Given a choice, customers of a Pacific Northwest PC system builder overwhelming pick Windows 7 over the newer Windows 8, the company’s president said Thursday.
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If you want to keep your brain and creative imagination imagination in shape it may be time to pick up Scribblenauts Unlimited.

This is the fourth installment of the Scribblenauts franchise; the original made a name for itself back in 2009 for its innovative ability to render almost any noun you could think of onscreen using a magic notebook. This, however, is the first iteration to make it to the big, hi-def screens of your PC and television.

The goal of the game, like the previous Scribblenauts, is to collect “Starites” which you receive when completing a puzzle or riddle using objects you create. A major departure form the previous games is the level selection. Instead of discrete linear puzzles, Unlimited has a single world that is split into different themed areas, all with their own objectives. Visit the big city to help the police catch a thief or a tropical island to help a shipwrecked couple. How you help them is completely up to you and your magic notebook. As long as they end happy, you get the Starite.
Level selection takes place on a huge world map consisting of different themes.
Of course, it’s hard to create a database of every imaginable object in existence, but the developers at 5th Cell did a darn good job. As usual, proper nouns and obscenities are excluded from the list of playable words, narrowing your choices. If you’re feeling ambitious and creative you can fire up the new item editor and modify any item in the game in a myriad of ways to create whole new objects. Change the color, move parts around, change sizes and even add in physical properties, adjectives and scripted behaviors. Turn Death, the Grim Reaper himself, into a tutu-wearing ballerina that flies and throws confetti! Or whatever else comes out of your imagination.
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Move over iCloud, there’s a new app in town. Younity, a personal cloud service, launched a public beta today of its mobile app that enables iPhone and iPad users to  access data seamlessly from Mac OS X or Windows PCs.

The premise is fairly simple: Download Younity on your Mac OS X or Windows computer and set up an account. Younity scans the entire PC to find documents, songs, photos, and videos, and then makes that data available to your mobile devices. When you install Younity on your iPhone or iPad and log in to the account you created, your iOS devices can instantly access all of the data catalogued by Younity.

It’s not all sunshine and roses, though. Let’s start with the good stuff: The data doesn’t have to be placed in specific folders in order to be available via Younity, and it isn’t stored in the cloud. Nor is data synced across devices—so you don’t have to worry that data available through Younity will eat up the limited storage capacity on your iPhone or iPad.

Basically, Younity just enables you to see your data across all devices in one place, and streams it on demand. It means that your 16GB iPhone can have seamless access to terabytes of data from multiple Mac OS X or Windows PCs. Documents, songs, photos, and videos can also be downloaded so they’re available when your mobile device isn’t even connected to the Internet.
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