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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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Review of the Year Part 1
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January
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Microsoft lay off 5,000, IBM, Yahoo follow suit
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Steve pulls out of Macworld and admits illness
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iLife09, iWork09, Unibody 17 inch macbook pro, iTunes DRM free
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Apple pulls out of next years Macworld
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Spotify starts to take off, lot of buzz etc
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Palm unveils the Pre and WebOS
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Windows 7 Public Beta gets great feedback
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Yahoo gets new CEO - Carol Bartz
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10 days later, Steve Jobs steps down for health reasons and takes medical leave until end of June, he won't be back, he's dying, pressure on Apple to come clean
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Twitter catches Digg traffic
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Google flags whole internet as Malware - human error :-)
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February
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Google Earth adds Ocean
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Kindle 2 - slimmer, better design, still no UK
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Twitter still growing, now worth $230 M
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G2 (Magic), best Android phone so far
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Pirate Bay trial begins
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Safari 4 - Worlds fastest browser?
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March
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New iMacs, Mac Mini's, Airport Extreme and Time Capsule, new shuffle (tiny)
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Facebook introduces real-time homepage, fighting twitter
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Kindle for iphone & touch, free on AppStore
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Yahoo blocks UK music video
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iPhone OS 3.0, MMS, Cut, copy, paste, evolution for users, great features for devs - speed!
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IE8 launched, more secure and faster but still with issues
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Google street view launched in the UK
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Twitter turns 3, starts to boom
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Laptop hunter add's start to hit - MS fight back
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Spotify
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One of our tech picks of the year
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Great product and first real alternative to buying online and pirating music
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Easy to use
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Invite system worked well creating buzz
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Collaborative playlists are a great feature
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Our use has tailed off slightly
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iphone app is superb - worth paying for premium when the need arises
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Twitter
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Really took off this year
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Hit the mainstream in a big way
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Celebs and TV, film personalities jumped on
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Apps like Tweetdeck have made Twitter much more useful. Hashtag searching, trends, groups all helped discovery
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Lists and retweets have made a big difference to the service
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iPhone Picks of the Year
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Shakeel
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1Password, Facebook, Twitterific 2.0/Tweetie, AppMiner, Guardian
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Henry
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Secret of Monkey Island
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Ian
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Tweetie, RTM, Facebook, Pocket Universe, Spotify, Guardian, Real Racing, Biggest Brain, Space Invaders Infinity Gene, Flight Control, Canabalt
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Chris
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Myst, Peggle, Tweetie/Tweetie2 (Most used) but best purchase got to be CoPilot Live UK
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Review of the Year Part 1
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April
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Twitter search that actually works
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Google doesn't buy twitter
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Facebook reaches 200 Mill users
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Twitter goes mainstream - Oprah, celebs, everyone wants to tweet
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Pirate Bay 4 found guilty
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Oracle buys Sun
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App Store - baby shaker and dev woes get louder while downloads top 1 billion in 9 months
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Dropbox hits 1 million users
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Twitter powering swine flu fears/spread, google maps the outbreak
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Windows 7 rc1 impresses
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Man builds chair that tweets his farts
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May
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Kindle DX announced - bigger screen
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More bizare app store rejections like Eucalyptus
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Google Wave announced
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Bing announced
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PSP Go
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June
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Project Natal, twitter, facebook, last.fm for 360
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Sony motion controller, God of War 3 for PS3
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Palm Pre - excellent new phone
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OS Wars - Win 7, Oct 22nd, £50-100, Snow Leopard, Sep, £25
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iPhone OS3 launched
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iPhone 3GS launched - more memory, faster, video
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Macbook pro - 8 hour battery, non replacable
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O2 upgrade fail
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DigitalOutbox launched
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Digital Britain report published
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Augmented reality app's for Android and iphone - Layar the first of many
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Jobs had liver transplant - on track for return at end of month
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Michael Jackson overdoses in real life and on social networks
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Pirate Bay Sold
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iPhone 3GS
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Ian likes his but he is the only one of the hosts to own one
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Believe that some app's are relying on 3GS speed as some of the apps feel a bit clunky on 3G now
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Chris still has issues with 3G
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iPhone 3GS - new hardware was a disappointment - incremental increase in specs
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Was it really that bad - what hardware out there now is better than a 3GS?
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3MegaPixel initially disappointing but camera is great
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Portability of camera hardware outweighs spec?
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O2 fail got in the way for many people
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Rumours generated high expectations, nothing else
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Palm Pre
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High expectations that weren't met
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App Store never took off
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Some quality issues up front didn't help
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Keyboard was a bit iffy - people actually wanted software based keyboard
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iTunes access was silly - consumers ultimately hurt
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Games of the Year
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Ian
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Poor year for Games, no original titles stand out
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Fifa 10, Halo ODST, Forza 3, Modern Warfare 2
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Nothing really stands out though, Modern Warfare would be my pick
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Shakeel
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Watched Dead Space - looked alright?!?
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Uncharted 2 - fantastic game, polished and no camera issues but most of all it's the storyline that stands out
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Henry
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Casual gamer but does play the Wii - Wii Sports Resort stands out in a barren season for Wii games
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World of Goo still a stand out
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Chris
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Fable II (Most time played)
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GTA IV (Most laughs)
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Trials HD (Most frustratingly moorish)
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Forza 3 (Most potential)
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Modern Warfare 2 (Best and worst)
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My winner (surprisingly) is Fable II
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Feedback
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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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