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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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Feedback
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Not feedback as much as an apology to the residents of Portsmouth! My facts were wrong. The people of Paulsgrove merely staged demonstrations, fire bombed houses and cars and made people flee their homes - often innocent residents - and had 5 year-old kids holding some pretty sick placards and chanting hate messages. It was the people of Newport, Wales, that forced a Paediatrician to leave her home after vandalism thought to have come from confusion over her job title.
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Tam recommends PS3 Media Server - Installed this and am able to play mkv on PS3. Java, no codecs to install, supported on Windows, Mac and Linux. Say goodbye to mkv2vob.
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Lewis thinks we are Apple fanboys but recommends Windows Media Server PC - with Blu Ray, playback all formats, record in HD via freesat - perfect solution. Even offered us a loaner.
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Hi to Jim who is a new listener who is liking the podcast - sorry about the volume issues.
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News
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Facebook Buys FriendFeed
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Facebook buys FriendFeed - why?
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FriendFeed was a social aggregator but also a great place for conversations
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Could see posts in real time and also other comments
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Kind of like Google reader for social sites
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Are Facebook buying the team, the search technology or FriendFeed technology?
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Initially site was to be turned off over time but now it appears the site will remain - confusing.
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Google Wave will create a similar environment?
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Google Reader Goes Social
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Can share stories to Twitter, Facebook etc
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Can add send to items for PDF, Evernote, Blog etc
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Can easily mark posts as read if older than day, week etc - far more flexible
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Changes make it easier to scrapbook stories and share with friends
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Google Caffeine
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Update search engine from Google - try the sandbox site
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Faster results but in practice we didn't notice much difference
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Interesting test - try the Blindtest search engine
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Shows Bing, google and Yahoo search results but doesn't tell you which engine was used - some interesting findings - Yahoo is pretty good!
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Mobile App's Phone Home
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Palm pre phones home with private information. Sends geo location of phone, list of applications, how long they were used for, crashlogs and alos third party apps not authorised by Palm
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iPhone apps using Pinch Media also do likewise including sending back Facebook information like gender and age group
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Main annoyance isn't the fact that app's are doing it (mobile phone vendors get a lot of this information every time you use your phone for example) but that app developers aren't making it clear that this information is captured or give the user an option to opt out of collecting the information.
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Microsoft Can't Sell Word
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Patent infringement on XML structured document storage - ie how Office documents are stored as docx, docm etc
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Judge in Texas has ruled that a patent held by i4i has been infringed and therefore Microsoft must stop selling Word or importing Word into the USA. Some pretty woolly distinctions on what the companies "invention" is - they call it "custom XML"
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There are lots of other products that apparently infringe the "invention" - such as OpenOffice - but they haven't gone after them.
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Isn't all XML custom!!?? Isn't that the whole point!!??
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Looks like i4i may well just be chasing a cheque
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Pretty ironic that MS gets whacked for trying to open up their document formats. After years of proprietary formats.
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Download The Pirate Bay
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Torrent of the index that powers The Pirate Bay has been made available
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Done just a few days before site changes hands and evolves
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Apple
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Keynote and Rumours
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September 7th?
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New iPod touch with camera
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iTunes update with BluRay support, social network integration and app organisation
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Apple might develop their own social network integrating with iTunes and iLife
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Hardware
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Tablet - OLED screen!
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15 Inch Macbook Pro's now have matte screen option, at a higher price! Shocker!
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Phil Schiller Speaks Again
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Talking to more app developers - strange that someone so high up in the company is doing this
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Outlook!
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Office 2010 for Mac will replace Entourage with Outlook
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Ian not fussed, Shakeel looking forward to this
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Snow Leopard
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Gold Master announced
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Rumour of Aug 28th launch date
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Packaging shots released?
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Gadgets n Stuff
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Toshiba Moves to Blu Ray
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Finally gives up on upscaled technology
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Still thinks HD format war was required
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Zune HD
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Great interface, 720p playback form dock
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16:9 OLED screen
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Web browser with Bing search
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Rumoured App Store in the future? Trying to tempt Apple developers.
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Launched September 15th in USA
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Not in UK - why not?
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No mac client - would he Zune HD make us switch?
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Tempting for Chris if there was a phone in it
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Not so much for Ian and Shakeel without a Mac client
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PSP Go
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Visit uk PSPGO site and it's a Nintendo advert
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Cheap but funny and good PR
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Picks
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Ian
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CoPilot
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Great Sat Nav app for the iPhone - £25.99
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Clear graphics both 3D and 2D
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Postcode searching, goto Point of Interest, Contact address
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Live Services - view where friends are, weather forecast for area, contact vehicle breakdown service with location
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Speed limit warnings
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Worked well in anger, one GPS locked on it was fast and reliable. Clear audio, clear maps and good lane changing assistance.
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Recalculating took 3-4 seconds and was good enough
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Doesn't have speed camera's but that will come in next update
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Keyboard layout a bit awkward, again qwerty keyboard to be included in update
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Chris had a small issue with the app almost powering down and taking 20 seconds or so to start tracking again - to be addressed in next update
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Bargain for the price especially against Tom Tom at £60.
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No mention of map updates or if you look at Live Traffic it's a button but greyed out - in app purchase in the future?
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Mount for it - Brodit
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Chris
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The Edge Of Flash
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Some inspiring, highly creative and generally amazing Flash based applications.
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It's worth going through the back archive of the Adobe Edge magazine:
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Couple of recommended sites
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Feedback
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E-Mails
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Twitter
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Follow us on Twitter
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Facebook
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We're on Facebook too
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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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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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