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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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Apple
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Steve Jobs
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iOS 5 - error 3200 trending world wide on twitter, Ian- reboot machine after each iOS device upgrade failed
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Newsstand working well
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Wired supports it, and print subscribers will get access to iPad editions at no extra cost - lovely
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Guardian iPad app supporting Newsstand as well
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Lots and lots of Future mags supporting Newsstand
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iPhone 4S
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In non-U.S. countries, or if you’re not using U.S. English as your device language, Siri can’t look for businesses, use maps or access traffic info. So asking it to find the best route to your cousin’s house in Germany won’t produce results, nor will inquiring about restaurants in your immediate vicinity.
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iCloud - took 36 hours before I could move and enable
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Sharing docs with the Mac is pretty awful
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25 million on iOS 5 already, 20 million on iCloud
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Box.net offers 50Gb to iOS users
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Twenty-four hours after Apple released iOS 5 and accompanying iCloud storage offering, Box has announced that they're offering iPad and iPhone users 50 gigabytes of free storage starting tonight. It's also increasing file upload limit from 25 MB to 100 MB.
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To get that amount of storage from iCloud, users have to fork over $100 per year to Apple.
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Box's promotion is good for the next 50 days, but once redeemed, the data is good for life. To activate it, simply download the latest version of Box for iOS and log into (or create) your account.
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Blackberry Outage
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Down for three days
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No internet, twitter, Facebook or BBM
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Horrible time for this to happen
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Affected people on 4 continents and indeed spread to America
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Apology from CEO
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Failure allegedly in Slough
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the Guardian understands the Slough NOC servers normally deal with 8 gigabytes of data every second – equivalent to 16 hours of BBC iPlayer TV viewing. In a typical month, the unassuming two-storey building in Slough sees up to 20 petabytes, or 20m gigabytes, pass through it
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Google Fall Sweep
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At the start of September Google killed a slew of products - now it’s killing a few more
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Here’s the latest update on what’s happening:
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Code Search, which was designed to help people search for open source code all over the web, will be shut down along with the Code Search API on January 15, 2012.
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In a few weeks we’ll shut down Google Buzz and the Buzz API, and focus instead on Google+. While people obviously won't be able to create new posts after that, they will be able to view their existing content on their Google Profile, and download it usingGoogle Takeout.
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Jaiku, a product we acquired in 2007 that let users send updates to friends, will shut down on January 15, 2012. We’ll be working to enable users to export their data from Jaiku.
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Several years ago, we gave people the ability to interact socially on iGoogle. With our new focus on Google+, we will remove iGoogle's social features on January 15, 2012. iGoogle itself, and non-social iGoogle applications, will stay as they are.
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The University Research Program for Google Search, which provides API access to our search results for a small number of approved academic researchers, will close on January 15, 2012.
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In addition, later today the Google Labs site will shut down, and as previously announced, Boutiques.com and the former Like.com websites will be replaced by Google Product Search.
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Youtube offers film rentals in the UK
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Video site YouTube has started a movie rental service in the UK.
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Blockbusters such as The Dark Knight and classics including The Birds can be watched via the site. In total, about 1,000 movies have been made available.
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New releases will cost £3.49 to rent and library titles £2.49. Users have 30 days to begin watching a film, and 48 hours to finish it once they start.
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Most aren’t HD - 480p, DVD quality
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Does show ratings from Rotten Tomatoes and information about the films from elsewhere
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Google Books hits the UK
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Readers in the UK now have access to the world's largest ebooks collection, with hundreds of thousands of ebooks for sale – from major UK publishers like Hachette, Random House and Penguin – as well as more than two million public domain ebooks for free.
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Just as in the US, we’ve designed the Google eBooks platform in the UK to be open. You can purchase, download and view Google eBooks on many devices: Android and Apple tablets and smartphones, the Google eBooks Web Reader and eReaders from Sony, Kobo, Elonex, and more. Your Google eBooks are stored in the cloud, so you can easily access them and continue reading wherever you last left off, regardless of which device you were on.
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We've partnered with independent booksellers, so you will soon be able to buy Google eBooks through your favourite bookstore. Booksellers like Gardners' Hive, as well as others to come, will be selling Google eBooks in the UK. We're also working with local retailers like Blackwell's as affiliate partners.
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New Android Devices
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The little running mate sports a 600MHz processor, runs Android and weighs a healthy 35 grams. It'll apparently track your heart rate, and log running, walking and cycling statistics, and packs GPS to track your exercise routes. The Nike+ competitor is unsurprisingly sweat and waterproof and can hold up to 4,000 songs. It also offers FM radio and audio "coaching," which updates on pace and distance, for those who need a little inspiration in their routine. Moto's also outing a pair of accompanying Bluetooth headsets, the SF700 ($149) and SF500 ($99), which will be sold separately. The Motoactv will set beat-bumping runners back $249 or $299 for 8GB and 16GB, respectively.
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Competes with Nano, but is...dearer!
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This newest addition to Verizon's Droid lineup boasts a Gorilla Glass coated, 4.3-inch qHD Super AMOLED display -- a first for any mobile handset -- atop a dual-core 1.2GHz TI OMAP4430 processor. Although the RAZR may look like a Kevlar-wrapped, slightly warped Droid X with its 7.1mm skinny silhouette and familiar topside hump, the insides tell a different tale. Joining the list of well-heeled specs, are an 8 megapixel rear camera capable of 1080p HD video, 1GB RAM, 16GB of onboard storage with 16GB additional on the microSD card and an 1,800mAh battery.
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4.65-inch behemoth is bound to bring back talk ofSidetalkin'. Naturally, Ice Cream Sandwich is onboard, with Google finally revealing the version number as 4.0. Other specs include an HD Super AMOLED display (1,280 x 720), a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 5 megapixel rear camera (with LED flash), a 1.3 megapixel front-facing cam, 1080p video recording and playback, a newfangled panorama mode, a 3.5mm headphone jack and Bluetooth 3.0. You'll also find USB 2.0, 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi, an embedded NFC module, accelerometer, compass, gyro, proximity sensor and even a barometer -- yeah, a barometer. Finishing things out, there's 1GB of RAM, 16 or 32GB of internal storage space and a 1,750mAh battery. As for radios? There's an HSPA+ model on tap, while an LTE version will "be available depending on region." There's nary a mention of carrier in the press release we're holding, but based on earlier leaks, a 4G build for Verizon Wireless seems a lock.
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Out in Europe in November
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Android 4 - Ice Cream Sandwich revealed
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New UI - toned down honeycomb but still has that Tronesque UI
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No more physical buttons
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Native resolution - 720p
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Near instantaneous voice dictation
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Face unlock
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Android Beam - uses NFC to communicate between Android devices - contacts, video’s, URLS - API to come to allow developers to use it
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Camera app - brings many of the iOS UI features, gallery also improved bringing filters
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Lots of cloud enhancements
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Lots of tweaks throughout the OS
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SDK for dev’s already released
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Most gingerbread running phones should be able to run 4
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This Is My Next guys sounds very impressed - Piece-by-piece, it’s impressive. But when taken as a whole, coupled with a world-beating device like the Galaxy Nexus, it’s a heady mixture. My impression from seeing all of the new work at play was that Google is really starting to take the experience seriously. This is the first device from the company that really feels completely cohesive and coherent in all the ways a great smartphone should.
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WH Smiths to launch e-book reader
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The UK newsagent will begin selling the Kobo reader from the Canadian company of the same name on 17 October.
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Kobo has e-book stores in Canada and Australia, and the WHSmith deal will bring its 2.2m - of which 1m are freebies: out-of-copyright classics and the like - to UK high streets.
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WHSmith will offer two devices: a basic £90 model and an upgraded version with a touch-sensitive screen for £110.
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Shopping centre calls police for father taking illegal pictures of his daughter
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Chris White claims a security guard told him that the pictures, taken at the Braehead centre near Glasgow on Friday afternoon, were "illegal".
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The guard allegedly then asked Mr White to delete the photographs, taken on his mobile phone. Mr White, a mental health trainer, said: "I told him I had taken two photographs of my daughter Hazel, and that since I had already posted them on Facebook there was little point in deleting the pictures.
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"The guard then told me to 'remain right there' while he called police, which I chose to do."
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According to Mr White, Hazel was in tears while they waited five minutes for officers to arrive at the scene. He said he was then quizzed by two uniformed policemen who told him there had been a complaint about him taking photographs and that there were "clear signs" in the centre stating that the use of cameras was forbidden.
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Police issued a statement denying the above
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After the story exploded on Twitter and Facebook, Braehead issued an apology
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A spokesman for the centre said it was changing its photography policy with immediate effect to allow people to take pictures of family and friends in the mall. "We have listened to the very public debate surrounding our photography policy and as a result, with immediate effect, are changing the policy to allow family and friends to take photos in the mall. "We will publicise this more clearly in the mall and on our website. We will reserve the right to challenge suspicious behaviour for the safety and enjoyment of our shoppers. "We wish to apologise to Mr White for the distress we may have caused to him and his family and we will be in direct contact with him to apologise properly."
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Playstation Vita UK Details
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The Wi-Fi only model will be yours for £230.
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The higher-specced 3G edition will cost £280.
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They'll arrive on 22 February, 2012
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Lytro Details
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You won’t be able to get one until early 2012, but you can order one now for $399 (and $499 for a more advanced version).
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In design, Lytro takes more than a couple of cues from Apple. It’s supremely simple, with just two buttons and a slider for zooming. Plus, it’s available in a variety of colors. Hit the shutter button and it takes a picture instantly — no need to wait for it to focus.
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The Lytro is long, thin and small, like a viewfinder with a rubberized end (and nothing at all like a regular camera). Its “electric blue” and “graphite” models will have 8 GB of storage on board, which the company says is enough for 350 light-field pictures. For $100 more, you get 16 GB, with room for 750 pictures and a “fire red” design. (See the different colors below).
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The battery is a selling point, too. You should be able to fill up the entire camera with pictures on a single charge. That translates to about two weeks of battery time, with regular usage.
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Desktop editor only supports Mac
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Picks
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Ian
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PressPausePlay
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The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunites.
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But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent instead flooded and drowned in the vast digital ocean of mass culture? Is it cultural democracy or mediocrity?
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This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world’s most influential creators of the digital era.
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Buy on iTunes (£9.99, or rent) or Amazon....or download via torrent for free
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Chris
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Forza 4
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Contact the Contributors
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Ian
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Ian's personal blog
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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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