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Magazine Contents
The Sixth Sense
Communication
That most fundamental human need...Will we get true broadband? Will we go 3/4/5/whatever G? What about understanding each other?
The Web
What shape will the Web take next? We mull about better searches, more socialising and Web x.0
Personal Technology
The gadget of our dreams might be closer to reality than you think
Computing
It all comes down to hardware and software—one progresses, the other follows, and the cycle continues...
Gaming
What’ll it be? Enjoyable games that aren’t all that great looking, or ultra-realistic games in all their HD glory?
Entertainment
Of high-definiton, on-demand video and the future of user-generated TV
Expert Opinion
An Equal Access
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Vice President, Google (APAC & Latin America), on the changing faces of the Internet, search and more
The Future Of The Internet
George Zacharias, Managing Director, Yahoo! India talks about what the Internet means to India and what’s going to change
Up-Close And “Personal” Technology
Digit reader Abdul Rehman Noor accepted our invitation, and wrote in about gadgetry of the future
Mobility, Seamless Connectivity, And Convergence
R Zutshi, Deputy Managing Director, Samsung India, talks about convergence, gaming, and expensive gadgets coming home
Innovation, Imagination, And Emotional Computing
Intel’s Justin Rattner tells us that the future lies in technology that we hold dear to us, and that innovation will abound
The IT Industry’s North Star
Dr Hector de J Ruiz, Chairman & CEO, AMD, on why Moore’s Law isn’t as relevant as it was
Digital Tools
Test Centre
Anywhere Data
Presenting the biggest test of internal and external storage solutions ever!
Enhance
One Task, One Focus
Tired of all those “things” that get between you and your work? We’ve looked at a lot of small things you can do, habits you can develop, and so on, so you can be more productive
Do It Yourself
Cool home projects that won't cost you a bomb
Build A Wi-Fi Cantenna
Boost your Wi-Fi joy with a Pringles can, a bit of money, and a lot of spirit
A Tweak In Time
Just buying a spanking new LCD monitor doesn’t guarantee you great visuals
Hack That Mouse
Here’s how to get your own gamer-grade hardware without selling a limb
Silence That PC
Whirrs and vibrations can get in the way of peaceful computing. Shut that thing up!
Fine-tuned Prints
A thing here, a tweak there, and your laser MFD breaks out of its shell!
Digital Leisure
Test Centre
Pocket Jockeys
We’ve hand-picked over 30 portable media players for any size pocket—literally and monetarily!
Tabloid Tech
Guy Kawasaki says, “It’s true that it could have no purpose. I don’t want to be known as a Web 2.0 company, but we’re a Web 2.0 company.” All this and more priceless stuff in the zone where normal things don’t happen. Ever.
Game On
We bring you exclusive previews of the delightfully evil Overlord and the intense tactical shooter Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2. Also featuring a review the long awaited Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars
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Fast Track To Windows Vista
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CD / DVD Contents
Free with this issue: Don on DVD!
DVD-DL Highlights
(Digit goes dual-layer from this month on, incidentally)
Webaroo Wikipedia Web Pack
Surf the entire Wikipedia no matter where you are with the Webaroo Wikipedia Web Pack!
Ubuntu 7.04
Ubuntu is a community-developed, Linux-based operating system that’s perfect for laptops, desktops, and servers. It contains all the applications you need—a Web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging, and much more.
(Boot from the DVD to run the Ubuntu 7.04 Live CD)
Entertainment
Movies
Charlie Chaplin Film Festival
Four Chaplin shorts from 1917: The Adventurer, The Cure, Easy Street, and The Immigrant, presented with music and sound effects
Detour
In flashback, New York nightclub pianist Al Roberts hitchhikes to Hollywood to join his girl Sue. On a rainy night, the sleazy gambler he’s riding with mysteriously dies; afraid of the police, Roberts takes the man’s identity. But thanks to a blackmailing dame, Roberts’ every move plunges him deeper into trouble...
Music
Six Free Creative Commons-licensed Music Albums
Interstate Medicine by Slim (Pop rock)
Moodswings by Babypaul (Subpop)
Rock My Reality by P.O.BOX (Ska-punk)
Second Chance by Marc Reeves (Experimental)
The Dreamer’s Paradox by JT Bruce (Instrumental Progressive Metal)
Your Reality by STEEP (Independent Rock)
Eye Candy
Wallpapers
High-Resolution Wallpapers
A collection of high-resolution, high-quality wallpapers
Supercars and Concept Cars
More than 600 wallpapers of some of the best-looking cars that ever existed, and some that didn’t!
Plus: WindowsBlinds, SkinBuilder and a collection of WindowsBlinds skins!
Enhance
System Tools
Bart’s PE Builder
Bart’s PE Builder helps you build a “BartPE” (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-ROM or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD.
Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities
The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single suite of tools. This file contains the individual troubleshooting tools and help files.
Students
MIT OpenCourseWare
Learn from the best! Five technology courses by the boffins at the Masachussets Institute of Technology, distributed free via the OpenCourseWare Project:
- Artificial Intelligence, Spring 2005
- Circuits and Electronics,Fall 2000
- Mathematics for Computer Science, Fall 2005
- Single Variable Calculus,Fall 2005
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Spring 2005
Learn Linux
Learn Linux is an Open Source project that aims to develop Free/Open Source GNU/Linux Training Materials. The project initiative is supported by The Shuttleworth Foundation under the direction of the Open Source Team. The chapters are numbered in the order they should be read:
- Fundamentals
- System Administration
- Network Administration
- Shell Scripting
- Internals
- Electives
Fun
Games
Chrysler World Tours 3
As far as golf games are concerned, Chrysler World Tours 3 is right up there. The graphics, sound, and play are excellent. You can choose different courses, and new courses can be downloaded from the Web site.
Neverball
Tilt the floor to roll a ball through an obstacle course before time runs out. Neverball is part puzzle game, part action game, and entirely a test of skill.
Pakoon 2
Pakoon is essentially a snowboarding game—except that instead of riding snowboards, you’ll be behind the wheel of a high-performance car.
The Battle for Wesnoth
The Battle for Wesnoth is a free, turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Fight a desperate battle to reclaim the throne of Wesnoth, or take hand in any number of other adventures
The White Chamber
The White Chamber is a 2D adventure game created by Studio Trophis in which the player must control a trapped young woman, as she solves puzzles and overcomes the twisted obstacles in her path.
What Linus Bruckman Sees When His Eyes Are Closed
This retro-style adventure game features a unique system in which you concurrently play the story of a nameless female samurai out to save the goddess Izanami and a fast-food heir out to save his family’s business from his inept father’s gambling problem.
Fun Software
MacSaber 1.1 (Mac)
MacSaber uses your Mac’s sudden motion sensor to detect movements, fast and slow. As you move your laptop, MacSaber plays varying levels of Light Saber sound effects, from a waving sound to exciting saber crashes.
Maestro
Explore Mars with the program that NASA scientists use to operate Spirit and Opportunity
CD Highlights
Microsoft Office Professional 2007 60-day Trial
Office Add-ins
LinkedIn Outlook Toolbar
The LinkedIn Outlook Toolbar allows you to quickly and easily build your LinkedIn network from within Outlook. Joining the LinkedIn business network gets your business network working for you. Invite business contacts you know well, and then use your network to find former colleagues and classmates, find a job, hire through referrals, and develop business relationships.
Zoho Plugin for Microsoft Office 1
The Zoho Plug-in for Microsoft Office bridges the gap between online and offline office productivity. Users’ tasks have been simplified by the fact that they have a choice to work offline on their documents and spreadsheets with Microsoft Word / Excel, and still have these changes reflected directly online in their Zoho account (Writer / Sheet). The new plugin enables users to create, edit, and save their documents and spreadsheets directly to Zoho Writer / Sheet from within Microsoft Word / Excel, and alternatively, users can open and edit their Zoho documents and spreadsheets in Microsoft Word / Excel and save it back to their respective Zoho services (Writer / Sheet).
OggSync for Outlook 3
Introducing the brand new OggSync Google Calendar Sync for Outlook to sync Multiple Google Calendars! Now you can take charge of all aspects of your life while at the same time keeping them separate.
PLUS
- AutoCal for Outlook 2007 1.04
- BpmTraverse 5, CS-RCS 4.0.273
- Employee Manager Plus 1.3
- OpenXML Translator for Word
- Outlook Extras 1.1
- Outlook on the Desktop 1.2
- WOA PDF-Excel 1.02
- WordToys 2.1
- DTG Advanced Formatting 2.0
- NetZoom Symbols for PowerPoint
- PowerPlugs: PhotoActive FX 1.33
- Rhapzode 3
And all our regular essentials!
Magazine Contents
The Sixth Sense
Communication
That most fundamental human need...Will we get true broadband? Will we go 3/4/5/whatever G? What about understanding each other?
The Web
What shape will the Web take next? We mull about better searches, more socialising and Web x.0
Personal Technology
The gadget of our dreams might be closer to reality than you think
Computing
It all comes down to hardware and software—one progresses, the other follows, and the cycle continues...
Gaming
What’ll it be? Enjoyable games that aren’t all that great looking, or ultra-realistic games in all their HD glory?
Entertainment
Of high-definiton, on-demand video and the future of user-generated TV
Expert Opinion
An Equal Access
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Vice President, Google (APAC & Latin America), on the changing faces of the Internet, search and more
The Future Of The Internet
George Zacharias, Managing Director, Yahoo! India talks about what the Internet means to India and what’s going to change
Up-Close And “Personal” Technology
Digit reader Abdul Rehman Noor accepted our invitation, and wrote in about gadgetry of the future
Mobility, Seamless Connectivity, And Convergence
R Zutshi, Deputy Managing Director, Samsung India, talks about convergence, gaming, and expensive gadgets coming home
Innovation, Imagination, And Emotional Computing
Intel’s Justin Rattner tells us that the future lies in technology that we hold dear to us, and that innovation will abound
The IT Industry’s North Star
Dr Hector de J Ruiz, Chairman & CEO, AMD, on why Moore’s Law isn’t as relevant as it was
Digital Tools
Test Centre
Anywhere Data
Presenting the biggest test of internal and external storage solutions ever!
Enhance
One Task, One Focus
Tired of all those “things” that get between you and your work? We’ve looked at a lot of small things you can do, habits you can develop, and so on, so you can be more productive
Do It Yourself
Cool home projects that won't cost you a bomb
Build A Wi-Fi Cantenna
Boost your Wi-Fi joy with a Pringles can, a bit of money, and a lot of spirit
A Tweak In Time
Just buying a spanking new LCD monitor doesn’t guarantee you great visuals
Hack That Mouse
Here’s how to get your own gamer-grade hardware without selling a limb
Silence That PC
Whirrs and vibrations can get in the way of peaceful computing. Shut that thing up!
Fine-tuned Prints
A thing here, a tweak there, and your laser MFD breaks out of its shell!
Digital Leisure
Test Centre
Pocket Jockeys
We’ve hand-picked over 30 portable media players for any size pocket—literally and monetarily!
Tabloid Tech
Guy Kawasaki says, “It’s true that it could have no purpose. I don’t want to be known as a Web 2.0 company, but we’re a Web 2.0 company.” All this and more priceless stuff in the zone where normal things don’t happen. Ever.
Game On
We bring you exclusive previews of the delightfully evil Overlord and the intense tactical shooter Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2. Also featuring a review the long awaited Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars
**********************************************
Fast Track To Windows Vista
**********************************************
CD / DVD Contents
Free with this issue: Don on DVD!
DVD-DL Highlights
(Digit goes dual-layer from this month on, incidentally)
Webaroo Wikipedia Web Pack
Surf the entire Wikipedia no matter where you are with the Webaroo Wikipedia Web Pack!
Ubuntu 7.04
Ubuntu is a community-developed, Linux-based operating system that’s perfect for laptops, desktops, and servers. It contains all the applications you need—a Web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging, and much more.
(Boot from the DVD to run the Ubuntu 7.04 Live CD)
Entertainment
Movies
Charlie Chaplin Film Festival
Four Chaplin shorts from 1917: The Adventurer, The Cure, Easy Street, and The Immigrant, presented with music and sound effects
Detour
In flashback, New York nightclub pianist Al Roberts hitchhikes to Hollywood to join his girl Sue. On a rainy night, the sleazy gambler he’s riding with mysteriously dies; afraid of the police, Roberts takes the man’s identity. But thanks to a blackmailing dame, Roberts’ every move plunges him deeper into trouble...
Music
Six Free Creative Commons-licensed Music Albums
Interstate Medicine by Slim (Pop rock)
Moodswings by Babypaul (Subpop)
Rock My Reality by P.O.BOX (Ska-punk)
Second Chance by Marc Reeves (Experimental)
The Dreamer’s Paradox by JT Bruce (Instrumental Progressive Metal)
Your Reality by STEEP (Independent Rock)
Eye Candy
Wallpapers
High-Resolution Wallpapers
A collection of high-resolution, high-quality wallpapers
Supercars and Concept Cars
More than 600 wallpapers of some of the best-looking cars that ever existed, and some that didn’t!
Plus: WindowsBlinds, SkinBuilder and a collection of WindowsBlinds skins!
Enhance
System Tools
Bart’s PE Builder
Bart’s PE Builder helps you build a “BartPE” (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-ROM or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD.
Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities
The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single suite of tools. This file contains the individual troubleshooting tools and help files.
Students
MIT OpenCourseWare
Learn from the best! Five technology courses by the boffins at the Masachussets Institute of Technology, distributed free via the OpenCourseWare Project:
- Artificial Intelligence, Spring 2005
- Circuits and Electronics,Fall 2000
- Mathematics for Computer Science, Fall 2005
- Single Variable Calculus,Fall 2005
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Spring 2005
Learn Linux
Learn Linux is an Open Source project that aims to develop Free/Open Source GNU/Linux Training Materials. The project initiative is supported by The Shuttleworth Foundation under the direction of the Open Source Team. The chapters are numbered in the order they should be read:
- Fundamentals
- System Administration
- Network Administration
- Shell Scripting
- Internals
- Electives
Fun
Games
Chrysler World Tours 3
As far as golf games are concerned, Chrysler World Tours 3 is right up there. The graphics, sound, and play are excellent. You can choose different courses, and new courses can be downloaded from the Web site.
Neverball
Tilt the floor to roll a ball through an obstacle course before time runs out. Neverball is part puzzle game, part action game, and entirely a test of skill.
Pakoon 2
Pakoon is essentially a snowboarding game—except that instead of riding snowboards, you’ll be behind the wheel of a high-performance car.
The Battle for Wesnoth
The Battle for Wesnoth is a free, turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Fight a desperate battle to reclaim the throne of Wesnoth, or take hand in any number of other adventures
The White Chamber
The White Chamber is a 2D adventure game created by Studio Trophis in which the player must control a trapped young woman, as she solves puzzles and overcomes the twisted obstacles in her path.
What Linus Bruckman Sees When His Eyes Are Closed
This retro-style adventure game features a unique system in which you concurrently play the story of a nameless female samurai out to save the goddess Izanami and a fast-food heir out to save his family’s business from his inept father’s gambling problem.
Fun Software
MacSaber 1.1 (Mac)
MacSaber uses your Mac’s sudden motion sensor to detect movements, fast and slow. As you move your laptop, MacSaber plays varying levels of Light Saber sound effects, from a waving sound to exciting saber crashes.
Maestro
Explore Mars with the program that NASA scientists use to operate Spirit and Opportunity
CD Highlights
Microsoft Office Professional 2007 60-day Trial
Office Add-ins
LinkedIn Outlook Toolbar
The LinkedIn Outlook Toolbar allows you to quickly and easily build your LinkedIn network from within Outlook. Joining the LinkedIn business network gets your business network working for you. Invite business contacts you know well, and then use your network to find former colleagues and classmates, find a job, hire through referrals, and develop business relationships.
Zoho Plugin for Microsoft Office 1
The Zoho Plug-in for Microsoft Office bridges the gap between online and offline office productivity. Users’ tasks have been simplified by the fact that they have a choice to work offline on their documents and spreadsheets with Microsoft Word / Excel, and still have these changes reflected directly online in their Zoho account (Writer / Sheet). The new plugin enables users to create, edit, and save their documents and spreadsheets directly to Zoho Writer / Sheet from within Microsoft Word / Excel, and alternatively, users can open and edit their Zoho documents and spreadsheets in Microsoft Word / Excel and save it back to their respective Zoho services (Writer / Sheet).
OggSync for Outlook 3
Introducing the brand new OggSync Google Calendar Sync for Outlook to sync Multiple Google Calendars! Now you can take charge of all aspects of your life while at the same time keeping them separate.
PLUS
- AutoCal for Outlook 2007 1.04
- BpmTraverse 5, CS-RCS 4.0.273
- Employee Manager Plus 1.3
- OpenXML Translator for Word
- Outlook Extras 1.1
- Outlook on the Desktop 1.2
- WOA PDF-Excel 1.02
- WordToys 2.1
- DTG Advanced Formatting 2.0
- NetZoom Symbols for PowerPoint
- PowerPlugs: PhotoActive FX 1.33
- Rhapzode 3
And all our regular essentials!
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