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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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Google Shuts down Chinese Search
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Chinese search shutdown, redirected to Google Hong Kong
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Users are being redirected for Google web, news and image search to the Hong Kong site, which sits outside of the Chinese firewall.
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Users are also being presented with simplified Chinese in addition to traditional Chinese and English results.
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Dashboard showing status
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It will also now warn you if it thinks you've been hacked. Bases this on if your account has been accessed in two different countries over a short time-period.
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Tech Friendly Budget
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Games dev's get a tax break
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£6 tax for super fast broadband
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Number 10 iPhone app launched...Tories moan.... accessibility champions moan
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Times and Sunday Times to charge from June
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The Times and Sunday Times newspapers will start charging to access their websites in June,
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Users will pay £1 for a day's access and £2 for a week's subscription.
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Both titles will launch new websites in early May, separating their digital presence for the first time and replacing the existing, combined site, Times Online.
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The two new sites will be available for a free trial period to registered customers. And payment will give customers access to both sites.
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James Harding, editor of The Times, agreed that NI's paywall strategy was a risk. "But it's less of a risk than just throwing away our journalism and giving it away from free," he told the BBC.
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Rebekah Brooks said the decision to charge came "at a defining moment for journalism... We are proud of our journalism and unashamed to say that we believe it has value".
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Sun and News of the World next
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Privately they acknowledge they will lose 1000's of regular readers and millions of casual readers but hope the cost is small enough to entice many
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Best Buy coming to UK
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Best Buy opens its first UK outlet, a superstore with with a 50,000 sqft shop floor, in Lakeside in May
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June for Southamption and Merry Hill, West Midlands, and later this year for Aintree, near Liverpool, and Croydon.
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80 stores in UK over next 5 years
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iPad
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WSJ - $17.99 a month
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WSJ print is $29 a month
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But what about flash...
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Brightcove's partnerships with The New York Times and Time magazine will allow HTML5 to seamlessly replace Adobe Flash video content on the publications' Web sites for compatibility with Apple's iPad
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Brightcove Experience for HTML5, a framework for publishing and delivering interactive and advertising-supported Web video. The platform is available free to the more than 1,000 Brightcove customers in 42 countries.
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Monday's announcement means it's possible that video in the Adobe Flash format could be converted to HTML5 automatically for high-profile Web sites, perhaps as soon as the device's April 3 U.S. launch. The company said its clients can now use the tool to build iPad-ready Web sites, and in the next year the platform will be expanded to support customization and branding of the player environment, advertising, analytics, social sharing and other capabilities.
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Magazines - same price as print version or cheaper - non add version of esquire for $2.99, $2 less than paper version
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iPad App Store shows many titles with 'HD' added or 'for iPad'
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Also shows increased price point for many app's - will that be an issue? $50 for omnigraffle for example
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iTunes 9.1 this week?
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Just got 10.6.3 on Mac's - support for iPads?
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BBC iPhone App delay
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BBC Trust asks for delay on BBC iPhone app after industry representation
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industry think it abuses BBC's dominant position in news.
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Gifting iPhone App's
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You can now gift app's in iTunes
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Can only gift to people in same country but apart from that, same as gifting music
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Will iPhone have a night at the Opera
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A lot of talk this week about whether Opera will get their browser approved into the App Store
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I would call the majority saying "No way".
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Opera seem weirdly optimistic though.
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My call? Rejected - duplication of core functionality.
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We may well know by the time of the next cast!
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Nintendo 3DS
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New handheld system from Nintendo
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we know the system will use two screens, will have some sort of 3D, won't require any sort of special glasses, and will be backwards compatible with current DS and DSi games.
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rumours are that the 3d will use camera's to tracks your eyes position in relation to screen angle - very clever
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Maybe 720p screens, accelerometer for tile controls, possible 3g chip
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Released between now and March 2011
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Microsoft Game Room
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Now launched on Live for Xbox and PC
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Free download
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Design arcade rooms
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30 games available now that cost - 260 points for game on one platform, 500 for game on pc and xbox
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Friends can visit your arcade
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Time warp facility to rewind back a game
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No better than mame really and it costs!
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PS3 Update Removes Linux Option
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April 1st update will remove 'Install Other OS' option form older PS3's
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Newer slims can't do this anyway, but will disappoint Linux fans surely...
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Security concerns is the reason, but it is optional...
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The consumer electronics giant said that the update will be optionally, but it cautioned that failure to upgrade will lock users out of the PlayStation Network. They will also be prevented from playing DRM-encumbered videos stored on a media server, and from viewing any Blu-ray Discs or PS3 games that require firmware 3.21.
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Picks
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Ian
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Auto Smiley
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Mac only and free
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Face detection - if it see's you smile it inserts a smiley into the foremost window
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Thats it, but it's great :-)
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Henry
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Scrivener
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Mac only
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THE tool for authors, researchers on the Mac
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Niche market but gets so many plaudits and love from it's users
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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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