[Preview + Feedback] - Digit October 2007

[FatBeing]

Magazine Contents

Digital Passion

Lead Feature
The Red Brick Road
Ever since we landed on the moon, we’ve been looking Beyond—specifically, at our red neighbour. Here’s the technology that will eventually take us to Mars

Test Centre
The Hand That Rocked The Rig
Games just get more demanding with every new release, so a good graphics card just has to figure in your upgrade plans. We’ve picked more than 50 from the market, so no matter what your budget, you’ll find an option here!

Insight
Connecting The Masses
The biggest online movement isn’t social networking, it’s BitTorrent. But what is it? How does it work? All these answers and many more...

Tomorrow
Giving Back To The Machines
You’ve read about cyborgs—humans powered by machines—but what about machines powered by humans?

Droolmaal
Terrorise hapless civilians in your Paintball Panzer and blast the competition to oblivion with the 12-in-one woofer!

Digital Tools

Enhance
Little Helpers
If you were to look at their size, they hardly qualify as programs, but these tiny wonders can make your computing life much easier

Cover Story
Here’s our pick!
It’s so easy to be a photographer these days—all you need is an eye for beauty, some money, and one of these 31 digital cameras!

Agent001
Live On The Wide Side
With LCD prices dropping to ridiculously low levels, our Agent just couldn’t resist picking up one of these babies!

Know More About
Those Little Things
Ever wondered “What does this button do?” Know more about the things you always see, but never really notice


Digital Business

Tech Careers
Securing Your Future
Today, the single largest expense for an organisation is data security—read on to find out how you can get yourself a piece of the hacker- and virus-busting pie

Jumpstart
Click, Pick And Choose
One simple idea—give people the ability to borrow books and keep them for as long as they like, and let them do it from the comfort of their homes—and the people that made it happen. Meet the Librarywalas

Smart Business
The Smooth Operator
If you treat every task as a separate project, you shouldn’t be without a project management solution—and this one’s free!


Digital Leisure

Lead Feature
Take Ten
Thought cross-platform gaming didn’t exist? Well, it does, and here are ten games that will let even Linux users join the gaming ranks

Game On
Two of the most hyped games in recent months—BioShock and Halo 3 reviewed this month. What did we think? Flip over to find out!

Tabloid Tech
What does an old Beatle do when he doesn’t want to send an e-mail? He gets a minion to do it, of course!

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Fast Track To PowerPoint

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DVD-DL Contents
Boot into this DVD to install Linux Mint

Gaming

Free
Command & Conquer Gold
Heaven to Ocean
Romanians In Space
Knytt Stories
Secret Maryo Chronicles

Demos
BioShock

Entertainment

Audio Books
The Secret Garden
The Enchanted Island of Yew
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

Videos
Apple II Forever
Store Wars
Halo Wars E3 2007 Demo Trailer
MotoGP 07 Trailer
Tony Hawk's Proving Ground Trailer

Movies
Dementia 13
Zeitgeist: the Movie

Music
Dirty Wings by Josh Woodward
Increase the Dosage by Revolution Void
Not Quite Connected by Josh Woodward
Public Domain by t r y ^ d
Rust by No Really
Woods of Chaos by Rob Costlow

Tools

Multimedia
Xara Xtreme Pro 3.2.3
Infinity Brush 3.7
Miro
Flash Slide Show Maker Professional 4.42
Flash to Video Converter 1.12
Auto Movie Creator 1.41
CyberMotion 3D-Designer
Desktop Author 5.5
hsCADCreator 1.0.4.103

System
SpeechVibe 1.1
Nokia PC Suite 6.84 Release 10
Darwine (Mac)
Yahoo! Widget Engine for Windows 4.0.5 Build 184b R2
OBSERVATOR
PerfectDisk 8
The Cleaner Pro 5.0.0.120

Internet
8hands 0.8.041
Spiceworks
Active WebCam 9.6
Adium 1.1.1 (Mac)
Eudora 7.0.0.16 Final
Skype 3.5.0.214
SSL-Explorer for Windows 0.2.15_01
Windows Live Messenger 8.5.1235 Beta
Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.419

Productivity

Personal
OpenEducationCD
JetTask 2.1
PowerPoint Viewer 2007
AccuSpell 7.5.7.1
TextSpeech Pro 2.2

Developers
Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition Beta 2
PG Dating Pro Social AUG 2007
Komodo Edit 4.1
Lightfeather 0.5.5
VirtualBox 1.5

CD Contents

Gaming

Free
FreeCiv 2.0.9
Chicken Fighters
Conquest of Elysium II
Cow Tossing
Ghouls’n Ghosts Remix
Lolball
Ogrian Carpet
Sunday Panzers

Demos
Chromadrome 2
Dweebs 3 - Furbidden Planets
Pocket Tanks v1.2

Entertainment

Movies
The Snow Witch
Porky's Midnight Matinee
The Talking Magpies

Music
Dream Your Dream by ZG and 108 Desires
Fell the Hill by Alex B
I am this by adhDJ

Tools

Essentials
.net Framework 2.0
Avast Home Edition 4.7
Avast Update
Comodo Free Firewall
Digit Software Archive 2006 Beta
DirectX Redistributable 9.0c August 2007
Foxit Reader
Free Download Manager 2.5
Irfan View 4.00
Irfan View 4.00 Plugins
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 3.4.0
Opera 9.23
Spybot Search and Destroy 1.51
Spybot Search and Detection updates
VLC Player 0.8.6c
WinRAR 3.71 beta 1
µTorrent 1.7.2 build 3458

Multimedia
Geexbox (Linux)
ComicRack
Motion Studio
FreeJ 0.9 (Debian and Ubuntu)
Google Earth 4.2.0181 Beta
mtPaint 3.11
Screenshot Captor 2.34.01
3D Issue Manager 2

System
Acharya 1.0 Build 22
BananaScreen 1.2.1
HijackThis 2.0.2
Amnesty Hypercube 0.1.5a for Windows (Vista recommended)
Don't Panic
DriveHQ FileManager
GPU Caps Viewer
HijackReader 1.0.3 Beta
Revo Uninstaller
SystemAI
Tweak UI 2.1
TweakVI Basic
CPUCooL 8.0.6
MagicISO 5.4(build 245)
Oxygen Phone Manager for Symbian phones 2.15.0.19
PromptPal

Internet
3d Traceroute
Web Forum Reader 1.0 Beta 10
Advanced Email2RSS Personal 3.1.57
Cool Redefined 2.7
CrossLoop
ooVoo 1.1.0.3 Beta
Pidgin 2.1.1
SoonR
Hide The IP 2.1.1
HTMLPower 3.8.2 Build 781
Internet Macros Web Test Recorder 6.00
MaaTec Network Analyzer
TOWeb 2.03
USB to Ethernet Connector 2.4.7.109

Productivity

Personal
Cut'n'Mix 5.0
GoodKeywords
neoSearch 1.00
CD Recovery Toolbox
EasyDuplicateFinder Portable 1.4
GoogleHacks
Libra 0.9.0 (beta)
Dynamic Notes 3.25
FusionDesk 1.0.7
Ultra Recall Professional 3.2.1

Developers
Saurus CMS 4.4.2
Movable Type 4.01
RightMark CPU Clock Utility 2.30
Windows PowerShell 1.0 (Windows XP SP2)
Wintermute Engine Development Kit 1.8 Beta 3
XINS 2.1 beta 1
Inspyder Sitemap Creator
Macrobject CHM-2-Web 2007 Pro
Web Site Maestro 6.1

In the words of so many professors, "yenjai!"

[Devrathnd]

except product shootouts and bioshock nothin is good. Why dont you provide workshops atleast 2 a month

[Ankur Gupta]

Seems something for everyone in this issue.......
i mean the magazine contents :)
Just the right time for digital camera reviews as I am soon planning to buy one...

[ThinkFree]

Contents not great

[abhinav_bipnesh]

Look magazine contain fine but i think ur missing on providing contain on DVD & CD as before u provide more specfic & good software on it but now the quality is gone down as just one demo game & other small free games.
As right now some publisher are providing there old gane release as free download so i think u can provide that & some more demo of good graphics intensive games please
Rest is fine in quality of contain ( in magazine) but please increase in dvd & cd contains :)

[bkpeerless]

Lacks the dewali masala nothing exiting in the dvd or cd ....
But Mag looks interesting and there is hardly anything taken from digit demand of forum . .......

[aditya.shevade]

Good Issue...

[nihu]

Once again Not upto the mark issue.Take a crack?

[sumigizlov]

oops digi did it again
magzine's fine but
cmon yaar not a single useful software in the dvd/cd
single layered dvd of previous editions was better than this dual layer shhitt

[nish_higher]

Magazine seems great.cd dvd content is not good at all.why don't u guys provide demos of such softwares that r used by the masses and ignore the FREE label?i mean 20% of free stuff (including linux) is ok but filling a 8.5gb with this and other sharewares doesn't make sense to me.or provide quality apps and games no matter free or what.

[azzu]

ok ok got linux mint will try to get this issue

[Garbage]

nice contents !!!

wanna try Linux Mint !! :)

[soham]

Fast Track sucks! the rest of the stuff are good. waiting for the graphics card and digicam review.

[casanova]

Looks interesting. Waiting to get my hands on this issue.

[The_Devil_Himself]

Wow very good issue.Can't wait to get my hands on it.LINUX MINT-thats what I was waiting for.

[phuchungbhutia]

nice mag content .... was hoping fast track to VStudio with the software ....
will get as it hits the shops here ,...
i love digit ....mag +cd/dvd ..... have tried others but dont find them much interesting like digit ..

[utsav]

good disc contents and shootouts

[Tapomay]

CD/DVD contents are not so useful for me.
Mag contents are ok.

[contactpraven2001]

well mag content looks good in DVD/CD only linux mint is good rest sucks well after giving fast track on ms office there is no point giving a fast track on power point well let see what is in it going to bye the issue...........hope this time my RS 125 would not .........

[crazyforever]

cmon DIGI TEAM
giv us good softwares instead all diz crap
nd if u cant find d good ones - then i think i am here to help u - appoint me d guy to find d softwares - i bet i can do it far better than d stuff provided by your present employees
okhey !!!
u better b

[baccilus]

Good issue this time. But you should have provided more big Demos. Needed more now since these demos are large and difficult to download. How about Stranglehold and PES 08 demos next time? Will post this in the right thread too.

[a_k_s_h_a_y]

hey fatbeing.. tell me keeping what type of readers in your mind u write articles for digit ???
i just want to know.. just for info.... !

[Mrinal Mohit]

Y? For god's sake y??? why didn't u give us FIFA 08 Demo?????

[Gigacore]

not bad :), not good :(

[utsav]

^^lolzzzz:lol: thats right .same is here

[Cool G5]

Only i find the Linux mint of some use.The mag is good.
Common guys you can give more useful stuff.

[dissel]

Thanks.....Nice Mag content,

After waiting a long time,I frustrated & Last Wednesday I bought the Canon's 350D and now Digit finally came out this year's Digital Cam review. :( :( :( :mad: :mad: :mad:.
Actually I want to buy a cam before Puja...So I am on hurry.
Anyhow Bad luck for me.

I skip sept issue, but I must buy this one.

[src2206]

Thank you FatBeing...please accept my gratitude for providing the Open Education CD. Rest of the contents also looks great. Come Wednessday, and it will be in my hands. :)

Thanks again

[bhaudateju]

i have nokia 6233 my phone’s internal memory is shown 200kb only, where as there is nothing in my phone memory.
could anyone have the credit of helping me out telling the code for formating phone memory
email at: bhaudagopy@yahoo.co.in

[ravi_9793]

i have nokia 6233 my phone’s internal memory is shown 200kb only, where as there is nothing in my phone memory.
could anyone have the credit of helping me out telling the code for formating phone memory
email at: bhaudagopy@yahoo.co.in
this is not right place to ask your query.
Ask your problem in Mobile Monsters section (http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=18)

[gary4gar]

Nice mag & DISC contents, atleast they are better than previous
gfx card test & digi cams test looks good

[MetalheadGautham]

exept for that horrible fast track, everything rocks

[Red_Baron]

Do we really need a CDROM? How about replacing it with another DVD instead?

[shady_inc]

Roflmao..!!:razz:

Fast track to ppt??No way!!Who wants a fast track on ppt??How about a fast track to C/C++ or VB in next issue.I will be the first one to buy it then..:rolleyes:

Oh,btw the Bioshock Demo is nice.!!

[Ankur Gupta]

^^Yeah we have been asking for education related articles/fastrack for a long time..
A fastrack to C/C++ will be loved by all...coz most of the readers are students...

[The_Devil_Himself]

Ok guys here is my feedback:
1.Who wants a fast track to Powerpoint?Complete waste of resources.
2.The movie+music+wallpapers are very good specially the movie Zeitgeist.Just awesome.Please do include more movies like this instead of filling the disc with junk.Two movies like this(=1.4GB) would be nice.
3.Linux Mint is awesome.Thanks for giving us different flavours of linux every month.
4.The free games are cool and addictive.Bioshock demo is good too.
5.The Digital camera and graphic card reviews is just what I/we wanted.
6.And that article about BitTorrent (Connecting masses) is uber cool.Thanks again.

Suggestions:
1.Come on guys who need a Fast track to Powerpoint?A fast track to c\c++\programming is long due or maybe a fast track to overclocking.
2.Please do provide latest versions of popular softwares like iTunes.
3.More movies like this months movie.It was awesome.Steal this movie part 2 is still pending.
4.Some game posters(like halo3).Please.

[PikachuTrAiNeR]

Bolded for attention
I know, it looks stupid, but it's cos I haven't got a reply yet.

Erm, I've picked up my copy of Digit yesterday, and the a set of pages (29-37) are not printed, and the next set of pages are printed twice instead.
My copy is off the news-stand, is there a way to have it exchanged for a proper one? (by mail, etc.)

I'm looking forward to read the Article on BT. :P

[Garbage]

Suggestions:
1.Come on guys who need a Fast track to Powerpoint?A fast track to c\c++\programming is long due or maybe a fast track to overclocking.
.
.
.
4.Some game posters(like halo3).Please.

Yeh... Me too waiting for Fast Track on Programming.... :rolleyes:

And it would be nice if Digit can give some (good) POSTERS !!! :p

[utsav]

picked the issue today.none of the cd/dvd are working:mad: :mad: .its too much.how to get them replaced?:evil:

[sr_garg]

got the oct issue today cd is not workin only dvd is workin that too get hang sometime...... y u ppl r giving so low quality discs now a days....... i think no one is haapy on this side.. please do the needfull.......

[utsav]

just think abt my anger .i spent 125Rs just to get coasters

[ArZuNeOs]

+ : nice mag content + C & C +bioshock demo
- : PPt fastrack + ignored latest model cameras from Kodak,Sony ,Canon & y missing S3 IS

Ideas :1) Give Fastrack on some nice programming languages.....start with C ...will definitely be useful for readers.....& later on extend the fastrack to Part 1 & part 2 for high end languages

& Can u cut on the CD & include DVD too...its economical too....1 DVD 9 & 1 DVD 5 ......sure its useful to all....

[utsav]

i can't understand that why we do not get replies of our feedback in so serious cases.

[JharuPochaBai]

Pathetic Content. And I guess I'm banned for blurting out the truth.

[blackpearl]

I don't know about others, but I liked this issue (the mag). The DVD could have been better though.

[avikchaks]

Btw,
Why no 7900 in the graphics card shootout ?

What's so brilliant about the testing team testing out 10 8800GTS models and saying 7600 really sucks and 8600 really rocks ( which anybody who's been on the planet for about a year already knows ).

DVD content : Enjoyed the old Apple video .. the other one Zeitgeist was just a bore .

[Rishabh_sharma1990]

Hey ur article "RED BRICK ROAD" is good. But..................

But u should try to include interesting things and music in CD\DVDs
Why Are You Providing Audio Books. It is useless for most of us.
Many digit readers, especially between 12-17 can't understand
American English. There is no use of Audiobooks.

Please try to re-design Digit Magazine Interface. We are bored to the same
old Interface.

[The_Devil_Himself]

offtopic:
Btw,
.. the other one Zeitgeist was just a bore .
Eh..Dude grow up.This movie is amazing but Then it is not meant to be understood by all.

[avikchaks]

offtopic:

Eh..Dude grow up.This movie is amazing but Then it is not meant to be understood by all.
Dude I think you should grow up . No need to get a panic attack .

This is a movie suggesting absurd implications with no connecting thread ( which is in contradiction to the premise on which it has been made ) .
Learn to respect opinions other than ur own .:-)

Wrong info in Digit October Graphics Card Test

on page 45 MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E is said to have a 640 MB / Gddr3 ( costing Rs 18000, which is what got my attention )

Lol ..

[azzu]

avikchaks : "model and saying 7600 really SUCKS and 8600 really rocks"

Devil saw ur attitude in ur post and posted a comment similar to ur attitude so there's no offence.
BTW it was awesome MOVIE

[avikchaks]

avikchaks : "model and saying 7600 really SUCKS and 8600 really rocks"

Devil saw ur attitude in ur post and posted a comment similar to ur attitude so there's no offence.
BTW it was awesome MOVIE
Are you from VHP ? whatz with the moral policing . Read and re-read my post again . I didnt say what you so cheerfully and selectively posted above .

I said that the Digit team very conviniently chickened out from testing a 7900 and came up with their very - correct conclusions about the 7600 and 8600 .
But why do they have to be so boastful in saying that they had lots of graphics cards and they rejected many of them , when they did not even feature a 7900 in the eventual shoot out .

So dear azzu refrain from getting into a conversation where ur intellectual capacities(or the lack thereof ) restrain you from doing any justice to it .

[phuchungbhutia]

digit dvd not working here ......

[utsav]

^^ har jagah yehi haal hai.

[avikchaks]

oh no .. just realized my cd aint working ..

this is unusual coz my dvd is working just fine .. installed linux mint a couple of days ago( Thanx for making it bootable guys ! ) Never bothered to check the cd until a cpl of hours earlier but i guess im not missing out on much

So no complaints :)

[azzu]

wat the hell is VHP is it :$

[The_Devil_Himself]

VHP is a political party(me think).

[utsav]

plz try to impove the quality of ur CD/DVD.the book store from where i purchased DIGIT changed my faulty CD/DVD as i am a regular customer.:D

i guess no one gets this priviledge in any bookstore in India.:lol:

[gary4gar]

I read the full mag now!
like the articles relating to bittorrent(basic have been explained)
also the shootout of gfx cards & digital cam.
Overall the contents of mag are slightly better than the avg but As far CD/DVD contents concerned they are not up to the mark.


thats my opinion maybe i am wrong:|

VHP is a political party(me think).
Viśva Hindū Pariṣad (www.vhp.org/) is the self proclaimed moral police like bajarang dal. they not a political party just another religious organization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishwa_Hindu_Parishad

[The_Devil_Himself]

^they are too many to remember each one.

[MetalheadGautham]

digit... did you change staff recently?

[pc_game_lover2004]

ya contents in single layer DVD was much better provided now.....

[Kartik Singhal]

Out of all the things, I found LINUX MINT the best thing on the disc. The best linux distro I hv ever used. Thanks for providing this.

Can I post a complaint here, you people just don't listen to complaints sent to help@jasubhai.com
I bought this month's issue of Digit from the local newsseller's shop and found that both the disks had got scratches and were not working properly. I found this error while trying to access them: Disk error , data redundancy check (well something like this, we get it when the files on the disk are corrupted or not readable). So, I want to ask how can I get these disks replaced? I faced this problem before in August and wrote to help@jasubhai.com and got this reply:

"
Thank you for writing to the Jasubhai Digital Media Customer Service Team.
We have received your query and will respond to you shortly

Best regards,
Jasubhai Digital Media Customer Service
D-222/2, Om Sagar Building,
MIDC, TTC Industrial Area,
Thane-Belapur Road,
Nerul,
Navi Mumbai 400 706
Telephone: 27629319/22
help@jasubhai.com
"

and no replies after that. Was I always wrong to say that Digit is the best comp. mag. I hv ever read to all my friends? Or this is what you get as service when you are not a subscriber? Waiting for a response on this...

--
kartiksinghal@gmail.com

[uchiha_madara]

This mag needs techy writers who could add more descriptions,causes,effects of various settings on performance like in the gfx shootout instead of glossing over DX10 cards etc.As far as I am concerned the mag is just good for browsing the price of various electronics in the country.Have that view for a while now and I don't think it is gonna change soon.SAD.

[rentacoder]

nice issue...
but vb express doesnt work

[gaurav_chd88]

Issue was nice as before but the CD/DVD was again CRAP:(
Guyz get some good people & even if these people r nt sufficient then wear good spectacles to read all this

[MetalheadGautham]

I don't know about others, but I liked this issue (the mag). The DVD could have been better though.

everyone says that, including me. thats why I decided to buy only the aniversary and the year end issues form now on. I would still get the pdf archive and the movies The library can gimme the mag...

Conclusion from previous posts:

01. Keep Up The Good Articles:D

02. Give fast track only on topics we can't find on the net easily:cool:

03. People like the fast tracks to be user guides of some cool stuff, like Java IDE, Python Programming, C++, Mingw Developer Studio(a competitor to MS Visual C++; free), Linux, BSD, etc. And basing the fast track on something that is paid is also not a good idea. It should be a window to a new and free world

04. In the DVD, use that extra space well.:mad:

(a). Since Autopatcher is nomore, you may concider using the ware reviewed in :arrow:this link (http://www.heise-security.co.uk/articles/80682). Provide the ISO you created with it in digit.:))

(b). Give good eyecandy wallpapers and game trailers, along with full length movies, in the DVD. Please use x264 for video and AoTuV b5 vorbis for audio(in MKV Container) to give best quality at least size. Video should be ~600-700 kbps, audio should be Vorbis q4:cool:

(c). Give some REALLY BIG software or something which not all of us can download by ourselves.:confused:

(d). Give the softwares reviewed or talked about in digit in the DVD(free or demo versions):)

(e). If yoy can't find anything else, atleast allot 2 GB for linux. Linux is not all about ISOs.:(

(f). When giving live distros, please provide an app that automatically coppies only those files which are a part of the Distro's ISO to an ISO file in the computer. Its very useful if we want to make backup coppies of the distro.:|

(g). Wikibooks has several good books available in PDF format. Chose some really good books and give them in the DVD.;)

(h). The rest can be for the Demos and full software you usually provide.

05. Some people don't have DVD reading capability in their computers, there is no denying that. And usually it is they who also lack good hardware and internet access. Hence give the Ultra Essentials in the CD. These can include alzip, VLC, 7-zip, some small games, perhaps a lightweight game, avast antivirus, spybot:search&destroy, AD-Aware, and updates for the previous three.

06. ^^Otherwise, if you are the heartless type, you can use the CD for giving a single full CD item, like Visual Studio Express, A Linux Distro, etc. It must be a full software, and Must have proper artwork. You may also use it to give movies.

07.Who knows? you may even concider giving A dual layer DVD + another DVD. The manufacturing costs of a dvd is RS 9 afterall. Just devote the Single layer disc to linux, I am sure the digit community will appreciate that.:lol:

08. Most people with ability to play good games like bioshock will also have good internet connection. So don't bother giving a Small(in size) demo.

09. Give good PROPER free games, like OpenArena, Sauerbraten, Lincity-NG, etc. Why are all free games given in Digit crazy and childish? :evil:

10. Several good music artists(paid ones, not free ones) have freebies on their website. Ex: Metallica(their free vault is awssome), Megadeth(free music videos and mp3s of FULL LENGHT SONGS). Give them here.:cool:

11. There is a site called DrummerWorld.com, which has information about several drumers, and also several freebies, like live videos and MP3s. They are really awssome. They are legal too. Give them.:grin:


Gautham bhai ka kehna, jo teek, wahi dena.

Any Reply Moderators?

[phuchungbhutia]

great one i enjoyed reading it more than the mag with not so workin dvd copy :-( sad i could nt use mint :-(:-(

[The_Devil_Himself]

Good work gautham I specially liked 3,7,9,10.
more free music please and instead of that CD start giving a DVD.

Any Reply Moderators?
lol.Moderators are no way related to the magazine gautham.Say 'Any reply Admins'.....But I am sure there won't be any reply.

[Gigacore]

should i say about zeigteist

[MetalheadGautham]

I think there is some catch here... has anyone noticed, that for the past one year, the qualities of the mag and discs are inversely propotional to each other?

[Gigacore]

as far as i know. . . in 2003's the magazine contents were awesome! and during 2005's the media contents were superb and now in 2007 they are trying to make both the content superb . . . . but its still not accomplished :)

[FatBeing]

everyone says that, including me. thats why I decided to buy only the aniversary and the year end issues form now on. I would still get the pdf archive and the movies The library can gimme the mag...

Conclusion from previous posts:

01. Keep Up The Good Articles:D



We intend to.



02. Give fast track only on topics we can't find on the net easily:cool:



That's like saying you want to see water, but not the kind you get in the ocean. With a little determination, you can find anything on the Interntet - legally or otherwise. The purpose of Fast Track is to make information easy to digest.



03. People like the fast tracks to be user guides of some cool stuff, like Java IDE, Python Programming, C++, Mingw Developer Studio(a competitor to MS Visual C++; free), Linux, BSD, etc. And basing the fast track on something that is paid is also not a good idea. It should be a window to a new and free world



We choose Fast Tracks that will appeal to a majority of our readers. We've already given one on Linux (which was well-received), but don't expect user manuals to Java IDEs. We've been toying with the idea of a Fast Track to Programming for a long time, and it'll likely be realised in a couple of months.


04. In the DVD, use that extra space well.:mad:

(a). Since Autopatcher is nomore, you may concider using the ware reviewed in :arrow:this link (http://www.heise-security.co.uk/articles/80682). Provide the ISO you created with it in digit.:))

(b). Give good eyecandy wallpapers and game trailers, along with full length movies, in the DVD. Please use x264 for video and AoTuV b5 vorbis for audio(in MKV Container) to give best quality at least size. Video should be ~600-700 kbps, audio should be Vorbis q4:cool:



Duly noted. We don't get our movies in uncompressed format, you know. If the video quality is too low, we see whether the content makes up for it. Otherwise, we look for a different one.



(c). Give some REALLY BIG software or something which not all of us can download by ourselves.:confused:

(d). Give the softwares reviewed or talked about in digit in the DVD(free or demo versions):)



Noted.



(e). If yoy can't find anything else, atleast allot 2 GB for linux. Linux is not all about ISOs.:(



I take it you mean Linux software and not distros. Noted.



(f). When giving live distros, please provide an app that automatically coppies only those files which are a part of the Distro's ISO to an ISO file in the computer. Its very useful if we want to make backup coppies of the distro.:|



If you know of an app that does this, please tell me.



(g). Wikibooks has several good books available in PDF format. Chose some really good books and give them in the DVD.;)

(h). The rest can be for the Demos and full software you usually provide.




Will check out WikiBooks.



05. Some people don't have DVD reading capability in their computers, there is no denying that. And usually it is they who also lack good hardware and internet access. Hence give the Ultra Essentials in the CD. These can include alzip, VLC, 7-zip, some small games, perhaps a lightweight game, avast antivirus, spybot:search&destroy, AD-Aware, and updates for the previous three.

06. ^^Otherwise, if you are the heartless type, you can use the CD for giving a single full CD item, like Visual Studio Express, A Linux Distro, etc. It must be a full software, and Must have proper artwork. You may also use it to give movies.


Everything ultra-essential is indeed on the CD. The section's called Essentials.


07.Who knows? you may even concider giving A dual layer DVD + another DVD. The manufacturing costs of a dvd is RS 9 afterall. Just devote the Single layer disc to linux, I am sure the digit community will appreciate that.:lol:


We have considered. Too expensive right now.


08. Most people with ability to play good games like bioshock will also have good internet connection. So don't bother giving a Small(in size) demo.

09. Give good PROPER free games, like OpenArena, Sauerbraten, Lincity-NG, etc. Why are all free games given in Digit crazy and childish? :evil:


You say crazy and childish, some say fun. All about perspective.
The trouble with "PROPER" free games is that there are so few of them that are any good - when they are, we provide. Except for Lincity, I recall we gave all the names you mentioned here.


10. Several good music artists(paid ones, not free ones) have freebies on their website. Ex: Metallica(their free vault is awssome), Megadeth(free music videos and mp3s of FULL LENGHT SONGS). Give them here.:cool:

11. There is a site called DrummerWorld.com, which has information about several drumers, and also several freebies, like live videos and MP3s. They are really awssome. They are legal too. Give them.:grin:


There's free, and there's free. The music you mention is free to download for personal use, but not for distribution. So we could download this music and tell you how good it is, but it's off-limits for DVD. We'll be sticking to CC-licensed music, except in special cases.

[The_Devil_Himself]

wow.

[rajivnedungadi]

My CD does not work

[kumarmohit]

Hellooooo!

Preview for November please?