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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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You are being logged
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Home office to push ahead with plans to require communication companies to record all transactions
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Home office worried that existing legislation relates to phone rather than net
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Content of communication not recorded - but source and destination logged
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Internet service providers and telecommunication companies will be legally required to store records of all personal communications for one year
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That data will be made available to a wide range of 653 public bodies including police, fire and ambulance services, the Financial Services Authority, prison governors and local councils. Obtaining access to the data won’t even require the permission of a judge; authorization from a senior police official or equivalent department head at a local authority will suffice.
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Cost - £2 billion over next 10 years. Yeah, right. Double that estimate please.
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Murdoch May Block Google Indexing
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As part of the push to charge for content from the Murdoch empire, it looks like Rupert may be looking at ways to block google indexing.
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According to Murdoch, Google's indexing of headlines and intro paras is not fair use and represents illegal use of his content.
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Happening within months and quarters, not weeks
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Highlights the problem facing all content creators. How to get the $$ (or ££) return on investment?
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It's possibly the most foolish business decision since Electrolux turned down Dyson.
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Google Buys Admob for $750M
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AdMob is a mobile advert vendor on device such as iPhone and others
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Many iPhone apps that display adverts are served by AdMob
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AdMob have served almost 125.5billion ads and counting
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the deal will make Google the market leader in mobile advertising ... evil
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apparently Apple were also interested in AdMob before Google purchased it
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Googles GO
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Another new programming language
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combines the performance and security benefits associated with using a compiled language like C++ with the speed of a dynamic language like Python
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All about speed and flexibility
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Mascot is........Gordon The Gopher
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should you learn it? Good advice from last year by Giles:
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Bing Maps UK
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At last, bye bye multimap
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Great London maps
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Ordnance Survey maps - superb!
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Nearby Stations
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Explore wikipedia, photo's, tweets
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Walking routes, draggable routes, embedable maps
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Apple
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Worm Attacks iPhone
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Only on jailbroken phones
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Only if default password isn't changed after installing ssh
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Harmless worm, changes background picture to rick astley but source code made available - other nastier versions surely to follow
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make jailbreaking easy, this is what can happen
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Shoddy reporting from BBC
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10.6.2 Update for OS X
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fixes the much publicised 'loss of data when logged in as Guest' bug amongst others
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Apple wins Attack of the Clones
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Apple has won its case against the clone Mac maker Psystar
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Are EULAs a good thing? This case proves that they're clearly enforceable by law, at least in the US.
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Gadgets n Games
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Modern Warfare 2
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Single player - more set pieces than before but still impressive
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Spec Op's - great addition bite sized gaming
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Multiplayer - massive and impressive
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MP typical aghast reaction to game - another MP reacts to give gamers a voice
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This is an 18 certificate game. This is a game played by adults. WHEN will MPs realise that gaming is not the preserve of kids and that the average age of gamers is over 30!!!
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Controversial scene - on side on terrorists mowing down civilians in an airport
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Just not needed, added for publicity only. Doesn't add to the story.
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A stunning game overall - just no need for the airport scene!
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MS Ban Hammers Chipped Consoles
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Just ahead of Modern Warfare, MS has banned multiple consoles from XBOX live.
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No exact figures given, but perhaps 600,000 accounts banned.
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All MS have said is - a small proportion of the 20,000,000 live users have been banned.
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Laughed at the story of Raz who is 25 years old and he's gutted
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Pirated 30-40 games and can't believe MS have done this
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Twat - shouldn't have pirated then
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MS confirm it's permanent - well doh!
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Tell you what Raz, lets call FAST, get the police around and arrest or fine you for software piracy.
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Rumour alert - Natal out Nov 2010 priced between £50 and £80
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Very cheap
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Still a year away
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iPlayer for Wii
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WHEN for my 360!!! I'm more than happy to swap the Sky Player/Twitter/Facebook etc for an iPlayer channel.
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Picks
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Shakeel
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Paint.net: a free Photoshop alternative for Windows
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a great program for developers for doing photo editing without having to purchase Photoshop
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offers many Photoshop-like features and offers almost everything for the average user/developer
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received it's first update in years, now at version 3.5
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layers, special f/x's, unlimited Undos
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now includes blurs and distortion f/x's
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improved performance
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visual makeover (enhanced for Aero/Glass)
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growing online community, many tutorials, even plugins are available
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Ian
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Viewfinder
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small focussed app for the mac
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flickr browser, searcher, downloader
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search by tag, description and sort by date, interest etc
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great keynote integration
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very useful for presentations
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love app's like this that do something simple but execute it well
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Henry
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Teleport
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teleport lets you use a single mouse and keyboard to control several Macs
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Simply reach an edge of your screen, and your mouse teleports to your nearby Mac, which also becomes controlled by your keyboard. The pasteboard can be synchronized, and you can even drag & drop files between your Macs
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Freeware, but please donate by paypal
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If you'd like a Windows equivalent, try Synergy
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Chris
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Best Of Youtube
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Does exactly what it says on the tin.
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Also available as a Vodcast throgh iTunes.
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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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Henry
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Henry's personal blog
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Follow Henry on Twitter
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Camel Burps
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