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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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Title Music
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Original music by Paul Fernihough - contact via twittter
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News
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Intel in trouble stateside
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Further to a European ruling that fined Intel $1.5bn earlier this year, a further suit has been brought in US
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Centres around Intel paying manufacturers $m's (some years $bn's) to use Intel chips exclusively. Also, withdrawing funds from manufacturers seen to be collaborating "too closely" with chip competitors.
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Democracy Live
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New site from the BBC that lets you search, fnd and watch the debates that interest you
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It brings together for the first time in the BBC, live and on demand video coverage of proceedings in our national political institutions and the European Parliament
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Democracy Live gives you the ability to search for a specific word or words spoken in the proceedings and the results will give you links to the points in the video where they were spoken.
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Very slick, great to see someone trying to innovate in the political arena
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iPlayer Omnipresence
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iPlayer is due to get a closed beta across Freesat. Starting late November.
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Uses the Ethernet cable standard for Freesat boxes.
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No word on when this beta opens up wider or a potential launch date but it's great news.
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Freeview HD box specification also comes with an Ethernet port and will also feature the service in future.
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Now we just need Xbox360 to integrate.
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Skype Is Safe
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A long running story resolves itself. Skype owners, eBay, have confirmed that the issues surrounding the use of underlying technology have all been resolved.
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As widely expected, the original Skype founders, Joltid, now have a 14% share in Skype and this means Skype now own full rights to use the technology as they wish.
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The consortium buying a majority share of Skype from eBay can now go ahead and complete a deal.
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Apple
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Orange iPhone Pricing
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Almost same as O2
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Unlimited internet...apart from the 750MB fair usage clause - nasty
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O2 Allows iPhone Unlocking
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O2 will allow customers to unlock their iPhones once Orange begins selling the iPhone on November 10th assuming your contract has finished
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When asked why O2's 3G network was struggling, Key made these comments. "The O2 network has seen an 18-fold increase in data carried over the network in the last year and traffic continues to double every three months..."..."We are investing more than £30 million to address capacity issues in London alone between now and Christmas and I’m confident that we’ll see much improved levels of service as a result."
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100,000 Apps
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When it launched on July 10, 2008, Apple’s iTunes App Store held just 552 apps. Today, it boasts more than 100,000 in 21 categories (click on image below) that have been downloaded a total of “well over” two billion times.
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Is this a good thing? Discovery becoming more and more of an issue
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Apple TV Subscription Service
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Rumours of a TV service
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$30 a month
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All you can eat TV, Pick the content you want, not just whats on
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Fully on demand, new and old content available
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Not just Apple TV - through iTunes
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Parallels 5
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Win 7 compatible with AERO support and optimised for Snow Leopard
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£59.99 or £34.99 for upgrade (Free upgrade if you bought V4 after 1st October 2009)
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VMWare Fusion users can competitively upgrade for £34.99
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Some users reported problems with Version 4 when it was launched so might be worth waiting to see how V5 is received.
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DigitalOutbox recommends Parallels (Ian was outvoted :-( )
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Gadgets n Games
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Droid is....Milestone in Europe
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HSDPA 3G and........multi touch
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Ships with 8GB SD, not 16GB as in US
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And no turn by turn navigation... (at launch)
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What a terrible name
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Is that a carrot in your pocket? Or has LG just predicted that OLED will be cheaper than LCD in 7 years
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20" coming in 2010. 30" 2011. 40" 2012 - With huge prices attached - but by 2016 they'll be in line with current LCD prices.
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Great news - shame it's not sooner!
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Picks
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Shakeel
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Comics by Comixology
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comic reader for iPhone
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lots of free comics, but only seems to be first or so issues of a series, remaining issues paid for
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very nice transitions between cells
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Marvel comics available but currently only in USA
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Ian
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Secrets
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A database of hidden settings for Mac OS X
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Preference pane as well
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Great way of tweaking Mac and Applications
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Free
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Henry
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Macheist Nanobundle
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6 free app's for the Mac
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Good variety and a couple of them are really good
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Only last for another four days
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Also try One Fingered Discount - 20% off for the next 4 days for around 75 developers and their app's
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Chris
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Swingvine
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Content aggregator - whats hot on the net for music, film, tech etc
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Visually a good way of browsing the hot topics
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Machinarium
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Great flash game
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Graphics are really good
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Point and click adventure
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Buy on website or via Steam
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Feedback
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Competition
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Write a review on iTunes for DigitalOutbox, let us know via our e-mail address and you could win a Google Wave invite.
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E-Mails
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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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