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PostCard from Steve Dekorte


Customize electronic postcards for sending digital photos!

Do you spend a lot of time on the road? Are you sick of taking pictures sending them back in emails? Supposed you could customize an electronic postcard right down to the stamp just to liven things up a bit. I introduce PostCard.

"PostCard is a Cocoa OSX app for creating emailable post cards from your own photos or any image." Sounds a lot like iCard, let's see if that proves to be the case.

THE GOOD

PostCard arrives in a .tar file which mounts the app's folder on your desktop, which you then drag to wherever you would like. Even though PostCard is customizable through drag-n-drop, it has no Preference settings.

You can either use the dozen or so custom stamps it comes with our create your own with a simple drag-n-drop. You also add your main picture or graphic in the same manner perhaps they should rename the app Drag-n-Post). Or you can even grab a photo from a video source, such as your iSight. And you can personalize fonts and colors.

NUTSHELL

This app is solid. No bad comments, no dislikes. It delivers on its promise to allow you to further personalize your electronic PostCards. The prospective user would be someone who sends a lot of cards and doesn't want to fall into a rut, someone who would like to send cards while on vacation or someone who likes to play with their computer. If you send a card once in a blue moon, however, iCard may just be your ticket. That's a choice you will have to make. But at $5.00, how can you go wrong.

Frank Petrie

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(C) 2004 Frank Petrie. Frank is Technologies & Products Specialist for the Mid-Atlantic Macintosh User Groups Team (MaMUGs)
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