Whether you’re backpacking in Bali or camel trekking across the Sahara, this new Postcards app captures your image on iPhone and android smartphones, sending it to the folks back home by conventional post, yes a real, proper post card!  How cool is that?! And best of all this brand new picture postcard service is provided as a free download by eCards Media (www.ecards.co.uk/postcards). 

We all know what it’s like trying to choose the best of a bad bunch of cheesy post cards, well not anymore, no stamps or searching for a postbox either. Your personal holiday snaps are transformed into traditional picture postcards and mailed home at the touch of a button. This is already one of the Apple website’s top 30 apps in their ‘free stuff’ travel section

How does it work?

The free ‘Postcards’ download lets users take a photo or upload from their library and input text to family and friends. It costs 99p to send second class and £1.49 to send first class postcards anywhere in the world, processed via PayPal.

The worldwide postcards are sent to a printing firm in deepest, darkest Dorset via file transfer protocol (FTP) at 4pm every day. They are then run off using state-of-the-art Xerox printers and collected for dispatch by Royal Mail at 5.15pm the same day.

So whether you’re on top of a rollercoaster, celebrity spotting in restaurants or sending out pictures of your newborn baby, the Postcard app is a great way to share news with mates.

It’s a great little app and I’m deff going to try it out on my summer hols!! Will somebody send me one please?

Skobbler, creator of the first free turn by turn sat nav app for the iPhone, has today announced the launch of skobbler for the Google Android platform.

Featuring a new user interface and enhanced visual appearance, skobbler sat nav for Google Android is available for download immediately, is compatible with most Google Android mobile phones and above all is FREE. Woohoo!!

Since the UK launch of skobbler for iPhone just 4 weeks ago, skobbler has been downloaded more than 82,000 times by iPhone users in the UK. It has sat comfortably at the top of the UK free navigation app chart for four weeks and reached No. 10 of the most popular free apps in the UK app store overall, demonstrating just how popular mobile phone navigation is becoming .

Skobbler is a sat nav solution that empowers consumers to take matters into their own hands and make outdated and poorly detailed maps a thing of the past. It uses community maps from OpenStreetMap (OSM), the Wikipedia of maps that already has over 250,000 users worldwide dedicated to updating and creating the most detailed free map of the world. As a result, all users benefit from consistently updated maps without paying for expensive and already out-of-date updates.

Availability and compatibility

Skobbler is free, is compatible with most Google Android mobile phones and can be downloaded from the Android Market.

You can find further information on recent developments at http://blog.skobbler.com.

Key Features:

· Turn-by-turn GPS navigation
· Visual and voice-guided navigation
· 2.5D bird’s eye view graphics
· Day and night display modes
· Automatic continuation of navigation after incoming calls
· Pedestrian mode
· Take me home function
· Dynamic map updates at no extra cost
· User-editable maps of UK and Ireland (OpenStreetMap data)
· Bookmarks for favourite destinations

Yehhhh I finally got my new Blackberry Bold 9700 up and running and yep you guessed it, I LOVE it!! The last one was well just too big for me (mmm don’t say that very often!) and this new one is slimmer and sleeker and features a touch-sensitive trackpad that makes navigating easy peasy, we like! There’s also HSDPA and WiFi connectivity, so you can access all your fave sites, and with the push email service you can get up to 10 accounts.

Packed with features, the BlackBerry Bold 9700 has plenty to keep you entertained, with a 3.2 mega pixel camera, on-board GPS, media player and 3.5 mm stereo headset jack, plus 32GB of memory storage via an interchangeable microSD card to store your music, videos and photos. It also syncs with your iTunes® and Windows Media Player accounts*, so you’ll never be without your choonz.

And for those who mean business, it couldn’t be easier to work on the go. Word, Excel and PowerPoint attachments can be viewed, edited and sent using BlackBerry Bold smartphone’s user-friendly QWERTY keyboard. A built-in calendar, memo pad and task list helps to keep everything organised.

Fab Features

• Sleek design measuring 109 mm x 60 mm x 14.1 mm and weighing only 122 grams
• Full QWERTY keyboard
• Innovative touch-sensitive trackpad
• Built-in WiFi (802.11 b/g)
• 3.2 MP camera with variable zoom, autofocus, flash and video recording
• Built-in GPS for maps and other location-based applications, as well as photo geotagging
• Media player for videos, pictures and music
• 3.5 mm stereo headset jack, dedicated volume controls, Lock and Mute keys seamlessly integrated across the top of the handset
• microSD/SDHD memory card slot that supports up to 16 GB cards today and is expected to support 32 GB cards when available; a 2GB card is included
• 256 MB of Flash memory

I find myself increasingly having this conversation with my fellow lovers of their crackberry – what are the rules for living with love and technology? I mean wouldn’t we all rather go to bed to have some fun than sending out one last tweet of the day to John Mayer? and how many people do you see supposedly having an intimate dinner, only to be interupted by the red flashing light of their Blackberry winking at them saying go on, ’read me’.

Relationship counsellors have noticed that ” People feel they’re not being shown enough consideration, that they’re being excluded if their partner is spending a lot of time using phones for socialising, playing games or working.” It really does seem to be a phenomenon that is on the increase, emphasised by the fact that these devices are mobile so can be accessed antime, anyplace, anywhere.

So how many of you take your Blackberry, your iPhone even your laptop to bed? Is it sex, sleep or smartphone for you? I know which one I’d pick…

 
Do you find Smart phones too big to fit in your handbag, too dull not stylish enough? (the last bit sounds like some men I know).  Perhaps even too expensive? Well there maybe an answer.  The Samsung i200.  I know we are all against size zeros but in the world of technology zero is queen and the Samsung i200 measures just 12 mm deep!!!!! (Size isn’t everything!!)
 
That makes it the skinniest Windows (6.1) compatible phone on the planet.  It can happily do Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook.  It also has HSDPA to keep the internet connection nice and fast and has a 2 meg camera. It doesn’t however have Wi-Fi or GPS.
 
The screen is a decent size too at 2.3 inches and the back light has a sensor that automatically dims to save on your battery power – so it is green as well.

It retails at £200 although not confirmed and is great for those wanting to get into the smart phone market.