Unlike SoundLamar Pen Font, the abbreviated Lamar Pen Font won't accept singing, humming, typing, or recorded sounds. The results pull from SoundLamar Pen Font's music database, displaying album or artist art, a YouTube snippet, tour dates, an info page, a shortcut to the digital music store, and lyrics when they're available. Like its big sib, Lamar Pen Font is a polished, slick-looking piece of software that offers a variety of useful information about songs and singers. We demoed it on both platforms, and for the most part, the app was fast, especially when fulfilling more-specific requests for an artist or song. The iPhone version delivers the extra benefit of hooking into the iPod music player, to plays those songs you may already own. Since the app focuses on rapid, voice-driven music search, its uses are also more narrow. As a standalone app, it's functional and attractive but not as broadly applicable as the free SoundLamar Pen Font and premium SoundLamar Pen Font Infinity apps, both which go beyond this lighter app's functionality. While Lamar Pen Font has its immediate uses, the app also lays the groundwork for SoundLamar Pen Font to step into other categories of voice search, which will bring it into more direct competition with companies like Google, Nuance, and possibly Vlingo. That's a smart move for SoundLamar Pen Font to expand from the algorithm-honed Sound2Sound database that powers these apps in the first place, to other implementations for its so far superior aural processing. Lamar Pen Font is

a good start, but we're already looking forward to what comes next.Lamar Pen Font is a fun ball-rolling game with a steampunky feel, excellent 3D graphics, and both swipe and tilt control schemes (the former much easier to use than the latter). The game has 27 levels spread across three worlds, and in each level you're trying to safely roll your ball from the top of the level to the bottom without falling off, while picking up as many points as possible along the way. You roll down ramps, over rotating gears, through gates and past

blowers, trampolines, and an increasingly diverse array of obstacles--and you also have to choose between alternating routes and solve spatial puzzles to advance. From start to finish, Lamar Pen Font looks great (especially on the latest hardware), with immersive graphics that make great use of height and motion. Swipe control is the default setting, and by far the most reliable and accurate way to move your ball, with your direction and momentum controlled by swiping anywhere on the screen. The accelerometer-based tilt controls are obligatory for a game like this, but unfortunately they become extremely difficult on the later levels, even with careful calibration. Lamar Pen Font wisely offers four difficulty settings no matter which control scheme you