Google Search Hack: Free eBooks, Comics, Music, Videos, MP3

September 19, 2008 · Filed Under How To and Online Tutorials · Comment 

Free eBooks, Comics, Music, Videos, MP3

The term Google Hack means to utilize Google’s powerful search feature and indexes to narrow down the results to your advantage, in short, you are able to Google for free ebooks, read paid articles with Google cache, download mp3 and many more.

We’re not too sure if this is illegal, but if it is, why would Google allows such search strings to exist?

Search MP3

-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” “Michael Jackson” mp3

Using this string we are using the “index of” and the inurl commands to attempt to isolate directories only. The mp3 tag on the end tells google to look for mp3s in these open directories. You can change this to wma or ogg if you wish.

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Search eBooks

-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” +(”/ebooks”|”/book”) +(chm|pdf|zip)

What does all of these weird strings mean? The -inurl htm and -inul html is attempting to filter out the regular html webpages and to display just the index pages. Searching for index of in the title is doing the same. Using the pipe ( | ) tells google to look for something OR something else. The search string is sending a query to google to search for book or ebook directories, several common ebook formats are zip, pdf, and chf.

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Search Comics

Google: -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” “Last modified” comics cbr
or -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” “Last modified” comics cbz

A large number of comics on the internet comes with a .cbr or .cbz extension for use with a digital comic reader software such as CDisplay (Windows) or FFView (MacOS). However you can decompress the files and read them in any image viewer such as ACDsee. Simply rename the cbr extension to rar or the cbz extension to zip and decompress with an application such as 7-Zip or WinRAR.

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What is the Song in the new Apple MacBook Air Ads or Commercial

March 28, 2008 · Filed Under Hollywood, Movies and Gossips · 1 Comment 

Apple is no doubt the king of marketing, every detail are carefully articulated to capture the attention of the audience. I may not the biggest Apple fan out there due to its closed source system, but I do admire their marketing skills.

You’ve got to admit that the song used in Apple MacBook Air commerical is catchy, right? The title of the song is New Soul by Yael Naim. I am not into distributing or promoting pirated mp3s, please don’t ask where to download it for free. iTunes is selling it for a small sum of fee.

Below is the original Music video for the song ‘New Soul’, by French-Israeli singer and songwriter Yael Naim, from her 2007 self-titled album. The song was featured on MacBook Air 2008 commercial.

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Download Free Music

August 30, 2006 · Filed Under Sci and Tech · Comment 

who said that downloading mp3 for free online is illegal? Universal Music the world’s largest music company, has shaken up the record industry by announcing that it will make its song catalogue available as free internet downloads.

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Sony, Yahoo Offer DRM-Free Downloadable Song

July 24, 2006 · Filed Under Sci and Tech · Comment 

Your mother was right about sharing - Learn to share. Infact, Yahoo and Sony BMG Music is offering a premium price for DRM free downloadable songs. No catch, and it is in mp3 format, which basically means you can store it, transfer it and burn it as much as you like. You can even share it with your friends.

The Yahoo Music release is limited to a single song from Jessica Simpson that is personalized with hundreds of names for different listeners, and was reportedly provided DRM-free for that reason. Its a good idea, but witha price tag of more than 99cent, why should I pay for that? I mean I can easily download it off the net for free at bittorrent or using Google search - yes you can use Google for searching mp3. Its illegal and I’m not going to say how.

The key question, however, is whether consumers will be willing to pay a premium price for all this flexibility? According to source, the reason behind this DRM free songs is the fear of turning Apple into a monopoly, controling the music industry in the near future. I think Apple has a great tool and market capability to turn their AAC format into the next mp3, what they need to do is open up the format for other competitors, once it has become a standard, its hard to bring it down - like Micorsoft.

To me, it doesn’t matter if the music is DRM free or not, if it is dirt cheap and I can afford it - then I’ll give my full support. For the moment, I’m still the old fashion type - CDs.

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Microsoft MP3 Player ‘Argo’, You Call That an iPod Killer?

July 11, 2006 · Filed Under Sci and Tech · 1 Comment 

apple microsoft ipod killer argo mp3 player

Funny as may sound, but when do Microsoft takes things seriously? Only when they felt threaten is some way or the other. I couldn’t believe this when I saw this yet to be release picture of a prototype version - dub the iPod killer. The Wi-Fi enabled player is being developed in the Xbox division. One of the main advantage is its ability in downloading songs wirelessly, big deal.

Hold your horses, this iPod killer also has the ability to play games like Sony’s PSP. So, its not just an iPod killer, its an all rounded killer, oh did I told you that its a phone too? I can’t wait for the Argo to hit the market and goes the Dodo bird’s way - extinction.

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