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Face Wild FREE

Have you (or someone you know) always wanted to be the Mona Lisa? Perhaps a chimpanzee, or a hot woman in a bikini?

Well, this app can't help you there -- but it *can* show you how silly you'd look if it actually happened.

The free version of Faces Wild! comes with 12 scenes. For more scenes, check out Faces Wild!

• You can load a face from your Photo Library or camera
• Once the app knows where a face is, it automatically positions it in other scenes
• Automatically converts faces to grayscale
• Adjust brightness, saturation, and hue of the face for a seamless match
• Save your creations to your Photo Library

Be sure to shake for a random scene!

Shazam

Shazam, like other iPhone music apps, can identify the name, album, and artist of a song just by hearing it over your iPhone's microphone. You'll have to hold the iPhone mic close to the speaker for a few seconds as a song plays--on the radio, in a coffeeshop, or at a party. More often than not, Shazam will accurately report back with the song's name, and (if available) the album art, artist bio, related YouTube videos, and iTunes purchasing links. Also, it had some problems linking to the right YouTube video at times.

Shazam is gratifyingly fast and accurate, but it works best in quieter environments without noise interference. Again, the closer you can get the bottom of your iPhone butted up to the source of the music, the better. Shazam also doesn't do well with more obscure music, and it only helps out with recorded music (i.e., you can't hum a few bars like a competitor). Ad-supported Shazam keeps track of your "tags" (the songs that you've asked about) and lets you add photos and share your tags via e-mail.

Vocoder Lite

Vocoder Lite: change your voice, record and playback your speech and have fun with your friends!

three voices selectable.

Enjoy vocoder Lite? Try full version of this app! Search "Vocoder" in the appstore and you'll gain "alien", "borg" and the funny "burp" effects.

FaceGoo Lite

*Interested in FaceGoo, but not sure if you want to spend the money? Try FaceGoo Lite!

*FaceGoo allows you to stretch, pinch and twist photos to crazy proportions. Upgrade to FaceGoo to enable saving Goo screenshots and using the IPhone's camera.

*Check it out, and you'll be amazed at how much fun it is to play with FaceGoo.

Metal Detector

FREE

FULL VERSION

Developer Patrick Giudicelli decided to take the compass on the iPhone and use it to help us figure out who's bringing weapons to the sales meeting. The Metal Detector ! app is $.99 and is available now.

The app detects ferromagnetic metals like steel and iron using the iPhone's built-in compass feature. We don't have any guns at work today--Thursday's are knife day--but the app did detect the metal in our staplers, wire in-boxes, and random metal external drives.

Speaking of knife day, because the knife on my desk is stainless steel, the app couldn't detect it. Stainless steel is usually an alloy metal that isn't magnetic. Which means I can continue my stabby ways without fear of detection.