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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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Internet Turns 40
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Can't believe the Internet has reached 40
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Can't imagine living without it
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Great article charting the history on the Guardian website
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Google Maps Navigation
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Connected to net
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Free sat nav!
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Search in plain english and by voice and search along route
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Traffic flow - shows traffic, easy to find alternative route
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Satellite and street view - great
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Android 2.0 at the moment. Great USP for Android phones - killer app. Google are 'working with' Apple in bringing it to iPhone
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UI looks great - if only the other Google app's had same care and attention (harsh - web based gmail is great)
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Garmin and TomTom shares down 16 and 20%!
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What happens if you've no signal?
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Reviews say it's not bad but has major UI and usability issues.
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Droid
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Nov 6th, $199 (after $100 rebate)
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3.7inch screen at 480x854 pixels
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Removable 16GB SD memory
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Removable battery
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5MP camera
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Physical and virtual keyboard
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Engadget review
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Great competitor to the iPhone
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Twitter Lists
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Rolled out to all users
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Allows users to create lists of twitter users
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Lists are public by default (but can be made private) and the lists you've created are linked from your profile. Other Twitter users can then subscribe to your lists. This means lists have the potential to be an important new discovery mechanism for great tweets and accounts.
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Sounds trivial but great way of organizing and promoting tweets and users - replaces follow friday
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Some great lists out there
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3 Strikes Then Disconnect
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UK Gov confirms '3 strikes then disconnect' plan for filesharers
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cost of monitoring to be spread between ISPs and Rights owners
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ISP's preparing legal challenge saying proposals are "wrong in principle, and won't work in practice"
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Lord Mandelson seems more and more clueless whenever he opens his mouth on this issue.
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From 2011 but bill heard in late November
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YASS - Yet Another Spotify Story
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Now only £6.99 for the first 6 months - offer ends soon
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CTO has left the building, announced he'd was taking "a better offer" on twitter
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Competition stronger than ever, with a price war going on.
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Google Powermeter hits the UK
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Partnered with first:utility, small energy supplier
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See power usage on the web, in igoogle
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£69 for device and £3 monthly subscription
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Crazy price
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Microsoft chickens out of Family Guy tie in
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What a surprise, after seeing a recording of the half hour show, MS have pulled out saying that "the content was not a fit with the Windows brand"
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Apparently jokes about deaf people, the Holocaust and incest - normal Family Guy content then!!
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Chickens
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Apple
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VMWare Fusion 3
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Excellent Windows 7 support
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Improved speed of XP too
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iTunes 9.0.2
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Apple TV 3 support
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Kills Palm pre sync - get out
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US Patents granted
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iShoe
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head mounted mp3 player
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Gadgets n Games
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Orange sells iPhone
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Nov 10th
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Day after O2 exclusivity finishes (Nov 9th, 2 years from original sale of iPhone)
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Prices - still no news
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Sky Player hits 360
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October 27th it's launched...
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October 27th it's removed...
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Unforseen tech issue - Unprecedented levels of simultaneous demand - well, derrr
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Pretty impressive overall
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Retro SEGA console Zippo Lighters
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only £70 + shipping + taxes
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loads more expensive than a real console on ebay!
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DS Xl
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New DS, exactly the same functionality, just bigger
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Q1 2010 in Europe - strange time to announce a new product next year
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Is this for the old folks out there?
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Strange time to announce a product
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God of War Collection
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out on 17/11/2009 in US
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no UK date yet, can't be far behind
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No God of War III demo in the UK!
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Demon's Soul
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By From software
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bit of a sleeper hit, gaining a large following world-wide purely through word of mouth and high review
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ultra hard
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out in US now, published by Atlus.
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no UK availability, but it's region free so you can import it from a site such as Video Games Plus for around £41 + P+P
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Picks
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Shakeel
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RedLaser
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barcode reader on the iPhone
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surprisingly accurate, even with the crap iPhone 3G camera
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searches for items on Amazon and Google
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for me so far, more fun than of real use
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but ... if i was out and saw something I wanted to buy, then it could come handy
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Ian
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Listorious
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The directory of awesome lists on twitter
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View lists by type/tag
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Great way of finding useful content
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Can add your list to listorious
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Henry
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Mockups
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demo version online allows you to create mockups of web apps, iphone apps etc
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export to PNG or XML, import from XML if you're collaborating with someone.
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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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Henry
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Henry's personal blog
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Follow Henry on Twitter
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