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Chapter 19
Ten Apps Worth Paying For
If you read Chapter
18
,
you know that lots of great free apps are available for your iPad. But as the
old cliché goes, some things are worth paying for. Still, none of the ten for-pay apps we've chosen as
some of our favorites are likely to break the bank. As you're about to discover, some apps in this list
are practical, and some are downright silly. The common theme? We think you'll like carrying these
apps around on your iPad mini.
Bill Atkinson PhotoCard
Who is Bill Atkinson? He had a hand (or both hands) in the first Macintosh computer as well as the
MacPaint and HyperCard Mac applications. Today he's a world-renowned nature photographer, which
brings us to his app. Bill Atkinson PhotoCard is a free app that lets you create gorgeous high-resolu-
tion postcards and send them via either e-mail or the U.S. Postal Service. Sending postcards by e-mail
is free, and so is the app.
But the reason we love it is that you can have printed postcards sent via USPS for $1.50 and $2.00 per
postcard, depending on how many print-and-mail credits you purchase. The 8.25-x-5.5-inch postcards
are, in a word, stunning. Printed on heavy glossy stock on a state-of-the-art HP Indigo Digital Press,
then laminated for protection, they're more beautiful (by far) than any store-bought postcard you're
likely to find.
You can use one of the 200 included Bill Atkinson nature photos shown in Figure
19-1
, but we prefer
to use pictures we've taken ourselves. It never fails to impress the recipient and makes our postcards
unique.
