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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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Anger at UK Hardened Stance on Illegal File Sharing
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ISP's angry at Government stance that repeat offenders could be cut off from net
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Seems that accusations alone could be enough to cut off someone's connection.
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Proportional punishment? You can be a hacker, spammer, fraudster or other criminal and still have access to the internet. Seems if you share a Myley Cyrus track over the internet - someone whom clearly adds immense value to the creative landscape of modern culture.... Mmm - you can have, what is in effect, an essential service cut off.
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Mandelson ordered an amendment to the digital Britain report - an unelected member of parliament throwing his weight around. Proposals are:
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Blocking access to download sites
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Reducing broadband speeds
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Temporarily suspending the individual's Internet account as a last resort
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Most downloaded TV (4% is uk)
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Heroes; 54,562,012 (2.18 million UK)
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Lost; 51,151,396 (2 million UK)
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24; 34,119,093 (1.4 million UK)
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Who would police this? Can evidence and proof be 100% guaranteed?
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Pirate Bay Taken Down
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The court ordered the site’s major bandwidth supplier, Black Internet, to disconnect TPB from the Internet or face penalties of 500,000 kroner ($70,600). The ISP complied, saying that it had no choice but to uphold the law.
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Shares in GGF suspended, GGF chairman resigned, Owed money to taxman
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Goodbye, it was fun whilst it lasted. Next.
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Alternative pirate bays already appearing... plus it's not as if this was the only site out there anyway. Closing one site will not remedy the problem.
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Nokia Ovi and Netbook
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Ovi
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Applications for all 75 of it's handsets - challenging
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Music store too?
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Netbook
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Their first pc - Netbook - wifi, 3g, bluetooth, sim card slot
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10.1 inch screen
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12 hours battery life - wow (if true)
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Windows 7
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Looks quite nice! (Renders?)
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Fingers crossed for a sensibly priced, sensibly specified data bundle although saw a rumour for $799
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Bing Teams Up With Wolfram Alpha
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Microsoft has apparently struck a licensing deal with Wolfram Alpha to include some of Wolfram's search results within Bing
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No comments yet from either MS or Wolfram.
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MS really do appear to be chasing the search market hard... with Yahoo taking the large majority of ad revenue you've got to question why? Longer term I expect they want to cash in on the Google billions that they collect through paid for advertising once the Yahoo agreement is over.
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Microsoft Sucks At Photoshop
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Polish version of photo has black head removed replaced with a white head but keeping the black hands
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What were they thinking?
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But this probably happens a lot - how many images we look at are real?
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Microsoft STILL amending prices for Windows 7
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From 1st Sept, no longer upgrade price for full version.
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There are now separate prices for upgrade and full
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Have now confirmed the family pack for install on 3 machines
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Doesn't affect those already pre-ordered
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SORT IT OUT!
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Facebook to Change Privacy Policy
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Facebook has agreed to change its privacy policy in response to recommendations made by courts in Canada.
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Existing policy is in violation of Canadian law - specifically its holding onto users data for an indeterminate length of time
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Amends will be put in place that allow users to not only suspend their accounts but offer an easy option to delete their account and permanently delete data.
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However, Facebook has said this could take 12 months to implement... REALLY... 12 MONTHS!!! Facebook must really respect users privacy and the Canadian courts for it to be so high up their development schedules to only allow it to be rolled out in 12 months.
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Facebook 3.0 released on the appstore
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very nice update
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much more refined interface, easy to use and logical
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create your own iPhone-like pages - add and remove shortcuts like the iPhone OS
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Upload photo's and videos from the iPhone
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Create shortcuts to contacts and fan pages
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Apple
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Apple Care About Your App's
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Apple's App Approval Team spend, on average, 6 mins per app to make a decision to approve/reject if Apple's figures are to be believed.
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This process is carried out by 2 people, therefore a total of 12 mins per app.
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Victim of their own success? Stretching their staff a little thin?
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Still some scares stories - ConvertBot update rejected due to use of a clock icon...which has been there since v 1.0
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Yelp
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First augmented reality app
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Hidden option - shake three times and a dialogue appears offerring to enable 'monocle'
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Once enabled, see reviews as you spin around iPhone - 3GS only
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A bit flaky, can't zoom but still awesome :-)
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Spotify Approved
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Should be available to download soon
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Will be interesting to see how it performs over 3G and wifi
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App is free but you need to be premium member to use the app to stream. (£10 month or £119.88 a year)
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The fact that we know this from Apple before the app is available shows that Apple is reacting to inquiry and the recent bad press
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Snow Leopard
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It's out
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Nice flow of app updates to fix some of their 'flakiness'
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DigitalOutbox special coming soon!
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Gadgets n Games
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Xbox Price Cut Announced
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Arcade = £159.99; Elite = £199.99
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No HDMI cable in Elite box - shocker
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Possibly new Xbox Super Elite in October. 250GB HDD, includes 2 wireless controllers + Forza 3?... going to be an expensive bundle.
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Picks
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Shakeel
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Your camera and the Law
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Advice on UK law around taking pictures
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Ian
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TripIt.com
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Itinery planner
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So far all my travel plans have imported well - if there is a mistake then you edit
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Free tripit iphone app to view all travel details, booking numbers and contact phone numbers - no paper required
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Stats on how much you've travelled and where each year - geeky but nice
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Social too - friends can see your travel plans, where your staying etc
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Share plans via iCal feed, rss, linked in, blog etc
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Other app's can import data automatically
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Chris
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Let the "Internet" decide what music you should listen to!
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Dynamically generated Spotify playlist generated by wearehanted.com by trawling as many social networks, blogs etc as possible to see what music people are talking about most at any time.
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List of about 99 tracks.
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Like this for the mashup aspect as well as the fact that the tracks I've heard through it have been good - and different from the char
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Contact the Contributors
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Ian
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Ian's personal blog
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Shakeel
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Shakeel's personal blog
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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 Time
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Snow Leopard special
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