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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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Windows Phone 7 Series
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Brand New UI
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Fresh, fun, colourful, connected, customisable
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Different to everything else
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Zune HD is similar
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very little visual flair besides clean typography and transition animations
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I love it - makes iPhone look old (Ian's comment by the way)
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I really like but do wonder about the battery life on something that active and connected
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dictating rigid specs for 7 Series devices (a specific CPU and speed, screen aspect ratio and resolution, memory, and even button configuration)
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Looks like they have started from scratch - great move
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The app's are clean, stripped down, minimalist
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Zune intergrated for music and radio
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Xbox Live
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No games to demo but will have turn based games and also tie in with 360 games
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Friends list available plus messages, achievement points
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Social Networking - Status updates from friends across social networks
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Old app's won't work
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6 month until phone launches
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Serious competition to the iPhone
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Game on. Three way fight - Apple vs Google vs Microsoft
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Google Buzz
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Google Buzz is a grass
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Automatically shows your followers, even those ones auto created based on your e-mail habits
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But various updates over last 10 days are addressing concerns
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Will suggest followers rather than automatically creating them
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Will no longer auto connect to picasa and google reader shares
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Tab allowing you to show/not show buzz or disable completely
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Privacy issue - now more visible option to not show followers/people you follow on your public profile
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Ability to block anyone who starts following you
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More clarity on which of your followers/people you follow can appear on your public profile
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Ian - find it noisy and hard to see whats new and whats interesting
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At least google are responding quickly to the privacy concerns - take note Facebook!
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New Google Products
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Google Goggles Translation
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At Mobile World Congress Google demo'd experimental Android visual search app that can translate the text in captured images.
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German - English only at the moment.
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Expected uses - street signs and menu items. So know when travelling in Germany with your Android phone, you'll know exactly what kind of sausage you're ordering.
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Google Shopper
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Barcode scanning to learn more about product
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Scan a book or media cover to find out more
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Voice search
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Prices, reviews, specs and more of a product
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Android only at the moment. No surprise there
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Chrome for Mac
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Now supports extensions in the beta release
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Also supports bookmarks sync
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Fast!
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Replacing Firefox as my PC browser of choice and second browser on the Mac
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BBC Developing iPhone Apps
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BBC have announced they will be developing smartphone apps to deliver it's news and sport content
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Text, images, sound and video content
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The News application, which was demonstrated at the show, allows the user to scroll around news headlines - each of which is accompanied by a picture and then drop into a story which may, or may not, contain video content - available in April
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The Sports Results app wasn't demonstrated, but Erik Huggers, Director of the BBC's Future Media & Technology, told the assembled delegates that users would be able to customise the application to show their preferred sports, and teams - available in time for world cup
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When it comes to the iPlayer, which is already available on more than a few mobile platforms, they'll be a new application for those who want to catch up on their TV without having to switch on the TV.
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App's will be free
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The BBC has said that it will initially focus on building applications for the iPhone but follow with applications for Google's Android operating system and RIM (BlackBerry).
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Not going down well with Newspaper Publishers Association (NPA) - say it will cripple a developing market.
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Wired Coming to iPad
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Wired Magazine Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson announced at the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference on Friday that the publication would be releasing its content for the iPad by summer.
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Readers can sift through the contents horizontally and when they find an article they want to read, touch and drag their finger on the first page vertically to browse through the pages up and down.
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They can also turn the device horizontally to take advantage of the automatically-rotating display to view two pages side by side like a magazine and zoom out to see thumbnails of the content all at once.
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The device allows for integrated media so readers can read a product review and touch a photo to jump into a video of the product. Advertisements can also be interactive. Clark touched a Camaro ad to flip it around 360 degrees.
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Will this be cheaper than paper?
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Despite all the Apple/Adobe hate, the app was created on Adobe Air and migrated to ipad with Adobe tools.
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Fisher Price iXL
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Starting 'em young. It's tech for kids aged 3-6.
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iPad for kids - syncs to PC, music and app's
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Modelled front end on iPhone - closer to Windows 7 ;-)
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When I were a lad we got the the fisher price radio or record player - if we were lucky. Kids these days don't know they're born with their kindle/iPad like things.
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Sony Exits OLED Market
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Stops selling in Japan - still active in EU and USA
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Is OLED really the future, long term at least?
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11" is still £3500
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LG - big screen OLED in 2012
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7 years until they fall to todays LCD values
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PleaseRobMe
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Site aggregates public check-ins form foursquare and twitter that say they have left home
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Got a lot of press but they aren't out to help robbers
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Trying to show dangers of sharing so much locational information online and how it could be abused
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i.e. service knows your home and knows you've left...not smart
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They've now removed the ability to search by location and username
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ChatRoulette
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All the bizarre of the internet in one place
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Wrong!
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Picks
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Ian
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Quix
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Extendable Bookmarklet
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Works well in safari (cmd 1 to open) and in chrome and firefox with right extension - not so hot in IE
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Can extend it with your own commands
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Chris
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Baby head swap images
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Google or Bing for that search string
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Smile :-)
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Feedback
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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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