[Preview + Feedback] June 2007 Anniversary Special

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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!

[Sourabh]

Waiting for the June issue to hit newsstands.

Start saving (Yeah!)...Rs. 200 issue for the uninformed! Just to be clear, do the subscribers get the movie DVD for free?

[jamesbond007]

umm... pretty good I'd say, although my wish isn't fulfilled!!
I presume Don is free for subscribers. Good things this time is Wiki pack, Ubuntu, Mag contents like do it yourself, Fast track is good too. I guess this is the first time Digit guys paid a little attention to what most of us have demanded. And now the big question !!

When will the subscribers get their mags, first week or the last week ??

[kaustav_geek]

AWESOME!!!!!!

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

Thank you so very much!!! You rock!!!

[FatBeing]

Originally Posted by Sourabh

Waiting for the June issue to hit newsstands.

Start saving (Yeah!)...Rs. 200 issue for the uninformed! Just to be clear, do the subscribers get the movie DVD for free?

Yes, subscribers get the Don DVD free. Just to be clear, we're in no mood to burn our fingers the way we did in December 2005.

[kumarmohit]

Thanks for the Webaroo Wikipedia Pack and its great to know that from now on we get a DL-DVD.

[Sykora]

I see a lot of Open Source there - Feisty, Wesnoth, Neverball - Good job.

[blackpearl]

Except Don, the rest is Stunning!!!

[~Phenom~]

Hmmm.. interesting...
Good Job Digit.
Looking forward for the issue.

[vijay_7287]

contents are good
by the way is it the new DON?

[azaad_shri75]

people were talking of 3-4 dvds, what the hell single dl dvd , great digit team after so much oppression still you are shipping don dvd ,

so I suppose this mag is priced at regular and not 200/- for no reason.

ubuntu dvd would have been better than cd.

[rajivnedungadi]

DVD 1: Don Movie
DVD 2: DL DVD
CD 1: Microsoft Office Professional 2007 60-day Trial

Where is the 3rd DVD?

As per this http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/atta...7&d=1178379016, there should be 3 DVDs, can you tell me where it is?

Good to see Digit starting a DL DVD each month from now on.......better late than never

To avoid confusion.....Please mark DVD 1, DVD 2 and DVD 3 and CD

[ssk_the_gr8]

except don it is gr8 & i hope the hard disc & portable media player reviews r good enough & include products from the big companies...not like the last month where there were cell phones from the new companies which everyone hated...

& good news that digit is giving dual layered dvd from now on...hope u don't increase the price..of the magazine

[Cool G5]

Superb content like ubuntu,learn linux etc.

[Quiz_Master]

Super dUPER CONTENT. It's a must have.
Best contents in you ever gave.
I can spend 500 for this. In 200 this is just a loot.

OH my god. I can't wait for the Magazine to come.
I will surely buy this one.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH DIGIT TEAM.

[i_am_crack]

Good Stuff though....

[Kenshin]

I will buy....will hv to remove sum money off my project and invest it here...hehe

[g_goyal2000]

Nice contents. Will definitely but this issue.

[rajivnedungadi]

Digit would be giving DL DVD each month, but I hope that the price is going to be the same each month (Rs.125/-)

[azaad_shri75]

Originally Posted by rajivnedungadi

Digit would be giving DL DVD each month, but I hope that the price is going to be the same each month (Rs.125/-)

why you doubt, when it is possible for other mags in 100 bucks, here its still 125

[rajivnedungadi]

Originally Posted by shri75

why you doubt, when it is possible for other mags in 100 bucks, here its still 125

It was possible for Digit to give a DL DVD each month but they never did it. I do have doubt about Digit because people dont have much trust left in them...take this example....The Digit Patron program was about to be re-launched on 14th Feb but it was never done...

[aneesh kalra]

Great especially the do it yourself section had been along pending request of mine and especially because it helps us geeks to have a more hands on appproach to technology.Whoa now a dual layer dvd every month and thanks for the webaroo pack and the student mit pack.Also a good inclusion are the automobile wallpapers.Although you could have included another distro of linux instead of ubuntu which as it is can be delivered to your home by just filling an online form free of cost.Just got a 3 cd pack today that includes 2 32 bit versions and a 64 bit one.The best digit issue yet.

Originally Posted by FatBeing

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!
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!
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

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
Maestro
Explore Mars with the program that NASA scientists use to operate Spirit and Opportunity
And all our regular essentials!

[navino87]

Hmm... Sounds interesting.... Waiting for newsstand copy....

[rajivnedungadi]

Where is Digit Patron?

[clmlbx]

Contents Of Mag Are Superb

It's Two Dvd's And Cd Or 1 Dvd And Cd

I Guess Digit Has Most Probably Added Don In That Dual Layer Dvd .

So It Is 1 Dl Dvd And 1 Cd

4 Charli Chaplin Episodes

I Redeemed It Not Good For Anniversary Issue .

Fast Track On Vista, U Should Have Given Fast Track On Some Languages Like C#, Java

1 GOOD THING NOW ON DL-DVD'S

[hsnayvid]

looks good... hope subscribers get their issue in time!

[rajivnedungadi]

Originally Posted by clmlbx

Contents Of Mag Are Superb

It's Two Dvd's And Cd Or 1 Dvd And Cd

I Guess Digit Has Most Probably Added Don In That Dual Layer Dvd .

So It Is 1 Dl Dvd And 1 Cd

4 Charli Chaplin Episodes

I Redeemed It Not Good For Anniversary Issue .

Fast Track On Vista, U Should Have Given Fast Track On Some Languages Like C#, Java

1 GOOD THING NOW ON DL-DVD'S

As per this image - http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/atta...178379016...it is 3 DVDs + 1 CD

[FatBeing]

That image is a bit misleading... the DVD that is bootable with the single-CD distro is the same dual-layer DVD.

Also, the mag's price will remain the same (Rs 125) next month and beyond.

[rajivnedungadi]

Originally Posted by FatBeing

That image is a bit misleading... the DVD that is bootable with the single-CD distro is the same dual-layer DVD.

Also, the mag's price will remain the same (Rs 125) next month and beyond.

So it is 2 DVDs and 1 CD right?

misleading....yes thats the right word. when people in another section (Chit Chat) were saying that its 3 DVDs and a CD, why did no one from Digit bother to correct the same?

Its a big disappointment

So for this month, its just the Don DVD, which no one wants, extra for the extra Rs.75/- people pay....too bad

Plus the Office 2007 trial is also something that no one needs as MS might have shipped atleast 2 copies to each Indian...

[~Phenom~]

^^agree.