Home Screen Wallpaper Maker is a nice, free way to create attractive backgrounds for your device. Sure you can just snap a picture and use that for your wallpaper, but this app allows you to customize the pictures before saving them back to the camera roll and selecting them as backgrounds.

Features

The app is simple to use. You first either select one of the many included high-quality backgrounds, or select a picture from your camera roll. Then you can choose to add frames to your app icons, then you save the background back to your camera roll to use as a wallpaper. There is even a random button, though the results may obviously not be to your liking.

Limitations in iOS itself prevent the app from being able to directly change your background, which is why you must save the image first to your camera roll and then select it as a background.

Pros and Cons

The app works smoothly and does a great job of adding the frames to the icon placeholders. The frames add a nice touch of class to otherwise static backgrounds. There is also a nice varied selection of background images to choose from, though you can of course get background images from many other sources.

The only things I wish this app had to offer was the ability to take a picture and use that as a background, rather than having to only choose from the camera roll; and more effects to add to pictures that you choose for backgrounds (some basic color balance effects, brightness and contrast, etc).

All in all, this is a great free app that does a nice job of spicing up your iOS device’s otherwise bland wallpaper.

Home Screen Wallpaper Maker is free, and has minimal ads.

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Scarred for life is an understatement here.

Remember the old Conan skit where he would take two people that were dating at the time and then mix their photos together to create their new children? Well this is what the Home Gene-Splicing Kit can do for you. It lets you isolate the head from the eyes, mouth, and nose to create a horrible, horrible creature.

The process is fairly simple and works well, although the menus are a bit slow and cumbersome. You simply take a picture of someone or something, resize the image to conform to where the app things all the parts of the head should be, and violá! From there, you go to the gene splicing lab where you can mix and match to your heart’s content with the photos that you take, along with the collection of people and animals that are already included in the app.

Want to see what you would look like if you were crossed with your dog? Or you, your significant other, and a sheep? By all means, give it a whirl.

To test the power (the awesome power) that the app holds, I decided to create a man-dog. Taking the picture of my head worked great, but the dog was a bit trickier. After taking the picture of the dog, the app wanted me to resize the dogs head to fit in an outline of a human head. Given the my dogs head, along with most dogs, is more of a box than an oval, I had to take a few pictures to be able to isolate the mouth from the rest of the head.

In the end, I was left with what looks like a superhero with a mask that looks like a dog. It’s frightening. Pick this one up at your own risk.

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Funny Call (Free)

Version – 1.2

Review – “Prank calling taken to a whole new level!”

Whether you’re prank calling people, or you just want to freak out a friend apparently “there’s an app for that!” Funny Call is an app that allows you to alter the sound of your voice when you make a phone call from within the app. The app is free to try out and then has several different price points that you can buy more minutes at.

When you open the app, you’ll start out at the main screen. There are a variety of different “voices” that you can choose from. Once you’ve selected a voice, the app actually starts out in “preview” mode so you can hear what it sounds like on your own voice! The app also tells you that you need to use headphones to get the best results.

Once you’ve got your voice ready and you’re ready to make a call just touch the “Place a Call” button at the bottom of the screen. When you do you’ll see a dialer on the screen. In the upper right corner of the screen is a “Contacts” button that will allow you to dial anyone from your contacts list.

I found that the phone call’s from this app took a little bit longer than a typical call to connect. The calls were definitely high quality though, and there were no noticeable glitches in the audio once I was connected. At any time you can go back to the voice select screen by touching the “Effects” button in the lower right corner of the screen!

The variety of voices in this app is also a good selling point. There are a ton of different voices from “Creepy,” and “Low” to voices like “Chipmunk,” and “Cyborgs”. My favorite voice was probably the “Creepy” voice, but there are several other good ones to choose from.

While I would recommend this app to anyone just to try out, it can get pricey very quickly if you choose to buy more minutes and continue to use it. Currently minutes are selling for $0.99 for 3, 4.99 for 30 minutes and $9.99 for 60 minutes! With that said, the app is free to try, and the true prankster within may just find that it’s worth it in the long run!

- David H.

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Epic Citadel, a free tech demo released into the app store by Epic Games, is the precursor to the upcoming RPG game known as Project Sword. No word on whether this is the final product name or not.

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