DigitalOutbox Episode 113

In this episode the team discuss Game, Racists, Kindle Touch and Paper.

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Shownotes

1:42 - Game Enters Administration

6:10 - Racist twitter user jailed for 56 days

11:06 - Kindle Touch hits the UK

15:40 - Harry Potter ebooks finally available

17:49 - Dot scot on the way

19:19 - Friends Reunited Relaunches

22:02 - Shitter

Picks

Ian

Paper

• a blank slate of paper devoid of settings panels, menus, and adjustable line widths.

• team behind it had an interesting history: a handful of them spent several years at Microsoft, with a good chunk of that time focused on the Courier

• Fountain pen is only tool at startup

• Free app but £6 for 4 tools - Write (ballpoint), Sketch (pencil), Outline (marker), and Color (watercolor paintbrush)

• Simplicity and clear toolbar free UI is really nice. Great for sketching, but here’s the funny. A stylus really helps.

• Undo is really nice - hold two fingers on iPad and rotate anti clockwise - step through additions removing one at a time

• Share - twitter, facebook, tumblr and e-mail

Wind Map

• Lovely visualisation of current wind flows in the US

• Team hope to expand ot other countries if they can find the data feeds they need