While Bleach and One Piece go on hiatus, why not make your own manga-fied version of life in the meantime? Otaku Camera makes your photos look like an action scene from a Japanese comic. You can add headlines, crazy sound effects, and many other common effects from manga comics.

The free version includes a small number of general overlay effects, but more can be downloaded from the built-in App Store. You can also add featured characters from popular mangas like Berserk to breathe life into that dull, 3D life of yours. Otaku Camera comes with plenty of animated filters and tools to crop and resize your images into a full-fledged manga panel. Once you finish adding and editing your photos, Otaku Camera includes the ability to share your picture to the standard popular social outlets.

The downside is that Otaku Camera doesn't include a built-in camera, which you'd think would be a fairly obvious feature. Currently, there's no ability to remove ads, but on the plus side, ... [Read more]

Already widely known as one of the best third-party keyboard apps available on Android, SwiftKey today adds a suite of new features called SwiftKey Cloud to its beta build.

For those who aren't familiar with SwiftKey, the app sets itself apart from its competitors by bringing scary-smart predictive technology to the Android keyboard. The more you use it, the better it gets at not only correcting your mistakes, but also predicting words as you type. It follows your breadcrumbs as you type out text messages, e-mails in Gmail, and even Facebook and Twitter updates, then processes all this typing evidence into a unique user profile that stays stored on your device.

What SwiftKey Cloud does is allow you to sync this profile across all of your devices, so you no longer have to worry about training your keyboard multiple times. You won't have to retrain SwiftKey on your phone or tablet, or on your new device if you happen to upgrade. Just enable the Backup & Sync feature in the Settings menu, and let SwiftKey automatically upload its learned data to where you need it. This will keep your typing experience consistent across all of your SwiftKey-enabled devices.

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