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MotaHed

[SPEC] New Clue? From new desktop backgrounds .zip

**Posted:** Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:32 pm

groovewaffle · Boot Joined: 12 Jul 2007 Posts: 31 Location: the STL.

this could be something (though I personally doubt we'll see any real leads until Saul Williams' album comes out). I checked to see if this file was a hidden .rar but it's not. Something worth looking into though.

edit:
I opened the image up in a word processor to see what I could see.

The file ._07.jpg has only 1 page of text, which is a whole bunch of question marks and the text: JPEG8BIM

._08.jpg is 139 pages long, and along with the crazy gibberish you usually see and the text JPEG8BIM, there are other snippets, like the words Adobe Photoshop CS3, and AppleMark.

While I still have no idea what this is (or if it is an image, how to view it) it's definitely different from the others in the series.

**Posted:** Mon Jul 16, 2007 5:08 pm

redct · Entrenched Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 1233

Try de-stegging.

**Posted:** Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:29 am

groovewaffle · Boot Joined: 12 Jul 2007 Posts: 31 Location: the STL.

**Posted:** Tue Jul 17, 2007 6:31 pm

Delusional · Entrenched Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 839

It's been said that the "hidden" images ( ._0?.jpg ) are files for Macs, and has something to do with the way they handle .zip archives.
So that particular piece looks to be a dead end although there could still be clues else where in the download.

**Posted:** Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:03 pm

MotaHed

Was just about about to post the same thing Embarassed

**Posted:** Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:52 pm

MotaHed

I think we can consider this closed.

**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:12 pm

Delusional · Entrenched Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 839

There's no reason to close it.
Just because the initial spec turned out to be nothing doesn't mean there isn't something else waiting to be found.
Besides It's good to ask questions and dig around even if it turns up nothing, if not for that how else would so much have been discovered in the first place?

**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 4:03 pm

jamesi

These are Mac OSX metadata settings files.

http://code.jalenack.com/archives/what-is-ds_store/ (not exactly what you've found, but related)

**Posted:** Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:39 pm

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