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Several big-name franchises get new entries in this week’s batch of new apps, along with some new twists on popular game types, and a cool new app for the Oscars.

And To Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street, by Dr. Seuss

for iPhone & iPad
Price: $2.99
Interactive version of Dr. Seuss’ very first children’s book, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary.

Atlantis Quest

for iPad
Price: FREE ($4.99 to unlock full game)
Attractive match-3 game with 76 levels.

Baseball Superstars 2012

for iPhone & iPad
Price: FREE
Crazy popular sports team management game.

Dungeon Crawlers

for iPhone & iPad
Price: $1.99
A turn-based RPG with loads of depth and a witty sense of humor.

iMob 2

for iPhone
Price: FREE
Sequel to a popular “social MMO RPG” game.

Jurassic Park: The Game, Episode 3

for iPad 2
Price: $6.99
The third chapter of Telltale Games’ interactive movie. So high in quality it only runs on iPad 2.

NFL Flick Kicker HD

for iPhone & iPad
Price: $.99
Multiple football kicking game modes themed around Super Bowl XLVI, with eye-popping graphics.

Number Bonds

for iPhone & iPad
Price: $2.99
Teaching tool for young children to learn about the relationships between numbers.

Onyx

for iPad
Price: $2.99
Build color palettes intuitively.

Oscars

for iPhone & iPad
Price: FREE
Must-have annual app from the Academy Awards, this year featuring loads of interactive, behind-the-scenes video and other live content from the broadcast.

Paper Monsters

for iPhone & iPad
Price: $.99
Good-looking side-scroller game that uses an “everything’s made of paper” aesthetic.

Parking Simulator

for iPad
Price: $.99
It’s a game. Where you simulate parking. In a parking lot. That’s pretty much it.

PDF, DOC, XLS Reader HD

for iPad
Price: $.99
Easily view document files of virtually all kinds.

PGA Tour HD

for iPad
Price: FREE
Official companion app to the PGA Tour, with up-to-the-minute statistics and interactive content.

Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space, Episode 1

for iPhone & iPad
Price: $6.99
The high price matches the quality of this madcap adventure series filled with wry commentary on pop culture.

Season Match HD

for iPad
Price: $2.99
Wildly popular match-3 game set in a colorful fantasy world.

Spirit of Wandering: The Legend

for iPad
Price: FREE ($4.99 to unlock full game)
Hidden object adventure game with detailed, high-res graphics.

Totally Amp’d

for iPhone & iPad
Price: FREE ($4.99 in-app purchase for full season)
A hybrid tweener music/sitcom made exclusively for iOS that includes 3 built-in “studios” for fans to personalize aspects of the show for themselves.

Viggle

for iPhone
Price: $.99
Earn real-world rewards for checking in to your favorite TV shows.

http://www.applegazette.com/apps/this-weeks-best-apps-19/

Illustration from Apple's latest patent

Is this it? The illusive secret of Steve Jobs’ much-hyped iTV?

A patent filing discovered today describes an intuitive, touchscreen, handheld device that will replace your entire pile of TV-related remotes.

The patent, “Apparatus and Method to Facilitate Universal Remote Control,” describes a touchscreen device of unknown size that solves the main problem with TV, DVD, Blu-ray, DVR, and all other AV remotes: too many buttons. Replacing all of those buttons with a more intuitive gadget, a gadget that adapts itself on-the-fly to whatever device you’re using and whatever content you’re viewing… I mean, that sounds like every guy’s idea of absolute euphoria.

But the patent doesn’t stop there. It also claims that this potential device will be able to discover all of your AV devices and set them up entirely on its own. No more programming your universal remote, no more six different remotes. It’s all done in one, and the process is completely fluid and invisible to the user. When a device becomes unavailable, it will vanish from the remote. The filing also suggests that the remote could be used to control the multimedia content on your iMac, including music and video.

Apple fanatics will remember that Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs quoted Jobs as saying, “I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use. It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud. It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it.” It certainly sounds like he’s describing this universal touchscreen remote to me, although many pundits have speculated that iTV could also make use of patents that have been found for motion sensing controls similar to Xbox’s Kinect game controller, or even Siri.

With Apple known for holding onto its secrets so tightly, I’m sure it kills them to have to reveal biggest ideas this way, but their policy of patenting every part of everything they create makes it impossible to have things both ways. If I was them, I’d hold on to those patent applications until the 11th hour before a new product reveal.

But that’s just me. This particular patent was first filed in September of last year.

Are we nearing the release of iTV? One thing’s for certain: Apple won’t unveil it until they’re absolutely certain that they’re ready to reimagine the entire paradigm of the modern television.

http://www.applegazette.com/apple-inc/is-this-how-steve-jobs-planned-to-change-tv/

The annual expo for Mac and iOS users has evolved to focus on the user community, but the Macworld | iWorld exhibit hall where companies show off their wares is still a huge part of the show–you might even say it’s the most important part. Hundreds of products are on display, but a few stand out from the rest. We call these products the Best of Show.

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Give Byte2 points for candor. A representative of the developer responsible for Office2 HD told me at Macworld | iWorld that Byte2′s iPad-based office suite has the best word processor in the App Store–after Apple’s Pages, that is.

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If you’d just read the pre-show publicity about Macworld | iWorld, you might have thought it was all about art, music, and fun. But as I walk the show floor, I’ve been finding lots of Mac and iOS products for serious business use, too. Yesterday, I wrote about some announcements from Ntractive, Mindwrap, and Stellar Data Recovery. Here are three more intriguing business products I’ve seen since then.

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Jon Rubinstein, known for his role developing the original iPod for Apple and for running Palm, has left Hewlett-Packard, where he’s worked since the company’s acquisition of Palm.

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Silicon Valley stalwart HP, a company with deep roots in the Mac community, has arrived at Macworld | iWorld bearing printer goodies in the form of several new color LaserJets for small offices, home offices, and mid-sized businesses. The company is showing one single-function and two multifunction models on the show floor.

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Here are some of the highlights from the Macworld iWorld Expo in San Francisco

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Samsung profits shot up in the three-month period through December, with a big boost from its burgeoning lineup of smartphones and tablets.

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