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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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Gawker Hacked
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Gawker has released Gawker Media is under siege at the moment, fighting off attacks from a group of attackers that have been able to compromise the entire database of Gawker Media’s web properties.
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Sensitive information has been exposed, including staff conversations, their private passwords used within the network and passwords also used by people who have registered to comment.
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All of the above information has been outputted by Gnosis, a group who wanted to seemingly put Gawker back in its place, creating a 500MB torrent file, currently residing on the popular torrent tracker ThePirateBay.
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Inside the torrent file lies a file entitled Readme.txt. This file is potentially the most sensitive of them all, for it holds the usernames and passwords used by the entire Gawker staff, focusing particularly on Gawker’s founder Nick Denton.
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Gawker says it is working on an ‘Account Delete’ tool, which will be available soon. The only exception to all this is if you logged in via Facebook Connect, in which case you’ll be safe
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Worried that Gawker wasn’t quick enough to warn its users of the data breach by email, members of the popular Hacker News website have combined to draft an email warning 200,000 Gawker users about the data breach. If you receive this email, it is one off email that is purely designed to warn you about the breach and get you to change your password.
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Gawkercheck was also setup by Jed Smith
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Acai berry twitter attack related to Gawker hack
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Make your password stronger
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Trouble for Delicious
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Former Yahoo employee and Upcoming founder Andy Baio has tweeted out the Yahoo! product team meeting slide that seems to show that Yahoo! is either closing or merging the social bookmarking service as well as Upcoming, Fire Eagle, MyBlogLog and others.
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AllThingsD’s Liz Gannes is reporting that the Yahoo products will be in fact shut down and that the slide does in fact originate from an all hands meeting at Yahoo, following yesterday’s layoffs.Yahoo Product Manager Blake Irving has threatened to fire whomever leaked the slide.
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Then official post on their blog - No, we are not shutting down Delicious. While we have determined that there is not a strategic fit at Yahoo!, we believe there is a ideal home for Delicious outside of the company where it can be resourced to the level where it can be competitive.
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So looking for new home for service...
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I’ve found a new home - Pinboard
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Not big on social but fast, secure, integrates with twitter and instapaper well - uniquely funded - as users increase, so does cost of signup for new users
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Want to follow me
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Film industry wants BT to block Newzbin2
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The Motion Picture Association, the trade body representing Hollywood studios outside the US, is attempting to force BT to block access to Newzbin2, an offshore website that allows users to access pirated content via its Usenet indexing service. Newzbin2 does not host the illegal content itself, but links to sites that do.
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The move represents a new legal avenue being used by copyright owners' in their battle to force UK ISPs to co-operate in cracking down on internet piracy. ISPs such as BT and TalkTalk are opposed to parts of the Digital Economy Act, which could force them to hand over the IP addresses of suspected illegal filesharers to rights holders, once they obtain a court order.
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In March the MPA won a high court copyright infringement case against Newzbin, a UK-based Usenet indexing website that was ordered to pay damages and to filter out all links to pirated movies and TV shows owned by the companies represented by the MPA.
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Newzbin went bust however Newzbin2 launched, a site that appears to be a copy or clone of the original, but is now based overseas with anonymous operators and is charging for premium subscriptions. The new site is hosted in Sweden and apparently registered in the US.
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Vodafone #mademesmile
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the mobile phone operator would give away free handsets to lucky Twitter users who used the tag #mademesmile to tell the company what made them beam.
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Thousands used the tag to express their displeasure at the company's alleged accounting procedures, egged on by the the anti-cuts group UK Uncut, which has triggered dozens of protests outside Vodafone stores over the last two months.
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In addition to appearing on Twitter, all tweets containing the hashtag were posted, unmoderated, on to Vodafone's website, compounding the negative publicity and showing campaigners' sentiments to people who might otherwise have been unaware of the controversy.
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Social media fail
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Online Deliveries Halted in Scotland
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Marks & Spencer, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Amazon, Boots and Parcelforce have all suspended deliveries to Scottish customers using their online services. In some cases, customers have been warned that orders may not be ready in time for Christmas.
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Impact of bad weather - pretty big backlog of mail and parcels
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Disappointing but not a surprise with more cold weather forecast
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Yet I get 2 posters shipped from Texas to Glasgow. Ordered on Monday 13th - delivered by FedEx before lunchtime on Wednesday 15th
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Mac App Store to Launch Jan 6
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Apple® today announced that the Mac® App Store℠ will open for business on Thursday, January 6. By bringing the revolutionary App Store experience to Mac OS® X, the Mac App Store makes discovering, installing and updating Mac apps easier than ever. The Mac App Store will be available in 90 countries at launch and will feature paid and free apps in categories like Education, Games, Graphics & Design, Lifestyle, Productivity and Utilities.
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“The App Store revolutionized mobile apps,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We hope to do the same for PC apps with the Mac App Store by making finding and buying PC apps easy and fun. We can’t wait to get started on January 6.”
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I like this idea. I think it’s a logical step from mobile based stores... But surely if an app is available on the app store, and Apple is getting its cut, then it will be cheaper to buy direct from the developer? Use the app store as a search/popularity facility, then go to the biggest app store there is (the internet) and google the app direct. I’m also not sure that the concept of pileit high/sell it cheap that works on mobiles will work on desktop. You don’t really want to clog up you computer.
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Gorillaz Free iPad Album
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Damon Albarn has recorded and produced a new Gorillaz album entirely on the ipad
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It will be released, for free, on Christmas day
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No studio equipment has been used...
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Word lens
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Augmented reality - translates in real time
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Video says it all
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Free app but you then buy the translation you want
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£2.99 for each translation - 50% off until end of december on spanish to english and vice versa
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Doesn’t do hand written text
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That’s voodoo. Someone sold their sole to make that happen!
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PS3 Adds more on-demand content
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New tie with ITV and Channel 4
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Joins iPlayer which is already available via PS3
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MS falling behind...
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Sarah Rose, director of commercial business development at Channel 4, said Channel 4 was "not saying no" to a tie-up with Microsoft's Xbox, which only carries TV shows from BSkyB's SkyPlayer on its subscription package. But she said Microsoft was "not coming to our door" actively looking for deals with other TV companies. And the other main games console player, Nintendo Wii, which only has the BBC iPlayer, is unlikely to be a partner any time soon because it does not have the facility to carry advertising, she said.
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Spike VGA’s
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New games for next year announced
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Forza 4 - Fall 2011
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Uncharted 3 - 11/1/11
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Mass Effect 3 - Holiday 201
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Batman: Arkham City - Fall 2011
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Resistance 3 - September 6, 2011
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Red Dead Redemption won game of the year
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Looking around (very non-scientifically) - game of year across most sites between Mass effect 2 and Red Dead Redeption
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And Mass Effect seems to edge it (although if it were my decision, RDR would win. My favourite ever game)
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Year in Review
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Google Zeitgeist
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Apple Top Apps
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Twitter Year in Review
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Facebooks 2010 Memology
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Last.fm Best of 2010
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Chris
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Looking forward...
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LA Noire Game... Looking freekin awsome.
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Portal 2... Bring it.
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Chrome OS (You can now apply in UK BTW) - different address for uk or same? Looking on forums it says google isn’t distributing to anywhere outside US at this time but hopes to in near future? Meh. It was showing up on my chrome homepage so i clicked it!
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Likely Purchase
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Nexus S - very likely at the moment
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Wouldn’t mind a macro lens
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Best 2010 Purchase
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PS3
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Ian
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Looking forward...
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LA Noire
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Portal 2
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Uncharted 3
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Lion
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iPad 2/iPhone 5
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Likely Purchase
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New iMac
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iPad? try to resist iPhone
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New lens
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Best 2010 Purchase
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iPad
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Picks
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Ian
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Flipboard
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Great update and now comes with full Google reader and Flickr support.
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Great way to view photo's
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Twitter and Facebook too
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They've also dropped using scraped content and moved to RSS
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World of Goo
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Great game now available on iPad for £5.99
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Makes great use of multitouch
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Best version of game?
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Amazon Windowshop
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Now available for UK iPad
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New way of navigating Amazon store
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Very visual
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Vevo HD
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Watch music videos on your iPad
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Good range of artists
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Can see other users playlists or build your own
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Artist pages link to twitter, facebook, artists websites
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Only available in US iTunes store but does work on UK iPad - no streaming restrictions...at the moment
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Chris
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Cortex
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Chrome extension. Share what your looking at across different online services (social/blogging etc). Click and hold mouse over item on the page and a wheel appears. Slide the mouse over the provider you want to share the item to and let go... A whoosh sound means that the content has posted sucessfuly. Simple. Effective. Clever.
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Only gripe being that sometimes the wheel appears when you don’t want it.
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Feedback
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E-Mails
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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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