Sanyo a leading name in household and consumer electronics yesterday in a press meet announced the launch  of their new and  improved 2nd Gen Eneloop Batteries. According to them these next gen rechargeable batteries  can be recharged up-to amazing 1500 times, also these batteries  feature a unbelievable low self-discharge rate. That they can remain usable even after they’ve been charged and stored for 3 years and are still good enough to give you about 70-75% of its charged power. These new Eneloop Batteries will come in AA and AAA size and are a must have for your outdoor camping trips.

Dell is making news again with the official unveiling of the lastest Inspiron Mini Nickelodeon Edition netbook PC especially designed for kids and the kid within you. Dell and Nickelodeon have teamed up and the final result is what we see in the pics below. Stocked with an Atom N270 processor (could have been better), 1GB RAM, up to 160GB hard drive, a 10.1-inch LCD display, WiFi, Bluetooth and a 1.3 Megapixel webcam (the kids are gonna like it but parents won’t), the hardware configuration suggests that it is built around the Mini 10v’s. Notebook is designed to look like it has been slimed which gives it a nicer fell to it. The price is unknown till now, but we can assume that it’ll very close Mini 10v’s $300 as both comes with the same hardware inside. apart from the fancy pint-job. Security wise it will come with a load of parental controls options thanks to a 15 month trial version of McAfee and bundled too will be a handfull of educational applications targeted especially at the kids. The best thing about this notebook is that it weighs only 3 pounds, making it one of the lightest notebooks around and thus the kids will easily be able to carry it with them around anywhere. The Nickelodeon Inspiron hits Dell’s online stores and other (stores) sometime in October later this year.

The Nickelodeon Inspiron Mini may lack the power and punch in terms of hardware and performance but arguably it is one of the coolest looking creations of Dell thus far.

[source engadget]

Recently Sanwa released the 200-PDA016, their so called waterproof pouch for iPhone 3G and 3GS. The pouch will let you work with your iPhone up to 30 minutes under 1m of water maximum, which seems pretty decent said that I had my fare share of experiences of dropping my phones in water every now and then. This waterproof pouch could come handy for your outdoor camping trips. But the waterproof pouch is one of the most ugliest that i have ever seen and belive me once you put iPhone inside the pouch you won’t even recognize your phone any more. My suggestion is to get a waterproof phone rather than put your iphone iPhone in this lord ugly pouch.

[source akihabaranews]

Google’s open source web browser browser Chrome is gaining popularity and google spiced up things a bit with the launch of the official Theme Gallery for Chrome. There are 29 different themes to chose form but Unfortunately, most of theme packages do nothing more than changing the colours of the existing interface and most of them looks quite horrible. These themes only work on the latest developer builds ( 3.0.193.2 or above). For those who were waiting for some new and eye candy themes all these 29 themes will be bitter disappointing. With horrible and awkward colour combination’s in some themes sometimes it becomes even difficult to see tabs properly, making you wonder if the themes were designed by bunch of 5 year olds. Another frustrating fact is that none of these themes do not change the look of the buttons, icons, font or any other such element of the entire Chrome skin it simply changes the background colour of the skin.

Installing themes is quite easy similar to any other browser, all you have to do is navigate to the page in your Chrome browser and click on the ‘Apply Theme’ button under a particular entry. The browser will automatically download the theme and shortly it will be applied.

You can get these themes from official Theme gallery

[via Techcrunch]

Attempting to get a date can be one of the toughest things that a man can do. It can be rather frustrating for men, cause it’s hard to figure out what women want. Mainly because of the fear of an embarrassing situation that could leave you traumatized for the rest of your life (or for even a shorter period of time) or in fear of rejection. To tell you the truth, any guy can pick up any girl, but a lot of factors depend on how things could go.

One of the most important factors that could make your palms sweaty and your voice sound funny and squeaky and make your knees go so weak that you just have to sit down is lack of confidence. You need to be confident on how you’re going to approach things, what you’re going to say to a girl when you first meet her, your appearance. Some guys are so worried about the way they look that they constantly groom  themselves on the move, unaware that a lotta people are watching. Then there is also timing. Timing is also essential for a successful date. But one of the most easiest and fastest way to get a yes from a girl is to know that she is attracted to you. It would really make a lotta difference.

Anyway, here are a few things that you might want to keep in mind before asking a girl out.

1. The initial contact: How to first approach a girl can be a little tricky, because you don’t want to be jumpy or show that you’re tense. Keep your cool and calmly move about. Look for an opportunity for eye contact or common topic that you could talk about and comment something about it. Important thing is to greet her with a smile. While talking to her, reply politely with a smile.

2. Be well groomed: Remember, you don’t have to be the best looking guy in the block, but you do need to show that you care about your appearance. It’s important to wear something that is clean and comfortable and a small dash of cologne and you’re set. Dress enough to impress, whoever that girl might be. Remember, first impressions means everything.

3. Thing about what you’re going to say: It’s best to have something in mind, something to say. Cause if you get too nervous, you might get a sudden speech impediment and and wonder, “what the hell am i saying??”. Complement her. Tell her how nice she is looking. Believe me, girls love to be complemented. Tell her how nice her hair is looking, or how bright her eyes are.

4. Be straightforward and confident: The best way to ask her out would be face to face. If that’s not possible, then the best alternative would be over the phone. Be casual. Talk politely and friendly. If she says yes, then have a plan and keep something interesting in mind. You could suggest an idea that you have. If she says no, keep it cool. Respond as if nothing had ever happened and respond as politely as before. If she says,” …some other time…”, it’s either she’s not interested or she likes you enough as a friend and doesn’t want to hurt your feelings. Accept it as a rejection and move on.

5. Stand by your word and keep only the promises that you can keep: It is very important to fulfill the promises that you make. You tell her something that you’d do for her and you promise her, DO IT. Never be halfhearted with such things. She could be really hurt or offended, knowing the fact that you don’t really care much, trust me.

Remember, be comfortable with what ever you’re doing. Be honest with what you say and what you feel. If you’re out on a date, and you’re feeling nervous, don’t be.  Just tell yourself that you’re not nervous, you’re just excited. Give and accept complements. Don’t brush down a complement and pull yourself down. Accept it. Get your knowledge levels up so you know what’s going on around you, cause being stupid just won’t do. Talk to her about your opinions on matters and things around you. Tell her what your ambitions in life are. Believe me, girls like guys who know what they are doing. You have to be confident with what you are doing and what you have to do.

Lastly, never rush things. Women like patient man who are willing to listen to what they have to say. Keep in mind to respect her thoughts and views. If there is something that you don’t agree with, disagree with respect. Say something like,”…i would have to disagree with you on that….respectfully, of course…”. It would be more than enough and it would keep interest levels up for her as well as you.

When it comes to online file storage and sharing most of us usually speak about Rapidshare, Megashare etc. But things are changing there are loads of new and emerging online file-hosting company that allows almost the same features as the top dogs, sometimes even better.

Using Rapidshare, Megaupload  as free user are pain in the ass. So I guess we seriously need to consider alternatives and give these noobs a chance. Here are some of the best online servers that offers Free Unlimited File Hosting.

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Letitbit:LetItBit.net isa  completely free internet hosting. Upload and share your files are completely free. Neither they limit the speed, size, or term of use of your files. You also earn money for each unique download you file scores. Bad thing is, this feature is limited to a handful of countries.

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Uploadbox: Uploadbox is also another new and upcoming completely free file hosting which lets you upload and share your files completely free. Another useful feature is that you will be able to earn revenue from your files.

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Uploadjockey: Uploadjockey is a free internet hosting similar to LetItBit.net but it has an added advantage over LetItBit.net as payments for unique downloads of your files will be made through Paypal so almost any one from anywhere can earn money.

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Wikisend: Wikisend.com is a free file sharing service that does not offer any payments or hit points for download of your files.

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Ziddu: Ziddu.com is a 100% free hosting service that will let you Unlimited Uploads & Downloads, ofcourse you will get paid for your download of your files.

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1Filesharing: 1filesharing.com 1filesharing.com is a free Web 2.0 file hosting mirror website service with the most advanced features and technology.

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Momupload: Momupload.com gives you a free unlimited secure place to upload and share your documents, music, videos, pictures and personal files.

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Livedrive: LiveDrive is a free of cost and unlimited online storage server. Previously we wrote about the features of livedrive.

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Wikiupload: Wikiupload is a free file hosting & sharing service that allows upload any files upto 5GB.

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Savefile: Savefile.com offers free file hosting & sharing service. However upload of files up to 100MB each is allowed.

Well here you go the 10 free file hosting and storage you never knew about. If you loved this article, please leave your valuable comments and suggestions.

I’m sure most of us swear by Rapidshare, megaupload but hey!, lets try something else. LiveDrive is a free of cost and unlimited online storage server which won’t curb you from uploading multi Gig files. It acts just like an hard drive from where you have access your files anytime anywhere. Good thing is you can access it straight from your PC, its website or even your iPhone or any other phone.

LiveDrive is still in its beta but still it has some useful features like backup, sharing, mobile access and a web portal to manage and upload your files. LiveDrive also allows you to access your online storage directly while you’re offline.

Key features include

• Unlimited storage space
• View files on any device
• Works like a normal hard drive
• Option to send large files to anyone
• Optimized for Apple iPhone
• Access iTunes Music Library from all your Pc’s
• Automatic Backup system
• Your own Web portal to securely access your files
• Work Offline
• Share your photos, videos and other files via the web with a click on a button
• Publish straight to Facebook, Youtube and more

LiveDrive

As you would already know, Meebo is rapidly becoming webs most popular web based messaging client.Best of all it supports all of your favorite instant messaging clients which includes Yahoo Messenger, MSN / WLM (.net messenger), Google Talk, AIM, ICQ and Jabber. Now think about bring all these intregration straight into your desktop! won’t that be cool. Meebone is an Adobe Air application that brings webs most coolest  web based multiprotocol (multi client) messaging website.

Most of us will say, pidgin supports more messaging protocols and have better functionality, but not much of a looker. Meebo has file transfer built in, and supports webcams! MeeBone is a free download, requires the Adobe Air platform to run.

Not so long time ago videomakers would never have foreseen the possibility of editing videos online and getting good results without having to buy expensive software. However with innovation in technologies and the availability of highspeed broadband has lead to explosion of this video editing sites that allow editing of your videos within your browsers, without the need of specific software on their workstations.

Usually video editing tasks are highly sophisticated, but these sites have done a great deal in making it as easy as possible for the non experts.Most of them have great sets of editable options. Now especially because of these online video editing sites, huge video communities are thriving because it lets people to remix each others stuff, create video mashups.

Here are 5 of the best online video editing websites, I hope you like it.

Eyespot is a great online video editing and mixing website, which makes it easy to upload, organize, share videos with your friends. Great thing about Eyespot is it allows you to apply special effects, transitions and even audio dubbing to your videos. The videos can also be send to your mobile phone videos to your account via MMS. It also lets you embed videos to any webpages. Max video upload limit is  at 100mb which i think is enough for a 20 minute video.

Link: http://eyespot.com/

Jumpcut is another cool online video editing and remixing website that lets you edit your videos, create slideshows and post them on any webpage. You can add transitions, titles, effects, and audio dubbing. Besides that it has a cool dragging and dropping feature for arranging content in your movie. Just like Eyespot it has a max file upload limit of 100mb.

Link: http://www.jumpcut.com/

Youtube is commonly known as the best video uploading site and how on earth it didn’t had a video editing tool! But now they do have one, “YouTube Remixer” is a new service that allows users to edit their videos from within YouTube itself. Besides the usual stuffs it got some decent effects, transitions and captions. But mind it, Remixer will only work on videos upload by yourself, you can remix others videos.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/

Photobucket is already a well know player in the photo uploading ,editing catergioes and its video editing capability isn’t lame either. It lets you edit your videos using Flash and lets you remix your photos, home videos with cool effects, video captions, transitions and other things. Images and videos can be directly linked from Photobucket to any site. It also lets you store, share and publish your video stuffs. Max 10 minutes per video and few special features are only available for premium users.

Link: http://photobucket.com/

VideoEgg is a video editing platform that lets you create a social network and offers opportunities for monetization. You can take any file format, from anywhere (hard drive, web cam, camcorder, etc.) drag it into the editing platform and then create a movie besides that you can edit it, while adding effects, making slide shows, create mash-ups, etc- all from withen your browser.

Link: http://www.videoegg.com/

I’m sure i have missed on couple of them, but these are just few of my frequently used video editing websites. Thou i ain’t avid video buff, i still manage to do a decent job with my home videos. Tell me your story and share your opinion.

Sharing pictures is definitely something everybody loves, marriages, parties, taking photos and sharing them with your friends such a great feeling, so nothing beats a fast, easy to use photo sharing service. Actually i got few emails asking me to write about some cool photo sharing services that are free, fast and easy to use. Well thou I’m a avid photobucket user which i think is the best photo sharing service(no offense to flickr users) there are many to choose from.

Photobucket – is one of the most popular image hosting services around, favorite amongst MySpace users. Makes it very easy to post your images to social networking sites; gives you 25 GB of monthly traffic and 1 GB of storage with images themselves being up to 1 MB in size. You can also upgrade to the paid version which gives you 5GB of storage, unlimited bandwidth and images upto 5MB all for just $25 a year.

Flickr- is the grand daddy of photo sharing, but its not just your plain photo sharing service, its a big social network where people can comment, make groups, rate photos etc. For a free account it lets you upload only 100Mb of pictures with 10MB limit per photo. While the pro version which costs you $25 a year is unlimited almost everything.

ImageShack – is another very popular image hosting service. Mainly used for hot-linking purposes by forum members. Upload images up to 1.5 MB and embed them in any web page. Paid version has the file size limits of 3MB and unlimited bandwidth and storage but is a tad costly at $68 a year.

BubbleShare is just wonderful, and ridiculously easy to use. wholly due to the great interface, the best part its free.

Tinypic- is another great service that lets you upload pictures for free. Like it’s cousin TinyUrl it creates urls like( http://tinypic.com/1)

BayImg – is a free uncensored image(that doesn’t means porn) hosting provided by the Pirate Bay. The max file upload size is 100MB and you can can upload about 140 different formats.

Webshots – is one of the oldest sites in the photo sharing. It lets you upload 1000 pictures each month while with a paid account which costs you about $3 a month lets you upload upto 5000 pictures a month and download unlimited exclusive pro shots, high resolution photos.

Here are my personal favorites, but I’m assuming i missed many of your favorites! You can’t blame me for that each week I come across new web 2.0 photo sharing sites trying to make there mark. If you like the post please post some comments and also talk about your favorites, I’ll be more then happy to have chat.