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[tazz]

Originally Posted by Cajun_dee

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!

***i just tried to download it and found my iPhone wont accept it....
i have an iPhone 3G...

[Gentle Tiger]

I may take a walk on the dark side and join the apple cult. I am still deciding. I do not have an iPhone. But I really need a laptop with everything that I need to do. So I am seriously looking at the MacBook Pro.

Talk to MacBook Pro people. Tell what you enjoy most and least about yours. Even the best items have cons.

[Linus]

Originally Posted by Gentle Tiger

I may take a walk on the dark side and join the apple cult. I am still deciding. I do not have an iPhone. But I really need a laptop with everything that I need to do. So I am seriously looking at the MacBook Pro.

Talk to MacBook Pro people. Tell what you enjoy most and least about yours. Even the best items have cons.

Cost and limitations on expansion are my biggest beefs.

But the speed, stability and quality stands out. Using Fusion means that anything that is "Windows only" I can handle. Additionally, the current OS (OS X) satisfies my need for both decent GUI as well as decent commandline (since it's based off of the BSD/NeXT variant). That means I can likely use a lot of the GNU/GPL software as well as off the shelf software.

The one thing I'd ask is what do you need your laptop to do? How do you use yours or how would you use it?

[girl_dee]

I have a Macbook Pro. Cost is a definite issue, but honestly I was going through HP laptops every two years, I process lots of photos and my Mac handles it just fine. I financed this one through Apple, monthly payment I was paying was worth not dealing with the frustration I was having with my HP. The financing was so easy, the finances charges were high, but it was the only way at the time. I also love that the finance people don't bother me with trying to finance something else.

My biggest plus, NO WINDOWS, the virus issues and window updates are just absent, you turn it on, and poof you are online.

I LOVE IT!!

[Abigail Crabby]

I want to be able to plug my iPhone into something that will let me
Use my car speakers to listen to my music on my phone. Is this possible?

[Gentle Tiger]

Right now I don't have a laptop. I was using the one that I had through my last job. I am no longer there, so no more laptop.

I would use the laptop for things like the newsletters, a lot of photo work for the newsletters, program books, flyers, music lists (I love music), movies, editing videos, of course the creations of various docs (lectures, class materials for what I teach, spreadsheets, etc) and of course games. I would also need the Windows component because of what I need to provide to those at the church.

I found the laptops that I have used in the past to be frustrating and slow. That's why I am thinking about the MacBook Pro.

I would also need the windows side because of testing that I would be doing if I chose not to sit at the PC.

Thanks for asking.

[durrrrrrrr]

Originally Posted by Abigail Crabby

I want to be able to plug my iPhone into something that will let me
Use my car speakers to listen to my music on my phone. Is this possible?

ayup, you can. I use to use "Griffin fm transmitter"

you can get one at best buy

link

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Griffin+...&skuId=1078674

just tune the transmitter to a fm station that is nothing but static and there ya have it. however, once that station picks up a station, you may have to adjust it again.

[girl_dee]

Originally Posted by Abigail Crabby

I want to be able to plug my iPhone into something that will let me
Use my car speakers to listen to my music on my phone. Is this possible?

Syr's car has an *auxiliary* slot on the dash that you can plug to the headphone slot on the phone, Not sure if yours has that.

[Linus]

Originally Posted by Gentle Tiger

Right now I don't have a laptop. I was using the one that I had through my last job. I am no longer there, so no more laptop.

I would use the laptop for things like the newsletters, a lot of photo work for the newsletters, program books, flyers, music lists (I love music), movies, editing videos, of course the creations of various docs (lectures, class materials for what I teach, spreadsheets, etc) and of course games. I would also need the Windows component because of what I need to provide to those at the church.

I found the laptops that I have used in the past to be frustrating and slow. That's why I am thinking about the MacBook Pro.

I would also need the windows side because of testing that I would be doing if I chose not to sit at the PC.

Thanks for asking.

Then the Mac would work well and you can use my company's product, Fusion, to run Windows in a virtual machine so you can do testing while working on the newsletter. A refurb might work well so that you can max the memory so you can do both at the same time. My current MacBook Pro is a company issued one but I'd definitely get my own that is the same or better model.

[Abigail Crabby]

Originally Posted by durrrrrrrr

ayup, you can. I use to use "Griffin fm transmitter"

you can get one at best buy

link

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Griffin+...&skuId=1078674

just tune the transmitter to a fm station that is nothing but static and there ya have it. however, once that station picks up a station, you may have to adjust it again.

Thanks that's perfect and on my Christmas list now.

[Sachita]

My first PC was an Apple and then a windows 3.1 AT PC. lol

I have spent tons of money on PC's because i always needed it for work, however these days I buy PC's I know that if they break down I can throw them away and buy another. I keep everything on an external drive and I have my own server, hosted, for almost 10 years at the same hosting company.

I recently bought a 500 acer pc running windows 7. It's lightweight and runs great. I stopped spending big money on PC's.

[Sachita]

Originally Posted by Abigail Crabby

I want to be able to plug my iPhone into something that will let me
Use my car speakers to listen to my music on my phone. Is this possible?

You can buy this. I have Clear Scan that plugs into my lighter jack and Iphone. The only problem with this is finding a clear station. Otherwise it works fine. i also have little cheap speaker set I plug directly into the Iphone and really blast the sound. I sometimes use this.

[durrrrrrrr]

Originally Posted by Cajun_dee

Syr's car has an *auxiliary* slot on the dash that you can plug to the headphone slot on the phone, Not sure if yours has that.

the only thing I didnt like about the auxiliary slot is that it does not charge my phone while in use.

at least the FM transmitter will charge the phone.

I actually have a USB port built into my truck, it basically is the same thing as the auxiliary slot, but it charges the phone will using it.

[girl_dee]

Originally Posted by durrrrrrrr

the only thing I didnt like about the auxiliary slot is that it does not charge my phone while in use.

at least the FM transmitter will charge the phone.

I actually have a USB port built into my truck, it basically is the same thing as the auxiliary slot, but it charges the phone will using it.

Oh how neat! Yup charging is an issue.

[christie]

Hey guys -

For those of us "i" folks, my company just released a new app for the iPhone and iPad.

sendpostcard http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sendp...479650305?mt=8

Send real printed postcards straight from your iPhone or iPad. Everybody loves getting personal notes in their mailbox. .99 each. What a deal. For those who live abroad, it can be a postage savings - not paying international rates.

I can give a coupon code for five free postcards if anyone is interested. Just drop me a line.

I would welcome any/all feedback on the app.

Happy postcarding!

I did receive permission from the site owner before posting the link - no conflicts of interest

[Sachita]

Originally Posted by christie

Hey guys -

For those of us "i" folks, my company just released a new app for the iPhone and iPad.

sendpostcard http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sendp...479650305?mt=8

Send real printed postcards straight from your iPhone or iPad. Everybody loves getting personal notes in their mailbox. .99 each. What a deal. For those who live abroad, it can be a postage savings - not paying international rates.

I can give a coupon code for five free postcards if anyone is interested. Just drop me a line.

I would welcome any/all feedback on the app.

Happy postcarding!

I did receive permission from the site owner before posting the link - no conflicts of interest

This is a great idea!

[ButchEire]

I have several PC's, including laptops but always work on my MacBook Pro 17". The resolution is high quality and doesn't lead to eyestrain. I run Windows XP on Parallels but honestly, don't use it much at all. Apple has plenty of desktop publishing software. I use InDesign and Illustrator for any publishing, on the Mac. On my iPad, I use Numbers and Pages.

As far as "breaking" computers, it's literally impossible unless you choose to dunk it in water,regardless of the manufacturer. Well,ok, also if you open emails from people you don't know but I don't do that. I still have a very capable Gateway 2.2GHz naive Windows machine from 1999 and the only thing i've had to replace was the fan. The thing still runs and has a 300GB hard drive, plus a 500GB external.

Originally Posted by Gentle Tiger

Right now I don't have a laptop. I was using the one that I had through my last job. I am no longer there, so no more laptop.

I would use the laptop for things like the newsletters, a lot of photo work for the newsletters, program books, flyers, music lists (I love music), movies, editing videos, of course the creations of various docs (lectures, class materials for what I teach, spreadsheets, etc) and of course games. I would also need the Windows component because of what I need to provide to those at the church.

I found the laptops that I have used in the past to be frustrating and slow. That's why I am thinking about the MacBook Pro.

I would also need the windows side because of testing that I would be doing if I chose not to sit at the PC.

Thanks for asking.

[girl_dee]

Originally Posted by christie

Hey guys -

For those of us "i" folks, my company just released a new app for the iPhone and iPad.

sendpostcard http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sendp...479650305?mt=8

Send real printed postcards straight from your iPhone or iPad. Everybody loves getting personal notes in their mailbox. .99 each. What a deal. For those who live abroad, it can be a postage savings - not paying international rates.

I can give a coupon code for five free postcards if anyone is interested. Just drop me a line.

I would welcome any/all feedback on the app.

Happy postcarding!

I did receive permission from the site owner before posting the link - no conflicts of interest

I am so going to check this out. I would love a coupon. I card the Cards App but they are about $5 a card if I remember right. I would love to send postcards out.

[Kelt]

I think I am now an official "fanboi".

The iPod 80g lead me to the iMac 21, which then lead me to the iPhone 4s, which has now lead me to a Macbook Air 11.

Each one of these comes with a couple of those stickers you can put on your car.

I think I can skip the car and just put one on my forehead now.

Totally sucked in. I'm surrounded.

[girl_dee]

i am trying to convert a PC user to Mac and wanted to bump this thread!