[Preview + Feedback] Digit May 2007

[FatBeing]

Cue in the dancing monkeys...

Stage clears...(mess cleaned too)

Rolling...

Magazine Contents

Digital Passion

Main Story
Ultimate Gaming Champion
Which console will you buy? We've finally pitted the Xbox 360, the PS3 and the Wii against each other!

Insight
Cool Code
The code a processor runs dictates how hot it gets. And we don’t want our touchable, feelable gadgets to get hot. Here’s about the code that keeps them cool

Tomorrow
Overlay Mode
In times not yet seen, digital information will make its way into the reality we perceive

30 Days With...
Our lucky reviewer of the month got a month with the Canon A710IS. It’s so good, he went and got one for himself!

Droolmaal
We knew it wouldn’t be a long wait for a device that lets you really feel what’s on screen. This, and more, on our Droolmaal pages

Digital Tools

Enhance
Disaster-Proof Your PC
Backups. RAID. UPSes. We’ve spoken about these a lot—and we still haven’t driven home our point! Now, find out how to forevermore avoid that sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach when your hard disk or computer crashes

Bazaar
A Blu-ray disc writer finally made it to our Test Centre. Amongst other featured products this month are an enthusiast’s motherboard and an excellent photo printer

Agent001
A trip to Japan was all it took for Agent 001 to decide that a camcorder is an essential component of life. Here’s his good advice

Test Centre
Panel Panorama
Everyone seems to be going the LCD way, and for good reason: they’re better and more affordable now. Don’t be left behind! Here are 34—yes, 34—to choose from, in a wide range of screen sizes. Go ahead, splurge that little bit extra!

Cover Story
Handset Happiness
Lost as a rat in that labyrinth that the cell phone market is? Keep asking your friends about what to buy? Here’s what to buy.Stop asking.

Digital Business

Tech Careers
The Silk In The Web
We’ve told you about careers in Web design, and here’s about a different beast altogether—Web programming. Learn about what’s required, what’s expected, and what you’ll get in this field

Main Story
Make Your Employees Hate You
There are many employee activities that hurt productivity, and here’s what you can do about most of them

Face-off
Hardware: Buy Or Lease?
Leasing hardware might be the only option for some small businesses, but for most, it’s a trade-off. Here’s shedding some light on the pros and cons of each option

Smart Business
Hand In Hand
Outlook teams up with Exchange Server to provide a most powerful collaboration suite. Do consider the need for such a suite. But if the cost of Exchange is a deterrent, here’s about open source alternatives

Digital Leisure

Main Story
Sidekicks
Accessories for consoles... not so available in India, so you’ll have to do people favours. Here are the top 10 we could find

Game On
Reviewed this month:
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Burnout: Dominator and Heatseeker for the PS2
Genji: Days of the Blade and MotorStorm for the PS3

Touched By Tech
Scribbling For All
Typing in an Indian language on a regular keyboard is a massive pain in the a***, and someone did something about it


Fast Track To Excel 2007

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Take A Crack
Quick—think of fifty uses for old floppies. We’ll give you the first one: use a floppy to boot into XP with
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DVD Contents

Digital Passion

Developer Tools
Carbide.j 1.5
MySQL Maestro
Perl 5.9.4
PHP 5.2.1
Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure 2.0
Turbo C++ Explorer 2006
Web-Developer Server Suite 1.95
XML Copy Editor 1.0.9.3
UEStudio


Linux
Blender 2.43
ClamAV
Dia
Game Editor 1.2.3
LAME 3.94b
Sauver Standard Edition
Scalix Collaboration Platform
XML Copy Editor 1.0.9.3 ( For Linux)
CorelPhotoPaint
Evolution 2.8.2.1

Games
Far Cry Cumulative Pack 1.4
Flight Simulator X
Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords

Digital Tools

Multimedia
Adobe Flash Player 9
Democracy Player 0.9.5.3
DVD Flick 1.2.1.3
MediaPortal 0.2.2.0
Microsoft Expression Design Beta 2
MP3myMP3 Recorder 2.0
Mplayer
PhotoFiltre
Pivot Stickfigure Animator
Total Video Converter 3.10
Corel Painter Essentials 3

Internet
AntiHook
GigaTribe 2.32
Internet Explorer 7
Look@LAN Network Monitor
mIRC 6.21
aMSN 0.95
LanHelper 1.61
NeT Firewall
Total Privacy 5.21

System
Catalencoder 0.7.3
CrystalMark 0.9.123.328
FinalBurner 1.14.0.87
Microsoft Windows Easy Transfer Companion 6.0 Beta
Rainlendar Lite 2.1 Build 36 Beta
RyanVM's Windows XP Post-SP2 Update Pack 2.1.8
InterVideo DVD Copy Platinum 5.0B.004.24C00
StartGuard 2.0
TuneUp Utilities 2007

Digital Business

Productivity Tools
Allway Sync 6.0.4
DRoster
Easy Projects .NET Personal Edition
Easy2Sync
Windows Desktop Search
Adobe Ovation
Adobe PageMaker 7.0
CalendarGo Bundle Professional 6.0
do-Organizer

Mobile Applications
Adobe Reader LE
scanR Scan, Copy and Fax
Virens Dictionary
RDM+ Remote Desktop for Mobiles,
Sony Ericsson Media Studio 3.1
Media Studio for Nokia 4.0
KeePass Password Safe Portable
Sumatra PDF Portable 0.5
YamiPod

Digital Leisure

Games
Air Assault II
KGB Hunter
Second Life Installer
TA Spring 0.74b3 Beta
Warzone 2100
Hide & Secret
Merry Motors 2

Videos
Algiers - Movie
Next - Trailer
Spiderman 3 - Trailer
The Condemned - Trailer
The Invisible - Trailer

Music
DD10 8TW by Ally Valentine
Loneliness Blues
Before I Die
Take A Good Look At Yourself
Cast The First Stone
Strawberry Neon
She Goes Out With Other Guys
My Sweet Melissa
Hole In The Head
Girl With The Brown Eyes
I Think Therefore I Am


CD Contents

Digital Passion

Developer Tools
CreateInstall Free 4.9
DBF Viewer 1.5
Dev-Pascal 1.9.2
Report Sharp-Shooter Express 2.1
SWF To Image 1.28
XMLFox XML/XSD Editor 2.01
BrowserBob 4.1.2
Guiffy 8 build 214
QF-Test

Linux
ArgoUML 0.24
Banshee
BitTorrent
CDRecord (cdrtools) 2.0
File Ripper 1.0.1
LimeWire 4.12
Partition Image
ShowImg 0.9.4-1
VLC Media Player
SurgeMail Mail Server 38f3

Digital Tools

Essentials
Avast Home Edition 4.7
Avast Update
Comodo Free Firewall
Digit Software Archive 2006 Beta
Foxit Reader 2.0 Build 1516
Irfan View 3.99
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 1.70
Opera 9.10
Spybot Search and Destroy 1.4
Spybot Search and Detection updates
VLC Player 0.8.6
Winamp 5.33
WinRAR 3.70 Beta

Multimedia
Apophysis 2.02
Foobar 2000 0.9.4.2
HandBrake
Juice
MediaCoder Full Pack 0.6.0-pre9a
musikCube
Paint.NET
Stellarium 0.8.2
XPize 4.6 Final
Image Assistant

Internet
BadBlue Personal Edition
Cabos
Direct Connect
Email Extractor 2.57
Gnucleus
LanDiscovery
IE Translator 2.2
X-Chat 2

RSS Readers
Alertbear v1.10
Feedreader
GreatNews 1.0 Beta (Build 381)
Internet Explorer 7
KlipFolio
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3
Mozilla Thunderbird
RSS Bandit
RSSOwl 1.2.3
SharpReader
FeedDemon 2.1
NewzCrawler

System
MISPBO Free Registry Cleaner 3.0
Norton Antivirus Update for Windows 98/ME/200/XP/Vista
ReactOS 0.3.1
A-PDF Size Splitter
ExamDiff Pro
File Security Manager 1.8.1.98
Open File Manager
Quick Starter 3.1
SpeedUpMyPC 3.0
VirusBuster Professional (Free for Digit Readers!)

Digital Business

Productivity Tools
AM-Notebook
Dia 0.95
Documentor
Ganttproject
Nmap
Tustena CRM OS 3.0.2
AcroPDF 2.00
DameWare NT Utilities
Easy Resume Creator Pro

Mobile Applications
emoze 1.3
Bubble Shooter
Videora iPod Converter
AutoLock v1.0 for S60 3rd edition
Best Screen Snap
Hotspot Finder
Smaato Cost 2.07
Smaato News
RemoteControl II 2.12
Novii Remote Infrared Codes 1.1
WinAudit

Digital Leisure

Games
Bug On A Wire
Crypt Raider
Zombies 1.0.1
Blox Forever
Fizzball
Merry Motors
Paparazzi

Music
Home Recording Made Easy by Rhyn
Compatibility Test (Intro)
Nothing In Particular
Skies
Wishing The World Away
Break The Seal
The Only Place
4-5-6, Go!
Waiting At The Window
Radiotherapy
Dream
Amorphous
Rain Dancer (The Calm)
Desert Monsoon (The Storm)
Break The Seal (2004) (Bonus Track)
Nathan Loves Dan (Bonus Track)

[CINTEL ENTRINO]

good contents ... but not gr8 ..

only... the handset shootout is worth waiting for...

[ilugd]

Nice, looking forward to hand in hand, scribbling for all, disaster proof your pc and make your employees hate you.
by the way, just checking. corelphotopaint for linux is a demo version, right?

[azaad_shri75]

not so satisfying again

[rajivnedungadi]

Fast Track to Excel 2007 wow!
I am a part of the MS Excel Tech Support and I am really happy to see this. I hope that the links I sent have been useful

[Quiz_Master]

Hmmm...
I am unsatisfied.
Its gonna be second time in last three years I am not buying Digit.(April 2007 was the first.)

Apart from that Mobile Shootout nothing is worth a look.
CD/DVD contents are not good.
Some softs are reapeated in both CD and DVD.
You guyz give some softwares such as Winamp and IE7 almost every month, wasting space in CD-DVD.
There is no need to provide them every month unless they get a major update.

[deba_2k_1]

apart from the fast track, show me 1 good reason to buy this month's DIGIT....it will b the 2nd time this yr. that I wont buy this crap.......dudes this is our hard earned money..... we cant waste it..... I would rather buy 10-12 CDs with that... the DIGIT guys cries at the enormous work-load they go through....& this is what they come up with ......CRAAAAAPPPPP.......
one request to all u readers..... while giving ur views plzz include the no. of times u skipped buying DIGIT, if that can make this DIGIT fellows realise what they r doing !!!!

[aliasghark]

@deba_2k_1: i've not purchased an issue for the past 15 months, and i dont intend to. the "PC" is so much better

[kaustav_geek]

Game On
Resident Evil 4 is good on the PS2. Not so on the PC. Also reviewed: two PSP games—Shinobido: Tales of the Ninja, which is OK, and Killzone Liberation, which is excellent

This was featured last month also.. what is it doing in this issue ??

[FatBeing]

Originally Posted by kaustav_geek

This was featured last month also.. what is it doing in this issue ??

Whoops. Fixed

[Pathik]

no distros?? and the fasttrack isnt good too

[Tapomay]

nothing interesting

[iNFiNiTE]

Originally Posted by deba_2k_1

one request to all u readers..... while giving ur views plzz include the no. of times u skipped buying DIGIT, if that can make this DIGIT fellows realise what they r doing !!!!

I havent renewed my subscription when it ended recently. The content is mostly boring other than an article here or there. The CD/DVD contents never seemed that interesting.

I dont know if anybody else noticed or not that the mag contents as well as the disc ones seem really good only to those who are either new in the computing field or they are restricted by lack of a good internet connection with downloading facilties.
The net offers far more refreshing and latest articles than the mag offers and there is always access to the latest demos and software updates.

Still i hope each month that the digit guys will do something that will make me buy/subscribe to the mag again.

[ilugd]

yeah, i noted that. Why no distros? Ubuntu feisty fawn? C'mon. I started using linux because of Digit.

[nihu]

AA vakhat no issue thik che,Thik hi hai!

Anniversary issue badhiya hona chahiye!

[psreesreekanth]

This issue is really waste of money until they give u afree full game and a HD movie as this an aniv'ary issue.

[alanpaladka]

Nothing special. I was expecting a linux distro.

[Gigacore]

Well well well.................. something is missing.... guess!!!

[jamesbond007]

Originally Posted by Intel_Gigacore

Well well well.................. something is missing.... guess!!!

Yeah Anna Kournikova on Cover Page !!

[emailaatif786]

This time wastage of money!
Not a single good content.

[deba_2k_1]

friends dont even bother to post ur feedbacks here....... the digit guys r not at all concerned of this kind of reviews-feedbacks........ had they been, they would 've mended their ways long back......bcoz this is not the first time they've come out with such crap. one thing is 4 sure dudes... it will take jolly long time for DIGIT to regain wat it has lost.....

[ssk_the_gr8]

fast track is useless....but i was waitin for cellphone & lcd shootout , so i'll buy this issue,hope it is not only 130 pages like the last one..... the last months magazine was so thin

[bazigaar_no_1]

yuppie !! finally a cell phone shootout !!

[nihu]

Originally Posted by iNFiNiTE

I havent renewed my subscription when it ended recently. The content is mostly boring other than an article here or there. The CD/DVD contents never seemed that interesting.

I dont know if anybody else noticed or not that the mag contents as well as the disc ones seem really good only to those who are either new in the computing field or they are restricted by lack of a good internet connection with downloading facilties.
The net offers far more refreshing and latest articles than the mag offers and there is always access to the latest demos and software updates.

Still i hope each month that the digit guys will do something that will make me buy/subscribe to the mag again.

Originally Posted by deba_2k_1

deba_2k_1

friends dont even bother to post ur feedbacks here....... the digit guys r not at all concerned of this kind of reviews-feedbacks........ had they been, they would 've mended their ways long back......bcoz this is not the first time they've come out with such crap. one thing is 4 sure dudes... it will take jolly long time for DIGIT to regain wat it has lost.....

deba_2k_1
apart from the fast track, show me 1 good reason to buy this month's DIGIT....it will b the 2nd time this yr. that I wont buy this crap.......dudes this is our hard earned money..... we cant waste it..... I would rather buy 10-12 CDs with that... the DIGIT guys cries at the enormous work-load they go through....& this is what they come up with ......CRAAAAAPPPPP.......
one request to all u readers..... while giving ur views plzz include the no. of times u skipped buying DIGIT, if that can make this DIGIT fellows realise what they r doing !!!!

I just want to know howmany friends here are ' Agree' OR 'Not Agree' with above views?
Should I be a subscriber of Digit or it is recommanded to purchase from News stand if I like any issue? Please guide me. Thanks in advance.

[emailaatif786]

Originally Posted by nihu

I just want to know howmany friends here are ' Agree' OR 'Not Agree' with above views?
Should I be a subscriber of Digit or it is recommanded to purchase from News stand if I like any issue? Please guide me. Thanks in advance.

I think it is good to purchase from News stand if you like any issue.

[techno_funky]

Wooo!! thanks for the Fastrack on Excel ,this is one proggy you'll always be using sometime in your life.

[dissel]

I am not a subscriber...always buy from news-stand....skipped Feb 2007 issue and settled with PC World coz there DL DVD contained Open SUSE 10.2 which I am using right now.

[redhat]

I havent bought a single edition since my subscription expired in Nov '06.

Any ways, this months issue is crap.........
And I am NOT going to buy it...
I think that our expectations from digit are tooo high now, but the team there is unable to cope up with them!

So...
Either lower your expectations............

Or switch(you know what I mean!)

I'm doing both, waiting for digit team to meet upto my lowered expectations

[Rishabh_sharma1990]

I am bored! bored! an really bored! Again

NO LINUX DISTRO ????????????

Are you sleeping guys what is happening to your magazine. It cannot be compared even by last year's issued. Hah! Fast Track to excel. Why you not covered whole Microsoft Office???

If the anniversary issue will not good. I will surely stop wasting money for DIGIT.

[morpheusv6]

What happened to Ubuntu 7.04? You could have put that on your DVD. It was released on 19th April and is quite popular!!
Hopeful that you will put it on the next month's DVD.

Good contents this month though.

Sorry my bad. I just know that your DVD are set up way before. Too late to include Ubuntu I guess!