (umm three)!

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When it comes to time, history is one of the words one may think of. In
this case, we speak of Macy’s, New York at Herold’s Place. It is the world’s
biggest shopping mall and has ever been. 10 stories of goods presented on
198.500 m² (2.13 million sqft.) fits everyone’s needs.

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Nature always has spectacular moments. But when two phenomenons
meet, then it’s good when you’re equipped with a camera. In this case,
a bushfire has started in Australia and caused the air to twirl up forming
a tornado. The fire itself uses the funnel to climb up into the smoke clouds.

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The Playstation 3 is now over 6 years old, yet it seems to be a very reliable
and profitable multimedia gaming station for Sony. And so it’s not very
surprising, that Sony has announced another “redesign” of the PS3. Slimmer,
lighter and a breezy new design anno 2012 is the motto.

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hardly announced, the first people in New York are already waiting for
Apple’s new gadget. Although the phone will be available on Friday, there
are some people already camping at the Apple store just to be first in line
to get the new iPhone. How long are you willing to wait?

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The hunt for world records is always active. And Hot Wheels seems to see
the Guinness Book Of World Records as a good marketing instrument.
In this video, wou’ll witness the World record for a 4wheeled quad doing
a corkscrew spin using a specially slanted ramp.

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It’s not often that you se fascinating things. But walls that do 3D shaping to
display objects and patterns are not seen everyday. In Korea at the
Hyundai Motor Group Pavillion a room having 3 sides equipped with
movable squares was shown at the EXPO 2012.

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When discussing about climatic changes caused by man with a co-worker,
she told me that New York has been struck by a tornado. I just thought,
she was shittin’ me but Google taught me better: On September 8th, 2012
a tornado has struck the NY borough Queens leaving some destruction.

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So the WWDC is over, the news are spread and this is what it brought to
you. At first, we have the iPhone 5 which is, as expected, an iPhone4-
similar device slightly higher, thinner, and with a new display size.
The other devices presented: the new iPod nano and iPod touch.

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Today in about 7 hours, Apple will open doors to it’s Keynote event in
California, USA. The long awaited (new) iPhone (5) will be presented.
With it, also the iPad mini will celebrate its debute to fire against Kindle
and other small form factor tablet PCs. So what will the new iPhone be?

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Holtzbrinck, the former owner of StudiVZ, once being a popular social
network in germany, has sold the whole StudiVZ network to the capital
investor Vert Capital. StudiVZ has been formerly known to be part of
Poolworks. Holtzbrinck Digital still reserves the rights on schuelerVZ.

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12.5mm, 9mm,7mm – The HDDs of the smaller form factor have been
flattened time by time. the last generation (7mm) is supposed to be
placed into Ultrabooks. These however get flatter and flatter, too, so
another shrink has to be done. WD did so and brings 5mm Hybrid-HDDs.

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WhatsApp had to deal again with security problems. While the older
versions didn’t encrypt the message traffic at all, the newer versions used
an AES algorythm to encrypt the messages when sent. Yet the security
was weak as the key is based on the device’s IMEI and thus can be hacked.

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While many people think, Nokia’s dead, it seems as if Nokia brings up a
new smartphone with Windows 8 Mobile. Slim, sleek and fast, that’s what
the Lumia 920 is said to be. But is the newest phone really the resue for
the already-buried Nokia company?

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While the new iPad doesn’t offer LTE support in Europe and Asia, and only
in America, many people were disappointed that they bought a brandnew
iPad and could not use the highspeed mobile network. These things should
not happen again if one can rely on Apple’s plan to bring the iPhone 5.

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Initially planned for opening in 2011, the schedule was set for June 2012,
now it seems as if the new airport BER won’t open before autumn 2013,
Flights that have already been planned for BER in 2012 have now to be
managed by Berlin-Tegel (TXL) and Schönefeld (SXF).

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The fight never stops… As Apple and Samsung have a still ongoing patent
fight, there seems another light ray for Samsung. As recently known, the
jury seems not to have checked the validity of Apple’s patents properly.
The questions concerning the check process have not been answered.

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Driving sometimes can suck if you’re in a traffic jam for example.
There are several drivers developing some sort of odd workarounds to
evade the traffic jam. Many are successful but some end in epic fail!
This driver has chosen the second option. Overtaking and monorailing!

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Definitely a bad idea to drive a bulldozer while having too much alcohol.
This bulldozer driver had one, two, too many drinks and still decided to
mount his vehicle and start driving. I am not sure whether he tried to
evade the car that’s heading towards him or if he wanted revenge.

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Nothing much to laugh for kids in the russian Federation. All in the name
of saving their children from “bad influence”. What sounds sort of crazy
has become true just recently in Russia. Besides Tom and Jerry, there are
already The Simpsons off the Air and Winnie The Poo Bear.

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