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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 Audio
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Announcement next Wednesday 28th
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Partnered with iLike, LaLa
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iLike = social music discovery service, available on Facebook, helps people share music recommendations, playlists
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LaLa = music streamed from browser (US only service)
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US Only
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Update - A feature rich search service with videos, previews, artist bios, graphics and options to buy (through LaLa, iLike).
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Twitter real time search deals
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Deals with both Bing and Google to integrate status updates into their search results
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Microsoft’s new integration with Twitter is essentially integrating Twitter search within Bing. It updates in real-time. Here’s the kicker though: you can search tweets by not only recency, but by relevancy.
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Microsoft is using information such as the number of retweets, captions, the quality of tweets, and keywords in order to sort tweets by relevancy.
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Bing will display the “hottest” (trending) topics on Twitter in the form of a tag cloud
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Google announcement and said it's 'coming soon'
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Google also announced Social Search
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Coming in labs soon
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The bottom of search results will soon have social networking information from your friends, like their Flickr photos or their status updates. It’s a blended search integration, similar to seeing news or image results.
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These are pulled from social networks connected to your Google Profile. The more that are connected, the more social information that will appear in search results.
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They have also improved searching for images using social networks. Images become more relevant using social networking data.
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Peope Tagging in Flickr
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Allows you to tag people in photo's
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people can be flickr members or non members
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lot's of control around who can tag, whether you can be tagged etc.
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profile page updated to support this feature
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Windows 7
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breaks Amazon pre-order volume record
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more sales in first 8 hours of pre-order availability than total Vista was able to do
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The launch of Windows 7 has superseded everyone’s expectations, storming ahead of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as the biggest grossing pre-order product of all-time at Amazon.co.uk, and demand is still going strong.
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Launch showed some nice features
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Amazon multi-touch Kindle app for Windows 7—full color photos, pinch zooming to enlarge text, looks awesome. Could be a much-needed killer app for Windows 7 tablets. Maybe.
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Streaming to 16 different screens from one Windows 7 PC using Play-To feature is actually kind of impressive.
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Noteworthy features
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Taskbar - more intuitive, can pin to taskbar, reorder app's you have open, no more quicklaunch (quick launch still in - but hidden away.)
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Aero - hover over taskbar icon and window appears with content - aero peek, drag window to top - maximise - drag left or right to snap to half the screen - aero snap, throw cursor to bottom right - show desktop - just like expose
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Well done to MS on the interface - makes windows much better to use, focus on tasks, easier to use - a great upgrade to the interface which is welcome and puts it on a par with mac - needs an expose rip-off and it would be better than mac interface for usability
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libraries - virtual grouping of files and folders, folder can be on any computer or drive on home network - very powerful
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media sharing - stream to other computers on home network (or external network if credentials applied both ends)
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better search (5 seconds to index new files)
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quicker is debatable looking at many of the reviews - boot time's on par with vista or worse
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UAC can be customised. Default setting down one step on Vista (only asks for confirmation when app wants to make a change to computer, not when you make changes). Possible to step it down a couple more steps, firstly doesn't dim (i.e. lock out) the computer awaiting confirmation and final step turns it off, not recommended by MS.
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Microsoft store
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It's an Apple store...selling windows
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
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Why shouldn't they copy the Apple store - it's such a success they'd be mad not to
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New Mac Ad's
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Broken Promises is actually pretty funny
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It's boring, arrogant, twatty and flies in the face of tech buzz, therefore sounds out of touch. It was funny 3 years ago when MacOS was a huge step above - it is no longer funny or true..
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Apple
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New Hardware
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iMac
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Bigger screens, true HD 16*9 ratio's, backlit LED
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Can also act as a screen for other devices - consoles, blu-ray players etc. A first for the iMac
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SD card slot below superdrive
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First quad core option for an iMac
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Price is amazing for what you get
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A great update, pity Blu-ray isn't an option
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Mac Mini
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Speed bump, double the RAM
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£799, 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB memory, Dual 500GB hard drives, Snow Leopard Server
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Perfect for under the TV but where's the Blu-Ray option.
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Macbook
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7 hour battery (built in), 13 inch LED, glass multitouch
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Such a bad upgrade - no firewire, only one sound port
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Trying to differentiate with Macbook Pro but instead release a fairly poor product
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Magic Mouse
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It loses the scroll ball found on the Mighty Mouse, but adds support for scrolling gestures. This mouse is also wireless, using Bluetooth, and has a four month battery life.
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no buttons at all and sports a "seamless multi-touch surface."
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Tried it and not convinced - side swipe feels/looks awkward
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£55 although still think Logitech looks a better option
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New remote (fugly?), airport extreme and time capsule now 802.11n, not draft n, 50% better performance, 25% better range
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Overall, iMac is the star - amazing machine especially the quad core option coming in November
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Psystar
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sells Rebel EFI software on website allowing intel based PC's to run OS X - Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, i7 or Xeon Nehalem
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8MB download - $89.99 but currently listed with $40 discount
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requires 38 steps for installation
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Free to try with limited hardware functionality and 2 hours run-time
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Piracy and the App Store
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%age of pirated scores submitted in first week 80-90%
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Now most pirates will tell you that they just like to try before they buy. If it’s a good game, then they’ll buy it. Well, from this data we can conclude that 0% of pirates think the game is worth buying
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Apple not doing much about this
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Wolfram Alpha
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Wolfram Alpha on iPhone for £29.99/$50!!
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couldn't it just connect to the website? would be slower but still useable.
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Apple Slate?
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Off the record comment about new Apple product
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If you look at the transcript of his chat, or the 8:20 mark in the video, you'll see him refer to delivery of journalism to mobile platforms, and then he mentions the "impending Apple slate".
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Now on video around t'internet
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Gadgets n Games
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Motorola Droid
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Android 2.0, same processor as iPhone, physical keyboard
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Advert takes it to Apple
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First proper competition to iPhone?
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3 offering HTC Hero with Spotify Premium
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£99 for phone, £35 monthly, 2 year contract
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free access to Spotify premium service for 24 months(£240)
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750 minutes incl, unlimited texts/skype-calls/3-to-3 calls/data-access
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360 Twitter, Facebook, last.FM
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Preview program - dash update then download individual packages
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Work like separate app's n the 360
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Last.fm - nice, visuals alongside music - scrobbles tracks, can't play in background
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Twitter - simple interface, can tweet, see trends, see recent tweets from friends, can't click on links or view pics
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facebook - clunky at first but it's ok - nice way of browsing friends pictures
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Forza 3
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Love it
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60fps makes such a difference
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Extensive online options
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Storefronts
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Uncharted 2
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Great game
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Potential game of the year
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Shakeel is loving it
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Picks
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Shakeel
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Super Hero Squad: Create Your Own Comic
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Free online comic creator
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create a quick 3 panel comic strip or a multi-page comic book
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use predefined assets to create your design: backgrounds, characters, objects, sound f/x, speech bubbles
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good fun
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Ian
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Amazon on the iPhone
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allowing users to shop using their phone
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'Amazon Remembers' service. Users can take a photo of an item using the iPhone and email it to Amazon. The retailer will try and find an item like the one in the photo and email a list of suggestions to the user.
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Took photo of my mouse - 20 mins later I got a mail back with a link to purchase the mouse on the Amazon app/store
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can also access more than one million Amazon.co.uk products using the phone. They are also able to access wishlists, payment details and use One Click ordering for products.
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Fast but too tempting for some!
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Chris
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Top10 Broadband
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Broadband speed checker that places your result plus provider on map and lets you look around. Are you getting a good service in your area?
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Plot's speeds on Google map's - make sure your getting good speeds in comparison with neighbours
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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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