Preview September 2009

[Anorion]

This month, we look at the best of the web. We've browsed for a long time, and now is the time to browse the best! From search to email, and travel to real estate and more, we've chosen the best and presented our findings for you - in our Web Awards.

DVDs
We have two netbook distros and the Android live CD on this month's Digit DVDs. Feature-packed with design goodies, you'll find Dreamweaver CS4, Corel X4 Suite and Autodesk 3DS Max among numerous other software for you to try out.

Fast Track to Wireless Technologies
All you ever wanted to know about wireless technologies. Carrier waves, modulation techniques, broadcasting, cellular telephony, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and more - all explained in detail. Grab a copy now.

The Preview is below, the feedback section is over at http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/current-months-feedback/. Instead of telling us things like "we love this article" and "this whole section sucks", give us specifics. Also throw praise and brickbats about the visuals, language, the snippets, the links to the website, the design, fonts.


Magazine

Enter
Inbox

Industry Connect
Rajiv Popli – Microsoft windows client director

Buzz
Catch up with exciting developments from the world of personal technology

Connections
Mobile watch

Alternative Browsers
Browser options other than Big 4. We’ve taken a look at all the browsers out there and have found out some interesting browsers that will catch your fancy

Web 2.0 beneath the surface
What’s new in HTML5 + CSS3, what can you use today, and how?

Web Awards

DIGITAL LIFE
Drool Maal

Machinima
Machinima – The art of animation using game engines

SCI-TECH
Tomorrow’s Tech
How face recognition technologies work, and where they can be implemented


How Stuff Works
Browser engines - how they handle HTML and JavaScript, how WebKit is different from Gecko, Presto and trident and browser engines of the future

Tried and tested
Bazaar

Netbooks
Netbooks – A detailed comparison of currently available Netbooks in the market with a buying decision matrix.

CPUs
The latest and greatest CPUs available today are tested. For every performance bracket, every budget – there’s something for everyone

Toolbox

Open Source
We check out Open source ERPs

Workshop
Optimizing GNOME for your netbooks

Workshop
Bblean – set up and configure a lightweight alternative to the windows shell

DIY
A step-by-step pictorial guide to crimping LAN cables.

Tips and Tricks
Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Atlantis Nova and Moblin, with a 30 minute expert on DVDFlick

Q&A

Workshop
Transport your registry entries from a Windows system to a Linux machine

Street smart
Agent 001
Agent 001 on all your power backup needs

Price watch
The latest prices for your reference

Esc
Unwind

Community

Game Review: Wolfenstein

Game Review: Ashes 2009

Last Word


Fast Track to Wireless Technologies



DVDs

DVD1

Tools
Multimedia
A Ruler for Windows 1.2
AoA Audio Extractor 2.1
Apple iTunes 8.2.1.6
Arclab Thumb Studio 2.03
AV Music Morpher Gold 4.0.77
AV Video Morpher 3.0.25
B Lyrics Mimer 13.1
BonkEnc Audio Encoder 1.0.13
Burn4Free CD and DVD 4.7
CDBurnerXP 4.2
Chasys Draw IES 2.75.01
Contenta-Converter Basic 4.5.2
Cylekx 3.3
DarkWave Studio 2.8
DAZ Studio 3.0.1.135
Decompile Flash Free 2.0.3.55
Exif Pilot Lite 3.8
ExifTool 7.86
Falco Auto Image 3.2
FastPictureViewer (32-Bit) 1.0.103
Flash OwnerGuard 10.1.8
FLVPlayer4Free 3.5
Fly Free Photo Editing & Viewer 2.16
Fotosizer 1.24
Free FLV Converter 6.6.1
Free Video To Audio Converter 2009 3.5.1
Fresh View 7.76
Imagelys Picture Styles 5.2
ImgBurn 2.5
iSpring Free 4.2
JetPhoto Studio 4.5
Kantaris Media Player 0.5.8
Last.fm 1.5.4.24567
Livestation 2.7.0
MediaInfo 0.7.20
Miro 2.5.2
Mixxx 1.5.0.2
Mp3 Organizer pro 3 3.0
Nero 9 Free Version 9.4.12.3
Nexus Radio 4.0
Photo Pos Pro 1.71
Photo Rotator 1.1.1.4
Pixeur 3.2
PowerShape-e 8214
Screen2Exe 2.6
Seaside Book Manager 2.1.32
SharePod 3.9.3
Similarity 0.9 build 330
SopCast 3.2.4
SpeedBit Video Accelerator 3.0.9
StylePix 1.0.0.776
TuneWiki for Windows Media Player 0.1.01.53
Type light 2.2.021
Universal Converter 0.9.8
VLC Media Player Portable 1.0.1
VSO Image Resizer 2.2.2.1
WatermarkLib 1.0
WildFire CD Ripper 3.0
Winamp 5.56
Windows Live Movie Maker Beta 14.0.8064
Wings 3D 1.0.1
WinX DVD Ripper 4.1
X-Blender 2.49a
XnView 1.96.2
123 Flash Menu 4.15
3D Charts 2.4
Abrosoft FantaMorph Pro 4.1
AlbumMe 1.4.1
Atani 4.5.6
Badaboom 1.2.1.7
BB FlashBack 2.6.3
CDMenuPro 6.30
Color Style Studio 2.48
Contenta-Converter Premium 4.5.2
CookExif 1.02
Earth Bluray To WMV Converter 1.4.6
Easy Flyer Creator 2.0
Flash Album Creator 2.16
FontCreator 6.0.1
FontExplorerL.M. 5.8.0
Fox Movie Manager 1.41
Foxit PDF Editor 2.1 Build 0702
Framing Studio 2.85
GIF to Flash Converter 2.6
Graphics-Toolbox 1.19
GrowFX 1.2.2
Halftone 2.2
i Screen Recorder 7.0
iMapBuilder Interactive Flash MapBuilder 2.20
iQImageStudio 2006.6.2
Love2Photo 1.8
MediaShow Espresso 5.0.0515
Morpheus Photo Morpher 3.11
MultiPlayer 5.6.4
PDF2EXE 3.0.0.128
Photo DVD Slideshow Professional 8.03
Photo Snap 3.1
PhotoChances Lab 3.8.108
PhotoPDF Photo to PDF Convertor 2.3.6
Picture Information Extractor 5.24
Plato DVD Creator 10.08.01
Power Video Converter 2.2.12
Replay Video Capture 4.0
RoboGEO 5.6.11
Sonne Screen Video Capture 7.0
Springboard 0.91
Stereogram Magician 3.30
SWF Decompiler Magic 5.0.2
Thumbs.db Viewer 2.2
Toon Boom Studio 5.0
TwistedBrush Pro Studio 16.01
Video Capture Master 7.0.1.987
Wizardbrush 6.7.5.4
Wondershare Flash Gallery Factory 4.8.0.12
ZoomMagic 2.13 Build 60914

Internet
BitComet 1.14
BitMeter 3.5.8
BitTorrent 6.2
Core FTP LE 2.1 build 1612
Darq Software Transmute 1.58
eMule Plus 1.2e
FileDrama 1.1.60
FileZilla Portable 3.2.6.1
g2Peer 1.0.2.11
GetGo Download Manager 4.2
GigaTribe 2.52
Gladinet Cloud Desktop Starter Edition (32-bit) 1.1.151
Home Ftp Server 1.9
Inspic 2.3.1.1
Instant Proxy - Proxy Finder - Freeware Version 1.0
MP3 Rocket 5.2.3
Music MP3 Get 4.0.2.1
Orbit Downloader 2.8.14
Password Workbook Pro 1.3
Playlist Music Downloader 1.3.0
Sharetastic 1.3
Tixati 1.13
TubeMaster++ 1.1
URL Gather 1.5.6
Video Download Toolbar 1.4
Vuze 4.2
Weather Watcher Live 6.0.34
WhoDeletedYou 0.5
Xcelerator 1.3
Zultrax P2P 4.36
A1 Website Analyzer 1.4.4
Absolute Time Corrector 7.3
Archivarius 3000 4.22
Atrise Everyfind Personal 9.1.1
BestSync FTP 2009 4.2
BrowserStar 2.8
Bulk Image Downloader 2.10
Cerberus FTP Server 3.0
DownloadStudio 5.1.5
FindinSite-CD 6.07
FTP Voyager 15.1.0.4
Google Satellite Maps Retriever 3.41
GrabJPG 2.11
ID_Bank 1.30.12
InstantGet 2.10
LeapFTP 3.0.1.46
My Remote Files 2.3.8
RaidenFTPD 2.4.3720
RipTiger 2.7.4
Serv-U 8.1.0.3
SmartFTP Client (32-bit) 3.0 Build 1035
SoftLAN 2.6
TestMailer 1.4.4
Universal Maps Downloader 4.9
Xe-Youtube HDFX 1.5

System
3DP Chip 9.07
Advanced SystemCare Free 3.3.4
Allway Sync 9.2.21
Auslogics Disk Defrag 2.1
Auslogics Registry Cleaner 1.5
Baku 4.1.3500
Batch File Modifier 2.4.3477
BatteryCare 0.9.6.3
BestSync 2009 4.2.09
CCleaner 2.22
CPU-Z 1.52.1
CZ Print Job Report 2.0
Defraggler 1.12.152
DriverMax 5.1
Duplicate Cleaner 1.3.2
Easy2Sync for Files 1.35
Fast Clean 1.0
FBackup 4.2
File Backup Watcher Free Edition 2.8.27
FileMenu Tools 5.7
FreeCommander 2009.02
Fresh Diagnose 8.14
Fresh UI 8.37
Glary Registry Repair 3.1.0.800
HWiNFO32 3.10
InSight Desktop Search 2.0
Limagito Lite 7.7.6
Memory Improve Master Free Version 6.1
MF Shutdown Manager 1.00
Moo0 RightClicker 1.29
Moo0 SystemMonitor 1.43
MyConnection PC Lite 3.0c
MyDefrag 4.1.2
Partition Wizard Home Edition 4.0
PC Wizard 2009 1.88
PeaZip Portable 2.6.3
Portable Driver Magician Lite 3.63
Privacy and Registry Cleaner 3.0
PureRa 1.4
Q-Dir 3.93
Recuva 1.29.429
Screenshot Captor 2.70
SE-Explorer 0.0.30.600
Seeker 3.10.0.1
TreeSize Free 2.3.3
TweakNow RegCleaner 4.4.1
TweakVI Basic 1.0 build 1115
UltraExplorer 2.0.3.1
Uranium Backup 7.5.0 build 3200
USB AutoRunner 1.0
VirtualBox 3.0.2
Xplorer2 Lite 1.7.2.7
Auslogics System Information 1.5.20.305
DTweak Pro 4.7.1
Easy Tweak 1.7.3
EnhanceMyVista Pro 2.6
Magellan Explorer 3.33
Registry Repair Wizard 2009 build 6.15
Second Copy 7.1.0.36
UltimateZip 5.0
Vistanita Duplicate Finder 3.7.5
VisualCron 5.3.1

Entertainment
Music
Between two worlds
Dinner for One
Oh My
Reworked
The Dark Symphony
The Teatime Sessions

HD Trailers
Alice In Wonderland
Crude
Ninja Assassin
Sherlock Holmes
Taxidermia
The Book of Eli
The Box
The Informant!
Tron Legacy
Walt & El Grupo

Videos
1.Airheads
2.Apoptosis
3.Blip
4.Egg
5.Enemy at the gates compositing
6.Evolved Virtual Creatures
7.Introducing the DSLR Gunstock Shooters
8.Pipe Dream
9.Sorry I'm Late
10.Talin
11.The Way of the Mantis
12.Toybox

Gaming
Games
Demigod
Fuel
Osmos
Trackmania Nations Forever

Trailers
Aion: The Tower of Eternity
Call of Duty: World at War
Darkest of Days
Defense Grid: The Awakening
Fairytale Fights
Fallout 3: Mothership Zeta
Hive Rise
Marvel Super Hero Squad
Muramasa: The Demon Blade
MX vs ATV Reflex
NextWar: The Quest for Earth
Planet 51
Raven Squad
Sol Survivor
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Casual Games
Air Assault II
Aqua Pop
Babylonia Game
Crimson Road
Jane's Zoo
Jewel Quest 3 Game
Mandragora
Onslaught
Real Crimes: The Unicorn Killer
Science Girls!
Star Sword

DVD2

Tools
By Demand
DirectX End-User Runtimes
Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Beta 1
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express with Tools
Autodesk 3D studio Max
Corel Draw Graphics Suite X4
Dreamweaver CS4

Customization
360desktop public beta
BBLean
BumpTop 1.0 build 3038
ClickOff 1.77
Desktop Sidebar 1.1.3
Distant Suns 6.0
FlyakiteOSX 2
Ghost-It 1.03
IcoFX 1.6.4
IconRestorer 1.0.5.2
IconTweaker 1.1
JetToolBar 3.8.1.5021
Liquid Clock ScreenSaver 2.8
LogonStudio Vista 1
MobyDock 0.87b
ObjectDock 1.90 Build 536
PixelToolbox 1.1
PowerToys Fun Pack 1
RocketDock 1.3.5
Send To Toys 2.5
SETI@home 5.2.1
SideSlide 3.0.00b
SmartBarXP 0.98 beta 4.8
Sneaky Virtual Desktop 1.2 build 41
Start Menu Organizer 1.1
Sticky Notes 2.2
Tweak UI 2.10
VersaTimer 1.02
Vista Start Menu 3.2
Windows Vista Ultimate Wallpaper Series Pack 1.5
Yahoo Widgets 4.5.2
ZMatrix 1.4.8
3DNA Desktop 1.1
AltDesk 1.9
Aston2 Menu 1.4.2
CursorFX 2.01
DesktopX 3.5
Entbloess 2.7.2
LaunchOnFly 1.52
Microangelo Toolset 6.10.10
TopDesk 1.5.4.1
WindowBlinds 6.4

Browsers
Arora 0.8.0
Bolt
Chrome
Epiphany 2.22.3
Fennec alpha1
Firefox 3.5.2
Flock 2.5
Galeon 2.0.7
K-Meleon 1.5.3
Midori 1.09
Opera
Opera Mobile 9.7 beta
Safari 4
Skyfire
Teashark beta

Essentials
.net Framework 2.0
.net Framework 3.5
µTorrent 1.8.2
Avast Home Edition 4.8
Comodo Internet Security Pro 3.5.55810.432
Digit Archive V2
Foxit Reader 3.0
Free Download Manager 3 build 848
Irfan View 4.23
Java 2 Runtime
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 4.9.5 Mega
Opera 9.64
Silverlight
Spybot Search and Destroy 1.6.0
VLC Player 0.9.4
WinRAR 3.80

Updates
2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2
Avast Update
Kaspersky Anti-Virus Definition Complete Update
McAfee VirusScan Definition 5706
Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack
Symantec Norton AntiVirus Virus Definition
Windows Internet Explorer 8 for Windows XP

Vidoes
TED
Anand Agarawala demos BumpTop
Arthur Ganson makes moving sculpture
Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth
Burt Rutan sees the future of space
George Dyson at the birth of the computer
Golan Levin makes art that looks back at you
Golan Levin on software (as) art
Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen
Janine Benyus: Biomimicry in action
Jeff Han demos his breakthrough touchscreen
Jonathan Harris: the Web's secret stories
Niels Diffrient rethinks the way we sit down
Philippe Starck thinks deep on design
Rives tells a story of mixed emoticons
Theo Jansen creates new creatures
William Kamkwamba on building a windmill
Ze Frank's nerdcore comedy

Astronomy 160
Lecture 16 - Hubble's Law and the Big Bang
Lecture 17 - Hubble's Law and the Big Bang (cont.)
Lecture 18 - Hubble's Law and the Big Bang (cont.)

Introduction to Computer Science
Lecture 1
Lecture 2
Lecture 3

Linux Journals
"Mee" PC
GoGrid on Cloud Computing, Interview
Install Ubuntu in Windows With Wubi
Neuros OSD Review
Product Spotlight: ScaleMP
Rockbox Review
SCOTTEVEST Review
The Battle for Wesnoth Review
Tux Droid Review
Zipit Z2 Wireless Messenger Review


Operating Systems
Android Live CD
gOS
Moblin

[desiibond]

^^what about Fast Track?

[rhitwick]

And disc contents?

[Anorion]

^Woah... you people are faster than light. Einstein will be rolling in his grave. Wait for it to load or something. Still doing some formatting work on it.

[desiibond]

^^hehe. good to see FT on wireless. thanks

[rhitwick]

I liked DISC2 contents.

One good thing I'm observing for a few months now, you guys are providing more(90%) freewares now.

Good move.

[Anorion]

^Yeah, we thought so too, that focusing on freeware was a good idea. Then we got mails using all caps begging us to bring back the trials. So we did. It's a 60-40 ratio or so, with only the better trials being included. We've not reduced the number of freeware for doing that though. The tools sections are sorted in alphabetical order, so when it goes back to A after Z, trials start and freeware ends.

[TheHumanBot]

thanks for DreamCS4 & its nice to see 3d max but u forgot to mention the ver.?
corel already provided earlier ...
kewl

[Anorion]

^It's the entire X4 Suite from Corel, which we haven't given before, and its 3DSMax 2010.

[rajivnedungadi]

is Moblin the stable release or beta?

[Anorion]

^There is no official Moblin stable release yet. It's a two week old beta release, there are beta releases every week. Moblin has a great UI, but very little functionality. If you are planning to install a great Linux distro for your netbook, go for gOS.

[fieldgunner]

No anarchy online? Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh....

[krishnandu.sarkar]

Thnx for FT

[phuchungbhutia]

Remember i had asked for Android live cd . . And u said its not there . . So how is it anyway . . Got to get my hands on it . . Thanks for making it freeware revolution . . I love these moves . . I d love to see some fast track stuffs on visual studios in near future . . Thanks for all

[Anorion]

@fieldgunner... Downloaded Anarchy, it was huge, mebbe next time...
@phuchungbhutia, you pointed it out before there was an official build, it was just something people had put together. This one is mostly for developers, but just might do a few things on a netbook or something.

[fieldgunner]

Originally Posted by Anorion

@fieldgunner... Downloaded Anarchy, it was huge, mebbe next time...

Thats why I asked for it

[Krow]

Got the mag yesterday! Thanks DIGIT! Prompt service is always valued.

[nihu]

wow!I got my subscriber copy yesterday!
keep it up!

[topgear]

WoW! Nice Mag & Disc contents though fireworks CS4 * Vista x64 sp2 in not there.

The first track looks attractive......... eagerly waiting for next month ( this month ) issue

[Rollercoaster]

what is with the extra repeated pages? I have two sets of pages 65 - 72

I do want more pages in the magazine but with different content

[ax3]

thanx 4 the super sonic delivery .....

mag is amazing ... thanx again .....

[ratedrsuperstar]

just watching the TED vids.thank u sooo much

[rhitwick]

Received my mag b4 the dispatch mail reach me......

Now, we can say something is improving

[Anorion]

@fieldgunner... yeah, maybe this time... actually, will try to fit it in
@Rollercoaster, loads of pages in the next month, hopefully they won't be repeated ones
@ratedrsuperstar... we liked them too let us know if you come across a resource similiar to that,

For people reading this, and not forum members, you can give us feedback at editor@thinkdigit.com or for DVD contents at cdcontent@thinkdigit.com

When you people are done reading the magazine, do head over to http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=66 and give us feedback

[Krow]

I already posted a query there. No replies yet...

[topgear]

Just got the mag on yesterday night!

Excellent mag articles & disc contents

@ Anorion - can you tell me what music track you guys have used on disc 1 & 2
as background music ?

[Anorion]

@topgear, look at the credits, the tracks will be named there. They are Bananas for you all by Mocaco Bong (DVD1) and Next my Generation by Analoq (DVD2).

@everyone else, you will probably get a virus alert for some of the desktop customization software, particularly bblean. This is because some of these software replace explorer.exe as the default shell, which is virus-like behavior. Flag it as a false positive.

[Krow]

^Thanks for letting us know. Not much tension for us KDE lovers anyway.

[topgear]

@ Anorion - thanks for informing

[aura]

dvd 2 is good but dvd is pathetic... filled with worthless softwares...