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Music is by Andrew Harris, a Vancouver-based sound designer and composer. Check out more of his awesome sounds here: http://www.myspace.com/bartelmusic

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Droid Sound vs. Dead Drive!
We should have a Motorola Droid review next week, but, for now, Veronica talks modding her iPhone with the evil Droid robot sound! (Patrick has another trashed hard drive, but this time it’s -not- the drive’s fault!)

Fave Photo Gadgets… and a few quick digital photography tips!
Memory cards and rechargable batteries are cheap, especially if you’ve ever missed a photo ’cause you ran out of juice, or space on a CF card! We list the lens cleaning tools we use, too, remind every new DSLR owner to buy a UV Filter to protect their expensive camera lens, RTFM before the big shoot, and more!

Pocket Tripods!
Any tripod (or monopod!) can help you take better photos, especially at night. Carrying a full sized top o’ the line floating head tripod around is a pain. That’s why we’ve got gadgets like the Joby Gorillapod and Pedco’s UltraPod and UltraClamp in our bags!

Cases
Protecting your pricey digital camera is a good idea. Roger favors a small bag from Lowe Pro for his PowerShot. Patrick’s Rebel is stored in a re-purposed Timbuk2 bag that works like a proper camera holster bag. Need a hard case? Try a Pelican or Otter Box!

Free Software: Microsoft Image Composite Editor
Sometimes, just one photo doesn’t capture the whole scene. Microsoft’s Image Composite Editor is new favorite tool for stitching together multiple photos into a seamless panorama. Just select your series of photos and drag them into the application. You can specify whether you’re standing still rotating the camera, like on a tripod, or whether you’re moving side to side, as if in a hallway. You can fix warps, adjust curvature, choose your center point… and it’ll even automatically crop your results to the biggest possible rectangle! And it’s FREEEEEEE!

Black Friday: 7 Great Cameras For Your Money!
Patrick’s usual digital camera buying advice is just go buy a PowerShot… or the A-Series, Canon’s less expensive line of digital cameras. That said, there are a ton of cameras that offer great value, like Fujifilm’s FinePix F200EXR, $250, and Nikon’s D90, $1100. Want to see the rest of our choices, including a great cheap camera? Watch the video!

Looking for solid camera reviews? Check out the hands on reviews at Cnet and DPReview.com.

Better Low Light Photography!
Night shots are tough, whether you’re indoors at the office, out at a club, or trying to photograph the stars, or our beloved Golden Gate Bridge at night. Our resident nocturnal photographer, Roger Chang, joins us with a heaping pile of digital imaging tips for when it’s dark out… or the light just sucks!

Website Of The Week: Social Status Generator
If you’re tired of putting all that effort into coming up with witty and pithy things to say on Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, Identica, Plurk (wait, is that still even around?) then it’s time for you to check out the Social Status Generator! There really isn’t that much to it. You pick a word from the tag cloud, and then the Social Status Generator pulls a random update from the ether… check it out!

Free Photo Editing Tools … a Question Via DimDim
Christie is looking for some free digital image editing tools. Patrick’s a huge fan of Paint.Net on Windows. Thinking Open Source? The GIMP is popular, and has been ported to Mac and Windows. (tho a lot of folks have problems with it.)

It’s not free, but Pixelmator is a tool both Patrick and Veronica regularly use on OS X.

AlternativeTo.net is a great source for free alternatives to paid software… try searching there, too, Christie!

We took this question via DimDim, an excellent free, easy, open source web conferencing tool. They’re a Tekzilla sponsor. You can get a free trial -and help support Tekzilla- by signing up for the free service at DimDim.com/tekzilla!

Point and Shoot to DSLR???
Ted’s moving from a point and shoot to a pricier DSLR. What should he be looking for? We’ve got answers in the video!

Shooting Movies On A Digital Camera… or a Flip?
Todd writes, “I’m in the market for a new compact digital camera, but I’d also like to shoot some video with it. Have the video capabilities of these digital cameras approached the performance and convenience of a pocket video camcorder, say, like the Flip?”

Many inexpensive digital still cameras will take better video than the $150 standard definition Flip Mino. It’s the MinoHD and Ultra HD that are a bit tougher to beat.

Want to find out our camera picks for shooting HD video? Watch the video!

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Check out the Pinhole Panoramic pictures here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vox/tags/pinhole
and here:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/homemadepinhole

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[Ne-Yo]
Mmmmm, ohh-whoa-ohhhhh
Hey!

[The Game]
Picture me and my gangsta girl, ridin with the top back
Bangin Ne-Yo, my neck frio, my Sox hat
Tilted to the side, like you know I get my grind on
Get my shine on, jewelry blacken on rhinestones
Rims spinnin like a globe on these low pros
Do it big cause I’m s’posed to floss and that’s the reason she break me off
Cause I’m gangsta, and I’m ridin with

[Ne-Yo]
Ne-Yooooo, it’s a thug and a gentleman
Rollin like a boss do, no matter the cost to
Not tryin to brag but, money not a issue
Don’t let your girl see us, that might make her diss you
Cause if she roll with us, she won’t even miss you

[The Game]
Uh, uh, uh
Pop rubber bands when I throw a stack
before it hit the ground she throw it back
When I make it rain that’s chump change that paid for the 26 on my Range
Range, Range, drive, drive, take the wheel when I roll this lye
Climb over to the passenger side and freeze

[Chorus: Ne-Yo]
And once again it’s on
If she take a picture with a camera phone
Then playa she not comin home
And if I’m on her screen saver, that might mean later we gone
If I let her take a picture, she will roll with me
If I let her take a picture, she will roll with me
If I let her take a picture, she will roll with me
And will roll with me, and will roll with me, ohh

[The Game]
If you don’t know by now baby I’m a star, look at my face, look at my car
Look at my waist and look at my scars, look out the window see where we are
In my Phantom, in my Rover bangin

[Ne-Yo]
Ne-Yooooo, it’s a thug and a gentleman (yeah, yeah, yeah)
She never rolled in a car with the suicide
Girl when they see you and I, they committin suicide
All of ‘em want my girl – cause she pretty and thick in the thighs
Homie don’t mess with mine – do us or it’s suicide

[The Game]
She call me Jay, I call her B, we gettin married, to the streets
I’m chasin money she chasin me, I’m right where, I wanna be
With the B, on my Bentley, the horse on my Lambo
Crown on my Cadillac, checks on my Air Max
Haters, better fall back, ‘fore I put somethin in your ballcap
That’s my chick, I got her back like a bra strap
Cause she fine, and she cute, she think she all that
And she all that, that’s my girl, that’s my world

[Chorus]

[unknown female - repeat 2X]
Game, can you take a picture?
Ne-Yo, can you take a picture?
We been waitin all night
Just to take a picture wit’cha

[The Game]
Grab the wheel, take control, and let your hair blow inside my Lambo
Pull out your phone, picture that
take you home let your man know I’m hittin that
While I’m hittin that, she send it back, she drop it low, we about to blow
Me and N-E, dash, Y-O, yo’, girl know
She’s so Ciara, so Eve, so Mariah, so B
She’s so Trina, I’m R. Kelly; she remind me of, my gold D’s
I’m Coolie Hi, I’m Cocheese, she a 34-D, I’m so pleased
I’m So So Def, she’s so Janet, I’m J.D. and she fo’ me
In a H-2, we fo’ deep, through the N.Y.C. off no sleep
I hate to drive but I break it wide when I’m ridin with my show D
I kidnap her never take her home, ridin off bangin Ne-Yo sittin on chrome
In that Maserati see the paparazzi they [cameras clicking] she gone

[Chorus]

Thanks for watching!

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For further information from your local Sony site see: http://www.sony-europe.com/newsonycamera

For further UK information please see: http://www.sony.co.uk/hub/dslr/2/compact-camera

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