[Pre(?)view Feedback] Digit January 2008

[FatBeing]

Yes, we slacked off too this New Year's....

January 2008 Magazine Contents

Cover Story
A Game Of Chess
It’s not a fight—not with blood, anyway. Our test winners thus far have had it good, but there’s always a challenger ahead. Will the champions stick around, or will the be checkmated? Who will take away the coveted Zero1 Awards?

Digital Passion
Main Story
Wars Of The Future
Battles will be fought less and less with guns and more on the ether. With the world getting more and more connected and networks still vulnerable, we give you a very possible scenario...

30 Days with
Apple iPod Nano Video
With Apple unveiling its sleek third generation iPod Nano, our reviewer has that look in his eyes. The bosses relented, and it was, on the whole, a pleasant 30 days

Droolmaal
Gadgets that flaunt your status, they are the neighbours envy and all that. Among others we have monster speakers that rumble at 15 kgs, a gold plated remote for the filthy rich and earphones so tiny that…..oh well, decide

Take A Crack
Expand The Wallpaper List
See that list of wallpapers to choose from? Don’t you wish that was bigger? Well, figure it out!

Digital Tools

Main Story
Mobile Computing
You are the mobile warrior, armed with your laptop and your business phone. Here is a list of awesome software which will help increase your productivity, keep in touch with contacts and make you feel like you have never stepped out of office.

Agent 001
Not Quite Prime Time
Agent 001 hunts high and low for a TV tuner card, but finds that they were just a little bit lacking. You might want to know why...

Know More About
Filesystems
Digital data is all 0s and 1s, and these 0s and 1s make up, well, everything—music, documents, images and videos. Seems like madness, but there is a method to it

Test Centre
Big Byte
Flash drives are the easiest and most hassle free tools to help carry data. Check out our exhaustive tests and choose which of the 34 fits your bill

Digital Business

Smart Soho
Mutiple Redundancies
If you are prone to tearing your hair out in frustration and longing for the good old ledger book days when your hard drive dies, with all that data, this might be just what you were looking for

Face Off
Online Services vs Offline Suites
Fancy trusting your documents to the Cloud, or prefer to take the tried and tested desktop route? We put this question across, and got interesting replies

Tech Careers
LivinG Patterns
Love programming, and know your DNA from RNA? Bioinformatics could just be the career you were looking for, and to help you decide better we look at what you need to do to get in, and what will you get, once you are in

Digital Leisure

Touched By Tech
Eager Learners
The XO laptop is finally being put through its paces in schools in rural India. We visit one such school in a village named Khairat, and came away impressed. No toy, this one

Tabloid Tech
Hillary: Over The Hill
Of course she’s going overboard—trying to ban in-game sex, (allegedly) putting up anti-Obama hate Web sites and heaven knows what else...

Game On
Crysis
Crysis is the perfect game this holiday season, where you trek through tropical jungles of Philippines to save a group of scientists attacked by… we won’t spoil the fun by saying any more

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Fast Track To Tech Jargon
The ultimate guide to all that geek gibberish
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DVD Contents

Tools
Multimedia
Paint.NET 3.10
Websmartz Banner Designer Pro 3.0
Aimersoft iPod Copy Manager 2.1.19
Audiograbber 1.83
DVDFab HD Decrypter 4.0.1.4
Hugin 0.7 beta 4
ImgBurn 2.3.2.0
KMPlayer 2.9.3.1421 Beta
MediaCoder 0.6.0.3905
Movienizer
PhotoOnWeb 0.7.0.2
Mobile Ringtone Converter 2.3.64

System
Norton Ghost 12.0
Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 1.0
Advanced WindowsCare Personal 2.5.6.827
DoublesFinder
Process Manager 2 Lite
Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities
Vispa 0.1.2
Vista Inspirat 2
Wise Registry Cleaner 2.9.6

Internet
NASA World Wind 1.4.0
Trend Micro Internet Security 2008
Direct Connect for Windows 1.0
Flock 1.0.1
Gizmo Project for Windows 4.0.0.324
GMailGarner 0.95b
Hamachi 1.0.2.4
Network Magic Basic 4.2.7234.0
WebSite-Watcher 4.35

Linux
APTonCD
Adobe Flash Player for Linux 9.0.115.0
Form Saver 0.8.0
PDFedit
RSSOwl
VLC Player
Yum 3.2.8

Productivity
Personal
Buddi for Windows 2.9.17.0
VisualCron 4.7.7
RocketDock 1.3.5
FileBox eXtender 2.0
FreeMind 0.9.0 Beta 15
iTALC
Rainlendar 2.2
Samurize 1.64.3
Weather Watcher 5.6.24a
Yahoo! Widget Engine 4.5
BusinessCards MX 3.6
CD-DVD Lock 2.7
Peanut Butter PC 2.2.1.0
Sandboxie 3.20.01
SendPhotos Gold v. 3
ZipRecover 3.10 Build 0729

Developers
SWiSHmax 2.0 Build 2007.11.02
Scratch 1.2
Firebird 2.0.3
Habanero Standard 1.1.1
Inno Setup 5.2.2
MySQL 5.0.45
Resource Hacker
Series 60 SDK for Symbian OS (3rd Edition) Beta
Universal Extractor 1.5
WinMerge 2.6.1.2

Gaming
Free
America's Army Special Forces (Overmatch)
Dance Mela
Alien Arena 2007 v6.10
Bear Go Home

Demos
Age of empires 3 Asian Dynasties
Bus Driver
Universe at War: Earth Assault Demo
World of Mixed Martial Arts Demo

Entertainment
Movies
Done The Impossible
Paradise Isle

Music
Aeonblue by Subatomicglue
Wake Up by Dan Masquelier

Trailers
NCAA March Madness 08 Classic Teams Trailer (HD)

CD Contents

Tools
Essentials
.net Framework 2.0
µTorrent 1.7.5
Avast Home Edition 4.7
Avast Update
Comodo Firewall Pro 3
Digit Software Archive 2006 Beta
DirectX Redistributable 9.0c August 2007
Foxit Reader
Free Download Manager 2.5 build 730
Irfan View 4.10 Plugins
Irfan View 4.10
Java(TM) 2 Runtime
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 3.5.7
Microsoft XNA Framework Redistributable 1.0 Refresh
Opera 9.4
Silverlight
Spybot Search and Destroy 1.51
Spybot Search and Detection updates
VLC Player 0.8.6c
WinRAR 3.71

Multimedia
Ashampoo Photo Commander 5
LEGO Digital Designer for Windows 2.3
BlueScreen Screen Saver 3.2
CamStudio 2.5 Beta 1
DivX for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista 6.8.0.11
EvilLyrics 0.1.9 Final
iDeaS 1.0.2.0
Paint.NET v3.10
Recuva 1.09.194
The Gimp 2.4.2
Tux Paint for Windows 0.9.18
Xion Audio Player 1.0 Build 85
XnView for Windows 1.92
ACDSee 10.0.238
Axialis IconWorkshop

System
Revo Uninstaller 1.4
ATI Tool 0.27 Beta 3
Attribute Changer 5.30
CCleaner 2.03.532
Ctfmon Remover 2.2
HostsMan 3.1.51 Beta 3
PortableApps 1.0.1 Patch
Remove Hotfix Backup Files
Shup 0.20
SSL-Explorer for Windows 1.0.0
Startup Delayer 2.3 Build 129
TeraCopy 2.0
DTweak 3.6
Trojan Remover 6.6.5

Portable Apps
GIMP Portable 2.2.17
VirtualDub Portable
7-Zip Portable 4.42 R2
FileZilla Portable 2.2.32
Mozilla Thunderbird Portable Edition 2.0.0.9
Notepad++ Portable
Opera USB 9.24
Pidgin Portable 2.1.1
PuTTY Portable 0.60
Sumatra PDF Portable
VLC Media Player Portable 0.8.6c

Internet
GigaSmilies v1.1b
AI RoboForm 6.9.85
Broadband Download Accelerator 1.01
DreamMail 4.4.1.0
Dynu Basic 3.24
FeedFusion 0.92
FileZilla v3
GMail Quick Login Green 2.0
Halite 0.2.9
Juice 2.2.2-a1
Youtube Video Downloader 2.3
IP Sniffer 1.95.02

Productivity
Personal
Back2zip
Baraha 7.0 Build 6
DAEMON Tools 4.10
HTML Optimizer
Jabref for Windows 2.3.1
JustZIPit
My Pictures 3D Album ver. 0.96
Outclass v1.2.4.1
PinNotes 1.2
Polyglot 3000 2.8
PopFile 0.22.5
wikidPad 1.9 Beta 13

Developers
EventLog Analyzer Free Edition 4.0
Volta from Microsoft Live Labs Technology Preview
VSO Image Resizer
XAMPP 1.6.4
Contentteller Pro 1.0 Preview Release

Gaming
Free
Crayon Physics
Bombermania
Brixout XP
Deadly Stars
Stunt Playground v2

 

[Indyan]

Mag contents look interesting.
Not too interested in the fast track though.

 

[RCuber]

Thanks for including Gigasmilies 1.1b

 

[Gigacore]

Yeah, thanks for including GigaSmilies *gigasmilies.googlepages.com/34a.gif

 

[krups]

I received digit jan 2008 yesterday.. its rocking.. tech jargon is really usefull... thanks digit..

 

[casanova]

Not that appealing. :-

 

[New]

Looks ok .Anyway it's my duty to bring digit every month!

 

[kumarmohit]

Decent for a new year issue.

 

[ArZuNeOs]

well its pretty much Ok for the start......

 

[Rahim]

This has never happened that i havent finished reading an issue one day flat. I just lost interest in this mag. It has become just another magazine.
I hope the "New Parents" would do some soul searching and zep up this magazine, whch has a cult-like following here.
I will wait for another 2-3 months to see if Digit really improves or these complains fell on deaf ears.

 

[azherdigit]

should i buy this edition or wait for feb?
i have got the dec megapack edition.

 

[Siddhartha_t69]

not buying thuis issue.
Last edition DVDs are still eating my brain.

 

[abhinav_bipnesh]

not a good one but we can say an average start for the year let see what is there in coming months.................

 

[nvidia]

The magazine was kinda ok this time.

 

[Red_Baron]

Mag was OK... DVD could have been good IF IT WOULD ONLY F***ING WORK. Team Digit, Please fire the contractor who burns these Dual Layer DVDs for you.
In December we had a lot of issues (and I mean a LOT). None of the 5 DVDs I got worked, and 3 out of 5 replacements didn't work. This time around, I am stuck with the same issue... another useless disk which doesn't work.

 

[saqib_khan]

Someone said right, the quality is downgrading.

For sometime they r publishing fasttrack on useless topics.
The mag is also not good.
The quality of CD/DVD is also very bad.

Please digit, work on this.

 

[dharamveerg]

Received Jan issue today.CD was in very bad condition.It seems somebody trampled upon it,somehow recovered the more or less useless contents.Hope that changes at top infuse some new life in the digit

 

[ratedrsuperstar]

best FT of all really helpful to noobs and below average DVD and mag xcept my review

 

[s_lord]

everything was good except that the AA game didn't work out..


What shall I do ??

 

[ssk_the_gr8]

i though that the mag would improve with 9.9 media buying it.. but it has not
my dvd is not working again!
the mag contents are not that good
a review of only flash drives.. man i have got used to 2 sets of shoot outs/reviews in each mag .& i wont take 1 even if u have zero1 awrds to print which u are copy pasting from previous reviews

personally i feel the zero1 awards is a waste of pages we buy the mag for the whole year . we already know whats good from the reviews . & the contenders in most of the section of zero1 award were the previous tests runner-ups!!!.. come on man u can do better than this...
the zero1 awards should be a 2-3 pages article ..just naming the winners & runner ups with a little description
& last but not the least the fast track..it was hopeless .. most of us around here know all this stuff reading ur mag itself..

the 1st time i bought digit in june 2001 it had in depth reviews of firewalls,antivirus etc... it was much more technical... digit is getting kind of lame for me.. cuz now they have stepped down a level on the technical part to appeal to a broader audience
& the damn no. of pages & articles keep on decreasing it is now only 128 pages!!! it used be 150 + a year ago
+ their are the adds..but i wont complain against them cuz a magazine needs it to keep costs down but dont decrease the no. of pages..
we buy the mag for the articles & not for the stuff u give on the DVD we can get those free software on the net!!!

i am sorry to say but i am switching to a different mag..

In the end i would like to thank digit for converting me into a open source & free software user junkie. & moving me away from piracy.
it was a nice journey & i was loyal to u for 7 years..!

anyway my favourite article in the digit mag last year was G80 vs R600

give me more articles like that & i will buy digit again

PS- hope the post isnt too long......man this thing sounds like a letter