iPhone App Zealot

Bill Atkinson software engineer (designer of the Macintosh, HyperCard, Quickdraw, MacPaint)  and a nature photographer brings both his talent for photography and great user interface design together in PhotoCard. Although overused terms in the industry, PhotoCard delivers an intuitive design. I found it easy to create beautiful post cards. The free version includes five stunning Atkinson nature photos. The paid version  includes 150 of his pictures, 150 stamp designs, and 325 stickers. Of course, you can use any picture on your iPhone for the post card too. I imagine using this on my next vacation to send postcards of what we are doing instead of kitsch from some tourist trap.

E-mail post cards are free. Snail mail post cards cost $1.50 to $2.00 for United State postal addresses. The first post card is free.

Bill Atkinson’s PhotoCard ($4.99)
Bill Atkinson’s PhotoCard Lite (Free)

We added @AppZealot twitter feed to the site to let you know what games we play, what free apps we snarfed into our iPhones, and other musing sure to interest other app zealots.

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ThinkGeek has a throat mic for the iPhone. Listed as the Black Ops Throat Mic, the two-piece throat mic and in-ear speaker provide comms in a high noise environment. They work by direct sound conduction from the vocal cords to the surface of the throat so wind noise, or even volume of the speaker is irrelevant. They should work even for sub-vocalization and whispers. This would be a great addition for anyone riding a motorcycle, high noise work environment or when a mask or respirator is worn. Given the dual-microphone design shown it is most likely not suitable for quickly answering calls if you are not already wearing it.

What I cannot tell without hearing the audio quality is how good is the sound produced. Sure it might work in high noise, but it could easily muddy the sound quality. In spite of that, I want one! Even at the list price of $119.99, it seems too cool (or ultimate geek sheik) to pass.