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[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!"

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 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. .
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]

Originally Posted by 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

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