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What are babies known for? Mainly pooping and screaming. That’s just the nature of the early human life. And who can blame them? The only problem is that the screaming is almost impossible to decipher through the human year. To us, it’s all just screaming. But apparently there are at least five different types of cries and the Cry Translator iPhone app claims it can distinguish between them all.

The Cry Translator helps decode the mysterious yiping of your newborn, dividing the scream’s cause into one of five basic categories: hungry, sleepy, annoyed, stressed, bored. It might be hard to believe, but the app claims it can “reduce overall infant crying.” And for $9.99, that’s a little piece of heaven for new parents.

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So you’ve lost your car… again. How many times have you forgotten where you parked? It happens to the best of us, but everyday? Come on, you should probably go visit a neurologist or something.

If he has trouble squeezing you in, here’s a nice back-up plan. The $.99 iPhone app Car Finder uses augmented reality to help you find your car. Car Finder guides you to your car using easy to follow walking instructions and even marks your spot with a little icon. Now all you have to do is remember to actually set the app before you leave your car.

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You’ve been waiting and now it’s here. Flickr has finally relased their official fully-featured iPhone app, allowing you to upload photos and browse Flickr right from your device.

Logging on to the app, the first thing you see is a panning series of “interesting” photos, reminiscent of a Ken Burns-documentary. It’s very unique and very beautiful. What are you waiting for, go download it now!

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One of my favorite iPhone app developers, Smule, creators of Leaf Trombone and Ocarina, have released their newest app, I Am T-Pain. At first glance, this app might seem like a shameless plug for the T man and his destruction of music, but further research shows that this app seems like a whole lot of fun.

Using the actual Auto-Tune technology created by Antares Audio Technologies, I Am T-Pain lets users sing-along or read-along to T-Pain song lyrics and a few instrumental tracks with the help of auto-pitch correction technology. Users can then post their recordings to Facebook or MySpace. You’ve gotta check the video after the jump to believe it.

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At first glance, you might think that this is some sort of new twisted iPhone application, designed to make you purchase 52 iPhones for a complete deck (and no doubt some schmuck would do it). But nope, nothing devious going on here.

This is an actual deck of playing cards designed to look like the iPhone. This $25 deck features awesome iPhone design aesthetics, including a curved back illusion and the iconic home button. Seems like a sweet way to kick up the Texas Hold ‘Em a notch.

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Nissan is geared up to release a collection of EVs on August 2, but they also have a trick up their sleeve which other companies haven’t managed to pull quite yet. Nissan will also be releasing an iPhone application which will help drivers manage their electric vehicle.

The app will let the driver know how much power the EV has left in its reserves, even when they are away from the car. The app will also provide users with some key info, such as the nearest charging station and the estimated cost for the electrical charge.

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A few days ago I posted about a set of Playstation controller-themed paper clip bookmarks. The same Etsy artist has, or at least had, an equally awesome iPhone Paper Clip Bookmark set as well. For the moment the clips are listed as “sold out.”

Included in the set are the iPhone app icons for messaging, the camera, iPod, weather and YouTube. Use them to mark up your copy of iPhone for Dummies.

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Us WoW addicts have been waiting for awhile for an iPhone app which can fill our need for the World of Warcraft when we’re not at our computer. Finally, Blizzard has released their World of Warcraft Mobile Armory application for the iPhone.

The app is a fully-featured WoW Armory in the palm of your hand, including the ability to view your toon, guild, Arena team or any item in the WoW universe, as well as the capability to view your game calendar, view the leaderboards and even plan out your talent specs. You can download the app from iTunes now.

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Well, this would have been nice to have known about this past Fourth of July weekend, wouldn’t it have been? The DrinkTracker iPhone application allows you to set a goal BAC while calculating an estimated current level based on what you’ve had to drink.

The DrinkTracker automatically compares your drink intake to your metabolic removal rate, calculating your BAC every 60 seconds. If it’s not 100% accurate, it at least provides a pretty smart estimate about where you stand if you’re not so good at keeping track of your liquor intake yourself. Wonder if it’ll ever have iBreath compatibility!

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By a show of hands, who loves porn? Don’t be ashamed! I don’t blame you if you’ve felt a little guilt over the past few weeks with the way Apple shuns the nude female form. But in this second case of porn removal (so far), we can at least see the legal sense.

Free iPhone app “BeautyMeter,” which was sort of like a modern version of “Hot or Not,” was pulled from the iTunes App Store shelves after teenage girls began bearing it all to bump up their ratings. Even if whoever posted these images wasn’t the actual nude girls in question and even if they happened to be 17 rather than 15, the law is the law. And jailbait is jailbait, no matter how sexy.

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