[Preview + Feedback] - December 2006 Special Issue

Did you like the new "Digit OS" CD/DVD interface?

  • Awesome!

    Votes: 44 46.3%
  • It'll do, I guess

    Votes: 27 28.4%
  • Horrifying!

    Votes: 18 18.9%
  • There's a new interface?

    Votes: 6 6.3%

  • Total voters
    95
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ymhatre

Ambassador of Buzz
Same here dude.....
Wuld try to get the All pdf from any of my friends...thats it..not gonna waste my money on such a crap issue..
Well if the magazine is concerned....that should be available in my college library by now ;)
Really hoping for VAST VAST VAST improvement in January issue
 

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Right off the assembly line
FOR SUBSCRIBERS IT IS BAD ISSUE!!!

Today i got a mail from Digit Subscription team that the issue will be circulated after 8th December - why is it - It is already available on stands on 30th Nov itself and for subscribers it is a total kela ???
 

jamesbond007

 MacManiac
First of all I am extremely disappointed that I get to see Abhishek Bachchan on the cover page!! Nothing can be ever disgusting than this. If you guys really want to spend money on Celebrity Cover Pages than why not give those celebs that we digit fans have been requesting you for a long time now. I have been asking for Anna Kournikova on cover page for ages now. I tell you remove this By Demand thread for ever coz its totally useless......
I put my Digit Mag on my bed side so whenever I wake up in morning I see the digit mag..... now could you imagine seeing Abhishek early morning!! I this were America I'd have sued Jasubhai Digital Media for causing me mental torture everymorning!! How could you give Abhishek man...... in my guess girls form less than 5% of total Digit Readers and only and only tasteless girls like Abhishek!! I can flame you forever for this .....
Coming to the contents the package looks bulkier than special this time! I like Fast Track so looking forward to it ..... just can't resist what you guys have given about Google in it. And as for that mail from Digit saying that our copy will be posted after 8th, I am not surprised at all(as if you guys send your mags by the first of every month). I get my copy during second weeks and if there are any special issues then I ll get them say as early as 25th of that month, thanx to my calling Digit Help Desk atleast a dozen times!!
All in all to sum up everything this months Digit Mag gets a rating of 2* out of 5 ( Abhishek has eaten 1 *) So your score is * * Better luck next time
 
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jamesbond007

 MacManiac
vimal_mehrotra said:
if it was aish i would not have minded even rs.1000 :D:D

You are right man!! and you are not just alone I swear I would have paid more than that for Anna Kournikova on Cover Page!!!
 

tweakyou

Right off the assembly line
I could not get DIGIT til now on stands (it is 4 dec. today.) But viewing the site I came to know of NFS CARBON being given. GOOD! but PC World is Fedora Core 6 wih december issue and Million doller kid. Also agreeing to BLACKPEARL no use of Small B on cover. we are seeing him in D-2. money wastage. Could have been utilised to give some other good software
 

Arsenal_Gunners

Human Spambot
jamesbond007 said:
You are right man!! and you are not just alone I swear I would have paid more than that for Anna Kournikova on Cover Page!!!


stop dreaming man anna is a far fetched thing even for digit
 

alienspiesu

Journeyman
i hav been lookin for the mag since the last 2 days frm CROSSWORD to al the street shops.. evry1 is like yes it wil come tomo . it wil come tomo.. bt nw i seriously cnt wait man.... thx for the info.. nw il go n def'ly get it moro.... ( i.e. if it has come on to the stores!! )
 

Apollo

"Technologic"
Staff member
@alienspiesu: I can share your anguish.

I've been making enquiries on a handful of Wheeler newstands on the Western Railway local line( in Mumbai and the suburbs ) and they're singing the same tune.

Get your act together and try to avert such delays in the future. :)
 

kumarmohit

Technomancer
Same picture in Delhi, Digit December issue is nowhere to be seen and next mag shipment arrives @ 8 PM today so I am keeeping my fingers crossed (Practically I have kept them crossed for so long that they are starting to ache) but its 5 December man I used to get Digit on the last day of previous month say Nov issue on October 30 but for last 4-5 month the condition has worsened and if its not available 2day this must be really bad distribution channel of JDM.
 

blackpearl

The Devil
Without looking at the contents I can say that the package does not justify a price of Rs 200. 1DVD and 4 CDs is not a big deal any more. Both PCWorld and Chip has showed that giving dual layer DVD or extra CDs with a single DVD is a cheap deal, as both these magazines are cheaper than Digit, and cheaper than special issues by half!! 4CDs is puerly for marketing reasons. 4CDs looks nice than a single dual layer DVD and gives a false impression of "more", even though the latter holds more data. It also gives them an excuse to increase the price to Rs 200. I know what you will say "You have no idea how many readers don't own a DVD drive. You will be surprised to learn that some don't even own a PC". The next time I'm going to see Digit in braille, because -"You don't know how many people are blind!!"

Now about the Fast Track. FT to Google- should be good, but part 1, part 2...??? OK, there could be a lot to write about google but then why not a FT to Web Design part 2? There is no FT to Photoshop part 2. But there will be FT to Google part 2 or maybe even 3. Why? Because its all about $$$. If they could, Digit would start a series on Google, Yahoo and the like. On top of that we have the never ending Ads that reaches close to 100 pages in special issues. Look at the various sources from which Digit is raking in money, and still they don't spare the readers. Rs 200 for what? If you are so tight on budget, why did you have to put Abhisekh on the top? If Digit wants to see Abhisekh Bachhan on the cover page, make sure you do that from your own pocket money, not ours.

Besides, I wonder why Digit calls this issue as "Special". According to me something could be called special if:

(a) you give more at a less price OR
(b) you give more at the regular price OR
(c) you give the regular at a less price

This issue falls on none of the above category. Instead Digit is giving more at an even higher price.
You see ads like this:

100gm of toothpaste priced Rs 20.
Special Offer - Now get 150gm for Rs 20.


Have you seen something like this??

Special Offer - Now get 150gm for Rs 35.

Digit should stop calling it a "special" issue. Bumper issue would be the appropriate word.

I haven't missed a issue for the last 15 months or so but this time I'm considering of letting this one drop. I wanted to see what Chip has got to offer this month on their anniversary issue, but those lazy morons are yet to update their website. I'm really pissed!! :evil:
 
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FatBeing

FatBeing

Administratus Rotundus
Well observed, though I must clarify a couple of things:

1. Google didn't pay us for the Fast Track. Just like Microsoft didn't pay us for Fast Track to Windows XP, and like Adobe didn't pay us for Photoshop. NOBODY can buy coverage from Digit - if something's good, it gets covered; if it's bad, it gets bashed. We have a strict code of ethics when it comes to matters like this, and it's a personal insult to any writer (from any publication) to read such an accusation.

These are software and services that people use in their daily lives (just try going a day without using a Google service). The reason it's in two parts is that it was simply too big to fit into one - the original intention, incidentally.

2. We never pay celebrities to be on our covers. To the best of my limited knowledge, nobody does - being on a magazine cover is enough publicity, apparently. Money, if any, is given to the photographer (if it isn't our photog doing the shoot) for the right to use the image. Of course, we do need to get the permissions from the celeb's agent/PR/manager/whoever.

<rant>
I don't get you lot. If there's a hot female model on the cover, people throw us ridiculous flames screaming "porn!!!!"

And now with Abhishek Bachchan on the cover, we have people screaming for females...

*sigh*
</rant>
 

CINTEL ENTRINO

Loading . . . please d'nt
leave the celebrities , digit cud hav given sum 3-d image on cover

or any technological image , which we lik :)


n 1 more important thing , this months digit is still not available in HYDERABAD.

when i enqiured , i got 2 know that even the distributors havnt got them still !


its 5th n even the distri. here havnt got them , i want an explanation on this frm the admins ASAP.
 

aditya.shevade

Console Junkie
I have just received a mail saying that the delivery has been delayed and it will begin from the 8th. And I have exams on 23rd. *imagehost.biz/ims/pictes/209219.gif

Aditya
 

Ramakrishnan

The Researcher
I hope you will give more of freeware/opensource software rather than games.
Giving such a lot of games is a waste of your cd space. Moreover, instead of so manu cd's you could have given in a dual layer dvd.
 

Vishal Gupta

Microsoft MVP
FatBeing said:
<rant>
I don't get you lot. If there's a hot female model on the cover, people throw us ridiculous flames screaming "porn!!!!"

And now with Abhishek Bachchan on the cover, we have people screaming for females...

*sigh*
</rant>
*www.drunkendonkey.net/eng/html/emoticons/giggle.gif *img116.exs.cx/img116/8935/s6vhaha.gif
 
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