On Computers

“Fruit Ninja” for all smart phones and tablets is a 99-cent game that already has 300 million users worldwide. You can get some codes for free downloads at anniversary.fruitninja.com/.

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“Rounds” is a Facebook app that lets you video chat, play games, draw on a whiteboard or watch YouTube together with other Facebook friends

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“Dice With Buddies” is a free Yahtzee-style game that has hooked Joy’s brother. You can play with friends, family or random opponents on either an Android or iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch.

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Samsung’s new $329 “Chromebox” is the first desktop computer to run the new Google Chrome operating system (Chrome OS). We think it and the “Chromebook” laptop could be the wave of the future – which in this business means the next year or so.

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“Small Town Rules,” by Barry Moltz and Becky McCray, $25 is new from quepublishing.com.

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Amazon’s streaming video service added a “Watchlist” feature.

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Seagate can now put a trillion bits of data on one square inch of a disk drive. They will soon come out with a six terabyte 3.5-inch drive for desktops and a two terabyte 2.5-inch drive for laptops. A 60 terabyte drive is feasible, say the engineers. To put that in perspective, a 60 terabyte drive could hold 216 million pages of text or 18,000 hours of good-quality video.

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Seventy-six percent of people worldwide conduct searches in two or more languages, according to a study by Greenlight, a digital marketing agency.

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Bully Block blocks unwanted text messages and phone calls on Android phones and devices. An auto-responder can send a message asking that all communications cease, or … a “Bully Capture” mode can record the bully who is sending that unwanted message. A log is kept of all text and email harassments, which is certainly helpful if you want to document the calls for the police or your lawyer. Price is $1.29.

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Drums! is a 99-cent drum-playing app for the iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch. Unlike GarageBand, there’s no learning curve here, just pound away. A similar app called Drums HD is free for Android phones and tablets.

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