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"iTunes and Pepsi are teaming up again to give away free iTunes downloads, as well as free iPod mini. Chances are good, too, with 1 in 3 a winner (hopefully we can still do the tip up trick). Even better, the codes will appear across a great portion of the Pepsi line, including Mountain Dew and Sierra Mist. I made out pretty well last year when all my friends gave me their codes (too bad I can't play any of those songs anymore since I broke them with Hymn!)"

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Fun Google hack with Google Images - The Digital Photography Weblog - digitalphotography.weblogsinc.com

Fun Google hack with Google Images - The Digital Photography Weblog - digitalphotography.weblogsinc.com

Fun Google hack with Google Images

Posted Sep 30, 2004, 2:43 PM ET by Amit Malhotra

Phillip Torrone continues to amaze us with his photo hacking skills. If you have not already checked out engadget .... here is his latest..

Here’s a fun thing to play around with, if you’re bored at 3am. Most Sony digital cameras start saving photos with the following name “DSC00001.JPG” and a lot of people take these photos and upload them to the web, where the all-knowing, all-seeing Google later catalogs all of them. So by clicking this link you can see the first photo taken by someone with their new camera, this is what it looks like when thousands of Sony cameras lose their photo-virginity.

Update: Bonus fun, IMG_0001.JPG is the equivalent for Canon cameras. So, that will work too. Here’s CASIO, Pentax and Nikon. And one of our readers points out “Using DSC as a search string in P2P programs also works great for turning up things on peoples hard drives they they didnt know they were sharing”.

Where it gets even more interesting is, if you turn off moderate search setting (NSFW) and enter the most generic terms , common names and of course, any potential file name even IMG_0034.JPG.

SAMSUNG Introduces World’s First “3-dimensional Movement Recognition” Phone

SAMSUNG Introduces World’s First “3-dimensional Movement Recognition” Phone

Samsung Electronics unveiled the world's first “3D movement recognition” mobile phone (model: SCH-S310). ‘Accelerometer' is built in to accurately calculate and ascertain movement in three dimensional space and then carry out commands according to those calculations.

Midget iPod, budget iMac? The guessing game is on / At Macworld, Apple must sketch out shape of things to come

Midget iPod, budget iMac? The guessing game is on / At Macworld, Apple must sketch out shape of things to come

Midget iPod, budget iMac? The guessing game is on

Sony DSC-T33

Sony has confirmed that the DSC-T33 (which besides being on the slender side and the latter successor to T-1 and T-3 versions, also has a 3x optical zoom lens and a 2.5-inch LCD screen) will actually go on sale here in March with a retail price of around $450.

The T-1 is a very poor performing camera.

New Version of Wi-Fi

WSJ.com - Personal Technology

MIMO -- which stands for Multiple Input, Multiple Output -- is likely to be the basis for the next major flavor of Wi-Fi, now under development, which goes by the technical name 802.11n. It's intended to replace the most common flavors used in homes today, which engineers call 802.11b and 802.11g. But MIMO is so good that makers are rushing it into the market even before the new standard is complete.

CNN.com - Microsoft offers free security program - Jan 6, 2005

CNN.com - Microsoft offers free security program - Jan 6, 2005

Microsoft Corp., whose popular Windows software is a frequent target for Internet viruses, is offering a free security program to remove the most dangerous infections from computers.

Barely legal? Strip poker hits Cingular phones | CNET News.com

Barely legal? Strip poker hits Cingular phones | CNET News.com

A tepid version of strip poker for cell phones is set to debut in the United States, and while there's no nudity--on the screen, at least--the game's distributor is preparing for complaints that it stretches the boundaries of good taste."

'Alchemy' Au1200

Product Brief

AMD has announced a new chip called the 'Alchemy' Au1200, designed to power portable video devices of all sizes. The hot heat about the Alchemy is two-fold: first, it can resize almost any major format video into different resolutions on the fly (upscale and downscale, it seems), meaning that devices that use the chipset won't have to have video transcoded to its native resolution before copying it over; also, the chip will power portable video players that will be compatible with the just launched TiVoToGo service that will allow you to copy recorded content from Series2 TiVos to portable devices, such as the newly announced GoVideo and FIC's video players. (Thanks, Dimitri!)

Alchemy Product Page [AMD]

Techdirt:Vonage Goes VoWiFi -- How Big Is The Market?

Techdirt:Vonage Goes VoWiFi -- How Big Is The Market?

Vonage is about to pick up quite a bit of press coverage for their unveiling of "plans" to offer a WiFi phone that will work with their service. It wasn't a secret that they were working on such a plan, and it sounds like this isn't so much a launch as it is a confirmation that they plan to launch it at some point (giving them an extra chance at getting some publicity).

Yahoo! News - Motorola to Build Cell Phones Into Ski Jackets

Yahoo! News - Motorola to Build Cell Phones Into Ski Jackets

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Motorola Inc. (NYSE:MOT - news) said it will unveil plans this week for a line of outerwear that uses interactive cell phone and portable music technology in snowboarding jackets, in a bid to win over twentysomethings.