Great First Lines is a game or a learning tool, take it as you wish. Play the game using your smarts to guess the titles and authors of the writings or use it as a tool to help you find great classics to read. Price: $.99 Download This App Developers Website

Similar to the game Pass Phrase but for the iPhone. Price: $.99 Download This App Developers Website

Puzzle Quiz is a game where you reconstruct images to complete the puzzle. You are competing against everybody online as there are different levels and images to complete. The fastest time wins the best spots on the leader board! Price: $1.99 Download This App Developers Website

easyFind helps you find what you are searching for on the web much faster. Price: $1.99 Download This App Developers Website

2000 Awesome Facts are now at your disposal to share with others or bring enlightenment to your day. Price: $.99 Download This App Developers Website

Diffle is a matching game. Match up the tokens in specific configurations to earn the most points. Price: $.99 Download This App Developers Website

Throw some snowballs but be careful not to get hit. Play against the computer or a friend connected to your Wifi network. Price: $.99 Download This App Developers Website

iBabalu is Conga Drum style tap tap. Keep up with the music or create your own song to play back. Price: $.99 Download This App Developers Website

Throw Toss Dem Bones and get answers to life's questions. Price: $.99 Download This App Developers Website

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The iPhone's built-in camera is a prime target for improvements. We've seen iPhone cases with built-in wide-angle lenses, iPhone cases with zoom lenses, and a plethora of apps to manipulate photos. Camera Zoom (click opens iTunes) is a new US$0.99 app from KendiTech that provides a 4x digital zoom for your iPhone camera.
Camera Zoom displays a preview in real time, just like the regular camera app. You use a slider to adjust the level of zoom. After taking the photo, Camera Zoom tweaks it for the best possible quality.

For those of us with "real" digital cameras, the ability to zoom the iPhone's camera is nice. However, the picture quality of a digital zoom is never as good as you'll get with an optical zoom lens. As you can see with the example photos above, the zoomed image tends to be grainy. This is particularly true in low-light conditions. If you can put up with the degraded picture quality, Camera Zoom is an inexpensive way to add zoom capabilities to your iPhone.

I'm surprised that Apple approved this app, since the icon is titled "Camera" just like the real Camera app, and it duplicates the functionality of the Photos app as well. The latter isn't done very well, since you can't flick the screen to move between pictures in the camera roll.

This is version 1.0 of this app, however, and it's a good start to what could be an easy-to-use photo manipulation tool for the iPhone platform.

TUAWFirst Look: Camera Zoom for iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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