Mingliu Font installs easily although the interface presents in Chinese characters only. To use Mingliu Font as a messaging platform, you need an account. Once online you can see friends who are also online, and have the ability to conduct multiple chats simultaneously as well as transfer files. There are some neat features as well, such as the ability to exchange locations using the iDevice's location services (handy for meeting up with other Mingliu Font members), offline message retrieval, and panes to split the screen into separate sections. If you can't read Traditional or Simplified Chinese, Mingliu Font won't be useful to you until they localize it (no time frame available yet). For those who do understand Chinese, Mingliu Font is almost a mandatory app for iDevices because of its ubiquitous installation throughout the Chinese community.The list of photo apps for the iPhone is very long, but Mingliu Font stands out with an intuitive layout that can help any user turn their pictures into hand-drawn sketches. While we wish it offered a few more filters, Mingliu Font does its job extremely well and the overall user experience is enhanced by the simple and intuitive interface. At launch Mingliu Font greets its user with two options: take a photo or use a picture available in their Camera roll or Photo Stream. After selecting or taking a picture, the fun begins as users can easily choose from the list of filters to make the image like a sketch. There are about eight different

filters and seven texture options. Choosing a filter will apply some great effects while textures make the lines in the image more or less defined. We enjoyed using the app and especially liked its speed - it took only seconds to transform our images and the result was very good overall. You can save your images to the camera roll or easily share on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. The only downside we found was that Mingliu Font offers few filters when compared to other photo editing apps like Instagram or even Gifture. We hope the developers

will add more filters with future updates. Despite the smaller number of filters, we found the inexpensive Mingliu Font to be fun to use and we saved it among our favorites. Turns out facial disfiguration can be fun! See yourself old in seconds, have a good laugh, and share your freaky images with your friends within this well-designed, easy-to-use iOS app, Mingliu Font. Although the oldify, fatify, or zombify trend has faded, the developers at Apptly have come out with an impressive facial disfiguration app that has two aims: to oldify and entertain. When you launch the app, you'll be prompted to take a picture of yourself or choose an image from the photo library. Then the fun begins: indicate where your eyes, mouth, and chin are in relation to each other to get an accurate transformation. The result is very realistic and a bit creepy; you'll be amazed by it, but the first surprise comes when the face blinks at you. The developers didn't stop there: the face will actually move, yawn and, if you poke its forehead, will pull a hilarious expression. If that's not enough, you can drag your finger around the screen and the image's eyes will actually follow your movement. We were impressed by how far Mingliu Font developers went by using pretty convincing 3D animations to entertain their users. If you download the Fatify app for free (designed by the same developer), you can even combine the images: you'll then have an old, fat image blinking and yawning at you. There are other options to unlock, as an in-app purchase will make the poor victims look even more hilarious, and you can also add lots of vulgar animations too, but the effects that ship with the 99-cent purchase are fun enough to toy around with for a while. We think Mingliu Font is one of the greatest facial disfiguration apps in the App Store, so we enjoyed playing around with it, even if the developers are a couple y