as a newb i am looking to use beads of some sort to humidify my shitty ebay humidor and the hopefully better one arriving friday. now i know that everyone uses heartfelt beads, but i was reading around on cigarpass.com and the crowd there seemed to support using the humidipuck humidifier. now to me the descriptions of the qualities of the humidipuck seemed to indicate it was just beads in a fancy package that made more convenient.

does anyone here use them?
do they work?
is it really beads just disguised?

also if i were to use beads what is the best way to store/keep them in the humidor?

thanks ya'll