[PREVIEW] Feb 2005 Digit DVD / Digit Magazine

[Byte]

DIGIT DVD HIGHLIGHTS

Mandrake 10.1 (3 CDs)
3 LARGE games including The Punisher
Eclipse 3.0.1 SDK
Autopatcher XP
Video Reviews
10 Small Games
28 E-books
44 Desktop Themes
150+ Wallpapers
MUSIC from Prince of Persia: Sands of Time


DIGIT MAGAZINE HIGHLIGHTS

Story on Ethical Hacking
Intel and AMD - Motherboards + Processor Test
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, 2 PAGE review (with words! :p)



DVD CONTENTS
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DEV TOOLS
Eclipse 3.0.1 SDK
C/C++ Plugin for Eclipse (CDT 2.1)
boost 1.32.0
Dev-C++ 4.9.9.1
Python 2.4
Plone 2.0.5
Zope 2.7.3
Apache 2.0.52
DOSbox 0.63
D-Fend 2.0.62.42

GAMES
The Punisher (http://www.ugo.com/channels/games/features/thepunisher/default.asp)
Flatout (http://www.avault.com/reviews/print_review.asp?game=flatout)
Act of War: Direct Action (http://pc.ign.com/articles/572/572217p1.html?fromint=1)
Bejeweled 2 Deluxe
Insaniquarium! Deluxe
Pixelus Deluxe
Astropop Deluxe
Zuma Deluxe
Bookworm Deluxe
Rocket Mania! Deluxe
TipTop Deluxe
Little Fighter
Seven Seas

VIDEO REVIEWS
Sony PlayStation Portable (http://www.gbax.com/pspreview.html)
Sony Vaio U70p (http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=876)
Sony Vaio X505 (http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=466)

MULTIMEDIA
AVI Maker
FrameShow
Grandmommys Finger Painter
ImageForge PRO
PM Imagic
AutoImager
Virtual CD 6.0
All Audio Recorder

INTERNET
Power Siphon 1.9.6.0
VisNetic MailServer 7.6
Blog Express
Feed Demon
Feed Demon BETA
FeedReader
Free Launchbar
Gmail (mail notifier)
MyWeb Browser

ESSENTIALS
Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0
Ad-Aware SE 1.05
Ad-Aware SE1R24 29.12.2004 definiton file
avast! Home Edition 4.5.549
avast! Home Edition 4.5.549 LATEST UPDATE
.NET redistributable
Flashplayer 7
Quicktime Alternative
Real Alternative
VLC Player (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/)


SYSTEM
Microsoft Virtual PC (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx)
Acronis Power Utilities
Spam Alarm
Spam Pal
SafetyBar for Outlook Express 2.5.1
SafetyBar for Outlook 4.0.1
Babylon 5
Babylon English Dictionary
Clearer Type
CPU-Z
Google Deskbar
Onfolio (BETA) (http://www.onfolio.com/product/)
Surfpack startpage
X1 Search (BETA) (http://www.x1.com/products/xds.html)
Meminfo
MSN Toolbar (BETA)
Desktop Sidebar
Autopatcher XP
WindowBlinds 4.4
Iconpackager 2.5

WHITEPAPERS
PCI Express whitepaper
The Inevitability of Failure: The Flawed Assumption of Security in Modern

Computing Environments
Electric Communities - Commerce and Society in Cyberspace

LINUX
Mandrake 10.1 (3 CDs)

PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS
ECTI 1.5
Altova Enterprise XML Suite 2004r4
BackupAssist 2.3.2
Secure Pack 3.0
Search Engine Commando 3.1
CBN Selector 2.1
SmartDraw

E-BOOKS
Light Reading
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Eastern Standard Tribe
Free Culture
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Parma Endorion: Essays on Middle-earth
There will come soft rains
The Birth of Habitat (with Many Digressions on the Early History of Lucasfilm Games and All That)
Long Tail
How To Be Creative
Art Of The Start

Technical
PGP - An Introduction To Cryptography
330 Java tips
CPU decoder ring - The Tech Report
How to create Bootable CDs
UpsetChaps Doom3 Guide - Framerate and Visual Tweaks
Web Design in 7 days
ZopeBook

Camcorders
10 most important things to know about batteries
10 most important things to know about cameras and camcorders
10 most important things to know about lenses
10 most important things to know about lights
10 most important things to know about tripods
Color temperature
Compression vs Picture Sharpness
Glossary of video terms
How a Camcorder Works
Interesting camera angles
Lighting basics

[b]DESKTOP THEMES
WindowBlinds Themes
Avenger
BeOS
CardinalSkin
Fabre
FM
Goof
Gorilla
GrayScale
Kewk-HoE
Longhorn Alternative Dark
Longhorn Alternative
Luna-HoE
Multipass Carbon
Opulence
OpusOS
pixel8
prometheus
RisingDragon
Skintendo
SoftAsPeach
Sportsman
TallyHawk
tidy mind
VectorCell
Xbox

StyleXP Themes
Consruct
Infinite Simplicity
Inspirat
Longhorn Alternative
mask
mojo
Splitfire
NanoVisual
nonstep
Philyvs
PixelElegance
Serenity
SimplePlan
Spirit
Splitfire
toto
Untitled
VSSTATIC
WaZoo

150+ WALLPAPERS

MUSIC
Disney's Robin Hood
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time

[QuickFire]

The DVD + Mag content semms gr8! :P
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, 2 PAGE review (with words! :p)
hoping for the best :lol:

[kunwar]

:oops: demos of chaos theory or Ghost Recon 2 or Knight of the old replublic 2

What is the quantity of reviews or size of each review

As Gamers are NOT happy with the size of each review

But digit issues in pdf format was great.

[rohandhruva]

Thanks a lot for Mandrake 10.1 YAY!
Rohan/.

[hikapil]

Great Fun this Feb with DIgit DVD

10 Small Games
28 E-books
44 Desktop Themes
150+ Wallpapers

Thanks Digit

[geek_rohit]

44 Desktop Themes
150+ Wallpapers :D
Intel and AMD - Motherboards + Processor Test :D
Thanks a lot for the gallery stuff! :D :D

Please post all requests for the Feb 2005 Digit DVD.

NOTE: No requests for Half-Life 2 DEMO and Linux distros - they are both in, so dont waste your time there

Where is Half-Life 2 DEMO in the Feb DVD? :( :evil:

Now has the diGit archive returned or not? :?

[vysakh]

whoa, just as i was getting ready for an upgrade, u reviewed graphics cards and now processors and mobos

great work by TEAM DIGIT

[gxsaurav]

Ok this is a defenative buy, What I like is

Mandrake 10.1 Yahooo

My Luna HoE (high on efficiency) is finally getting some consdaration, now more people can use it

Flatout, finnaly, without broadband

Virtual PC, Digit I luv U

[kaysquare]

(Team digit) byte,

Thanks a lot for mandrake and other stuff.

[QuickFire]

Yep!!
WHERE IS HALF-LIFE 2 DEMO??

[babumuchhala]

Finally a Processor + Mobo Review.

I am gonna buy this definately

[vignesh]

Great compilation I should say.hip hip hoorah! to Digit

[saketkutta]

Yeah Man wheres the HALF LIFE 2 DEMO
You know most of the poeple use Win 98 now also like me.
AND DIGIT HAS NOT INCLUDED ANY THEMES FOR WIN 98. Plus the style XP does not even work in my XP whenever i install it . It says your win XP is 2600 and style XP is not supported but it works in my frens even he installedfrom my XP CD.

Anyways will not try any games as my PC does not support and will try Mandrake 10.1 as I liked its predecessor 8.2 given by DIGIT a long time ago.
Anyways thanx for all the things. The mag reaches KTM on 10th of each month

will edit later when i get the mag. I hope the price is still Rs 160 NC

Thank You BYTE I will hope tht you include the games that I have posted in BY DEMAND MARCH as they work on my PC

[Prashray]

The Feb. issue is good. :D

[gamefreak14]

150 WALLPAPERS!! THANKS, BYTE!!!
and the 2 page review (with words) ROFLMAO!!

[kunwar]

please reply this message

many gamers are WAITING for hl2 demo in dvd
:evil:

[karthik_rcs]

Great collection

Operating System
Linux -Mandrake
Wallpapers, themes music and games -Gud
Smartdraw
Virtual CD

Thank you Digit Team . Keep up the Good work.

I request you give some movies / some CBT material like things.
CBT can be developed by your team or it can be third party vendors.
If it is going to be yours , then it will little cost effective. This is just a suggestion from my side.

Your Magazine should portray not only the recent technologies changes , upcoming revolutions in the industry. but also to help the young minds to define their career towards this industry.

I hope the DIGIT will help the young developers to develop their skills technically and functionally.

ALL THE BEST
Karthik

[rakee]

WOW man digit is rocking again and again...woow...MANDRAKE 10.1...that makes digit the true emperor of tech mag...whatever it is linux or windows or anything.

[tuxfan]

Looks good. Lets see when the issue comes. I usually get it very quickly. So I am expecting it on Tuesday/Wednesday ;)

[vignesh]

You could have also added Acrobat reader 7.0 .

[Byte]

Half-Life 2 Demo

I had to remove this at the 11th hour, quite literally. Reason being that the demo would not install properly. I tried three different sources, same result - Steam would crash after installing about 3 GB of the game. Suffice to say, as soon as we get a proper EXE file, one that installs, we will ship it on the DVD.

[Byte]

Ok this is a defenative buy, What I like is

Mandrake 10.1 Yahooo

My Luna HoE (high on efficiency) is finally getting some consdaration, now more people can use it

Flatout, finnaly, without broadband

Virtual PC, Digit I luv U

Is Luna HoE your creation? I love that skin.

[techno_funky]

woah!!!! cool
especially

Intel and AMD - Motherboards + Processor Test


and hey whos the model on the cover this time
tell me its ANGELINA JOLIE plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz :P

[gxsaurav]

I haven't made Luna HoE, but I use it so much, & in my friends group, I m the only on using it

It's a highly effiicient skin

[sudhir_mangla]

Can some one from digit can tell me what's on the CD

or at least howmany cd's are with this issue 1 or 2

[Byte]

Can some one from digit can tell me what's on the CD

or at least howmany cd's are with this issue 1 or 2

ONE CD

THESE ARE NOT PRESENT ON THE CD, everything else is:

The Punisher
Flatout
Act of War: Direct Action

Video reviews of Sony PSP, Sony Vaio U70p, Sony Vaio X505

Autopatcher XP
WindowBlinds 4.4
Iconpackager 2.5

Mandrake 10.1

Themes
wallpapers
Music

[ashok]

THESE ARE NOT PRESENT ON THE CD, everything else is:
Themes
wallpapers
Music

Pray,Why the Non-DVD Owners are being robbed of the Desktop Delights?
And that too when all these would hardly take arnd 10-15 MB???

[drgrudge]

Hmm, i am not impressed with the contents of DVD nor the mag :(

Just want to try on VLC player...

[swatkat]

Intel and AMD - Motherboards + Processor Test
Finally, we got what we were waiting for, lets see how the test turns out!!!!

[Sourabh]

firstly i wod trust something only when i get the feb issue in my hands

i dun care abt the HL2 Demo

@ techno

the cover has a SPIDERMAN , hope it suffices to ur fantasies

man wht do u mean by POP WW review with words

its a professional mag, atleast i dint expect someone from the DIGIT team itself saying such a thing

besides only time will tell whether the mobo+ proccy review this month is worth enuf or its gonna be the same as like the opening 2005 jan issue graphic card review

plain crap and wrong info

hopefully i ll get the mag today

fingers crossed

[sudhir_mangla]

Form is updated . But the site is as always never updated.

More over digit interactive section is now closed and links are not working.

Digit team should be more concern about updating the Web site then discussion form .

this only shows that digit team is not interested in bussiness any more.

from past two months digit interactive section is never updated .

and when updated it is too confusing as they now don't provide Playware CD. one cd comtenty shows last month content and other current .

and now it shows
We're sorry, but we were unable to find the page you requested.

this can't be expected in any online bussiness[/quote]

[Raaabo]

man wht do u mean by POP WW review with words

its a professional mag, atleast i dint expect someone from the DIGIT team itself saying such a thing



Jeez, give byte a break...

For all those who need it spelt out:
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (with words :P)
The HL2 review done by byte earlier got a lot of flak from forum members. They moaned and complained about the lack of words, and didn't like the pictorial review. So this time he put in a POP:WW review, and was just informing people that it wasn't like the HL2 review, and actually has words!

You didn't like the HL2 review format, we did away with it! Now don't kill him for making a little joke...

You people need to lighten up a bit. A little joke and a smile never killed anyone!

PS: I go on record again: I LOVED the HL2 review.

As for the site updation, it's done, 1st Feb! That's why the forum post is called a PRE-view: forum members / readers get to know what's in the mag and DVD before everyone else.
How is that a BAD thing???

The site needs to improve though, and it will. That's a promise from the Digit Team! :)

Thanx,

Raaabo

[kl_ravi]

You could have also added Acrobat reader 7.0 .

I second that.

ENSPARC CD released Adobe Reader 7.0 in their January edition itself. Digit is yet to release Acrobat Reader 7.0

[DKant]

Procy+Mobo review - Just what I needed right now. Besides 'twas long overdue! :)

PoP review with words! Waiting to see that. ;)

@Raaabo n Byte, no probs with something like a pictorial review, just that it should be properly referred to. Everywhere on the cover, the site, it said "EXCLUSIVE : HL2 REVIEWED!". That gave the idea of something like a feature article, with a hell lotta words and pics! If u had said "EXCLUSIVE PIC REVIEW!", then noone would have complained. And yep it was nice in its own way. Just that we were all expecting something else.

HL2 demo won't work on my current sys. So that's OK. Hope it comes round in March. :)

And BTW some other nice stuff in the mag and on the DVD (forgot what it was already. :oops: Neway doesn't matter)

Looks bootiful. When r the subscribers' copies being dispatched? :)

Waiting for it... :twisted:

[Raaabo]

Yeah I know what you mean... Anyway I loved it...

Ok gtg, time to get quick reply and report post back... :)

Raaabo

[swatkat]

Yeah I know what you mean... Anyway I loved it...

Ok gtg, time to get quick reply and report post back... :)

Raaabo
i like this.............
by the way,when will i get my mag, will it be on Feb 15?

[[flAsh]]

THANX FOR SUCH A NICE EDITION.
TELL ME ONE THING WHY U PPL DON"T GIVE AWAY LONGHORN; isn't it available to us (after all we certainly r the beta testers) :lol:

[KHUBBU]

Well, lets see what the mobo+ procc test turns out to be.

Gfx card tests was just **** !

Anyway just counting when my subscription ends and I get free ! June looks so near.

One more thing. when will the subscribers get their copy. The only time I got my copy on 1st of the month was in July '04 and the rest of the time after 7th - 12th. Whats the use of subscribing then I can pay extra 30/- and buy it anytime I want.

[svk]

Yep!!
WHERE IS HALF-LIFE 2 DEMO??
pity . didnt u get it yet. :(

[elumalai]

is .net redistributable a SDK or just the framework.

Anyhow, 150+ wallapaers, lots of themes......

waiting for the issue to arrive my town.

[Sourabh]

well got the FEB issue of DIGIT

:arrow: PAGE QUALITY worst than ever

:arrow: why where the socket 939 baseb mobo+proccy not reviewed

:arrow: is there any tie up with INTEL [i dun mind the intel ads on the left hand side of all the review pages] whts the use comparing intel 3.4 ghz cpus with amd 64 3000+

:arrow: y DIGIT y ?? where are those tabloid reviews of all the reviewed products like u did a year before

:arrow: u just reviewed mobos+ proccys given by the companies. has this been the same before. i feel that just not reviewing something just because they were not given by the manufacturers for free was wrong on the DIGIT part. c'mon guys wht we want from u'll is a review of everything which u can which are available in the market

:arrow: as a TECH mag which quote the TECHNOLOGY NAVIGATOR, u shld be ahead of times in wht u review, i so expected the s939 based proccy and mobos, it is quite disappointing


:arrow: other contents in the MAG were good enuf and were well written

:arrow: BYTE said the POP WW review was with words. as i can see it was a wordly review but wht good a review is if they dun mention the minimum system requiremens for the game to run

:arrow: the CD/DVD contents were good but most of us dont buy the mag for the cd/dvd buy for the mag contents.

[sunnydiv]

Is Luna HoE



are we allowed to say that on forum

[satanlives]

i got the mag today
and all i want to say is thank you thank you thank you..............
for the entire soundtrack of prince of persia sands of time.. it absolutely awesome.... played punisher man what a crappy game :P
150 wallpapers are stunning......
and sony psp lookkss absolutely awesome........
havent read the magazine yet will read it as soon as i need to go to the loo* :twisted: :evil: hehehehhehehehehe
satan signing out

[ShekharPalash]

wo... nice stuff this time... good VSs r covered!... + Mandrake 10!!... cool...

[hard_rock]

Gr8 news!!!!!!!!!!!Thnx digit 4 these 2 wonderful DVDs(Jan n Feb with FC3 n Mandrake) i'M LOVIN IT.

[theraven]

im sorry i forget
but this is a common thread for preview and criticism right ??
i couldnt find a feedback for feb so im posting here
( yeah got the mag today ... that is feb 2 05 )
the wallpapers were ncie ...
but thats it ... just nice :(
and i downloaded some of those Themes just 4 days ago :cry:
darn it ...
anyways ...
good issue
no prominent ... or outstanding articles like jan 05's cyborg article
still going through tho

cpu and mobo tests were only mid range :(
i was expecting a fill one ... as always .. digit ishtyle
low/mid and high segment
the exclusion of nforce 4 is what was most disappointing
also i thinking we missed comparison charts ??
lookin for it again

thanx for bringing back a list :D
Beyond music : iPod accessories were :droool:
and the video reviews were cool too
the sony vaios ... another :droool:
still going thru the mag ...

[Byte]

GUYS: Putting the feeback thread up, please post comments on DVD/Mag there.

[Byte]

Is Luna HoE



are we allowed to say that on forum

LOL!

[Sourabh]

where is the feedback thread??

i din find it :x

[ycr007]

where is the feedback thread??

i din find it :x

Neither did I at First....

But later Noticed that Byte Wrongly named it as
[ Feedback] January 2005 Digit DVD/Digit Magazine

:lol:

It should'ave read [Feedback] February 2005 Digit DVD/Digit Magazine