Instagram is pretty cool if you have an iOS device. The community photo-sharing service can be browsed through the official app (still the only way to actually upload photos) or viewed with various third party apps and sites. But what about those losers who can't -- or worse, won't -- look at your amazing, grungified photos? Perhaps these luddites, probably your family members, don't even own an iPhone or an iPad, or a device with an internet homepage browser. What do you do?
You will have to descend to their technological level and send the photos by snail mail. Thankfully, you won't have to get analog dirt on your hands to do it. You can use the Postagram app.
Postagram takes your Instagram photos, lets you add a message (up to 140 characters) and then mails a printed copy to anyone, anywhere in the world. The picture is printed at 300 dpi on heavy photo paper and comes surrounded by a postcard, from which the print can be popped out. Each picture costs $1 to print and send, and you have to do nothing but choose the picture and pay.
I can see this becoming as addictive as Instagram itself. I would even use it to mail my favorite photos to myself, if only I hadn't had my mailbox sealed up years ago: The only things I ever received were junk mail and anthrax. The spores I could deal with, but the junk mail? No frikkin' way.
Postagram [Postagramapp via iPhoneography]
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