We've gotten a bunch of great feedback about our Dotti Disposable Camera app. People love having physical copies of their photos, but have been wanting to be able to use photos from within their own photo albums.

With our newest update (available for free now on iTunes or the Android market), you can do just that. Take any photos from your device's photo album and add them to your roll to create real physical copies. How cool is that? Very!

  

 The Sincerely Team is joining hundreds of other developers and designers descending on NYC for Photo Hack Day II.  The event is taking place at NYC’s General Assembly February 25th-26th, and this time, Sincerely is an official sponsor and will be giving out some awesome prizes including free Sincerely credits, T shirts and more!  Last Summer, Aviary brought together the creative forces of the best minds in mobile photography, photo editing, web design and more, to create photo hacks using API’s from participating companies, including Sincerely’s own Ship Library.  The resulting hacks, after a 24 hour hackathon, were astounding.

We are looking forward to collaborating with friends, new and old, and be a part of some amazing hacks.  We'll give a brief presentation on the Sincerely Ship API on Saturday morning, participating in workshops, observing demos, and participating in the hack, which runs from 11:30 a.m. Sat urday the 25th through Noon on Sunday the 26th. 

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PhotoForge2 is a powerful photo editing tool for iOS. Along with all the editing essentials, PF2 is also packed with some crazy distortion or manipulation tools such as Twirl and Noise. With today's new update, PhotoForge has added the abilitiy to ship your photos as postcards (using our Sincerely Ship library). PhotoForge2 is available on the iTunes store for just $.99.

For some of the more experimental stuff you can do with PF2, check out this recent tutorial on the Objective Scenes blog. 

 

 

Ever since the release of our Sincerely Ink app, we are frequently asked "When can I start ordering Birthday/Valentines/Thank You/Congratulations/etc cards?". Good news for card lovers, the new Sincerely Ink update includes all of those designs and more! We'll keep the new cards coming throughout the year too. What holiday/card designs would you like to see added? Share your ideas in the comments below.

★★★★★ FEATURES ★★★★★

- Dozens of photo cards and illustrated designs from professional designers

- Valentines, Birthday, Thank You, Congratulations, Holiday themes & more

- Personalize with your photo, family name & personal message

- Apply photo filters

- Stress-free delivery. Backed by the Sincerely Guarantee

- Large 5x7 inch cards starting at $1.99 each including postage! (Buy in bulk & save more)

- Cards are printed on thick, glossy 5x7 inch photo postcards at 300dpi resolution

- Cards are delivered to US, UK, European & Canadian addresses in under 7 days. Rest of world takes 2-3 weeks.

- Easily add addresses online at sincerely.com/addressbook

We had a great Christmas season here at Sincerely.  The Sincerely Ink app was featured in the Android Marketplace and Sincerely appeared in the NY Times, LA Times, The SF Chronicle & live on CNN.  And most importantly, our customers and their recipients were really happy with their Sincerely Christmas cards this year.   As you can expect - we aren’t stopping with the winter holiday season.

A new Sincerely Ink update will be hitting the app store in the next few weeks.  This update will feature dozens of new card designs, including designs for Valentine’s Day, Birthday cards, Thank You cards & more 

So stay tuned here on the Sincerely blog for the announcement.  Please feel free to respond in the comment area with other occasions and card designs you’d like to see featured in Sincerely Ink.

 

Storyboarder, our photo collage and postcard app, has been updated with some great new features.

• Customizable border width & color
• Share on Twitter, (Requires iOS5)
• Improved memory usage, will run faster

Check it out and let us know what you think!

Of course we already knew that, but now it's official! Dotti is listed as a "New and Noteworthy" app on the iTunes store! I'd also like to point out that Super Crate Box (seen on the left of the screen grab) is also worth-noting. I've been playing it all morning! :)

Our goal is to create apps to that help users connect in real life, so we are always happy to hear about how our apps get used. We were really happy to see this email from Denise about how Sincerely Ink helped her stay in touch over the holidays. 

I usually don't write praise or thank yous but I had to take the time to do so for your product. I used the postagram app once and downloaded the holiday app when I received the postcard in the mail about it. One week ago I bought a holiday card from your app to send to my girlfriend in England. 

A package I was mailing her for Christmas wasn't going to make it on time & I was hopeful your card would so that a piece of me could be there with her on Christmas (I live in New Jersey). 

Long story short she had the worst day today & Christmas isn't shaping up to be too great for her tomorrow either. I was on the phone listening to her cry as she got home. I was also on the phone as she checked her mail and received her card. She stopped crying & I could literally hear her face light up as she read the words I wrote her.

That's the type of gift you can't put a price on & it really means the world to us both. Attached below is a picture of my girlfriend holding her card.

-Denise