Postcard
Rather than send impersonal postcards photographed - often
badly - by someone else, you can use your own iPhone shots to send a more
meaningful greeting by email. Postcard hooks in to your photo library and Photo
Stream, or you can take a picture within the app. If you’re not such a hot shot
with the camera, you can send a map of your current detected location instead,
but that’s rather missing the point.
Wish you were here? Postcard lets you create digital postcards ready to email
to others or save in your photo library for later use
By default, the image is added to the ‘front’ of your card
without any embellishments, but if you want to spice it up you can apply one
of 11 masks that crop or distort the edges. Vintage looks like it’s been
damaged by having tape peeled off; Splash looks like it’s been splattered onto
the card; and Love crops the pic into a heart shape. You can’t edit the
templates, but there’s a space to the side of the picture to tap out your own
heartfelt message, which you can set in one of 14 different fonts and 14
colors. It’s one of those occasions where Marker Felt and Chalkboard might
actually be the best choice.
When you’ve finished your design you can send it as an
email, save it to your Photos album, print it, or copy it for pasting into
another app. Sadly there are no social sharing features, so if you want to post
it to your Twitter of Facebook friends your best bet is to save it to your
photo library and paste it from there.
Postcard is cheap, but even if it wasn’t you could recoup
the cost in savings on postcards and stamps. Better yet, as your postcards only
ever exist in the virtual realm you can send the same one to several
recipients, and spend the time you would have spent slaving over a hot biro
enjoying the sights.
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$1.9
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App Store bit.ly/L59Je8
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Rates
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3/5
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Email’n Walk
However much you might huff and puff at the way other people
text or send emails while walking and inevitably wander into your path, there are
bound to be times when you need to do it yourself. With this in mind, Email ’n
Walk overlays a keyboard and two boxes on the view from your iPhone’s rear
camera. The boxes, which handle subject and body text, are transparent, so you
can still see where you’re going when you’re typing into them. Unless you hold
your iPhone vertically, all you’ll see is your feet, but that should at least
stop you stepping in anything.
Watch your step. Email ’n Walk allows you to compose emails while looking
in front of you - or, holding your iPhone naturally, looking downwards
When you’ve finished the body of your message, tapping Send
pastes it into a new message in Mail, ready for you to add an address and
dispatch it. You still have to type the recipient’s address using the regular
non-transparent Mail app.
It’s a bit of a one-trick pony, so even at the 69p asking
price we’d think twice about buying this - particularly as you can only write
emails, not texts. It’s also of limited use to iPhone 4S users, who can dictate
their emails to Siri and keep their eyes on where they’re going. An interesting
idea, though.
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Price
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App stores bit.ly/jp9ycr
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3/5
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eMailGanizer pro
The first thing you’ll encounter here is a warning:
eMailGanizer needs to download the whole of your online inbox - an operation
that can take a while. Once this is stored on your iPhone, though, the app is
very fast and easy to work with.
Searching messages, for example, quickly scans your
downloaded email, highlighting the search term where it appears in each result.
The real power of eMailGanizer, though, lies in its ability to quickly file
your messages into server-based folders, and to learn how you like to organise
incoming messages so that it can suggest the most appropriate destination for
new arrivals.
The power lies in its ability to quickly file messages and
learn how you like to organise them
From the top. Part of the initial setup process requires eMailGanizer to
download your complete mailbox from the server, which can take a while
Like voice recognition software, this app takes some
training, so it pays to use it intensively over the first couple of weeks after
installation. However, your efforts quickly pay dividends. After half an hour
of filing individual messages manually we were able to switch to the Quick File
view to select batches of messages for which it accurately selected the most
appropriate folder, based on our past actions.
Search emails. Searching your downloaded messages quickly brings up a list
of results with your search term highlighted
It’s compatible with IMAP, Exchange and Hotmail accounts but
not POP3, which doesn’t support server-based filing. If you need to knock a
disorganised inbox into shape this is a very efficient way to do it.
“Like voice recognition software, this app takes some
training, so it pays to use it intensively over the first couple of weeks”
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$4
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App Store bit.ly/jxgarv
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Pro
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Quick to learn how you file your messages * genuine
timesaver
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Con
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Time-consuming initial setup
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