DigitalOutbox 090808 - Podcast #009
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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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Adopt A Word
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Ian adopted the word 'apple' for the year
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£20 for the year, it's for charity
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Shakeel will maybe adopt a secret word at a later date
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Stacks
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Shakeel has been trying to solve a stack issue which he will blog about
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For iPhone and 1Password syncing, switch to agile keychain and sync via DropBox - solved his issues
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Feedback
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Tam recommended 2 iPhone games - Minigore and DoodleJump
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Brian got in touch regarding the OS 3.0 update - straw poll amongst colleagues - definite slowdown since the update with some reporting shorter battery life
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Chris agree's - loss of slickness and slightly more clunky but not an issue with battery life
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Shakeel - notices the drop in battery life but doesn't see the clunkiness as much as others
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News
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Twitter down, Facebook and Livejournal affected
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Pro Georgian blogger attacked by Russia?
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Shakeel and Chris didn't notice - Ian did as he loves his twitter
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Perspective needed - number three story on BBC
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Shows the power of botnets to cripple massive networks
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End of Free News?
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Rupert Murdoch announces end to free content from his press titles - all titles will be paid for by end of next year
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This is on the back of a $3.4 billion loss
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If successful other sites will follow
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Would you pay for access to The Sun?
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Shakeel makes the point that there are a lot of free alternatives
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Chris points out that there will be always free news content to consume on other sites
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Shakeel see's it as a public service - see's news as free
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Google News Archive
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Quadrupled the content archived
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Has newspapers dating back to 1700's
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Great resource that doesn't get a lot of press
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Skype under threat?
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EBay only has a license for the technology underlying Skype
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The Skype founders company, Joltid, who issues the licence looks now as though it's going to pull the plug on the licence over copyright infringement arguments.
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Skype was bought by eBay for $3.1billion - something which could now be worthless without the licence.
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It's unclear what this will mean for users - whether eBay will develop it's own tecnologies to continue to support the platform, whether we'll all need to find a new service or whether Joltid will buy back Skype for a reduced rate.
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Rumours of Google being involved in a purchase
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Massive impact for business and personal users
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Friends Reunited
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Bought by ITV for £125 million, sold for £25 million
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Now owned by DC Thomson, look to be leveraging Genes Reunited rather than Freinds Reunited
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None of us use it now but it probably was our first social network in the UK
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Delicious and Flickr Updates
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Delicious focussing on being more social - tweet links to friends etc
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Front page now based more on fresh links rather than pages with a high number of saved links
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None of us really use it anymore - bookmarks in browsers for us
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Flickr search improved - now shows more photo's and info for each photo when you search plus links to tags, groups and places related to your search
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Would be nice to search via camera metadata
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Shakeel and Chris point out advantage of SmugMug in that you can apply themes to your photo's and they look really good compared to Flickr
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Flickr's design hasn't really changed in four years
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Windows 7 'E' Cancelled
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Sanity prevails
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It now looks as though the only sensible solution to the whole saga has been chosen as the way forward. The user will now be offered a selection of popular browsers to install from a menu.
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The solution still needs to be agreed officially but looks likely to be spread out across the windows suite of operating systems.
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This should also open the way for upgrade versions of the software to be sold - rather than forcing users down a full clean install of their computer.
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Crazy Microsoft upgrade chart
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Palm again
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The pre was updated so that it's vendor ID say's Apple
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Now complained to USB Implementers Forum - seems the wrong place to be raising a complaint
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Chris wants to see a more open standard adopted - hook any hardware up to iTunes - see's it as a competitive advantage similar to Microsoft and IE
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Ian thinks it's in Apple's interest to work with Apple hardware only and from their business perspective they have every right to determine what hardware works with their software
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Shakeel thinks it would be good to open up iTunes to everybody - at some point in future. Apple have become dominant force so they could be forced in the future
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Gary McKinnon
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Lost latest appeal against extradition
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Hacked 97 computers in the US
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Arrested in 2002 and USA now want to extradite on terrorism charges - potentially faces 70 years in maximum security prison
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Issue (for us) is where did crime take place - UK or USA?
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He admits the crime but do the trial here, not USA
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He has been diagnosed with mild form of autism - concerns over mental health
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O2 Fail
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Data network down again
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Third time in three weeks
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No explanation from O2
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Rumours that they may lose iPhone exclusivity
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T-Mobile already selling iPhones on the quiet
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Importing phones and selling them to high value customers only
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Shakeel saw iPhone 3GS sim free and unlocked on play.com for £900
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Apple
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Exploding iPod
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Apple offers to pay for new ipod as long as family sign a gagging order
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Family didn't want compensation, just the iPod replaced
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Apple tried to silence them - this is on the back of a reporter in the USA trying to investigate how many of these cases there have been and being met with Apple's lawyers restricting access to the information
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US sites and bloggers dismissed this as UK press spinning a story - totally disagree
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Apple could have handled this so much better - refund and iTunes voucher or newer version of iPod. Instead of burying the story they managed to turn it into more bad PR
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Eric Schmidt steps down from Apple board
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Apple and Google are competitors
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Android and Chrome OS competing with Apple's core business
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New hardware?
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iProd1,1
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Tablet with high speed wireless access
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None of us see a reason for buying one
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Can't see Apple releasing a product without a compelling feature
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Chris can't think of any tablet that is appealing
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iMac refresh?
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Blu-ray and some amazing new feature that no one knows about
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Big deal - rumours, rumours, rumours
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Chris - wouldn't it be nice if Apple just released some news? Doesn't it get tiresome?
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Shakeel finds it all exciting as does Ian
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Apple get buzz around their products for free
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Can't believe that other firms don't do similar to Apple.
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Maybe other firms don't have the same level of control as Apple
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App Store Woes?
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Ninjawords app forced to remove swear words and other questionable words
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Also forced 17+ rating
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Not applied to other dictionaries
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Phil Schiller replies to Gruber and points out inaccuracies - developer removed the words, not at Apple's request, but to try and get the app into the store
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Also said they are still learning about the App Store and trying to make ir better
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Apple remove dev license from developer who had 900 app's in the app store, mostly of questionable quality
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This is a good move
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Shakeel - Apple still learning - this is the first App Store really on any device
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Android and Palm are more open - potentially better but then more noise.
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Chris - hopefully there are app's so you can see where the quality app's are - reviews, ratings etc
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Sex offender app removed too - bad for parents, great for sex offenders. Legal to have that information in the public domain.
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Developer to raise legal action against Apple
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Tom Tom Priced?
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£113.85 for software and hardware mount
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Includes hardware and software
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Oop's - we lied - doesn't include the software - that's hardware only
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Other mounting solutions are out there like Brodit which gets a good name
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CoPilot Live - Sat Nav software for iPhone for £25.99. Lot's of +ve reviews, for UK and a very tempting price.
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Chris - people will tend to use a brand they trust - big advantage for Tom Tom
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Games and Gadgets
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PS3 Slim
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80GB discontinued in Japan, 160GB release soon or the much rumoured PS3 slim
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Quiet time for games - waiting for Sep-Dec gaming season
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PS3 Slim - cheaper for Sony, maybe reduce the small fan noise
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Xbox Natal
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No new console, updated 360 with Natal next year
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Natal competition to play it in a couple of weeks
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Nikon S1000pj
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First camera and projector in the same body
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Ian thinks its a waste of time
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Chris - interesting and a sign of things to come
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What about battery life?
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Why not plug into a TV?
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Pioneer Receivers
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SC-LX72, SC-LX82 receivers
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Cheaper one is £1700, 82 is £2000
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Amazing spec's (which it should be at that price) but Shakeel is very tempted
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Picks
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App Store Expense Monitor
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Free, mac only app that let's you see how much you've spent on iPhone App's
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Runs in your menubar
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Let's you enter real price you paid of individual app's as some might be on sale now
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HTML 5 Canvas
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Examples of what can be done without Flash
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Another example pulling random tweets and displaying them with graphics and sound
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Feedback
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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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Chris
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Chris's personal blog
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Follow Chris on Twitter
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Next week
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Boxee - we promise!
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