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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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Wordpress hack Outbreak
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Hackers exploiting old version to spread comment spam and disguise links to dubious (spyware/malware) sites
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If your running anything but 2.8.4 you're at risk
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Easy to update now - one click although Shakeel can't use this unless he disables all plugins
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If you customise then updating is more hassle
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If you keep vigilant, you should have nothing to fear
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Is wordpress targeted because of it's size, ease of hacking - both? Is Wordpress the Windows of blog tools?
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RSS Cloud
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Push notification of blog updates
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The idea is to deliver news faster, without relying on a single company to do all the work.
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Lazyfeed and river2 support RSS Cloud - others to follow? The biggie is Google reader though.
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After the Deadline
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Really smart spelling, style and grammer checker
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Plugin - enabled on wordpress.com
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DSG Facebook Action
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DSG have said they are disturbed by reports that an unofficial Facebook group for staff of DSG has seen disparaging comments about their customers posted by staff.
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They will investigate and follow up with action where appropriate.
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Aren't all PC World customers stupid by definition? They are buying in store when they could by better and cheaper anywhere online!
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Wider issue of paranoid companies starting to sensor their employees even out of work.
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T-Mobile and Orange Merge
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Merger creates the biggest UK company in the mobile market. (Around 37%).
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O2 current leaders with 27%
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Deal expected to commence in November but take 18 months to complete
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Lies, Damned Lies...and Google
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Google Statcenter
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Many stats have UK/Euro focus - makes a change
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Great variety of stats
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Recommended podcast - More or Less: Behind The Stats
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Apple
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Apple Keynote
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It's Steve!
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Probably biggest news out of the keynote was the appearance of Steve
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iPhone 3.1
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App store update - genius for app's
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New list - apps by revenue - is this to support premium app's i.e. Tom Tom
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Longer backups initially but settled down to being quite quick
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Save video from mails to photo roll
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Stats!
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75,000 app's, 1.8 billion app store downloads (excluding updates) (Really? An average of 36 downloads per device?)
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50 million iPhone OS devices in existence (30 million iphones)
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iTunes 9
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Updated UI
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Easier to get album info - click on i, all tracks
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Cleaner, fresher with more space
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Uses webkit and html5 for some of the UI
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Inconsistent across Mac UI
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Overall better organisation of store
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Application organisation on iPhone
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Finally!
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Easy to move app's around and also move pages around
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Be nice to group app's, by genre etc
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Genius
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New Genius Mix creates 12 mixes
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Mixed results for Ian - one pretty poor, one excellent mix
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Mix can be sync'd to iPhone/iPod
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LP's
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Animations, lyrics, videos etc
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Could be interesting - but will people really want this other than fans?
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Is it to combat music industry who have talked about creating new format to rival mp3
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Extra's
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Think DVD extra's - you can now get them for Movies in the store
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Better sync options
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Sync by genre, artist
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Sync photos by album, faces, events
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Movies now have better options
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Can now fill remaining space on iPod/iPhone with music
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What happens if device is full and you want to buy an app? Delete some music? If so, pretty naff.
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HD Movies on iTunes - where have they gone. We are sure they used to be there but now can't find any.
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Ringtones
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Nasty! 30,000 available now. Worse - they removed podcast from iTunes on iPhone to make room for ringtones - is this to appease the studio's?
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They cost - why bother when you can do it for free?
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Home sharing
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Allows iTunes media to be copied and shared among 5 authorized computers in the same household, with settings available to make copying new purchases automatically
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Currently lax controls on this and apparently you can authorise a remote computer. Share apps and music, then unauthorise again.
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Limited social networking
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Limited social networking - twitter, facebook, upload mix to imix for friends - only share from the store, not your library
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Pretty poor to be honest - share out an advert for iTunes store to friends
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Wish List
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Add store stuff to wish list - just like Amazons
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This replaces shopping cart - everything is now one click to buy! Click Buy, it's bought. Be careful!
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Doesn't look to be a way of sharing your wishlist with friends
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Palm Pre broken again - get out!
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Media organisation
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Folder named Automatically Add to iTunes in your iTunes Music folder (~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Automatically Add to iTunes/ in OS X; C:\Users\Your Username\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Automatically Add to iTunes\ in Windows). Any music added to that folder will automatically be imported into iTunes.
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iTunes Media organization. It moves your folders around into a much more logical structure, with separate folders for audiobooks, iPhone apps, movies, music, podcasts, ringtones, TV shows, and voice memos.
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iPod Updates
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iPod Touch
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64 gb, reduced prices 8gb - £149, 32gb - £229, 64gb - £299
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No camera!
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8GB is same speed as existing Touch. 32, 65GB same speed as 3GS
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Shuffle
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reduced prices, colours - 2gb - £45, 4gb - £59
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Classic - 160gb - £189
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iPod Nano
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8gb - £115, 16gb - £135
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Camera and mic, speaker
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It's a video only camera, no stills!
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FM Tuner - what?
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Pedometer - a bloody pedometer!
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One more thing totally devalued
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Don McAllister
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Great post on all the things that went into the keynote
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Spotify on iPhone
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Awesome
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No Last.fm integration
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Not a background app so quite an advantage for iPod on the iPhone
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4 million tracks to choose from
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Streaming is fast
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Battery life is greatly affected
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C64 Emulator
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Pay per game - deals being made with original IP owners
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Pulled by Apple. They asked for Basic to be removed - dev hid it instead of removing (like Yelp), then told everyone, then Apple removed it. New version uploaded without Basic now. Keep pants on everyone.
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Why are people so excited? All games ranged from pretty pap to utter cack...
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But, if a SNES emulator came out we'd be far more interested!
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Flickr App
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Official from Yahoo/Flickr
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Free
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Quick
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Upload photo's and video
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10.6.1 Update
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Flash, security, minor bugs
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New ad's released. Go on Chris, get a Mac ;-)
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Gadgets n Games
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Monopoly City Streets
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Live worldwide game of Monopoly using Google Maps
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Launched - Wed, Sept 9th
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Huge launch capacity issues. When servers leaked out data - looked interesting!
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Issues now feel resolved. They are resetting the game mid-week to allow everyone a fair chance.
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Palm Pixi
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No wifi, small, smaller keys!
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What a name!
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Dreamcast is 10 years old
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Precursor to Xbox, a great console that never took off
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Soul Calibour amazing, Daytona also stirs memories
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Was online also - there was a great online American football game
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iPlayer on PS3
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It seems the added spotlight of iPlayer has increased viewership significantly, as PS3 now accounts for 10% of all iPlayer viewing. In comparison, Mac accounts for only 8.5% of viewership
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Talking of PS3, Wipeout theme is free, others cost £1.99 - not sure about value
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Zune HD
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No European plans for Zune HD.
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Not to say it's not going to happen - but certainly not any time soon.
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Shame - device looks great.
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Picks
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Shakeel
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Free on iTunes
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Free content to download every week
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Free single of the week
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The Inbetweeners: Series 2 - first 4 episodes currently FREE!!
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Good way to build your library for free
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Try stuff you probably wouldn't normally bother with, only to be pleasantly surprised
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Ian
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Madden on the iPhone
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Plays really well - proper 3D graphics
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Takes advantage of touch so you can draw hot routes for your receivers - great feature
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Interface can get busy but you can slow down time to help pick out receivers or plan your run/avoid a tackle
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Single player only but with multiplayer to come via an update
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All the proper teams - great presentation, game resumes if you quit out for a call etc
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Chris
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Trials HD
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Available on XBox Arcade - PC as well I believe.
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Kick-start in your living room!
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Great game. Around £10. Good looking.
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Starts easy, gets mega hard. Highly addictive.
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Expansive - user content - share your tracks
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Frustrating at times but has the "one more go" in spades.
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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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