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I guess you’re curious about our new baby, the Samsung Digi-Max Pro815 camera. This is one of my very first photos with it, without any special settings.

There is some flaws with it, as it always is, but I’m satisfied with it because I knew about them before I decided to buy it. I was comparing the benefits with the drawbacks and established that it (for me) was more benefits than drawbacks. We’ll see if I change my mind after using the camera for a while!

The main reasons why I did choose this camera was:

- The world’s longest built in zoom: 15 x optical
- The largest display on a digital camera, 3.5 inches
- The extra (smaller) display on the top
- The 450-shot Lithium-Ion battery
- 8 megapixels

With a focal length of 28-420mm I can shoot from wide angle to telephoto with one lens. I’m lazy and don’t feel like changing lenses (or battery) all the time… And think about all the fuss I could make loosing the lenses! *smiling*

The extra (smaller) display on the top was a big reason because with that I can shoot from my hip like a real cowboy ;-) without bending down in certain situations. I have problems with my back, so this is an important feature for me.

Now I need a solution to be able to attach the camera to my belt…

Bob Atkins about Samsung DigiMax Pro 815
dpreview’s facts about Samsung DigiMax Pro 815

We’re going out all day today, testing our car (!), shopping and visiting Mom Lifecruiser. So I will share another blog with you so you get something totally different to read in the meantime.

I don’t normally do this, but as it runs in the family, I would like to introduce you to my old mothers blog, Lifelessions.

There should be a lot more of older bloggers out there, it’s so educational to read!

Go to Lifelessions, the old chick blogger

We hope that you haven’t missed the fantastic map service on the internet to look up other blogs in certain areas of interest or get to know the local time in certain places.

Just click some where on the map and you get the local time, international calling code, area code and some blogs from that area - can it be any easier?

There even are features for making friends, travel information and more, maybe not so interesting things….

Gchart gets local time or local blogs

At last, done with our Flickr Pro account!!!

We have a lot of photos to choose between so I suspect that we’ll have a lot to do for a long time ahead sorting out the good ones and uploading all of them to flickr….

The first ones out is from our journey to the guest ranch in Paraguay and Iguazu falls, after that it will be a few from Brazil and then from our other passed journeys too.

Take a peek at our Flickr photostream at their site OR by the cool photo badge (flash) in the right sidebar on this page. We have even added a menu choice “Photo” in the top of this blog, which will take you to our flickr photostream.

Enjoy our photos :-)

“hanzo:web is a new service that enables you to save and archive web pages, collections of linked pages and even whole sites on the web. The beauty of this tool is that you can access and browse these pages or sites even when the original site ceases to exist”.

Click here to go to Hanzo:web

NOTE: Web pages content can be BIG, so be careful with the option to save hole web sites if you only have the Free version with 100 MB/month…

It would be nice to save our old websites/blogs there. Hm, or maybe not….? How ever, it would be nice to save some really special websites there.

Not ours then :-)

There really is a lot of interesting sites out on the internet.

If you don’t have any one that nags on you, you can make some nagging by email on this site called Hassle Me.

Hassle Me service by email

This is a cool tool for the busy ones who has a slight case of altzheimers or dementia (or bad cases like us).

If you publish the Calendar badge on your blog, you get a lot of help from other people reading it and reminding you. If it is stuff you want to be reminded of, of course. Do not write about embarrassing things there. Or, come to think about it: please do that!

You can share calendar with a bunch of people, for example, the other maniacs you fool around with.

There is the option to mark the event as private or public, but we prefer if you do not mark all the naughty stuff you write there as private ;-) Do not be stingy, share your most private details with every one on the hole world wide web. Exciting yes?

There is a widget for your own computers desktop too, so you can sit in piece and quiet and write down everything nice that is happening in your life. Or nothing if you having a boring life. Then another feature is very helpful - when you are out surfing and see some cool event on other sites, you can add that to your calendar.

One of the most useful feature is that you can choose to be reminded by email for important events - if you remember to click that choice….

All your fans can subscribe to your Calendar with rss-feed. Need we say more?

All this fabulous stuff and more (for free!) with the excellent CalendarHub!!!

You can se how the badge is looking in the sidebar to the right of this page, between Categories and Monthly. If you click on the headline in the badge (Events), you can have a look at our calendar.

NOTE: It is a BETA-version, still improvements needed, but hey, it is free….

Look up what people in the world are known for, and hey, if you do not like what it is saying about your country - do not blame us for that, blame Google!

A small request from this Swedes:

What the heck means with the word Austerity????? They say that the Swedes are that, but we do not even know what the word means… And we can not find it in the dictionairy!

Could someone explain it to us please, so we know how we shall behave to be really Swedish….?

In the meantime we will drink our coffee and carve our Viking longboats!

The Prejudice Map

Had a really bad day?
Had a really good day?
Had an exhausting day and need to relax?
Need a way to make someone else to relax and have fun?
Need help to go to sleep?
Need some way to escape reality?
Feel an urgent need to mix drinks?

….Or just feeling plain thirsty?

Try out this site that we stumbled over today: Extratasty

OK, we admit it: we are really weird!!! (As you have not noticed that already *lol*)

Now we have created a Froogle wishlist with things that we do not need, but it would be cool if we had. This will make us geeks more cool. At least I think so… Not sure of some of the items though!

I am sure that you suddenly will feel an urgent need to buy us the cool stuff:

Lifecruisers Froogle wishlist

What do you think about them? We want to be more cool, what is your favourite of them? (Do not miss that it is more than 1 page!)

If any of you are curious of how we look, you can just look at this avatars from yahoo - or take a peek under our About section in the menu above to see (and read) more.

As usual, the pictures are a little bit (ok, not so little) flattering, but hey, allow us to be good looking at least for once in our lifes!!!

Do not miss the fact that the pictures can change from time to time.

Why pay for phone calls when you can have them for free? Answer: because you are dumb enough….?

There has been a hazzle to get hold of functional phone cards with good options, when Miss ass. lifecruiser and I tries to call each other now when she is in New Mexico, US.

As free Skype users since a while back, we suddenly remembered that they even have a good offer for calling out to real phones! What a difference! Much better than the damn phone cards! WHY did’nt we think of that before?

With Skype you can talk through your computer worldwide with other Skype users for FREE and with a good quality - better than the phone cards - usually with the same quality as your home phone.

All you need is functional speakers and a microphone (which is built in, in modern displays) or get yourself a slim headset if you want to talk more privat, that is what we have. If you prefer to talk the oldfashioned way: get a USB-phone.

You even can sign up for SkypeIn and SkypeVoicemail if you want the whole kit :-)

Or what about the Skype Zones (BETA) that allows you to connect with wireless from a lot of hot spots around the world?

Or the Skype Toolbar for Outlook that allows you to make Skype calls to persons in your addressbook in Outlook or even in emails?

Nice things to have too, uhhh?

Unfortunately miss ass. lifecruiser does not have a laptop with her…. Anyone who feels like going to New Mexico and donating her one….?

So we are going to get a paid account, SkypeOut ( at once!), beacuse we don’t want to be dumb any longer…!!!

Click on the picture to SkypeOut you too - or at least read all about it.

[ …. And the winner is…… BlogAdvance ! ]

Motivation: This sites members and staff together creates a very special atmosphere.

One thing that we have said from the beginning of this blog, is that we will be doing some reviews of things. Lifecruiser is a blog more based on quality than quantity, to put it simple.

We just pick out the things we like the most, even when it comes to blog traffic exchange sites. There even can be a slightly odd reason sometimes for why we think it is the best, but it is still our best choice.

That is even the reason for us to NOT jump on the bandwagon of all the advertising and affiliates business that, in our meaning, is totally destroying the blogs/sites. When the blog is full of ads, we just skip that page, do not want to read a line. We do not trust the content of the page.

So ads can do damage to your blog. Some ads are okey, but not too many. It do not feels trustworthy. Like they all have bought you. Or it is like not seeing the tree for all the forrest.

The last weekend we did quite a good work surfing trough six of the most mentioned blog traffic exchange sites. It was hard work, but we wanted to know, what it all was about.

Was it worth it to be a member of them? What could we gain? Did it increase our visitor stats? And a lot of other questions. Born curious as we are :-)

We came up with one winner in our eyes and that is BlogAdvance. The main reason for this is that we think that this is a site that really listen to their members and keep up a good level on the service. They are rather new - maybe that is the reason for the enthusiasm they have shown us.

They have had their well functioning member forum for a while and other blog traffic sites is now follow after and is creating forums they too. It is important that the members can reach each other and discuss or help each other besides the comments.

We also like the fact that BlogAdvances surfbar goes a little micro bit slower, because the over all meaning of it is that people actually shall READ your blog, not just surf by it to gain some credits!

They all have some different ways/functions, so you can not really compare all that between them, but as we said in the beginning: BlogAdvance have a special atmosphere that we did not find on the other sites.

One of them even had a bit infected atmosphere that was not nice at all. There seems to be some “grouping” as usual and it is a pity indeed. We have also found certain emails from one of the other sites staff a little bit unnecessary rough sometimes.

So, yes it is worth it to be a member, if it is the right one where you can feel comfortable and among friends.

We do not feel like it is worth it to be at all the sites, it is not that big difference in the visitor stat that it rewards the time (or paid credits) you have to put down on it.

Besides that, if you really shall get the most out of it, you should not only join as a member to show your own blog, you should participate through leaving comments and be an active forum member. There you have the real benefits of it! Getting hold of the other members experience and opinions.

You are most welcome in the gang - go there and introduce your self :-)

 

Finally, even we will write something about the Katrina disaster. It is so hard to get the words come out right. There is no proper way to say anything on the subject other than that we all feels the pain with the victims.

How ever, there is something we have missed in all the writing out there on the internet and that is mentioning of the other victims, the animals. They too suffer in this mess.

So we will instead urge you all to donate some money to save some of this equally innocent victims.

When out travelling around the world it could come in handy with this Earthquake Monitor - hey, it is not our meaning to scare you up, but it is good-to-know-facts!

We had booked a journey to Malaysia and the Philippines in Januari this year. We were going to stay in Malaysia for two weeks at a Golf & Spa Resort Hotel and really get spoiled. Then we were suppose to head for The Philippines and The island Boracay and stay there for 1,5 month…. *dreaming*

Now, it is a strange thing here. Mrs Lifecruiser seems to have some kind of spell put on her, beacuse where ever she goes - where the weather conditions normally would be good - she get bad weather. We do not know what evil she has done to deserve this, other from being a freak and a hungry monster we can not think of anything.

This time, what happened just before we should leave? Yes, you have guessed right, The Tsunami came. It smashed in over the same coast line in Malaysia where we should stay. Luckily for us, this time, we were not there yet, but this still ment that we did not get the pleasure of enjoying this trip! There was no way that we could go there and enjoy anything after seing all the news from the tsunami, pictures of the hit rolling around in our heads.

So we did stay at home and instead donated money to all the poor victims that were there.

Afterwards we did a check up with the facts of earthquakes and tsunamis in all that area and yes, it could be a risky area to visit, but then of course: how could you ever know in advance about any disaster???!! Ever so often the nature beats us. Just look at the Katrina disaster now.

You will never know where nature hits, but you can not go around and thinking about that all the time either. We must do what we came to the earth to do: just LIVE the best way we can.

We maybe will go there another year instead, The Philippines seems so very beutiful. We have friends that use to go there every year, for many years now, that is how we became interested of going there. They have only good things to say about it!

Another strange thing is: when we go to places where we NOT expect the weather to be fine, it has been better than it use to be… For example when we went to London and Iceland it was surprisingly fine weather there! Even when we were in Scotland it was not as bad as it could have been.

But we still wonder: will there be bad weather on our next trip? In that case maybe The US should put up an early warning systems for visitors with a spell on them….?

EARLY WARNING! Lifecruiser is coming to the US, Ohio the 19th of September!!!!!