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Scramble With Friends: This Fast-Paced Word-Finding Game Brings Out the Competitor in You

An Android version of Zynga's popular word-finding game Scramble With Friends has finally arrived. Part of Zynga's "With Friends" series, Scramble With Friends is especially fun because it's a timed (and therefore fast-paced) game.

Gameplay

Scramble With Friends is easy to learn but difficult to master. The app presents you with a gameboard consisting of 16 Scrabble letter tiles, arranged in a 4 by 4 grid. To rack up points and win the game, you drag your finger across adjacent tiles to create words (of at least two letters)--in other words, it resembles a virtual version of Boggle.

Each game consists of three rounds, with one board used for each round. Participants play the board individually and cannot see their opponent's score until the round is finished. In the first round, players gain points by creating words with adjacent letters; in the second and third rounds, some of the tiles offer bonuses, such as double or triple points for using a particular letter.

Before each round, players can choose power-ups to help them during the round. The power-up types are "time freeze," "scramble" (lets you rotate the board for a new perspective), and "inspiration" (gives you three words when you get stuck). You may use up to two power-ups per round.

After each round, each player receives a score. At the end of all three rounds, the player with the highest score wins.

Like Zynga's other "With Friends" games, Scramble With Friends lacks the option of challenging the computer: You're limited to playing against other people. You can find opponents by using Facebook or your contact list, or you can look them up by their Zynga username. If you don't have any friends to call out, you can start a game with a random opponent.

Features

Scramble With Friends uses a token system, similar to the one that TripleTown uses, to keep players from playing too often without paying. Each round costs you one token to play. When you run out of tokens, either you have to wait for your tokens to replenish (you get one token every 20 minutes) or you have to pony up some real cash to keep going.

The first power-up per round is free, but your second power-up will cost you one token, as well.

Though the token system is annoying, it's unlikely to affect your gameplay significantly unless you like to purchase extra power-ups. Each game takes two minutes to play, so by the end of ten games (without extra power-up purchases) you'll have another token to work with. If, after 32 minutes of playing, you still want to keep going, you'll have to wait 8 minutes for your next token. Keep in mind, too, that you must wait for your opponents to finish a round before you can continue the game.

Graphics, Audio, and Performance

Scramble With Friends looked good on my Galaxy Nexus: The colors were vivid, the resolution was high, and the app looked polished. There's no real soundtrack, but the game does have sound effects--including little expressions of praise when you find a particularly impressive word.

The app performed pretty well, though it did crash twice during my testing period--including once during a round; but when I restarted the game, it had paused the round so that I could continue where I had left off (but without my previous momentum). The free version of the app is a bit of a battery hog, probably because of the many ads that appear on the opening screen and between rounds.

Bottom Line

I may be a bit biased, because I'm a word nerd, but I liked Scramble With Friends a lot. That said, it has some issues (aside from the occasional crashes) that need to be addressed. In particular, even though each round is fast-paced, waiting for your opponent to complete a round is not. The second issue--that the game is designed exclusively for multiplayer competition--could be remedied with a solo option; but for some reason, Zynga hasn't ported single-player Scramble to Android yet.

Even with its faults, Scramble With Friends is fun to play, and it will definitely bring out the competitor in you--more so than the other "With Friends" games.

This app was tested using a Samsung Galaxy Nexus running Android 4.0.2.

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How To Keep Track of Your Friends in Windows 8′s People App

Just like with your Windows Phone device, you can also sync your Windows 8 PC with various third-party services like Facebook, Hotmail, Linkedin, and Twitter. Using the operating system’s People app, you can keep track of your friends’ social updates while storing their contact information. Here’s how.

1. Open the Charms menu by hovering over the bottom or top right corners of your screen.

2. Search for People and open the People App.

3. Once in the People app, click on the Me tab.

4. Click on the See Your Updates and Notifications message and add/connect to your various accounts.

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Hands-on with Ambient Location App Sonar: Find Friends Wherever You Go

Another change the app underwent was going the Highlight/Glancee route and shifting its emphasis to relevant people within range of your network, instead of focusing on check-ins to particular venues. Previously, the app showed results as a list of places first, and when you drilled into a location, you could see recommended people. Now, you immediately get a people list upfront, sorted by their degree of closeness to you (friends first, then friends of friends, etc.).

As Martin once told TechCrunch, “The most obvious part of it is that Sonar before was very venue-focused…but now we’re doing this thing called ‘people nearby.’”

Sonar was easy enough to figure out. First, you connect the app to your different social networks. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Foursquare were all available. The app cross-references these networks, detecting people in close proximity to your current position, and showing you a list of people ordered by most number of connections, be they mutual Facebook friends, Twitter following, or LinkedIn contacts.

The list of people appears within two tabs found along the top of the app: People and Places. As mentioned, People simply lists nearby folks with strong ties to you. Tap on a person’s name, and you’ll see their location as a dot on the map. A slider for different social networks across the bottom of the page also let you jump into quick details in their Facebook or Twitter profiles. When you’re ready to connect, you can tap on the Twitter icon on the top right corner to send a quick message to a potential new contact.

The Places tab is interesting, too. Here you’ll see a list of places that are “hot,” ranked according to the number of people that have checked in. Of course at SXSW, the Austin Convention Center was up top, letting me know that 644 people had been there.

When I tapped on the venue, a big button invited me to “Check In here,” and below that, showed me a list of people who were currently at the venue, ordered by the same Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn commonalities.

When I clicked on a person’s name, I could see our Foursquare and Facebook mutual connections, check out the person’s LinkedIn profile, and see the accounts we mutually followed (or the accounts that mutually followed us) on Twitter. A big button on this page solicited me to “Say hi to @username” via a message on Twitter.

Comparing Sonar to the other location-based apps we’ve seen at Southby, we’d say it hews most closely to Banjo. Both apps piggyback on your connections within existing social networks, so you don’t have to worry about convincing your other friends to get the app—it has some utility even if you don’t necessarily have your whole network of contacts on Sonar. How big or small the user base is also doesn’t matter, since you’re seeing connections outside of Sonar itself.

However, Sonar suffers from the same criticisms as Banjo as well. Users could get turned off by people who aren’t within their network messaging them out of the blue. Unlike joining Highlight and Glancee — where becoming a member essentially signals, “Yes, it’s okay to come up to me!” — Sonar lets you peek into already-established networks who may not be as open to meeting new folks as you.

True to its name, the point of Sonar seems to be a low-key way to find out about the people around you. At a tech-savvy hotbed like Austin during SXSW where everyone has very similar interests, it’s an unquestionably intriguing app. But for meeting new people in a regular setting, the app could turn up less than ideal results.

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CineXPlayer Lets You Watch, Chat About Movies With Faraway Friends

If you like to message with friends or Google actors’ resumes while you watch movies on your tablet, there’s an app for that. At Mobile World Congress, NXP Software showcased a new version of its CineXPlayer video playback app that lets users watch videos simultaneously with friends in other locations, chat about video content with those friends and look up information about the movies, all on the same iPad screen.

The current version of CineXPlayer has been around for a couple of years and allows users to playback Xvid format movies on their iPads with full Dolby Digital support, to import subtitles files from outside sources, and convert 2D to 3D movies that require you use either blue/red glasses or a screen cover called a Grilli.

However, the new version which is due later this Spring, adds a host of social features. In an extensive demo at the NXP Software booth, CineXPlayer Development Manager Jeremy Davies showed us the upcoming version’s ability to share the viewing experience with friends anywhere in the world.

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Any.DO App Beams Tasks to Friends, Follows Up on Missed Calls

Modern life is filled with an endless array of tasks we need to complete and whether those tasks are on your to-do list or honey-do list, Android app Any.DO can help. Like other task management apps, Any.DO allows you to keep complex lists of activities you need to complete, but it also one-ups the traditional to-do list by allowing you to assign tasks to friends or coworkers or turn missed calls into new assignments.

Any.DO originally launched last year, but at Mobile World Congress this week, its developers released a new Ice Cream Sandwich version that supports Android’s beam feature for task sharing and allows you to set appointments directly from the task list. In a brief demo at the company’s  booth, a rep showed us the app”s key features, including its ability to reorder tasks on your list by dragging them, remove tasks by swiping them away, or call contacts using Android’s dialer, directly from the task list.

Though it is not a totally new feature, we were particularly impressed with Any.DO’s missed call handling. Any time you fail to answer a call, Any.DO puts an alert on the screen that allows you to you to add following up with that person as task on your to-do list. You can even assign the follow-up to a coworker or friend. So, if your mother-in-law calls and you don’t answer, you can always assign the follow-up task to your wife.

The Any.DO rep showed us how the task list can now add appointments directly to the Android calendar, a feature that’s new for the Ice Cream Sandwich. He showed that, if your task is designated as a meeting, a “set this” button appears next to that item in the to-do list. When you tap the button, Any.DO opens a calendar entry form where you can set the time and place for the meeting.

If your phone has NFC and Ice Cream Sandwich, Any.DO now lets you share tasks by tapping one phone to another. Our rep showed he could set one phone to share the task via beam and the other to receive. After tapping the two handsets together, the recipient phone was prompted to accept the task and add it to its Any.DO list. If rubbing phones together seems impractical or you don’t have NFC, you can share tasks via the Internet instead, a feature that already existed in previous versions of Any.DO.

Seeing the demo, we couldn’t help but think of the business possibilities, particularly for journalists like ourselves. We imagined having a story planning meeting and then issuing assignments to writers by tapping phones with them. 

Any.DO is available right now from the Android Market for free. An iOS version is coming soon.

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GroupMe App Review: Perfect For Coordinating With Friends

Free group messaging with anyone you know. Works on any phone.

Now works over data—no text plan required!

Group Messaging

- Start groups with the people already in your contacts.

- Send and receive messages using your data plan, or use SMS if you have a poor connection.

- Share photos with your groups inline.

Location

- Add your location to any message you send.

- See all group members on a map.

Conference Calling

- Every group gets a unique phone number.

- Any group member can call the number to start an group conference call.

All that and so much more... absolutely free.

GroupMe — Your Real Life Network.

Recent changes:

2.1.9.1

-Bugfix for Foursquare Authentication

-Bugfix for syncing Groups to phone (+1+1 bug)

2.1.8/9

-Minor UI speed enhancements

-Basic Honeycomb support (new tablet interface coming soon!)

-Minor bugfixes

2.1.7

-Major stability and reliability enhancements

-Beta Emoji Support

-Lots and lots of bugfixes

2.1.6

-Bugfix for notifications

-Restored Enter key functionality

Content rating: Low Maturity

by Sarah Jacobsson Purewal, PCWorld

GroupMe is a free app that allows you to message multiple people at once. I know what you're thinking--you can already text message multiple people at once, all you have to do is add multiple numbers to the "To:" field in your texting app--even non-smartphones have this ability. GroupMe is different, though: It doesn't just let you send messages to multiple people, it lets you have a group conversation.

Let me explain. When you text multiple people at once, all you're really doing is sending the same message to a bunch of different people. However, if those people text you back, then their response only goes to you--there is no "Reply All" button in text messages.

GroupMe is like a default Reply All button. GroupMe sets up a special number for each texting conversation, so when you text multiple people at once they get a text message from that number. Then, when they reply to the text message, their reply is sent to everyone in your GroupMe conversation. So it's like a group chatting app, except via text message.

Your friends don't have to have GroupMe installed for it to work--which is a good thing, because that means that people who don't have smartphones can also partake in the fun. Only the conversation starter needs to have GroupMe installed. However, if you want to directly message people, the recipient of the message will need to have the app installed on their phone.

GroupMe isn't just about texting, though--it also has conference calling, a mapping service (which gives the approximate locations of the other chat participants), and a (still-in-beta) "Ask a Question" feature.

GroupMe's main screen looks like a texting app--it's got all of your grouped conversations, a search button, a prominent "Start a Group" button, as well as buttons for Home, Contacts, Featured, and News. The Featured button takes you to a list of GroupMe partners (such as the TV show Dexter and the artist Ke$ha) and lets you start groups based around said partners. The News tab is just sort of a random newsfeed.

Starting a group is as easy as pressing the big green plus button at the bottom of the home screen and adding a couple of worthy contacts. Message them once and your contacts receive a couple of texts--including a note that they've been added to a group and a list who else is in the group with them. Any member of the group can start a conference call by dialing the special phone number your group has been assigned for the duration of your group conversation.

The original conversation starter can also disband the group--but once a group is disbanded, its special private group number ceases to exist.

GroupMe is an innovative way to get multiple people involved in one conversation. It can be annoying to have your phone constantly go off whenever someone replies to the group, but it's great if you're trying to get a group of people together to meet up, or if you have a bunch of friends who really love to talk to each other.

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