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Build your empire

Reiner Knizia's Ra is the universal iOS adaptation of the popular European-style board game Ra (by German game-design legend Reiner Knizia), a fast-paced game of bidding and building that's nominally about achieving fame in ancient Egypt.

Ra is a pure auction game, with simple rules and a shallow learning curve once you get its basic flow. It's always easier to learn a board game from somebody who knows how to play it, but the app does include complete rules and a good bit of in-game help for novices.

Ra is divided--and scored--in three separate stages ("epochs&… Read more

Fast file converter

Any Media to MP3 Converter is a simple tool for converting myriad file types to MP3s. With its basic layout and fast results, this program is a pleasure to operate.

Any Media's interface is very plain, but it kept us focused on the task at hand. There are no unnecessary options, which makes the entire process intuitive, one step after another. We simply built a queue of videos and audio files and chose a file type to convert them to. As befitting its name, Any Media handles a wide variety of file types and converts them all swiftly, usually … Read more

JVC NX-PN7: Attack of the two-headed iPod speaker

When it comes to iPod speakers, we thought we'd seen it all--models with vacuum tubes, 2.1 systems, ones that are totally tubular, and others that are as big as a microwave oven. But JVC's NX-PN7 is the first one we've seen with docks for two iPods. Despite doubling down on the music players, the unit is just 13 inches wide. In addition to being able to toggle between "iPod A" and "iPod B," the NX-PN7 features a clock, an auxiliary line-in, and a horizontal light beneath each iPod dock that can be … Read more