Last week I showed you six free online apps you can use to make cartoon avatars of yourself in the style of South Park, Meez, Picasso, Gaia Online, the Wii game console, and Yahoo!

Last week I showed you six free online apps you can use to make cartoon avatars of yourself in the style of South Park, Meez, Picasso, Gaia Online, the Wii game console, and Yahoo!

My cartoon avatar has my haircut and my freckles and my sense of style, and I can manipulate her mug into any conceivable facial expression with a couple of taps.

You can use a selfie as a reference when you're building Bitmoji too, but the Snapchat-owned app doesn't have facial recognition yet. That's something Snap is working on, according to a patent filing.

It’s a trivial change on some level, but Netflix wants to make sure you actually select your own profile when signing in. That way, its recommendation algorithms won’t get thrown into disarray.

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In this first installment of my Cartoon You easy avatars series, I’ll show you how to go beyond photos captured at arm’s length by a cell phone camera or a slightly out of focus USB camera to ...