Thought apps were primarily for getting beaten by your 12-year-old niece at word games?
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As for generations, the top choices among Baby Boomers, GenXers and Millennials are word games and puzzles.
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They enjoy a wry relationship, at once aloof and intimate, never more lively than when engaged in word games.
The boozy Friday lunches in London with his clever friends, and their shared fondness for puerile, obscene word games, will leave most readers bored and mystified.
But in Egypt, which is now ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood, the parliament is playing word games in its quest for a law mandating sukuk market in the country.
Grandma Fan sat at the head of the table and the rest of us shuffled in around her: Uncle Jim with presents for us, Uncle Dick with his word games, Aunt Jane with her cosmopolitan worldview and martinis.
Subjects told researchers how often they used computers and whether they used PCs for email, Web surfing, word processing, games or other activities.
You can take money out of these tax-favored accounts to buy any computer, peripheral, or educational software but not games (Microsoft Word, for example, but not Halo).
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And word leaks out about unpopular games, too.
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When you wanted to play video games or use a word processor, you plugged your Apple II, Commodore, or Tandy computer into the television and went from there.
No word on any suggestions that would impact video games in the slightest.
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Silly games, a bare-boned word processor that helped me become a fledgling writer, and a machine to play around on and tinker with that helped shape a part of who I was as a person by shaping what I enjoyed to spend my time doing.
Emphasis on multi-sensory learning: Individual phonic, sight word and rule cards reinforce learning, as do games and walk-around activities.
Word has it that the PS4 will indeed play used games, which would instantly be the biggest advantage the console has over its competition.
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Think about what solitaire did for the PC, what games like Farmville did for Facebook and what Word With Friends did for smartphone adoption.
The machine itself ships with a couple of good games, the AppleWorks (formerly ClarisWorks) word-processing and spreadsheet package, some graphics software, both the Microsoft and Netscape Web browsers, and a good e-mail program.
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Its trademark claim covers the use of the word in connection with many aspects of tabletop gaming and video games, she said, but also extended to published works.
The market for grown-up games is exploding, and today there are hundreds of different ways to become engaged, from games that look almost identical to their real-word counterparts to visually stunning invented worlds.
The worlds of video games and Hollywood continue to converge with transmedia being a key buzz word in Hollywood today.
The pair of games will now be the sixth generation of Pokemon titles, though no word on exactly how many new monsters are being added to the ever growing pile.
Though the Washington wonks worry about Bill Gates and his operating systems, word processors and spreadsheets, when it comes to software these days, consumers prefer fun and games.
Even in a post-Lance world, word today that the International Olympic Committee had decided today to c ut wrestling from the 2020 games came across as a craven stunner.
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The YouTube video shows some of the various standard applications that come with the XO-1: Firefox, an unnamed instant messaging program, a variant of Abiword (word processing), and an application called eToys that looks like a combination of traditional computer games (such as Chinese Checkers) combined with something resembling the children's art program Kid Pix.
In the evenings on each trip they would go to the beach with four or five other couples for bonfires, Hood Canal-style games and a tradition they called the sing-down, where each team is given a word and has to come up with songs that feature it.
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