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It’s still a bit odd seeing Microsoft deliver apps for Apple’s mobile platform. And it’s even stranger still to see one as sexy as the new Bing app for iPad, which brings a slick, immersive search experience to Apple’s tablet.

Just as a regular search on bing.com will, the Bing app for iPad tailors the results it displays based on what you’re searching for. There are loads of custom views, covering everything from movies and maps to weather and shopping. The app also offers a heads-up display of currently trending searches, complete with related images, which is an iPad-exclusive feature.

Navigation is a breeze thanks to multitouch controls, allowing users to flick or swipe through results. And while the development team refers to the app as “touch and decide,” Bing Voice Search is also built in — making it easy to start a query without using the iPad’s on-screen keyboard.

The Bing app for iPad is available for download now from the App Store.

Microsoft releases sexy Bing app for iPad originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sand Trap is one of those games that at first seem too hard to bother with, but when you try to stop playing it you discover you’re hooked.

The goal is to get as much sand as you possibly can out of the maze and into the bucket at the bottom of the screen. You need to rotate your maze every which way to get the sand rolling around it. You then try to direct the sand to one of the exits of the maze, and hopefully into the bucket. It took me several tries to actually get sand into the bucket, but that might be due to the fact that I didn’t even realize the bucket was there at first. Things improved significantly after that.

As you level up, the mazes get more complicated, with moving parts and other things making your life more difficult. Once you manage to get through all these obstacles and get enough sand into your bucket, you can move on.

As I mentioned, this is not an easy game, but it’s highly addictive. The graphics remind me of some long lost game from the 80s, but this just proves that you don’t need super graphics and crazy sound to make a game work. There’s a soothing guitar track playing in the background and that’s it, as far as I could hear, and you can enjoy it just as much with no sound at all.

If you like a fun physics challenge, don’t miss out on this one!

Sand Trap is a fun and difficult physics maze game originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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July 19, 1961: Trans World Airlines becomes the first airline to offer regular in-flight movies, launching a form of entertainment that has become a mainstay of air travel.

Source: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2011/07/0719twa-inflight-movies/

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‘I’ve always been fascinated by what really goes on in the subways,’ Neil Patrick Harris tells MTV News of what he’d do first.
By Jocelyn Vena

“The Smurfs (In 3-D)”
Photo: Sony Pictures

“The Smurfs” are three apples high, as the legend goes, and in this week’s big-screen adaptation of the beloved children’s cartoon, Hollywood takes a stab at re-telling the tale for a new generation of kids.

The 3-D tale (with some CGI) is voiced by an A-list cast, including VMA-nominated Katy Perry, George Lopez and Alan Cumming, to name a few. In the movie, the Smurfs land in the Big Apple, where they end up staying with expecting newlyweds played by Neil Patrick Harris and “Glee” star Jayma Mays. Of course, they’re also trying to stay as far as possible from their nemesis, Gargamel, played by Hank Azaria.

The little creatures find themselves in some silly situations as they try to navigate the big city. When MTV News caught up with Harris, Mays and Azaria in New York, we asked what they would do if they suddenly found themselves having to survive the city in Smurf-sized bodies.’

“I’ve always been fascinated by what really goes on in the subways,” Harris said.

His onscreen lady love, Mays, agreed, “That’s a good one,” before warning him, “but then the rats would be bigger than you. So that’d be a little scary.”

“Maybe I’d sneak into really fun buildings,” Mays added. “I would get into clubs that won’t let me in now.”

Harris later quipped of a popular Broadway show, “You could sneak into the ‘Book of Mormon.’ That’s a hard ticket to get right now.”

The actor who plays the movie’s bumbling bad guy had a less glitzy answer. “If I were three apples high and I lived in New York, I would sneak into the Mets game. That’s what I’d do,” Azaria said. “And I’m blue, so they’d probably just mistake me for some kind of mascot. I’d wear orange to go with it. You see Gutsy’s beard there? It’s orange; that’s Mets colors right there. I’m sure Gutsy is a Mets fan.”

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Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1668131/smurfs-movie-cast-miniatures.jhtml

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Sebastian Vettel was only fifth in FP2 in Hungary today, and after the session the German made it clear that he expects RBR to be under pressure again this weekend. Vettel was half a second off the pacesetting McLaren of … Continue reading →

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