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How to send holiday cards from your iPad, iPhone, or Android device

No more trips to the post office or appointments with expensive photographers for holiday cards. This year, you can use a new app brought to us by the same people who made Postagram, and send out holiday cards directly from your smartphone.

Holiday Cards by Sincerely Ink (iTunes link) is a collection of roughly 30 Christmas, New Year's, and Hanukkah cards. You can also download the app to your Android device from the Android Market.

One thing not mentioned in the video is the ability to enter your address book into your account online, saving you from having to … Read more

5 ways to get the most out of your Instagram photos

Instagram (iTunes link) is a free iPhone application that enables users to upload their photos, apply some filters and special effects, then upload them to a personal timeline. Instagram can turn the worst of photographers into a "photog."

What if you want to do something with a photo or photos you are particularly proud of? We have put together five ways you can use and interact with your Instagrammed photos outside of the Instagram app on your iPhone.… Read more

How to send your favorite iPhone picture on a postcard

We recently covered the launch of Postagram, an iPhone app that allows you to send your Instagram pictures as a postcard via snail mail. This simple guide will walk you through using both your Instagram pictures as well as the pictures stored in your iPhone's photo album with the Postagram app.… Read more

Postagram sends postcards from your iPhone

Xobni co-founder Matt Brezina is launching a fun and clever product today to let iPhone users send real, physical postcards directly from your iPhone (or from the Web). Postagram is the app. Sincerely is the new company he started to create it.

Postagram uses the Instagram API. It requires that users have an Instagram login and the app installed on their phone. But from there, it looks like a quick procedure to select a photo from your Instagram library, put a message of up to 140 characters on it, address it (unfortunately the app can't access your phone's address book directly), and have it sent out as a postcard through the mail.

The postcard itself has a clever twist: The Instagram-styled square photo can be popped out of the postcard that carries it. Unlike traditional postcards, the image doesn't take up the whole front surface. (The SMS-length message and the photo are on the front; I haven't seen one yet so I don't know what's on the back, aside from the address.)

It costs 99 cents to send a Postagram, payable via credit card since Apple won't let companies sell physical goods through its App Store payment system. That's a completely reasonable fee for taking the cheapest of social gestures--sending a photo to someone electronically--and making it more real and valuable. … Read more