[Preview + Feedback] Digit May 2008

May 2008 Magazine Contents

Digital Passion

Insight
This Means War!
A peek at Intel's Larrabee processor. Most of your probable questions answered, even those you wouldn’t have thought about

30 Days With
Macbook Air
We spent a whole month, acquainting ourselves with the ins and outs of the Macbook. Is it really as effective as its style statement?

Open Source Matters
From A Hacker’s Diary
Freedom as viewed from the eyes of those preferring Linux over paid software—why people continue using open source, rather than just get software over (or under) the shelf

Tomorrow
Science Fact-ion
You’ll find more from tomorrow’s world. Cloaking shields, wireless electricity and the orgasmatron! A pleasant read, and one that would set you thinking for sure

Drool Maal
Stuff To Lust After
Speakers made of virtually all possible materials... A Wimax tablet from Nokia and much, much more...

Digital Tools

Enhance
Educ@tion
Get hold of advanced study and reference materials over a wide range of subjects from the world’s premier institutions—MIT, Carnegie Mellon and our very own IITs and IISCs. All from the convenience of your chair

Test Centre
Over 30 LCD Monitors tested this month! Plus: internal hard drives tested!

Agent 001
Shopping For More Action
Your very own Agent, an avid gamer, goes on some serious graphic card shopping. With three configurations in mind, everyone will get a few tips

Bazaar
Let’s go shopping
Be informed of new stuff in the market. Read more to know of exciting graphic cards, mobiles, printers and more

Digital Business

Lead Feature
Little Guy, Big Worry
With larger enterprises having ultra-secure firewalls and other security measures, it’s SoHos and other smaller entities that need to be on the watch out for security attacks

Smart SoHo
Distances Don’t Matter
With the world becoming a smaller place, enterprises need to work across boundaries. Here’s how it can be made possible

Smart SoHo
Track and Streamline
We present here a free ERP solution. No more complicated installations, and other hassles. Get your SoHo streamlined and on the road to productivity

Digital Leisure

Main Story
The Best Indie Games You (n)Ever Played
Move over, known names from the gaming world! Get to know Indie games—short, sweet and brimming with wholesome gaming fun

Game On
The new Burnout takes us to Paradise, and God of War: Chains of Olympus is the best game ever made for the PSP!

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Fast Track To Google SketchUp
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DVD Contents

Gaming
Free
Sam & Max: Abe Lincoln Must Die!
Energetic 1.0
Bontag
I Wanna Be The Guy

Demos
Sins of a Solar Empire
Penumbra: Black Plague
Darwinia
Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate

Entertainment
Movies
The Shadow Strikes (1937)

Channel 9
Nick Baker: Xbox 360 Architecture
PhotoSynth: What. How. Why
Cakewalk: Making Music With Sonar
geekSpeak - XNA game development with Nick Landry
TechFest 2007: gBeta

Trailers
Speed Racer (1080p)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (1080p)
Iron Man (1080p)

Tools
Multimedia
Vue 6 Personal Learning Edition
Adobe Audition 3
Ayam
BRL-CAD
CinePaint (Mac)
Frinika
Google Earth
Google SketchUp
Microsoft Photosynth Tech Preview
form.Z
LoopWorx Hip Hop Edition 1.0

System
Windows Vista Service Pack 1
Mandriva Linux One 2008.1 (KDE)
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition Update
Comodo Memory Firewall 2.0.4.20
Inguma
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0 Update
Norton AntiVirus Update for Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Remote Queue Manager Personal 4.2.162
RemoveIT Pro 4 SE 9.4.2008
Simple Machine Protect
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (x64)
ZoneAlarm Free 7.1
Agnitum Outpost Antivirus Pro
Dr.Web 4.44.2
ESET Smart Security 3.0.650
Kerio WinRoute Firewall 6.4.2
MOBILedit! Unlimited Edition 2.8.2.9
NTI Ninja 2.0.5.19R2
Security Desktop Tool 5.5.2.5
ServiceKeeper 4.8.43

Drivers
ATI Catalyst Software Suite Vista32 8.3
ATI Catalyst Software Suite Vista64 8.3
ATI Catalyst Software Suite xp32 8.3
ATI Catalyst Software Suite xp64 8.3
NVIDIA Forceware Vista32 174.74
NVIDIA Forceware Vista64 174.74
NVIDIA Forceware XP32 174.74
NVIDIA Forceware XP64 174.74

Productivity
Personal
OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 Beta 1
Spicebird Beta 0.4
Compiere Community Edition 3.0
Digsby
My xPad 2.1.3
raProject 0.2
SSuite Galaxy Class
ABIX 6.55.02
BC Excel Server 2007 Enterprise Edition 7.1.7
Desktop Dozen 5.00
Directory Checker 3.30
Directory Opus 9.1.0.3
Memeo AutoSync 2.5
Metamation 1.0
Movie Magic Screenwriter 6
Pagico 3.1.0.51 (Mac)

Developers
MSDN Express Library for Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions
Hiitch (The Social Networking Platform)
Ch Standard Edition 6
CIShell 0.4.0
Java EE SDK + JDK
Oracle Database 10g Express Edition
XPontus XML Editor
Jedit X 2.01 (Mac)

CD Contents

Gaming
Free
Ocular Ink
And Yet It Moves
Blood Car! 2000! Deluxe!
Every Extend
flOw
Infinite Underwear Attack
Pogo Sticker
Racing Pitch
Rainpaper
Super Mario - Realm Of The 1000th Twilight
Toribash
Twin Tower
Vegetable Soup Tactics

Demos
New Star Soccer
Rainbow Web 2

Tools
Essentials
.net Framework 2.0
µTorrent 1.7.7
Avast Home Edition 4.8
Avast Update
Comodo Firewall Pro 3
Digit Software Archive 2006 Beta
DirectX Redistributable 9.0c March 2008
Foxit Reader
Free Download Manager 2.5
Irfan View 4.10
Irfan View 4.10 Plugins
Java(TM) 2 Runtime
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 3.8.5
Microsoft XNA Framework Redistributable 1.0 Refresh
Opera 9.27
Silverlight
Spybot Search and Destroy 1.52
Spybot Search and Detection updates
VLC Player 0.8.6f
Winamp
WinRAR 3.71

Multimedia
GIMPShop 2.2.11 (Ubuntu deb)
Kerkythea 2008 Echo
Alien 303 1.2
AuthorPOINT Lite
Flash this
i.Mage
MandelFilm 1.00
PhotoMesa
Photoscape
SUPER Free video converter
WaveGenix FX Pack 1.0
Digital Music Record Convert Burn Station 7.4.1.10
e-Radio Mixer 2.17
Fake Voice 1.45
inTone | Guitar Pro 1.0.9
Soundmasker 6.00.32
SuperMp3Normalizer 1.04
YoGen Vocoder 1.1.0

System
Ashampoo Antivirus 1.61
TuneUp Utilities 2008
DocShield
Fisehippo Update Checker v1.021
JkDefrag GUI
Link Shell Extension
O&O Defrag 2000
PC Inspector File Recovery 4.0
RecentFilesView
Shell Tools
ZipInstaller
The Mop 4.44.20

Internet
Google Talk Labs Edition
Safari 3.1
Avant Browser 11.6
F-ab
Mikogo
TightVNC 1.3.9
Toggle Flash
Tor
XeroBank Browser
LanFlow Net Diagrammer 6.01.2011
Magnesium: RSS 2.0 Ticker

Productivity
Personal
Google Email Uploader
QuiiQ MOVIES 1.1
Free PDF to Word Doc Converter
Lingoes
MP3 EZlib Music Library and Playlist Manager 2.4
ProgramLaunch
TTMS 1.5
Vista User Time Manager

Developers
Dismount Levels
COM Port Stress Test 1.2.1 Build 21
Jackal 3.0.0
miniPHP Studio Alif, Pre-release Revision 2
SWIG 1.3.34
CodeSmith Standard 4.1.3 Revision 3349
DemoForge
HHD Hex Editor Neo
scinet Math 1.0
VB.Net to C# Converter 2.16
XLSConverterX
XMLmind XSL-FO Converter 4.2p1

Fin.

Huh Rather long post but worth it, good contents!

The publishers namesd their gae" Infinite Underwear Attack". that's hilarious!
Still not tech vidcasts. Please try to incldue them

seems good!

Take a crack?

A

magazine articles seems to be ok whereas disc

Mandriva Linux One 2008.1 (KDE)
MSDN Express Library for Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions

Thanks for the above

Thanks for including Vista SP1...

Will buy the mag tomorrow...

FatBeing vbmenu_register("postmenu_816560", true);
Administratus Rotundus

Will This months DVD will be same as March & April 2008 DVD's ?
Which are so carefully burned at you end that there are NO ANY CONTENTS IN THE DVD's. Now those DVDs are toy for children.

Looks good...

nice contents !!!

Developer section on Both DVD and CD is good for me !!!

THANKS !!!!

A

i like contents

V

It has not become a routine: DVDs not working.
I don't know why they don't care about quality. Why should a person spend additional 20 bucks to send back the faulty DVD.

Hardy??

:sob:

R

Great Contents....!!! I Hope that DVD will work fine.

Fast Track to Google Sketch Up - Just What We Needed.

isn't 1080p be for creamy layer ?

Nice contents.

NO Hardy........huh

Worst I could imagine...

V

May DVD NOT Working

(

1080p is overkill!!!(not many have the display+powerful PC combo to run 1080p,so it is as good as 720p in visual quality which needs double the processing power.)

720p please.

Pathik said:
Hardy?? :sob:

nitish_mythology said:
NO Hardy........huh
Worst I could imagine...

Hardy was released on 24th April and the magazine & DVDs are already in the Printing/Burning stage by this time......So, I had not expected Hardy.

where is the pdf of cd/dvd contents
its not found on thinkdigit home

The_Devil_Himself said:
1080p is overkill!!!(not many have the display+powerful PC combo to run 1080p,so it is as good as 720p in visual quality which needs double the processing power.)

720p please.

It's not uncompressed 1080p - that would qualify as overkill. These trailers run fine on my P4 2.7 GHz work PC (with onboard graphics), so I'd expect it'd run fine on any PC that is less than 2 years old.

look some what improved quality but what i think that thinkdigit is loosing its charm as what it was before 2 year back i dont find today even near to that.
Also the content of dvd & cd is also much worthwhile. Please try to improve.

Rest seems fine................

K

thanks

Why No Hardy ?
And forget 1080p. In my current state(due to which I was out of this forum for a month) I can't even play 1024x768 video without audio properly.

Offtopic:
Where were you dude? Havent seen u for quite some time now.

rayraven said:
Offtopic:
Where were you dude? Havent seen u for quite some time now.

comp got screwed up.
then net got screwed up.
then 6 examinations came up, back to back.
did you expect me to be able to do anything ?

MetalheadGautham said:
comp got screwed up.
then net got screwed up.
then 6 examinations came up, back to back.
did you expect me to be able to do anything ?

Heh, So everythin fine now?

rayraven said:
Heh, So everythin fine now?

nope.
still same state.
but I got net back, and it atleast works on windows.
BUT NOT ON UBUNTU

geeee.......... got scratched dvd again coz of bad packaging & jewel case

welcome back Gautham

B

Digit has not done PSU review from a long time may i know why & i don't remember that you have ever done a memory Shootout may i know why?(correct me if i am wrong).

Regular Digit reader for last 5years.

B

rajivnedungadi said:
Mandriva Linux One 2008.1 (KDE)
MSDN Express Library for Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions

Thanks for the above

*****************
hai, this mandriva folder contains several files.
if i write sigle iso can i make live cd - and whats the use of other files.
next the iso also morethan 750mb can i write it on a cd
i tried it, when tring as live cd - it shows files missing error
can u help me ?

Thanx a trillion for the FastTrack to Google SketchUp......

Thanx a trillion......

How long digit will print the same old things on
A-list Section like :

Printed about Intel QX6850 Core 2 Extreme where QX9650 is available
Printed about Galaxy GF8800Ultra where 9800 GX2 & 9800 GTX is available
& tested by you !
Printed about Asus 8600 in mid Range Gfx card but I think it's time for 9600

T

The May Issue was awesome! The CD-DVD rock!

Digit has done it again, scree that is!! Printed pages32 to 45 twice!!! :shock:

Hard Disk review was good though.

Magazine contents are continually becoming amateurish. Nevertheless, an OK issue. At least you guys have , now, got a grip on the falling standards of the magazine. Try to increase l33tish contents for us old digit readers and l33ts.

good work man...

June Preview & Feedback Thread Please

hey it has not published yet..........
it is 7 th birth day of DIGIT..
so expect it a GREAT WAY......

M

I was trying to install and use Ashampoo Antivirus, as May 2008 Digit CD claimed that it is free fro Digit readers/ subscribers. After installing the program, it is informing me that the installed version is a ten-day-trial thing. I have to supply some code to make it work! What is the crack or code for Digit Subscribers?

A

june preview please............

oh thanks!you made a permanant section in magazine with "Open Source Matters" -please clarify.

Searching June Isuuse

wats da use of havin a preview section then??? whrs da preview of JUNE ISSUE?? if it's posted after 1st it will no more be a preview....

D

good point LOL
still no June Preview!? I'd appreciate it if someone could start a thread for that.. Maybe a review instead of a preview

2 mahine ki chuttiyon par chale gaye kya?

It's 3rd day of this month. Still no preview of june special issue. Then why it's so special - for getting late ?
I'm also thinking what happened with the june issue.

topgear said:
it's so special - for getting late ?

LOL

Is the June issue available in news-stands??? If so, we ourselves can post the preview...lol!!!

M

Good One!

hey where is the june issue..............................................????????//

Just checked out.... June issue still not on stands

K

June issue not yet available here in Dubai also

, Normally i used 2 get on the 2nd or 3rd day of every month

-keves-

still not available in kolkata............
what happened?
is it taking time as there is too much to print or to include in dvds...
if that is the matter..
then worth waiting....

S

Today is the 4th of June and not yet available in the stands.... I think an explanation is required!!

drsubhadip said:
still not available in kolkata............
what happened?
is it taking time as there is too much to print or to include in dvds...
if that is the matter..
then worth waiting....

Let's see... But I hope they do not SURPRISE us big way by saying that we will get the June issue along with next month's!

damnthenet said:
Let's see... But I hope they do not SURPRISE us big way by saying that we will get the June issue along with next month's!

i do not think they r so rude...
or so boring or so enthugiestic about their work or already have taken their all casual leaves all together.........
hope for the best buddy..

I hope I am not disappointed by the wait. *gigasmilies.googlepages.com/45.gif

A

wait and see, this year it seems a long wait for big ..................(guess what)...

S

azaad_shri75 said:
wait and see, this year it seems a long wait for big ..................(guess what)...

lets hope 4 d best.....