Cool App I ran across! You all may have seen it but I thought it was a good one, but only for iphone, ipod touch.
Cards App
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Description
The new Cards app from Apple lets you create and mail beautifully crafted cards personalized with your own text and photos — right from your iPhone or iPod touch. Take a quick snapshot and with a few taps and swipes, an elegant thank you note or “wish-you-were-here” card is on its way to any address in the world. Choose from 21 designs and customize your card with a personal message and photo. Then select an address from your Contacts and place your order in seconds. All your cards are saved automatically, so it’s easy to send an invitation or birth announcement to more than one person.
Custom letterpress cards
• Cards combine a centuries-old letterpress technique with your digital text and photos
• Each card is crafted from 100 percent cotton paper and imprinted with an elegant debossed design
• Choose from 21 designs for six occasions: Thank You, Holiday, New Baby, Birthday, Love, and Travel
• Customize the placeholder text for any occasion, such as an anniversary or graduation
• Add a photo to your card or send one with just text
Location integration
• If you select one of the Travel designs, your card automatically displays the name of your current location
• Choose a photo with GPS data, and the card shows the name of the place where the photo was taken
Prepaid postage included
• U.S. customers can send a card within the U.S. for $2.99 including postage
• Send a card anywhere else in the world for $4.99 including postage
• Select an address from your Contacts and easily personalize it — from Mr. Johnny Appleseed to The Appleseed Family, for example
• To place your order, simply enter your Apple ID password
• In the U.S., your card will include our own Apple-designed postage
Delivery notification
• Cards mailed to U.S. addresses make use of the United States Postal Service Intelligent Mail® barcode
• On the day your card is to be delivered, you’ll receive a notification on your iPhone or iPod touch
Card history
• All your cards are automatically saved and can be viewed in a history list
• You can resend any card to another recipient — perfect for when you have a lot of friends to thank or you want to spread the word about the newest member of your family
Total order price includes postage. For orders with a U.S. billing address, sales tax will be added to the order price. For orders with a non-U.S. billing address, the order price will include applicable VAT.
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Customer Reviews
Easier than buying a card, but still room for improvement
by ddkilzer
Cards is a great way to send a personalized card to a friend or loved one.
It's much more convenient than driving to the store, buying a card, driving home, addressing the card, (buying and) affixing a stamp, and then dropping it in the mail. And it's probably just as cost-effective, if not more so.
The main drawback is that all of the templates in this version are landscape, which don't work as well when most of your photos are portrait. You just can't crop them the way you want to sometimes.
Also note that you will be charged sales tax for each card. It is not reflected in the app, but it does show up on the billing statement sent by email.
It's too early to know whether this will help to save the US Postal Service, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was a spike in Cards volume shortly.
Overall I like the concept and plan to use it in the future. I won't send my Christmas cards through it (you must address and send each card individually--no mail merge feature), but I will definitely use it to send birthday and anniversary cards.
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It works well but ...
by Paul Jorritsma
There definitely needs to be an update, there are many different occasions missing, like get well soon, and many holidays. Plus I didn't see any way to make a custom card from scratch which would be nice. Add these things and the rating would definitely be a 5.
Apple just saved the postal service!
by Scott Elson
This app is the best way to send snail mail. The quality of the cards is better than anything you see at stores. You can be sure that every card you send is one of a kind!
11-20-2011, 01:41 PM
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