Last year was an exception, but the previous two years Pepsi has had superbowl ads where you could get free iTunes songs with a 1:3 chance of winning. There are certain sites that displayed the information on how to “cheat” the system and always end up with a winner.

Well Perez Hilton posted the (watch it soon as it will probably be pulled from YouTube soon) Justin Timberlake/Pepsi Superbowl (oops I mean The Big Game) ad. Watch it here (or below):

If you go to PepsiStuff.com it has a count down where the promotion starts tonight at midnight. Every “sip” gets you closer to music, sweepstakes, apparel, and more. I personally don’t care about the other stuff, I just want the free music. With the previous iTune/Pepsi offers I have gotten around 500 or so free songs.

Now here’s the catch, the promotion isn’t with iTunes this year, it is with Amazon and their DRM-Free music store. Hey I am all for DRM-Free music, I just don’t find it as easy to shop for music on Amazon, but if it free, I can’ certainly find the time.

So, stay tuned to PepsiStuff.com to find out all of the details, and start buying winners.

P.S. Pepsi can you please include these caps in the Pepsi One bottles? I just can’t stand Diet Pepsi.

AT&T is really pushing their Blackberry line, and why not? The Blackberry Curve 8310 with GPS is the best phone I’ve ever used. It was more functional, flexible, and felt better in my hands then any phone I’ve owned…and I’ve owned a lot, including the iPhone. The iPhone is a very close second to the BB Curve. Well let me show you how to get either one for free.

If you want the Blackberry Curve, and you are a new customer to AT&T, you can simply go on Amazon and buy the BB Curve 8310 with GPS, and after rebates, you make out with $50.01 in cash and a free phone. That’s it…simple as that. Cold hard cash and the best cell phone ever made.

If you are wanting to get a free iPhone, the steps are a bit more involved, but not by much. Buy the BBCurve like mentioned above. Then go online to GSM PhoneSource and get an unlock code for $19. Finally, put your newly unlocked BBCurve (make sure to keep it pristine and sell as new), on eBay where they are selling for upwards of $400.

That on top of the $50.01 you made just from buying the Curve from Amazon will net you enough cash to buy an iPhone including tax.

There you go, a free iPhone, and heck you might even have some extra money left over for a nice case for that newly purchased Jesus phone iPhone.

Buy via Amazon

P.S. This is the method I went about buying my iPhone, but Amazon wasn’t offering such incredible rebates, so I was able to get the AT&T store to match the Amazon price at the time of paying $50, this this method, you can pocket $50 on the purchase of a Curve.

Amazon has posted up the latest operating system from Apple, even though it isn’t expected to be released until October. There is no exact release date posted, but for $129 (no tax and free shipping) you can be sure that your copy ships on launch day.

Pre-Order Now

Just placed my order for the #9 book on Amazon’s Top 100, Ancestor by Scott Sigler. Scott has become the web’s biggest podcast novelist. Starting with Earth Core and progressed into Ancestor. It’s a great listen if you haven’t ever heard a podcast novel. The story line is gripping and he’s quite the story teller.

It is pretty cool to see a podcaster in the top 10, let alone 100 over at Amazon with a book they published based on content that is already out in audio for for free. Congrats to Scott. Now I just have to get him to sign my copy at the next podcast expo.

>Buy your copy todayhis site

Amazon has the Blackberry 8800 for only $99 (after $25 mail in rebate). Even if you forget to do the rebate, the price of $125 is a savings of around 65% off the original price.

The only problem with buying from Amazon, is if you are need of a deposit on a new Cingular AT&T account, they don’t support ordering through Amazon, thus making this awesome deal something that you can’t have. Just goes to prove hat the rich get richer and the poor get … I think you get the idea.

Buy it on Amazon

Amazon has released a new version of their Unbox service. It now fully integrates with Media Center (Vista and MCE) as well as lots of other new features. It is similiar to Apple’s iTunes service, but uses Windows based DRM, so it won’t work on a Mac.

What I really don’t like about the Amazon service, is that I own two of the top name portable media devices (iPod and Zune), yet neither one is supported by Amazon’s service. You need a Plays for Sure device. When will they learn that people like universal access across all platforms (portable and desktop) for their media?

Key features of Unbox 1.5 include:

• 20% faster downloads
• Improved reliability and performance
• 50% faster application load time
• Reduced PC memory usage
• Full support for Windows Vista and Vista Media Center Edition
• Improved portable device support
• Download portable video files only when you want to!
• New user controls and settings
• Video brightness control
• Contrast control
• Video library organizational and sorting
• Optional tooltips
• Multiple file delete

Download Amazon Unbox 1.5 here

Remeber the company that was giving away 1 year memberships to bloggers for blogging about their unlimited iTunes backup service? Well they turned out to have a bit more of a demand then they expected, and their pricing structure just wasn’t working out.

Well they have refunded the $69 paid by non-bloggers for the service, and changed the service to a Do-It-Yourself plan. They want you to get an Amazon S3 account, FTP account, or 2nd mac for backup.

I could of sworn that backing up to another mac was as easy as copying the directory over, but I guess their method is better then that and why not $18/year for the technology of drag and drop.

Webhosts like Mosso and Dreamhost have plenty enough space in most user accounts to upload your entire music library. I am not sure how well the host are going to like you doing this though. Check your TOS before you do the FTP option.

The Amazon S3 service has been something I’ve been interrested in for quite some time. Let me check out my iTunes library and see how much it would cost to host there monthly. (Keep in mind I lost all of my non-iTunes tracks a few months back).

I currently have 19 gigs of music. That means a monthly cost of $2.85, but the initial upload would be $3.80. To restore your entire music library it would be another $3.80 charge.

What if you had an 80 gig iPods worth of music to backup?  $12/month cost and initial $16 upload costs.

I think that I would use the FTP option, and bloggers do get a free 6 months of this new DIY service if you beta test.  The service won’t be available till April 2007.