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During my search for some games for the other list, i thought i'd share some cute [and free!] games i play when im regressed sometimes! Most are animal themed as usual. This isnt going to be a constantly updating list like the Therian Games list, but maybe there'll be another one of these someday :)

Bluey: Let's Play! : You've probably heard of this one if you're a Bluey watcher like i am, or have younger siblings, but i really like this one! Keeping the same cute artstyle and voices, made by Budge Studios in 2023 and still actively updating, there's plenty of fun to be had !! With tons of paint bucket coloring activities, and 9 Toca Boca-like scenes that you can fill and change around to your liking, i give it the BIGGEST 10/10 there is :) I love Bluey so much !! :3

Toca Life- Pets: Created by Toca Boca (That's really their name? I thought it was a series of games.) around early 2018, this game is one of my favorites to make silly stories with :) With TONS (100+?) of pets, plenty of different areas to go between, fun 'secret' places, and more, this one has a nice 10/10 aswell :) (honestly they're almost all gonna have a 10/10, i wouldnt recommend them if i hated them) I actually heard something about this game being unavailable since this year, but it works just fine for me? Most definitely reccomend it, along with most of the other toca boca games. They're all just really cute and fun :)

My Town - Pets: Honestly i have mixed feelings about this one, but i think it's just because of how i feel abt the style sob. Released in 2017 by My Town (Im not sure if that's the brand or what, my apologies), this one is just like Toca Boca, but with a different artstyle. I don't hate this one, but i do dislike the artstyle, sorry sob. With a few places to switch between, plenty of fun pets, and a highly interactive environment, i give it a 9/10.

Paw Patrol - Rescue World: (Sorry the icon is smaller? I didn't do that on purpose.) Another silly fun puppy game made by Budge Studios in 2020, you can go on fun adventures through Adventure Bay as your favorite pups! Herd chickens back into their pens, make giant banana strawberry smoothies, and collect bones for reward crates, there's always another adventure waiting for you on Adventure Bay ! My personal favorites are Rocky and Zuma, they're so silly :) ! nice 9/10 for this one too! the only point taken away because of how blurry the models look for me (but that could just be my tablet!! dont let that discourage you!!)

"Two Googlers on resetting expectations for life at home"

Like many people, Googlers Alan Mclean and Jennifer Daniel are navigating their new at-home lives, finding ways to work while also parenting their two young children. The couple are working from their home in the Bay Area, where they’re taking shifts parenting and creating a remote office from...wherever they can find some room. 

I recently had the chance to “sit down” (via Google Meet) with them and talk about our relationships with technology during stressful times, how they’re personally handling all the changes and also, why playing "Animal Crossing" is a totally acceptable coping mechanism.

Alan, you’re a Product Designer on the Digital Wellbeing team, and Jennifer, you’re the Creative Director for emoji. But how would you describe your job to someone who doesn’t work in tech?

Alan: There’s an official answer, which is “I help people balance their relationship with technology,” but…

Jennifer:🚨Ugh, corp speak!! 🚨What did you tell our neighbor?

Alan: I told him I’m trying to help people get more rest and have a healthier life. 

Jennifer: Yes! Hmm, for me I guess I usually say I make little smiley faces. :-)

What do your days right now look like? 

Alan: Typically the day before, we both check-in on our calendars and look to see where we might need coverage from the other. If we both have meetings, we’ll throw a tablet in our kids’ faces with a mix of educational (and not so educational) games. Lately our son has really taken to playing chess so he’ll practice digitally and we play together on a physical board. 

Jennifer: Our daughter enjoys the books that read out loud with her, and Toca Kitchen. They both love ”making food” that makes the characters get sick.

In terms of day to day, we divide and conquer by keeping it fluid. Sometimes I cover the morning routine which has settled into a relatively stable pattern now: breakfast, walk the dog with the kids, writing, reading and drawing time, punctuated with video meetings.

The afternoon, depending on our work schedule, includes science experiments (tin foil boats or paper airplane contests), some outside time, yoga (Cosmic Kids Yoga is great!), TV (Science Max is a hit), more tablet time and then dinner. 

Alan: I usually make up some work time in the evening once the kids go down.

What is your home office setup like? 

Alan:We live in a small home—950 square feet, two bedrooms—with twin 5-year-olds and an eight-month-old Husky puppy, so there isn’t much of an office. In general, we move around the house and try to be out of earshot. Sometimes I work in the kitchen, other times on our front steps, once from the kids’ bunk beds.

Are you able to create some work-home boundaries? 

Alan: Trying to avoid working where you sleep is a big one. Don’t do what we’re doing right now...which is working from bed. 

Jennifer:Sometimes that isn’t really possible. The bedrooms and bathroom are the only rooms with doors! For me, it’s less about creating a physical boundary and more about a mental one. I don’t work early in the morning or in the evening anymore. That’s MY TIME.

Alan: I think the challenge right now is that it’s hard to reinforce boundaries when you’re in the same place all the time. In the past we used context clues like walking to the bus or the BART or whatever, or there were subtle hints when a meeting was about to end. But you don’t really have that anymore. So trying to avoid working where you sleep…

Jennifer: But, I work from the bedroom, and I sleep in the bedroom. That works for me 🤔.

Working from bed works for you?

Jennifer: I’ve spent most of my life in small apartments, I guess I just got used to it? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Alan:I also think maybe the norms of what “balanced” means has changed. 

Jennifer:Yeah, just be forgiving of yourself. It took awhile but I really had to recalibrate and give myself permission to not live up to my previous expectations as an employee, as a mother and as a partner. I also have to make it clear to others to not expect the same out of me. As much as I try to project that I am fine, I am not fine.

I’ve personally seen my screen time and news consumption skyrocket; have you?

Alan:I’m definitely more of the news addict; I’m also lying in bed looking at an endless stream of things to worry about. I think a bit of an insight for me is that there’s a couple reasons why you might do that, and part of it is that you might want to feel some light version of control over what’s happening. And of course the net effect of that is that you might feel incredibly anxious. That’s my personal experience with screens lately. What about you, Jen, what about your doom-scrolling?

Jennifer:I love that you call it doom-scrolling, did you just make that up?

Alan:No, no, definitely not. 

Jennifer: Not to make this just about parenting, because this is also very much about work, but I am having flashbacks to new parenthood. When I became a parent, I got extremely efficient at my job. I don’t have time to doom-scroll! That would be a luxury! I have things to do, I got people to take care of. And, just as important now as it was then, I need to find time where no one needs me 😉. These days I’m playing "Animal Crossing." And I love it; it is screen time, unquestionably, but it’s a very specific kind of screen time as it is clearly not work-related. Now that Alan mentions it, maybe playing video games is also an expression of seeking control and stability in an unknown time? But, instead of doom-scrolling I plant cute flowers and little animals come visit me 🌼🌻🌸🐰🐻🐿🐙.

What else are you adding to your routine? Anything else to help find some balance? 

Alan:For me, I know that the end of my day and the end of my use of my phone is occurring when I put a podcast on at night. Or ambient music. For me, that’s a really strong signal and I try to do it every night. For some people, that might be putting your phone in a box or charging it. I like the audio cue because that way you’re experiencing some stimulus without interacting with the screen. But I got that from Jen; I used to be like, “Why are you putting a podcast on at night? It’s time to go to bed… and doom-scroll for two hours.” 

Jennifer: I just listen to podcasts so I don't have to listen to my own thoughts as I fall asleep. Otherwise I'd be up all night 🤣.

How are you keeping your kids entertained?

Alan: We just got tablets—prior to that we hadn’t experienced the liberating power of having educational apps and games with our kids before 😉. 

Jennifer: When the tablets arrived, I felt like I was not being a great mom but the kids say I'm really good at technical support 😛. I need to remind myself that being a quote-unquote good mom is not related to screen time. I can’t disguise my stress from the kids, I’m doing my best. Now, go watch some "Octonauts."

Alan: I’ve been taking the kids to the beach on the bike. 

Jennifer:Bonus! No one else is in the house! I get to stay home and be alone! I definitely need some time for myself. 

Are there any surprise “silver linings” you’ve experienced?

Jennifer: I'm getting to really be with my kids in a way that wasn't possible before; I used to only see them in the morning and the evening. Age five is really cute.

Alan: The transition to two full-time jobs simultaneously has been incredibly difficult, although our colleagues have been really supportive. But we’re both struggling with the desire to be the best possible parents and employees we can be. That feeling was always there, but with the lack of boundaries, it’s exacerbated. One thing that’s especially nice these days is seeing colleagues’ kids jump on video conference calls. It’s a nice reminder of what everyone is dealing with.

Right now, we all have to be compassionate with ourselves, and also with our colleagues and friends. Coming late to meetings, missing emails, things like that, are OK right now. We sort of just need to be empathetic and flexible for a little while. 

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A Power Of New Apple iPad Mini Use Cases And Performance Of Its Features

Apple's new £399 iPad mini has almost all the features of the iPhone XS, at half the price. If you have demanding software requirements, then it is a tablet, but what you want is suitable for hands, lab coats or cars. Apple has done the usual farmer work here, and there aren't many other small and powerful tablets on the market. This makes the 2019 iPad mini the editorial choice for small high-end tablets.

iPad Mini Use Case

Who is the iPad mini? From now on, this will color my judgment. I would say that it is not for those who want a "cheap iPad" or a "cheap tablet." Have a better cheap iPad for your kids to play Toca Boca games - the sixth generation 9.7 inch iPad and the cheaper basic use tablet.

However, if you look around, there are a lot of iPad minis doing business. Smaller tablets are suitable for car racks, as point-of-sale systems for receiving restaurant orders, writing prescriptions at the bedside, getting signatures from FedEx packaging, or for augmented reality - the lens market checks its Zillow status. The iPad mini is for those who stand up while holding a tablet, and those who don't want to pay for the iPhone and the service plan for each device.

Design And Pencil

This iPad mini looks a lot like the previous iPad mini version. It measures 8.0 x 5.3 x 0.2 inches (HWD) and weighs 10.5 ounces. It is available in grey, rose gold or silver. The 64GB model is priced at £399 and the 256GB model is priced at £549.

It has a large top and bottom border, a Lightning port, a dual speaker at the bottom and a SIM card slot. There is a physical home button with Apple's simple, accurate Touch ID fingerprint sensor. It can be easily held in one hand. The design worked, but it started to become obsolete.

The screen is a bit different. It is still a 7.9-inch laminated LCD with 2,048 x 1,536 pixels. But this time around the Apple added True Tone, which changed the white point according to the ambient light.

The iPad mini has a maximum brightness of 559 nits, which is significantly brighter than the old iPad, almost identical to the fifth-generation iPad and the 11-inch iPad Pro. Apple adjusts the screen very strictly. In all their cases, blue and red are definitely lit, green is just a desaturated touch, and yellow is slightly red. Compared to Samsung's Galaxy S10 screen in natural mode, the color is similar to the ideal distance, but red is more accurate.

This is the first iPad mini to support the official Apple Pencil or Logitech Crayon. We are talking about the first generation of pencils, although the Lightning port on the back, and the cylindrical body can be rolled - not a better second-generation model with inductive charging and a flat side.

For the iPad mini, the pencil is a bit too long and the ratio is quite. Its pressure and tilt sensitivity are clearly visible in applications like Procreate, and its responsiveness is great for taking notes, but for simple tasks like signing, you should get a cheaper capacitive pen. It's worth mentioning that when I compare the pencil here with the second-generation pencil on the 11-inch iPad Pro, I can definitely see the difference. The iPad Pro's 120Hz refresh rate makes the digital ink look smoother; the pencil on the mini (and the pencil on the sixth generation iPad) has a little delay.

Performance

Like other iPads and iPhones, the new mini runs iOS 12.2; we have iOS 12 comments to learn more. iOS 12.2 has a series of small-scale improvements on the base version 12, but the most important thing is to support Apple's new streaming service. I have been writing this article a few days before the release. Does this mean a complete overhaul of Apple's music and video applications? We will see it soon.

In any case, iOS 12.2 will also appear on all other current iPads, and older iPads will also appear on the iPad mini 2. The biggest difference between this mini and old models is performance. Apple has jumped from the last mini A8 processor to A12, wow. The A8 in the iPhone 6 has already exceeded half of its life. It may be supported by two other generations of operating systems, but third-party developers are no longer targeting it. On the other hand, the A12 is the latest chip with at least four years of service life.

The performance difference between A8 and A12 is very funny. In the Antutu system benchmark, the iPhone 6 scored 80,620 during the test. The iPad mini has 373,092. On the Geek bench multicore, the pure CPU benchmark, the fifth-generation iPad received 4,494. The sixth generation iPad received 5,934. This gets 11,548. (These results are very similar to the iPhone XS Max, and they don't have the 2018 iPad Pro with the enhanced A12X chipset.)

It's not just about the CPU; the image signal processor has been significantly boosted as well and there's a special machine-learning unit, so things like bar code scanning and object identification will go speedily.

Rendering a movie in iMovie also shows the difference in power. Boiling a minute of 1080p footage down to 360p on the iPad mini takes 5.4 seconds; it takes 10.21 seconds on the A9-powered iPad, and it will take even longer on an older mini. And of course, the older mini doesn't support the Pencil, which requires an A10 processor.

The iPad mini primarily uses 802.11ac Wi-Fi to connect to the internet. Speeds are fine, but nothing special; in testing I actually found the signal to be a bit weaker than on the 9.7-inch iPad.

The mini comes with a 12w power adapter, which charges it pretty slowly; I only got to 20 percent in half an hour. You can speed up charging by using a USB-C PD adapter and a USB-C-to-Lightning cable, but they don't come with the tablet.

Camera

The iPad sports an 8-megapixel rear camera and a 7-megapixel front camera. Both record 1080p video at 30 frames per second. Compared with the fifth-generation iPad's 8-megapixel camera, images taken with the main camera are aggressively sharpened, bringing out more details but also more noise. Low-light images are also stippled with noise from a somewhat straining sharpening algorithm, but aren't otherwise much better than shots from the earlier iPad. It's clear that the differences here aren't in the camera, but in the image signal processor.

The front-facing camera of course has a lot more pixels than the previous iPads, but they aren't necessarily better pixels. You get more detail, but it's kind of grainy, noisy detail.

The front-facing camera, meanwhile, is for video calling with devices that have high-resolution screens, and it does a good job at that.

And if you're a real estate agent, sure, houses will look fine in photos taken with this tablet. But you can't think of this camera as the one you should use to take photos at your next birthday party. Use your iPhone instead.

Left to right: iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad, iPad mini, iPhone XS Max

Comparisons And Conclusions

This year's iPad mini and the new iPad Air are basically bigger and smaller versions of each other. Here's how it steps up: The existing iPad (just called iPad) is for all of your basic tablet needs. The iPad mini is for people who specifically need a smaller, lighter tablet. The iPad Air is for if you intend to run apps that will be too slow on the iPad, or if you're crazy about Apple's keyboard case. The 11-inch iPad Pro (or the more expensive 12.9-inch model) is a primary creative machine, especially for people who intend to use the Pencil.

The mini shines when you need a tablet that runs powerful applications, but is still handheld. That could be in many enterprise contexts, such as retail, navigation, logistics, law enforcement, education, or real estate. It's much easier to hold up a mini for AR viewing applications than to hold up a larger iPad.

If you have an existing iPad mini of any generation that's been acting sluggish, it's because the processor is just too old for today's apps. I understand the reluctance to get a new device that looks the same as your old one, but the processor change makes the 2019 iPad mini more than a worthy upgrade. And for anyone who wants an iPad, but finds the £329 model a little unwieldy, you now have an excellent alternative. The iPad mini is a versatile tablet, and our Editors' Choice.

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