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August 29, 2008

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Forget iCards, use Mail stationery instead

Posted Aug. 29, ’08, 12:30 PM PT by Aayush Arya
Category | Tips

Mail stationery.jpgOne of the casualties in the .Mac to MobileMe transition was iCards, a service that allowed you to send free greeting cards to your near and dear ones on special occasions such as birthdays, anniversaries, and weekends—what, you don’t consider them special?

If you’d been wandering around listlessly on the interwebs, trying to figure out how to tell that special someone that you miss him/her/it, you’ll be glad to know that a solution still exists. And a better one than iCards. Right on your Leopard-powered Mac.

One of the much hyped, but not very enthusiastically received, new features in Leopard was stationery in Mail, a feature that allows you to choose from a variety of predesigned themes, plug in your own photos, add some text, and email it to anyone. Sound familiar?

Yes, stationery in Mail is the new iCards, only more customizable, extensible, and with better designs to choose from. How do we know? Well, Apple was gracious enough to point us in the right direction themselves through this neat MobileMe news blog thing they’ve got going on. See, and you thought they’d never post anything except apologies and free extensions!


2 Comments

spiderbat said:

Apple has a point here.
When I knew about Mail stationeries I dismissed the whole thing as plain silly, since I associated e-mail activity with very utilitarian, no-nonsense purposes. Maybe I should look again...

September 1, 2008 9:30 AM
Steve W said:

Stationery is no good if you are logging into Mobileme via the web and want to upload a photo t an internet cafe and then attach it to an icard - derr

September 23, 2008 1:11 PM

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