[Preview + Feedback] - Digit April 2007

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Magazine Contents

Digital Passion

Cover Story
Extreme Mods!
Your general idea of modding a case: expensive, difficult. Not true. Allow us to demonstrate

Insight
Inside Photoshop CS3
From 2 to 3 is no small step, as you’ll find out. CS3 is, quite simply, magic

Tomorrow
Image Ready
Find a song by tune. Find an image by similarity. It’ll happen sooner than later.

30 Days With...
The Philips HT9800W
It’s not the best setup for its price, but this home theatre system, generally speaking, rocks

Droolmaal
Fancy the coolest e-book reader ever? Or perhaps a set of Audio Technica headphones? How about a Honda Asimo?!

Digital Tools

Enhance
All That IE Can Be
So you’ve decided to stick with Internet Explorer, and have upgraded to the spanking new IE7. Sure it looks good, but here’s how to make it as functional as it can get

Bazaar
NVIDIA’s DirectX 10 cards have arrived in India—and not one, but two, made it to our Test Centre. Then there’s a Kodak for casual clickers, a little laptop laser mouse, a Buffalo 500 GB external drive, and more. Software tested includes GoToMyPC and a couple of anti-virus suites

Agent001
Hard Drives, Soft Prices
You’ve been downloading away, and your disk’s overflowing. What you need is—surprise—a new hard disk! Agent 001 tells you precisely what to buy in this day and age

Know More About
”NAT”. “Firewall”. Words you hear your sysadmin—and geek friends—spouting. Now learn what these actually do

Old Way, Tech Way
What’s better—doing your homework the hard way or getting someone to do it for you? There is a homework help section at Yahoo! Answers

Net Gain
You find a recipe, and hunt for the stuff. Don’t! Find out what you can do with what you have. Also make an H-Bomb, and really discover Net radio

Digital Business

Tech Careers
Painting The Page Proper
Web design as a career requires a fine blend of technical and creative skills. Plus, work will never get boring

Test Centre
Think Ink!
There are laser printers, then there are inkjet printers. You probably know the relative merits of each. And if it’s an inkjet you need, here’s our annual test—divided into regular and photo printers

Face-off
Adoption Of Vista: Now Or Later?
That’s the question quite a few businesses are asking. Here are two views on this. We outline two opposing views—including the one that says, “They’ll all have to switch one day”

Smart Business
The Little Server That Could
Server virtualisation—where one physical server gets split into several “virtual” servers—could be a good idea for your business. Should you go for it?

Digital Leisure

Main Story
Addicted To Love...
Some games are so addictive, you might need to get into rehab! Presenting the 10 most horribly addictive free ones we found

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

Test Centre
E! @ Your Fingertips
Watch TV on your PC, we’ve often exhorted you. Featured this month is our annual TV-Tuner shootout. After all, you do deserve the best

Fast Track To The Student's Web

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Take A Crack
Create your own special system folder in Windows Explorer (just like Shared Documents)
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DVD Contents

Digital Passion

Developer Tools
Amaya
Blueprint Software Modeler Community Edition 1.2
DBScribe for MySQL 1.1
Report Sharp-Shooter Express
Google Web Toolkit 1.2.22
Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition
MyGeneration 1.2.0.2
AutoRun Architect 2.2
HydraSDO for Databases Java Edition 1
Namo WebEditor 2006 suite

Linux
aMSN
Firewall Builder 2.1.10
GNOME Commander
GParted-livecd 0.3.4-0
LinCity-NG 1.13.1
Opera 9.10
Valknut 0.3.7
WebGUI 7.3.11

Games
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Demo
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars

Digital Tools

Multimedia
Ashampoo Magical Snap
Vista Codec Package 4.3.1
Brico Pack Crystal Clear
Brico Pack Longhorn Inspirat
MS RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer Powertoy 1.0
Corel Snapfire Plus
CyberLink MagicDirector
Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite 12
Ulead VideoStudio 10

Internet
Active Ports 1.4
Azureus 3.0 (Beta)
Internet Explorer 7 Add-ons
LogMeIn 2.20.475
Morpheus MP3 5.5.4
MSN Messenger 8.1.0178.00
Technitium MAC Address Changer 4.5
Download Accelerator Plus 8.5 Build 8543 Beta
Download Express 1.9.337
FlashGet 1.8.1.1002
Free Download Manager 2.1.494
Fresh Download 7.72
GetRight 6.2
Internet Download Manager 5.0.9.3
LeechGet 2006 2.0
Star Downloader Free 1.4.4
Star Downloader Pro 1.52
TrueDownloader 0.82
Mass Downloader 3.2.661 Vista Compatible
Net Transport 2.30 Build 352

System
Ashampoo AntiVirus
ATI Catalyst 7.2 Display Driver
AutoPatcher XP February 2007 Update
JaBack 7.25
.net Framework 1.1
nVidia ForceWare Release 90 Windows XP/2000 32-bit
Windows Vista Hardware Assessment
Diskeeper 2007
ESET NOD32
System Mechanic Professional 7.1.6

Digital Business

Productivity Tools
Office Accounting Express 2007
Altova Authentic 2007
Express Accounting 2.0
Free Accounting Software
in-Step CoreProcess Personal Edition
Virtual PC 2007
VMware Converter 3.0 (Starter Edition)
Ashampoo Office 2006 1.1
MailEnable Professional 2.0

Mobile Applications
Sony Ericsson Communications Suite Version 1.5.9
MAGIX Mobile Music Player
SplashPhoto
CDraw color draw and painting
Spb Pocket Plus
Documents To Go Premium Edition - For all Platforms
CryptMagic 3.62
Mobile Desktop 2
Mobile Designer 2.0

Digital Leisure

Games
Alien Decimation 2.1.1
Pirates: Battle for the Caribbean
Ace Ventura
Chicken Chase
Feeding Frenzy 2
Peggle
Zuma

Movies
Steal This Film Part - 1
Pyrats

Music
WhiteRoom by WhiteRoom
Intro
Papillons
Enma's Bridge
At Odds
Interlude1
Barrio Chino
Barcelona
Ender
Puppeteering
Simple Mood
Interlude 3
Play It As It Lies
Ordinary Day
Interlude 3
All Pieces Broken
Running On Empty

CD Contents

Digital Passion

Developer Tools
DiffSchema 1
Java Class Finder 1
Java Runner 2.1
Just BASIC v1.01
Nvu 1.0
SoftTree SQL Assistant 1.0.70
SqlDbx 2.88
Wink 2.0
Altova DatabaseSpy
Deluxe Menu
VistaDB 3.0

Linux
BitTorrent 5.0.6
EyeOS 0.9.3-5
Kaffeine 0.8.3
MetaMonitor 0.4.5
MySQL 5.0.36
Shoreline Firewall 3.4.0 RC2
Super Grub Disk 0.9575
SuperKaramba 0.39
WordPress 2.1.2
xvidenc 5.4

Digital Tools

Essentials
Avast Home Edition 4.7
Avast Update
Comodo Free Firewall
Digit Software Archive 2006 Beta
Foxit Reader 2.0 Build 1414
Irfan View 3.99
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 1.66
Opera 9.10
Spybot Search and Destroy 1.4
Spybot Search and Detection updates
VLC Media Player 0.8.6a
Winamp 5.33
WinRAR 3.70 beta 4

Multimedia
Inkscape 0.45
Microsoft Photo Info 1.0
RocketDock 1.3.0 Final
Universal Vista Inspirat Brico Pack 1.1
VirtualDub v1.6.17
Namo FreeMotion 2006
TextAloud 2.238
Video to Flash Converter Pro 5.6
Zoner Photo Studio 9

Internet
Hydranode 0.3
i.Scribe
i-Fetch
Tor
Wireshark
Yahoo Messenger 8.1
Active WebCam 8.3
BatchSync Secure FTPS/SFTP V2.0.31
FTP Voyager 14.0.0.3
WikiReader

System
Ashampoo Magical Optimizer 1.20
e Notes
HD Speed
Debug Diagnostic Tool v1.1
DirectX End-User Runtime
nVidia Windows XP / 2K - Audio Driver 4.31
Realtek AC'97 Drivers A3.98
CyberLink Power2Go
eTrust PestPatrol Anti-Spyware

Digital Business

Productivity Tools
actiTIME
Anuvaadak
Calendar 2000
EditPad Lite 6.2.1
Idea 2.1.5.62
Reminder-Organizer
Shabdakosh
Compare PDF
Word Fusion Beta 1.31

Mobile Applications
Advanced Call Manager
Face Warping
Flash Lite 2.1
MMS Home Studio Version 1.1.283
mNote
Nvu Portable & KompoZer Portable
PuTTY Portable 0.5.9 Revision 2 Released
XP Theme for Pocket PC 1.0
MobiGuard
Smart Contacts Synchronizer for Sony Ericsson

Digital Leisure

Games
Cell Out
Disc Golf
Monkey Lander
Rigelian Hotshots
Rural Racer
MONOPOLY HERE & NOW EDITION
Stand O' Food

Videos
Dead Silence
Delta Farce
Hot Fuzz (2007)

at last it is here people

contents r ok.....
the annual printer reviews.....

....not really interested in it but still...
disc contents r ok....last months mag was better

Hey fatbeing
just try to put even the front cover of magzine here....
great contents anyways..

put the front cover of the mag...

D

FatBeing, last time you have promised to include 'take a crack' of the month. where is it?

dfordigit said:
FatBeing, last time you have promised to include 'take a crack' of the month. where is it?

I'll do that first thing Monday... I'm at home today, and I don't remember what the Take a Crack was

I also don't have the cover image with me here, so expect that on Monday too

Addicted to love looks interesting..... And looking at that... I think I am gonna have to install windows in one of the empty partitions......

FatBeing said:
I also don't have the cover image with me here, so expect that on Monday too

I hope its Jennifer Love Hewitt on the cover

A

thanks FatBeing for the preview.

not satisfying especially contents on the discs.

techno_funky said:
I hope its Jennifer Love Hewitt on the cover

LOL...not unless she's an extreme case mod.

Which isn't entirely improbable, now that I think of it.

not fully satisfied with the contents....but it has to come lik always...

Indyan said:
I am dissapointed to see that India's Leading Tech Mag didnt bother to cover CeBIT 2007
Even CNN-IBN's show Tech 2.0 covered it.

Anychance, of seeing it in next issue?

We did cover CeBIT. You'll find the story in the mag.

Looks good.

yeah... looks great... And..
What does the FS to "Student Web" contain?? I mean.. does it just enlist useful sites for students? or does it also provide the ways in which WEB can be used by students ,more or les completely?

I am not Satisfyied with the contents on the discs.

Mag Contents -- Hot

Disc Contents -- Not :neutral:

(As Usual)

Thanks for TV Tuner Card shootout.

What is Studen'ts Web ?

Nice to see some hindi related softwares

What's the big idea listing Ashampoo magical Optimizer as free, its a demo version, no link for registration, i saw.
And how long is the subscription of Ashampoo AV gonna last ?
And Broco Pack Vista Inspirat is on Cd not DVD

A

Disc contents are poor.
Mag contents are ok.

Doesn't rock really...ya?

Amit.

Fatbeing....Where is the Vista and Office 2007 Fast Tracks?
Did the link I send you help (about the Office 2007)?

I observe that the disc contents are very very poor.

& also you have'nt yet updated Interactive contents in www.thinkdigit.com , nor given the cover picture in the Forum.

The disc contents looks a bit stale. There isn't anything worth interesting. The contents are good for a first buyer but anybody who has been a regular buyer of Digit or even bought it for a couple of months will have these softwares. For them these are useless. This isn't new actually. Almost every month there are tons of s/w in the mag that nobody uses are everybody has it. I think the DVD contents need a major overhaul.

D

fatbeing monday has passed away, still are u at home?
take a crack?

contents are so so.......
last months contents on disk were better

Finally...many of my requested contents are there.

g_goyal2000 said:
Finally...many of my requested contents are there.

But my request for Windows 2003 Service Pack 2 for X86 Systems has NOT been seen....

emailaatif786 said:
But my request for Windows 2003 Service Pack 2 for X86 Systems has NOT been seen....

That's cos it was released in mid-March. By that time, the cd/dvd contents must have been finalized & sent for replication.

V

Very poor selection of softwares(both on CD & DVD) !!!

nice conts

the case mod article is amazing.....how come digit does not include full versions of older "abandonware " games, like SKOAR

izzikio_rage said:
the case mod article is amazing.....how come digit does not include full versions of older "abandonware " games, like SKOAR

Good Question

This month's Chip DVD contents were very good. Had a perfect balance between softwares, games and linux. I thought you might like to see. I expect something similar from Digit.

The Office 2007 Accounting software is not very good, as we cant change the $ to Rs.

M

Excellent Fast Track (-Eng.)

Cheers to Team Digit,
What an assistive Fast Track, I'm really grateful to team Digit who collated such useful sites and complied a Fast Track of that sites for us. It would take months for any student in finding required info. at net, Imagine how utile will be the Fast Track.
Can I ask you a question ?, Its really great that you guys have mentioned sites on most of the topics a student would ever require. Team Digit, hope you guys are aware that English (both written and spoken) is one such subject which can't be ingnored, Pls. can you devote a side of a page in your magazine listing some of the most useful sites on the subject of English(both written and spoken)in your forthcoming issue,would be very much thankful to you if by any means you could give us the needed info. as you had given for many other subject.
I hope you won't ignore the request, as each one of us who read Digit knows, readers requests are as significant for Digit, as Digit is for its readers

Re: Excellent Fast Track (-Eng.)

metric said:
Cheers to Team Digit,
What an assistive Fast Track, I'm really grateful to team Digit who collated such useful sites and complied a Fast Track of that sites for us. It would take months for any student in finding required info. at net, Imagine how utile will be the Fast Track.
Can I ask you a question ?, Its really great that you guys have mentioned sites on most of the topics a student would ever require. Team Digit, hope you guys are aware that English (both written and spoken) is one such subject which can't be ingnored, Pls. can you devote a side of a page in your magazine listing some of the most useful sites on the subject of English(both written and spoken)in your forthcoming issue,would be very much thankful to you if by any means you could give us the needed info. as you had given for many other subject.
I hope you won't ignore the request, as each one of us who read Digit knows, readers requests are as significant for Digit, as Digit is for its readers

+1 for the fast track

blackpearl said:
The disc contents looks a bit stale. There isn't anything worth interesting. The contents are good for a first buyer but anybody who has been a regular buyer of Digit or even bought it for a couple of months will have these softwares. For them these are useless. This isn't new actually. Almost every month there are tons of s/w in the mag that nobody uses or everybody has it. I think the DVD contents need a major overhaul.

I pretty much agree with u. I also think they need to do a major overhaul of CD/DVD contents. Initially, they used to give out wallpapers, skins, screensavers, MP3's, etc which did make spending our bucks worth it. But now, all u get is useless softwares. If they do decide to give out u'r demanded softwares (which is rare), they're outdated.
And the small games they give out, just don't talk about them. Most of them are flash ones and absolutely useless. Whatever happenned to small games from Gamehouse or Popcap Games or Big Fish Games or Reflexive, etc. They introduce so many interesting games almost daily. They may not be free but play time of an hour offered by them is still better than nothing or those crapy flash games from miniclip (or whatever it is).
Demos of Big games are OK.

g_goyal2000 said:
Demos of Big games are OK.

But they don't even give those. Just 2 in average. Games are the only ones that have variety, not those small softwares. Afterall, how many s/ws does a person need?

blackpearl said:
But they don't even give those. Just 2 in average. Games are the only ones that have variety, not those small softwares. Afterall, how many s/ws does a person need?

Actually, they do give out demos of big games whenever there is one available. Take for instance this month's issue. They have given C&C 3 demo. Man, I wanted to try the game before buying it. Yesterday, I played & it was awesome. I'm gonna go this week & buy me a copy.
But they do need to give out demos of games most sought after/awaited, not of the ones no one has never heard of. For instance, they never gave out demo of Rise Of Nations: Rise of Legends which was released last year.

no interesting things in this editon not gonna buy it becauz march edition cd was not working

Then u should report it ti Jasubhai Media an they would give a new one, but it may take 4-5 months.!!!!!!

i have to sya the fast track is very good

Not

Bad

lcd always gave me headache when room is not lit (working in dark) . but when there is tube in back its ok . i work with lcd only in bright env.

C

Nothing interestin in this issue ya

Regards,
Kunal

For the first time I received my mag. in time; this month. Thanks.

FT is gr8.

quite an OK issue, disc contents could have been better

R

Ashampoo antivirus as free, its a 10 days demo version, no link for registration.........

^^ They always rate security application and AVs on their looks.

Not so good

D

Why are the mobile applications like facewarping, advanced call manager, mNote and mobiguard are cracked versions?

A

The magazine is great and so is the fast track.
My CD's "Digit.exe" is corrupt.Can anyone help me?Please

This month's FASTTRACK: EXCELLANT!
EXCELLANT!
EXCELLANT!
EXCELLANT!

Mag /CD/DVD: Average.

Indyan said:
Thats a shame.
It would mislead a lot of people. If Digit doesnt have the infrastructure to conduct these tests and doesnt have the money to outsource them (kind of hard to believe) then they just should not test security softwares.

i agree with indyan...& when is digit going to do a comprehensive security software shoot out.when??????????????? do u guys remember the 1st digit of june 2001...they had done a comprehensive shootout of antivirus,firewall's when is such stufff going to happen again.when????????????

My digit DVD of april 2007 is not working. I am from Nepal can it be changed.

G

Hi
pls see the link below

"*img140.imageshack.us/img140/2935/wallpaperat8.jpg"
what is the program used for making the calendar (rounded off portion)

so Digit are providing cracked softwares also?

Advanced call manager in mobile application is cracked version by BinPDA

check it out..

you wrote "it's free of csot" but no its not It's a paid version checkout

*webgate.bg/index.html?content=products&rmenu=2

regards

hey why is the stupid mag only 130 pages...just because u provided 2 paid software u have no right to decrease the number of pages & articles....im really annoyed digit, i think il have to change my mag..

I hope that atleast the Anniversary issue would be better

A

may preview please............

Dvd Of April 2007 Not Working I Have Reported The Same In The Month Of April To Digit Help They Replied Me That They Are Sending Another Dvd, But Till Date I Have Not Received The Same.

Dvd Of April 2007 Not Working I Have Reported The Same In The Month Of April To Digit Help They Replied Me That They Are Sending Another Dvd, But Till Date I Have Not Received The Same

What about my unusable DVD April 2007, Feedback team yet to answer my question. Shall I get replacement of the same, or it goes to "Bhagawan Ke Nam Par". I am very sorry to say that DIGIT Help team till date unable to send the replacement DVD, it is very very shamefull to DIGIT being No 1 Tech Mag in INDIA. :cry:

K

Serious research lack in news section-

I was reading your April 2007 issue and in the news section, which is
in the beginning, there was news that Sony was removing 'Emotion chip'
which allows it to play PS2 games, in their Europe version.
It was alright till then, but then it was written that due to removal of
this chip, PS3 will no longer be able to play PS2 games. This is totally
wrong. PS3 still plays about 75% of PS2 games through software emulation
and the backward compatibility is increasing as they release patches
regularly.
More laughable error was this that it was written that Xbox360 supports
full backward compatibility. Do you guys just do a little bit of research
before printing wrong information, and that too in news section? Xbox360
supports only about 5-10% backward compatibility. Google it and you will
know.
Seriously, this was a very laughable error and I didn't expect it from a
prestigious magazine like Digit. At least you can Google it before
printing. I think you should ask the guy who was responsible for this
news. I normal gaming enthusiast would tell you about such a thing.
I am a regular reader of Digit. But please,
don't decrease my faith in digit by making
such errors.

I tried the Windows Sript Host sample that was provided,but the vbs file on double clicking just opens in notepad and is not executed...why is tat?

wow digit is just one step behind into becoming a full featured

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