Design & Send Real-Life Birthday Cards To Facebook Friends From Your iPhone

Apple’s own Cards service and Ink Cards for iOS and Android provide an excellent way to let your friends and family know you're thinking of them without having to leave your house to buy or mail post cards. These apps let you design and send real-life greeting cards to your contacts, all from your mobile device. Recently, some other developers have started venturing into this genre of apps, Birthday Cards by Cleverbug for iOS being the hottest new entrant. The app’s main focus is birthday cards, and it doubles as a reminder app for upcoming birthdays of your Facebook friends. The thing that makes Birthday Cards stand out from among other similar apps is its ability to automatically incorporate photos of your friends into the cards you are making for them. It is also possible to put pictures into templates manually, and of course, to enter personalized text into cards before you place an order for their printing and postage. Read More

my facecard: Create Self-Updating Business Cards & Bump Your iPhone With Another To Share

Facebook has become much more than a mere social network, as there are many other services that make use of Facebook to bring ease and efficiency to our daily lives. my facecard is one such iOS app, based on the social networking giant, that allows its users to create and share their personal visiting card with complete ease. Much like the recently covered Bump, the cards created via my facecard can be transferred to other app users by bumping your device against theirs. my facecard is focused on making your card look as good as possible, and for that reason, it incorporates a healthy number of photo effects and filters, and lets its users create double-sided cards with different photos on each side. The biggest advantage of having a facecard is that your contacts will always have your up-to-date information automatically. Read More

Create Personalized Cards & Caption Photos Using TextVite For iPhone

Most things change with the passage of time, but their essence remains the same. Books might have become eBooks, and writing letters on paper might have been taken over by SMS, but the main purpose of both remains essentially the same. Similarly, you still have to invite people over for different events, and most people use simple SMS for doing so. Now for iOS users, there is a classier alternative available for that. Using TextVite, you can easily create beautiful invitation and greeting cards right from your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Not only has the app got a few really gorgeous background images and textures, it is also possible to use photos from the camera roll of your iDevice. This ability to use photos of your own makes the app even more useful, as you can utilize TextVite to caption photos and then share them with your friends. Read More

Color Splurge: Edit Photos & Post Them As Real Greeting Cards [iPhone]

Color Splurge is the perfect iOS app for the holiday season. There are many apps for creating greetings cards, and they might come with many default templates, but most of them just allow users to add a photo to the card before they can post it. Color Splurge, however, allows iPhone users to make a few changes to their photos before they post them. This app links up with many other services, so that you can post your cards online, or if you choose to do so, also allows users to post the cards in real life. Read on past the break for details and download link. Read More

Cardmon For iPhone: Create & Share Custom Greeting Cards With Friends

With Christmas just a few days away, it's time to start sending those Christmas postcards on their way. There are a ton of greeting card apps available for iOS, some of which even let you design, purchase and send real postcards, like Apple's very own Cards for iOS 5. Cardmon is a nice new addition to the genre. The app lets you create custom cards for all occasions, and then share them with your friends via email or over social media. You must have come across a lot of services that offer cards for all occasions, but sending those cards to your loved ones never sends the right kind of message, given the fact that anyone could have sent the exact same card to them, and there is usually a logo or ad linked with the e-Card as well. Cardmon solves all these issues by letting its users make clean, personalized cards and share them easily with your friends even if they don't have an iOS device. Read More

Cards For iOS 5: Create & Send Real Greeting Cards From Your iPhone

The new apps for iOS 5 that Apple unveiled at their “Let’s talk iPhone” event have finally been released to the App Store. The first app that was announced back then was Cards. It is an app, but then again, it is much more than that. Cards is a service intended to merge the realms of reality and electronics. Using Cards, users can now design their own cards for any occasion, and Apple will mail a printed version of them to whichever destination you choose, anywhere in the world! Of course you will have to pay for the card to get delivered, but the charges are very reasonable, and all the available designs look pretty decent. Read More

Postcard On The Run: Design & Mail Real Postcards From Your Android Device

Love sharing postcards with your friends? Why take an entirely virtual route when Postcard On The Run is at your service? Postcard On The Run is an Android app that lets you design personalized postcards on your device (with images, signatures, maps and more) and send them to your friends in real. Yes, real postcards mailed directly to your contact's house. The price? Starts from as low as 99 cents per postcard that can be paid from within the app while the app itself is free. No address? Avail the in-app address retrieval service of Postcard On The Run to send address request to your friends via text message. It’s already been a month since Post Card On The Run was released for iOS users while the Android variant of the app has just made its way into the Market. Read More

How To Convert Your Digital Camera Into A Scanner With Snapter

Do you want to scan some notes, but don’t have a scanner? If you have a digital camera you can now convert it into a simple scanner with the help of Snapter. It is one powerful application that turns your digital camera into a fully featured scanner. All you have to do is take a photos of your notes or some pages from the book clearly and the rest is handled by this program automatically.

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