DigitalOutbox 090713 - Podcast #006
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Welcome
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About
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Welcome to DigitalOutbox
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A podcast all about digital technology - computing, gadgets, gaming
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UK based podcast with a real world take on the digital trends
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News
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Google Chrome OS
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Very little announced
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For power (what does that mean?) users we don't see the benefit
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Good for average users but where do things like iTunes library sit?
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Videos, photo's - all on the cloud? Doubt it.
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Too early to say what this will really do
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Competition for Microsoft
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Was this really a spoiler announcement ahead of Office 2010 announcement?
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Is Jolicloud a competitor?
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Downloadable version by year end
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Office 2010
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Free web based versions of Word, Excel and Powerpoint
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New versions of the desktop app's show some new features but focus is on the web clients
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On the surface, Office web app's look to offer more advanced than Google App's and Zoho
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Google out of beta
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Beta tag removed from Google Mail, App's etc
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Enterprise push over the next 12 months
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Won't slow the development of these app's
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O2 - Free Twitter replies and DM's
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From August 1st text messages to your phone for free for mentions and DM's
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Fair usage applies - 600 maximum please
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Still costs to text to post to Twitter
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Nice alternative to push
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Battlefield 1943
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Frustrating start on the 360
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Doubled server space - still struggled to get a game
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Friend matches an issue as well
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However once your in a game, lag free 24 player gaming was lovely
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1 vs 100
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Beta started in UK last week
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73000 concurrent players
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Play for prizes
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Very impressive, game went very smoothly
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Nice to play something different on the console
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Apple News
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Touchpad netbook rumours
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October, $800
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Believe it when we see it
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Camera's on iPods
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Makes sense
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See it in the September refresh?
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Apple in talks with T-Mobile and Orange in the UK
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Prowl
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Get Growl notifications via Push Notification on the iPhone
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£1.69 from the App Store
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Buy the app and install plugin on your Mac
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Granular control over notifications - downloads, ftp transfers, mail etc
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Not for everyone but very handy
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TwitVid
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Free app to publish video's from the 3GS to twitter
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Works well, picking up a lot of press from iPhone users
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Push Notifications
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The solution doesn't scale
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No way to differentiate between push notifications from the various applications
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Should be a way of seeing older notifications, scrolling through a list of them, click on a notification to launch app etc
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Hopefully a future update will rework how they work
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Snow Leopard Visual tweaks
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Some tweaks in latest build
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Hint of things to come?
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Plex
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Media Player for Mac
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Plays video, music, photo's and internet content
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Interface is superb - gorgeous
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Control via Apple remote - Ian finds it easy, Shakeel isn't convinced
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Setup isn't the best though
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We used a tutorial from ScreenCastsOnline to help us setup Plex
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We've found Plex is picky about how you name your files
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Once setup though playback is excellent. Love the resume features and the metadata that is added to your content makes such a big difference
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Music - not been successful in setting up music. Need to use Plex Media Server but Ian found it crashed and Shakeel's yet to try it
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Applications can be added to stream internet content. Apple movies, iPlayer, various podcasts
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Those worked really well - easier to browse the web content via Plex than it was to use the original websites
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Despite the issues we loved this app. If you've a large video library then this comes highly recommended.
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Picks
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We Choose the Moon
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Great website that replays the events of Apollo 11
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Lot's of information - text, photo and video
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mkv2vob
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Converts mkv's to vob
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Great for PS3 playback
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Can take quite a while for conversions to work
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Feedback
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Skype
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Leave us feedback or questions via Skype
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Close
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Contact the Contributors
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Ian
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Ian's personal blog
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Follow Ian on Twitter
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Facebook
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Shakeel
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Shakeel's personal blog
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Follow Shakeel on Twitter
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Facebook
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Next week
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Using a console for media playback
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