Eddie Hu of Penpower was on a mission to find out if he'll be able to take advantage of the iPhone's built-in two-megapixel camera for an application he'd like to build that would allow users to take snapshots of business cards and dump the information into a contact's organizer.
But it is also tempting to imagine playing a hand or two of Hearts with the cards, and dumping F.B.I.
For two years, it turned out, an undercover agent in its San Diego office had been buying card dumps from Maksym Yastremskiy, Gonzalez's fence.
The only situation I can think of where this might be useful is one where you literally have to shoot thousands of pictures in a row (somehow the battery must last that long) without ever switching out a card or dumping them into your image editor.
In a pinch, you could go into a store (or find a vending machine) that sells an album you forgot or lost, buy the card, and then dump it onto your computer.
(You could carry a small notebook or stack of index cards on which to dump these as they occur, then transfer them to the master list later).
Instead, after each outing, you can either play the video on a TV (and capture it on a VCR, if you like), or dump the card's contents onto a PC, using the included Windows software, and then treat it as any other digital file.
(500) DAYS OF SUMMER When a shy copywriter for greeting cards (Joseph Gordon-Levist) is dumped by his love-averse girlfriend (Zooey Deschanel), he reviews the 500 days they spent together, searching for what he did wrong.
The site is one of several of a similar nature that see a ton of business after the holidays as consumers dump their unwanted cards for cash or swaps.
A12 New Voting Systems Ordered California officials told nine counties containing more than half of the state's voters to dump their punch-card voting systems and convert to more reliable methods by 2006.
