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Micah Sargent (0:00)
Coming up on iOS today, Rosemary Orchard and I, Micah Sargent, help you learn how to spread and share the love. Stay tuned for this episode of iOS Today podcasts you love from people you trust. This is Twit. This is iOS Today with Rosemary Orchard and me, Micah Sargent. Episode 739 recorded Tuesday, February 11th, 11th, 2025 for Thursday, February 13th, 2025 sharing the love on iOS hello and welcome to iOS Today, the show where we talk all things iOS, TV, OS, watch OS, HomePod, OS, iPad, OS, all the OS's is that apple has on offer. We love to talk about them here on the show to help you make the most of your Apple devices. I am one of your hosts, My name is Ma Sergeant and I am.
Rosemary Orchard (1:06)
Another of your hosts, Rosemary Orchard. And I'm really excited to be here today. Maika. We've got a really cute topic lined up which I think is adorable for everybody.
Micah Sargent (1:15)
Yes, indeed. So this episode is publishing right before Valentine's Day and so we thought we could take some time to talk about some of the things that you might be able to do. I will, I will be honest that the first couple of apps I'm going to talk about, probably by the time you're listening to this, it'll be a little too late to get a card in the mail. But you know, maybe if your valentine is patient and understanding, then they will happily accept a belated physical card. But we've also got some options on here for you if you aren't looking to send physical cards. But I thought this was the perfect time to bring up the fact that there are some apps out there that will let you send physical cards. Now interestingly, this used to be a pretty robust set of of apps that, that were out there. There were, the market was a robust market. There were maybe, I don't know, eight to 10 different apps that you could go and get custom cards made in. And over time that number has, has kind of reduced and reduced and reduced. One of my favorite apps, I believe it's was called Ink. No, no, Ink is, Ink is still around. It was called Punk Post. That's what it was. And it was a really cool app that let you be able to have hand lettered, like actually written by a human being, cards sent and they unfortunately ended up closing down. But there are some other options available out there and one of those, I might be misremembering that name again, but I think it's Punk Post. But anyway, one of that's available is an app called Felt. And Felt lets you send Cards. So here I am on the main page of Felt, and you can see that they're already promoting the Valentine's card. So let's choose that. So we'll tap on. Well, maybe we. We can kind of scroll through and see the different options that are available. So they've got classic cards, They've got a box of cards. They've got something called a felt bomb, which we'll talk about in a minute. And you are able to create a car. So we'll tap at the bottom, start a new card. There's the square card, which is simply just a little square. The pair card, which has two cards kind of connected to one another. The mini accordion, that has three. The classic accordion, which has four. And then they did end up adding what they call the classic card. This used to not be an option with Felt, and I'm glad that they finally added it because it's a card that you're familiar with. It folds over at the top. You have kind of the front page, and then you open it up, and inside is the writing. And then an envelope, of course, that it goes into. A felt bomb is where you and other people, friends or family all work together to create a card which is super cool. And then it gets sent to a specific person. And then you can also order a box of 25 or more of the same cards. So if, for example, you're doing, like, graduation announcement, something like that, or if you got a lot of Valentine's, you know, well, maybe that's a great way for you to get in touch with them. But let's go with a classic card. So first it shows you what the card looks like. So you can see it opens at the top like you would expect, and it goes into an envelope, and then it can be displayed. So I'm going to choose. Don't show again, because we know how this works at this point, we're able to start with a design so we can look at featured. We can look at encouragement, thinking of you. We can look at stationary, for example. We can let's go with all holidays, and let's go with Valentine's Day, you were my superhero. Or let's roll together, you were the icing on the cake. Or these adorable porcupines with the word love up top. So that's what we choose for the front. On the inside, we can choose another design if we'd like. We can work from our own library, which templates that you can work with. So things that you've created before, you can leave it blank. So that you could write here. We can add greetings. So again, we can do, you know, a special artwork. I'm simply tapping on this area and then I can choose handwrite, in which case I'm actually given the ability to write with my fingers. Using the tools that the app has, I can type something out if I'd like to. Let's go with type. And we will put in a message. Happy Valentine's. And of course that's not exactly precise, but I'm just moving quickly. You can choose a type face, which we'll use one that's a little bit more, it feels a little bit more handwritten. And then of course you can change how it's positioned, the color of the typeface, etc. Etc. So then we're good. And then if you want something on the back, you're also able to pop something on there as well. We'll choose next and then you get a preview of your card. Here's what the front looks like, here's what the back looks like and what it looks like on the inside, and then continue from there. This is my favorite part. You have the option to do things like adding confetti hearts, confetti, unicorns. You can add in candy like Ghirardelli chocolate covered strawberry heart, a two dollar bill, a smiley face sticker, mermaid tattoos, a little a seed paper heart, which of course means that when you, when you plant it, then seeds, different wildflowers are usually in there, smiley face bookmarks, other stickers, the golden girl sticker pack, Haribo gold bears. I mean, all sorts of stuff that you can stick in to this, a keychain. And I love that aspect of it. You can sort it between what different things are. So in this case, maybe I'd want to add in hearts for a dollar and then tap next and then choose when it's sent. It tells you the expected arrival date. So for example, this is expected to arrive on Friday, February 14th. Between Friday, February 14th and Tuesday, February 18th. If you want to, you can pay $10 with FedEx and then it will definitely arrive by Friday. If you pay FedEx overnight $45, then it will arrive by the 13th. So you do have some options as of the day that we're recording this show to get it arrive on time and then you go through the process from there. So that is, that is felt and that is one option for being able to create and send cards. But there is one more option that I'll show you as far as creating and sending cards. The other one I'll show you before we head over to Rosemary is an app called Ink. And Ink is going to be familiar to you after having just seen felt in the sense that it works pretty much the same way. Ink does have other special gifts that you can buy outside of just cards. There are calendars, for example, photo gifts, socks there, you know, coffee mugs that have things on there. But let's choose Valentine's Day and take a look at the different cards suggestions that they have available. So I see a. Oh, a cute photo card that says sending our love. And we can see the front and the back of the card. And at any time, you can change the shape of the card. So I could instead do a folding card. I could add rounded corners to the outside. And then you can, of course, add your photos there as well and be able to give it access to those. You can. You can add your Dropbox, you can add files from your folders wherever it happens to be, and then you can change that as you need to to whatever photos you want. It also makes it very easy to see what text can be personalized. So I've got three spots here that I could add text to. And then we can change the next one. We love you, for example, although I think that that was meant to be like the family and the year or whatever. And then, of course, the back, where, once again, we can add a special text message. We can add a signature very easily to the card and zoom in to see what it is exactly that we're adding. This is a little bit more simple, simplified. But once we've done that, then we're able to send off that card doing the same thing. So once again, this card would go out and you would be able to send it to anyone via your. Via USPS or what have you. So these are two options that are available to you if you're looking to send a physical card to someone. All right, Rosemary, what's first up on your list for sharing the love? Well, this Valentine's Day.