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32 best games for iPad in one video

All the best iPad games in one video – from www.for-ipad.co.uk. Featured games Asphalt 5, Plants vs zombies, Need for speed Shift, Real racing, Godfinger, Fieldrunners, Labyrinth 2, Zen bound 2, Amazon, Pinball hd, Worms, Dungeon, Glow hockey, Let’s golf, Nova, Shanghai, Diner dash gg, Geometry wars, Civilization rev, Red alert, Angry birds, Mirror’s edge, Solitaire, Broken Sword, Touch hockey, Checkers, Hold’em up, Chop sushi!, Harbor master, Sudoku tablet, Mini golf, Space station – sorry for the annoying camera red dot in the middle of the screen!

Hands On: Chrome Beta for Android — the Platform’s Best New Browser

The Chrome app is far more robust than Android's stock browser. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired.com

To say I’ve been waiting for Chrome to come to Android for some time is an understatement. I’ve wanted a proper Google browser on my phone ever since I chose Android for my mobile platform. Finally, after years of saddling Android users with a generic browser short on performance and features, Google deployed a beta version of Chrome for Android 4.0 devices on Tuesday.

The Gadget Lab editors and I have been playing with Chrome on a Galaxy Nexus smartphone and Asus Transformer Prime for the last two days, and can report it’s far better than any Android browser we’ve used thus far. From tabbed browsing to multi-device syncing, it’s a must-download for anyone running the Ice Cream Sandwich version of Google’s mobile OS.

Like any modern browser, Chrome for Android boasts tabbed browsing, so you’re not forced to leave pages every time you want to get to another site. This isn’t unique to Chrome’s new app. All of the majors — Firefox, Dolphin, Opera, and even the stock Android browser — include tabbed browsing in some form or another.

But Chrome’s tabbed browsing veneer comes with a little extra polish relative to its competitors. In the phone version of Chrome, tapping the tab selection button in the upper right-hand corner spawns a drop-down screen of your open pages, with each site thumbnail appearing like a playing card resting atop a deck. Swipe your finger up and down to skim through the thumbnails, or flick horizontally to get rid of any open pages. Think of it as less Mozilla and more WebOS.

This “deck of cards” metaphor isn’t enabled in the tablet version of Chrome, because it’s not necessary; tabs are spread out and easy to manipulate on the tablet version, just as they would be on a desktop. But the feature is essential on the smaller screen real estate of a smartphone.

As is the case in Chrome for desktops, you can browse incognito on Chrome for Android. This means your web surfing won’t appear in the browser’s history, and any new cookies you create will be deleted as soon as you close the incognito tab. In the Android app, incognito tabs are separated from non-incognito tabs, so you’re able to keep better track of all the content you’re viewing on the down low (in Android’s generic Browser app, private and public tabs intermingle). And if you somehow forget which “state” you’re in — public or private — the bar at the top of the incognito screen is darkened for differentiation.

It’s important to note a significant absence amid all of these features: Adobe Flash support is nowhere to be found. On the one hand, the omission is strange, given Flash support has been one of the trumpeted upsides to using Android devices instead of iPhones. And yet the absence of Flash isn’t wholly unexpected — Adobe killed Flash development for mobile devices last year, after all. Given Google’s resolute backing of HTML5, it’s a bold signal, a shift from one era to the next. The web is far from dead, as Google SVP of Chrome Sundar Pichai would say.

Hands down, the star of the Chrome show is the browser’s syncing capability. Pichai’s goal was to take Chrome — the full version of Chrome — and spread it evenly across all devices: desktops, tablets, smartphones, and in the case of Chrome OS, netbooks as well. Pichai and company aimed for a seamless browsing experience when moving from device to device to device.

Does it work? Yes. All it takes is signing into your Google account on every device, and you’re able to pick up browsing where you left off on all your sundry hardware. Bookmarks, passwords and browsing history are all synced across devices. It may not sound like much, but it’s a huge time saver when trying to type in the same old URLs and search terms across multiple devices — especially when entering data on tiny, touchscreen keyboards. Damn you, autocorrect!

But sync is much more than just bookmark memory. Let’s say you’re looking up a restaurant on your laptop at home. You head out the door, only to forget the exact cross streets of the joint’s location halfway through your drive. With Chrome for Android, you’re able to recall those open tabs from your laptop browser, instantly finding the restaurant’s address on your Galaxy Nexus. The “other devices” menu located within the option bar shows you each separate device you have currently running Chrome, and which tabs you have open in each.

Granted, it’s a subtle flourish that could be overlooked by people who only peel through one-off pages at random when browsing on their smartphones. But it’s really so much more than this. As Pichai envisions, synced browsing is a peek into our future as multi-device-carrying, always-connected humans who use different tools for different situations.

Indeed, it makes no sense to drag your laptop to the couch — that’s why we have tablets. So instead of revisiting all of your pages through manual searches again and again, synchronicity across devices keeps browsing simple, seamless and interconnected. We want access to everything, everywhere and we want it as fast as possible. Chrome for Android is a major step in that direction.

Jon Phillips contributed reporting

Tabbed browsing, one of a number of fancy add-ons that come with the new Chrome app. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired.com

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Best Buy Explains Its Leaked Apple HDTV Survey

The current Apple TV is a set-top box, so pundits are using the term iTV to denote a speculated Apple-branded HDTV. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com

News and rumors suggest an Apple-branded HDTV is somewhere on the horizon, but it’s hard to differentiate hard evidence from hype.

A digital survey put out by Best Buy and leaked to The Verge this weekend asked customers to rate their interest in a $1,499, 42-inch, iOS-laden Apple HDTV. The survey listed a series of intriguing features: a 1080p LED display, iPad/iPhone remote control, and access to the App Store and the cloud, among other alluring specs.

OK, Apple rumors are one thing. In fact, they’re Digitimes‘ stock and trade. But since when has Best Buy, the nation’s most well-known electronics retailer, become a player in the Apple rumors game?

We asked, and Best Buy answered: “The customer survey was a routine offer effectiveness survey conducted by one of Best Buy’s research partners. Any brand reference was hypothetical. The survey is no longer available,” Best Buy told us in a statement.

Leaks are common. Some are planned, most are accidental. But the Best Buy survey could be just another example of a company that didn’t forsee how its actions might be perceived.

“I doubt that this is something that is an intentional hype,” said Sarah Rotman-Epps, a senior analyst with Forrester Research. More likely, Rotman-Epps said, Best Buy is trying to gauge consumer interest so that it can have a better idea how many units to order — if and when an iTV comes along.

Although speculation fueled by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster recently had Apple contacting TV component makers in anticipation of an iTV launch, opinions vary greatly as to whether an Apple TV would actually hit the market this year. Best Buy’s comments indicate it is just thinking ahead to a hypothetical release.

“Apple is notoriously private about its product releases, and careful about its interaction with partners, like Best Buy,” said Rotman-Epps.

Best Buy's leaked survey. Image: The Verge

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Top 10 Best Cydia IOS5 2012 Apps Tweaks of ALL TIME | iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad- iOS 5/5.0.1

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Lark Wristband Reveals the Best Lifestyle Choices For a Good Night’s Sleep

The Lark wristband and its accompanying iPhone app. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired

Julia Hu is a bubbly, 26-year-old Stanford alum and CEO of a Bay Area start-up. She’s got the passion and product pitch you’d expect from a practiced entrepreneur, but demonstrates a curious quirk you don’t find in a lot of CEOs: She seems well rested.

One would hope so. Hu is in charge of Lark, a silent alarm clock, sleep monitor, and personal sleep coach, all rolled into one. The device itself looks a bit like a watch ensconced inside a lightweight, breathable, perforated band. The band’s hardware interacts with an iPhone app, sharing your nightly sleep habits with the app via Bluetooth when you wake each day.

The Lark isn’t the first wearable device to track one’s sleep patterns, but the system adds a clever coaching element that other sleep trackers don’t include. It’s an important addition, as competing devices tend to smother the user in sleep data, but don’t provide many tools to make sense of the data in an actionable way.

Hu considers the Lark a member of a growing class of “appcessories,” physical devices that interact with mobile apps to provide useful information or enhanced entertainment. Some of these devices track things like heart health. Other trackers similar to the Lark — such as the Jawbone UP and Fitbit — monitor a user’s activity 24/7, from daytime exercise to nighttime slumber, using motion sensors.

The Lark employs what it calls a “micromotion sleep pattern sensor” and, like the Jawbone UP and Fitbit, uses a data-tracking method called actigraphy to measure one’s sleep stages at about 85 to 95 percent accuracy.

All these activity-monitoring devices can provide helpful data in the quest for a better night’s sleep. The conventional wisdom says that once we begin mapping sleep data against the lifestyle decisions we make during our wakeful hours — for example, how much coffee we consume and how hard we exercise — we can begin adjusting bad habits to improve our sleep.

And the same applies to monitoring one’s daytime activity, like how many potato chips we eat, and how many stairs we climb. Personal data analysis can identify potential problems before they get serious, and hopefully save time and money on doctor’s visits and pharmacy bills in the long run.

“What’s exciting about this new category of appcessories is that the hardware can stay the same, but the software is always innovating,” Hu says. In the past, she says, you “had to be a Sony,” anticipating your audience’s desires and delivering a flawless finished product to consumers from the get-go. However, “by having a mobile-connected product, your product can really solve needs so much better,” Hu says. “You can really listen to what the users want and build it for them as software and upgrade continuously.”

Julia Hu, CEO of Lark, proponent of healthy sleep habits. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired

The Lark debuted in late June, but its app has been revised a number of times, adding greater utility to the system as a whole. In addition to tracking your sleep patterns and gently waking you up with a light vibration on your wrist, you can now provide the app with various data points to begin connecting the dots on which environmental factors affect your sleep.

For example, the Lark can enter the noise and brightness levels of your surroundings, or whether you had caffeine or alcohol before hitting the hay. When you wake up in the morning, you launch the app, and define how well rested you are. From there, Lark uses all its information to figure out what stimuli you should try to avoid.

Hu says the Lark system can also provide information as to why you may wake up in the middle of the night.

“A lot of people don’t realize it’s not always stress that infringes on sleep. It’s actually a little bit of a noise that wakes you up, then your brain can’t shut off,” Hu says. Women, in particular, are susceptible to this: High-pitched noises will wake them up, and leave them unable to get back to sleep.

Women also suffer more insomnia than men, Hu says, though men are far more likely to suffer from sleep apnea, waking up more times than they think they do during the night, and then not remembering the disturbances.

The latest version of the Lark app also includes a feature that was once limited to the $60 “pro” version of the software: an assessment to determine what type of sleeper you are based on the data and information you provide (Lu refers to the data as your “sleep hygiene”). The system pinpoints 12 different types of sleepers. Hu, for example, started out as a “rookie-erratic” sleeper when she first used the system.

It may sound like a gimmicky, Meyers-Briggs-esque personality assessment, but it lets the app provide you with personalized recommendations. Unfortunately, the assessment is an ongoing process, and the free app performs just one week of evaluation.

“I used to sleep at different times all throughout the night, and it gave me really fragmented sleep,” Hu says. She also had a hard time falling asleep. But by following the app’s coaching techniques, she says, she’s now progressed to a “rookie night lark.” A lark, like its avian namesake, wants to be early to bed, early to rise.

Hu still has trouble getting to sleep as early as her body would like, but at least she now falls asleep at a regular time each night. And the iPhone helps in this effort: If you try to stay up past your recommended bed time, the app will prompt you through push notifications to begin winding down.

“Until now, no one had a computer within three feet of themselves at all times,” Hu says of smartphones like the iPhone. “You can track real-time behavior and get feedback that happens the moment you’re making a decision. This allows for real behavior change.”

Notwithstanding a simple volume mute, of course.

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AppChat – BEST FREE APPS OF JUNE 2011

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Appetite For Distraction – Appetite for Distraction – Furmins, Best Cowboy Mobile Games On iPad

We discover the best of the west with a look at cowboy games on iPad and iPhone.

Top 30 Best Jailbreak Tweaks 2011 – iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad Cydia

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Appetite For Distraction – Three of the week’s best iPad Apps

We’ve got more top iPad games this week, including Heroes vs. Monsters, Snoopy’s Street Fair, and Superman HD.