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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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Johnston press starts charging for online local news
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The Johnston Press websites will either ask users to pay £5 for a three-month subscription to read the full articles, or direct them to buy the newspapers for 6 regional newspapers
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Sites in the pilot scheme include the Worksop Guardian, the Ripley & Heanor News and the Whitby Gazette. The Northumberland Gazette is also included in the trial. In Scotland, the Carrick Gazette and Southern Reporter are taking part. They own The Scotsman that does similar. FT also charges
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Johnston, which owns more than 300 papers across Britain and has suffered from a drop in advertising revenues, says the introduction of "paywalls" is an experiment to assess the impact of charging for content.
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Once you start restricting access on the websites, if you have content that can broadly be found somewhere else, then you really restrict the number of people coming to websites," the Guardian's director of digital content Emily Bell told the BBC. "I think it's great that people are experimenting with lots of different models because undoubtedly we need to find more money in the market," she added.
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Google Changes News Service
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Google limits access to free news
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Newspaper publishers will now be able to set a limit on the number of free news articles people can read through Google
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Under the First Click Free programme, publishers can now prevent unrestricted access to subscription websites.
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Users who click on more than five articles in a day may be routed to payment or registration pages
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Change to spiders and robot - can index only preview pages - first couple of para's only, subscribed content locked away
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If a publisher chooses to have spiders crawl their articles in this manner, they will be labeled with “subscription” within Google News
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Google blinked
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Google Public DNS
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Google launches DNS resolver
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Easy to change your PC, Mac or Router
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According to Google's FAQ, the company will only keep temporary logs and erase all the information it collects through the public DNS service within 24 to 45 hours. The company promises not to keep any information that is linked to IP addresses in its permanent logs.
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I've switched - it's fast but any faster than OpenDNS?
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Run a test via this site to see if Google Public DNS is faster for you
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Script I used to test the services (O2, Google, OpenDNS)
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for i in "rememberthemilk.com" "digitaloutbox.com" "apple.com" "google.com" "flickr.com" "bbc.co.uk" "iand.net" "twitter.com" "digitalspy.co.uk"
do
for j in "87.194.0.51" "8.8.8.8" "208.67.222.222"
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echo $j $i `dig @$j $i | grep Query | awk -F ":" '{print $2}'`
done
done
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Generally OpenDNS is faster for me
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One difference is no redirections acording to Google - OpenDNS does the following - If a domain cannot be found, the service redirects you to a search page with search results and advertising provided by Yahoo! - basically filtering/redirects on your behalf
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OpenDNS response
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Looks like sour grapes - I'm sure if Microsoft or Apple wanted to buy OpenDNS they would take the dollar
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Important point - speed matters
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Google research - 1/2 second drop in speed, 20% drop in revenue and traffic - ouch
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Need to get our website running faster :-)
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Is DNS the new war between the big tech players?
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Google Dictionary
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They've launched a dictionary too
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If they put an API behind it, it will be great for developers
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Another addition to the Google toolset
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Google launching UK Property dimension
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In the new year a service from Google will launch in UK allowing you to browse houses for sale via maps
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You can also add your properties for sale via Google rather than traditional estate agents
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Shares in Rightmove dropped 10% on this news
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Bing Map Beta
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Another update to Bing maps
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Needs Silverlight
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Street View (Street Side in Bing), Photosynth, Apps
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Nice animations, slick
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Many of the features are US only at the moment but will come to the UK
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Incredible development of Bing this year
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Google search event this Monday - isn't competition great
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Apple
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Apple Buys Lala
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Lala, unlike Apple’s iTunes, lets users play the music they own from the Web — or in tech industry parlance, from the cloud.
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Is it buying the company or the engineering talent?
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Lala’s engineers have built a service that music enthusiasts say is very easy to use. Lala scans the hard drives of its users and creates an online music library that matches the user’s collection, making it painless (and free) for people to get their music in the cloud.
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is this what the massive data centre that Apple is building is for?
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2010 - the year of music streaming wars?
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iTunes 12 days of Christmas
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26 Dec - 6 Jan
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Free song or music video, app, TV episode or film
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Offer runs for 24 hours each day
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Gadgets n Games
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Square
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Let people quickly and easily accept physical credit card payments from their mobile phone
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small device attaches to the phone via the headset/microphone jack
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Device is free, works on iPhone and Droid
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Receipts via e-mail, sms
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Sign with your finger on iPhone screen
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Associate photo with account so vendor can check it is actually you
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Ian - Looks awesome - quick and a great way to pay
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Chris - sceptical - how will it work in UK which is now chip and pin? Looks 'dodgy'
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End of the Crunchpad
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It's no more - another mythical tablet bites the dust
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Breakup of the team, grubby takeover attempt by hardware partner - they got screwed basically.
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Looks like it was days/weeks from demo/launch
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Now to be settled in court - this will run and run
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Only one side of the story at the moment
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Could someone not step in and save it? Something smells fishy.
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Media event planned for Monday - Chandrasekar "Chandra" Rathakrishnan, founder and CEO of Fusion Garage, (who arrington blamed for killing the crunchpad) will speak to reporters (give his side of the story) and demonstrate "the device" both in a video call and in private briefings scheduled for later Monday at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco
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GT5 Time Trial Demo
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Dec 17th, Time Trial Competition
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participants will be able to race a Nissan 370Z around a new Gran Turismo 5 circuit. The fastest times recorded in each of the 20 participating countries will be advanced to a national final. An elite group of 20 drivers will then secure a place at the GT Academy.
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Still on track for March 2010 release
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World Cup to be shot in 3D
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Up to 25 games shot in 3D
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Using Sony tech, Sony are pushing 3D next year
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No announcements on broadcasting - in the coming months more will be announced
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Selected games will be broadcast live at "Fan Fest" locations in seven cities around the world: London, Berlin, Mexico City, Paris, Rio De Janeiro, Rome, and Sydney
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World Cup in 2006 saw many jump on the HD bandwagon - will 3D see same take up?
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Picks
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Ian
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Click To Flash
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Free plugin for Safari
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Block evil Adobe Flash
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Displays nice grey background allowing you to click if you want to use it
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Improve cpu, better battery life
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Higher quality YouTube, Play videos in QuickTime (H.264), not Flash
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Flashblock
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Similar plugin for Firefox except for the higher quality YouTube options
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Chris
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TrueCrypt
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The mother of all encryption
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Creates an encrypted drive that, once mounted works on the fly.
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Can encrypt a whole drive. Can encrypt a whole system. Can create mini encrypted areas (mount them as drives.)
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Can even create a "false bottom" drive if you want.
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PC, MAC & Linux
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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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