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Anorion

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Digit May 2010 Issue Preview

Quick Content List
  • Digit Magazine -- Entertainment@home
  • Fast Track to iPhone Apps
  • Digit Mindware DVD
  • Digit Playware DVD

Detailed Contents
Magazine Contents

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  • Inbox
  • Buzz -- Bulletstorm announced, Adobe's strongly worded blog posts, Twitter's annual developer festival and more

Connections
  • Web Watch -- Google Docs gets revamped
  • Mobile Watch -- The results of Microsoft's Project Pink and Nokia's new messaging phones
  • Industry Connect -- We speak to Fujufilm India, and AMD India on their latest technology, and recently launched products

Digital Life
  • Drool Maal -- Home entertainment special, 4 pages
  • 1337 Fashion -- The Internet has given rise to a number of geeky sub-cultures, and each of them like to dress differently!
  • Your Green Griha -- It's green everywhere. Going green now is the norm of the day. The revolution is now painting the concrete jungle green. A short trip of our own with the green community.
  • Free Media - We profile some people who create and distribute content for free
    [*]

Sci-Tech
  • The Future of Immersive Entertainment -- 3D is not enough... how will you indulge your senses in the future?
  • How Stuff Works: DX11 -- get to know why it's being touted as the next big thing since chocolate icing


Toolbox
  • Workshop: Moovida -- Media Center Applications are a fun way to browse and view media content on your computer. We show you how to sit back, relax and enjoy!
  • Windows Virtually -- Stubborn apps have no excuse not to work on Windows 7, a workshop on how to virtualize Windows XP in Windows 7
  • Tips and Tricks -- ICQ 7.1, Data Crow 3, Disk Space Fan, Jokosher, NetBalancer
  • Q&A
  • DIY: Make Some Melody -- build your own electronic piano
    [*]

Tried and Tested
  • Just Push Pause -- Airtel's Digital TV recorder Vs. Tata Sky+
  • Apple iPad -- A touch-feel first look
    [*]Bazaar -- Graphic cards, solid state drives, motherboards, headphones, phones, USB drives, RAM cards, a processor, and more
    [*]Speed up your PC -- We test common PC myths that supposedly speed up your PC, including defragging, page file settings, processes and other tweaks, to see if they really make a difference
    [*]HD Player Test -- We test the best HD players in the market
    [*]Desktop PCs -- Desktop PCs are here to stay no matter how portable computing gets, we look at some desktops this month


Street Smart
  • Game On -- Agent goes on hunting for the latest and greatest DX11 GPUs
  • Killer Rigs
  • Price Watch
  • Consumer Support -- It's time to exercise your rights as a consumer, we highlight three case files

Tech@Work
  • 10 Technologies that matter -- India's IT managers review, analyse and reflect on the latest technology trends, and vote on the ones that will make the cut this year
  • From the garage to the stock exchange -- A classic Silicon Valley Startup, Sasken Communication Technologies, has worked on software embedded in chips, we cover their story
  • Telecommuting -- Getting employees to work from home by designing robust systems
  • Developer Corner: Watch your music -- edit visualizer presets to get a desired set of visuals to accompany your music

Esc
  • Hidden Gems of Gaming -- A list of games that did not get as much attention as they deserved
  • Metro 2033 - Enthralling, eerie, and atmospheric, an adrenaline ride not to be missed
  • Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising -- The Emperor's finest resturn
  • JustCause2 -- A just cause or for no cause at all? Command an arsenal of weapons, vehicles, and a killer grappling hook, leaving a country in smoking ruins.
  • Unwind -- Bleeding Edge concepts, theories and speculations from the world of science, Cities of the Future and Digit Diary
  • Community -- Reader's Survey winners, Check your Tech Quotient winners, Facebook logo design contest winners, and a schedule of webinars in May
  • Digit 101

DVD Contents at a glance
  • Multimedia production distros - Dyne:Bolic 2.5.2, Musix 2.0 Beta, Puredyne 9.11. All of these have tools for a wide spectrum of audio-video tools, including editors, synthesizers, arrangers and beat machines.
  • Linux Flavors - Mandriva Spring Beta1 Gnome, Ubuntu 10.04 Beta2, SimplyMEPIS 8.5.01 RE1 32 Bit, TinyMe 2010
  • eBooks -- 600+ ebooks, illustrated ebooks, 10 Science Fiction audiobooks,
  • An entire video course on Operating Systems and System Programming
  • Developer Tools with 12 IDEs
  • Games - Darsana, Fraxy, OrBlitz, Rock Station, Space Corps 5 Doomsday, The Whispered World Demo, Wolf Team. Except for Whispered World, all games are free.
  • Corel Graphics Suite X5
  • Gaming Gems - Battlezone II, Chromadrome, Comix Zone, Croc: Legend of the Gobbos, Duke Nukem Manhattan Project, Cogs, Jazz Jackrabbit, Metal Fatigue, Severance: Blade of Darkness, Star Guard
  • 12 Free Music Albums
  • 2 Movies -- The Amazing Mr X and The Little Shop of Horrors

The full list of DVD contents, can be download here, here or here.

HTML version here.
 
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kallul555

Right off the assembly line
I was expecting camcorder test

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Now I got it - we have been promised at page number 91 -April 2010 issue. very much disappointed - because I have deferred my buying a camcorder only because of this .
any way as a subscriber - I will get this issue
 
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An entire video course on Operating Systems and System Programming-

except for this - the dvds are full of beta crap, why cant you add those distros once released:-x
 

DigitCritic

Broken In
What happened to the popular and most demanded thing from non-subscribers or news stand buyers of digit ?

It looks like demands from non-subscribers are not important.
 
# eBooks -- 600+ ebooks, illustrated ebooks, 10 Science Fiction audiobooks,
# An entire video course on Operating Systems and System Programming
# Developer Tools with 12 IDEs
# Just Push Pause -- Airtel's Digital TV recorder Vs. Tata Sky+

+1
 
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Anorion

Anorion

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Link for full dvd contents is not working

DVD Contents: The link does not work
Just checked, is working. It can also be found here or here.

An entire video course on Operating Systems and System Programming-

except for this - the dvds are full of beta crap, why cant you add those distros once released:-x

There are some who cannot wait to get their hands on them

What happened to the popular and most demanded thing from non-subscribers or news stand buyers of digit ?

It looks like demands from non-subscribers are not important.

lol, we cannot distinguish subscribers from non-subscribers by reading their forum posts. Also, this thread.
 
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Dark Core

Freak Beta 1
^^
Spreadsheet App should do it for u, BTW m really gettin' bored wth Digit Mag :-(

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^^
Spreadsheet App should do it for u, BTW m really gettin' bored wth Digit Mag :-(
 

Revolution

Wise Old Owl
I don't have any.....:(
They can use PDF file but no"XLS" file.....:x
The previous method was way better for nub like me.....
 

DigitCritic

Broken In
lol, we cannot distinguish subscribers from non-subscribers by reading their forum posts. Also, this thread

In that case let me remind yo
u of the demands.
# The Digit Rewind DVD
# Digit Mini booklet

These two items which you guys gave to subscribers only.
 

FilledVoid

Who stole my Alpaca!
I saw the contents from the issue on stands, no point getting Ubuntu 10.04 beta, when the stable is releasing today.
Not if you have a horrible Internet Connection. You should be able to update it rather than have to download the whole distro.
 

rajivnedungadi

In the zone
Not if you have a horrible Internet Connection. You should be able to update it rather than have to download the whole distro.

I have a 256 Kbps (night speed 512 kbps) connection, so its pretty decent. I dont use these distros much so I just install it and change it every three months, I am okay with downloading the whole distro dvd as I have a storage capacity of more than 2.5 TB (including external and internal hdds), so even that is not an issue, plus I have a dedicated system just for downloading stuff from the internet 24X7 :smile: ...so in short I did rather spend the Rs.150/- on something else than Digit...I anyways dont buy it each month and ever since last month (after the Subscribers Special Issue), I have totally stopped buying it.
 

FilledVoid

Who stole my Alpaca!
Emphasis on the word "I". What you have , others might not be blessed with. I'm not going to justify whether giving Ubuntu out was a good decision or not. However I wish that sometimes there would be a once in a while 64 bit distribution. More emphasis on Open Source Software. Tutorials and reviews which would cultivate the adoption of Open Source etc.

Previously a Magazine made a customized Distribution, why can't Digit have its own customized Distribution or Open Source Software. I know coming out of the blue that's a huge request but still I think it would only benefit the Magazine in the long run.

Anyway that's just my 2 cents.
 
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Anorion

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^Good suggestions there. Tell you what, instead of putting in the DVD version of Ubuntu, which is just a waste of space, I'll slip in the 64 Bit CD version along with the 32 Bit version. Sounds like a good idea?
 

FilledVoid

Who stole my Alpaca!
^Good suggestions there. Tell you what, instead of putting in the DVD version of Ubuntu, which is just a waste of space, I'll slip in the 64 Bit CD version along with the 32 Bit version. Sounds like a good idea?
This sounds very nice to me. However it might disturb folks who don't have a good Internet Connection.
 
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