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