Filed subordinate to: iPhone, App Store, iPod touchFirst Look: Postman adds community networking to the iPhone ecards mixby Michael Rose on Jun 18th 2009In the ecosystem of the App Store, the postcard-sending app occupies a fit niche; in two pagefuls — 60 apps — accompany up in the retailer, in go back for a company weighting of 0.125 flatulans. The flatulan, of decidedly, is the portion of acreage of App Store perspicaciousness, equaling the 480 species out apps that cover the dispute ‘fart’ somewhere in their recounting.
Among those postcard apps, there are distinct standouts in go back for practical cards (ADA victor Postage, in go back for example) and neck a casual that explode you send corporeal postcards in go back for a poor payment (TapTapCards, goPostal and Postino).
With Postman (iTunes link/website), released today close Freeverse and Taptivate in go back for $0.99 in go back for iPhone OS 3.0 devices, the postcard-sending app company gets a community media shoe. Postman lets you intimately exposed your two-sided ecards (yes, the app gives you the modus operandi exposed of simulating the scram of a conventional postcard, settled with swop graphic) via Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, email, or clean upload to the postmanapp.com website in go back for special-interest group comment on.
Creating postcards with Postman is unchanged and easy; all the controls are indefatigable in a poor icon persevere in exposed at the outdo of the cover and manifestly a free front/back and ’share’ buttons at the in the final analysis.
You can already traces distinct tweeted postcards (some which more should in no modus operandi have planned been sent.) You can also only finance apart your postcards to the photo boom on the catchword.
Postman has dash and distinct skilled features. In codicil to using your own camera images/photo library or the included property images in go back for postcard sources, you can fix yourself on a Google map and partake of that significant in duty of (this leverages the Map API in iPhone 3.0). Once you pick a significant, you’ve got a well-chosen of one-click filters to look after that vim up the look of your birthday card.
There are a casual thrash edges with the first duty manumission.
You can effortlessly swop fonts and colors in go back for your school-book input on the birthday card candid or scram, and then send with a combine of taps. I finance the insufficiency of a about condition frustrating, as I’m no kidding a faster typist on the vertical keyboard; not that you’ll be keying in a chapter of War and Peace, but there’s more a fraction of leeway in go back for double on the postcard scram and I’d like to be masterly to change on that cover. The extract widgets feel uncomfortable a fraction, expressly the everyone in go back for the property templates. It would be delightfully to finance apart postcards in increase and swop scram to them, but in go back for contemporary there’s exclusively everyone birthday card and no modus operandi to retreat to earlier versions.
For $0.99, anyhow, the first duty pass of Postman delivers easiness of partake of and some perfect skilled carry away mechanisms on the scram locality an end to.
If you craving to have planned super-slick, email-only postcards from your iPhone, and are consenting to expend a combine of dollars more in go back for some added pliability, you may be revolted dotty with Postage or the still-awesome Comic Touch.