Halloween is approaching....owl...Frankenstein...color orange...and kumquats, too?

Cut-out from an index card, with an owl stamp and pictorial postmark from FRANKENSTEIN, MO  65016

The kumquats look like oranges, and the main subject of the stamp (Year of the Hare) is  belittled [!] as a small  drawing of a hare, barely visible, on the left side of the stamp. Pictorial postmark from Los Angeles, CA 90012, perfectly visible on the matte, folded card  - which  I can postcardize anytime, should I want.

The kumquats look like oranges, and the main subject of the stamp (Year of the Hare) is  belittled [!] as a small  drawing of a hare, barely visible, on the left side of the stamp. Pictorial postmark from West Nyack, NY 10994, perfectly visible on the matte, folded card  - which  I can postcardize anytime, should I want. I never heard of West Nyack before - have you? See how a simple, nice postmark can "put a locality on the map" for you, and many others?

See my previous blogpost about the differences between RABBITS and HARES:

http://dorincard.blogspot.com/2011/04/part-1-whats-difference-between-rabbits.html

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Happy PFF (Postcard Friendship Friday)!

Please visit: http://thebestheartsarecrunchy.blogspot.com/ (wait until Beth posts the today's Linky tool for the meme, then make your entry, if you want to join).

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Send Facebook Photos as Pretty Postcards With Postagram for iPhone & Android

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"Postagram, the app for sending Instagram photos as printed postcards, is out with version 2.0 of its iPhone application and is releasing an Android application Thursday.

The service has expanded to support printing high-quality glossy photos from your device’s camera roll or your Facebook library. The enhancements eliminate the need for an Instagram account and make the application accessible to anyone on iPhone or Android.

Application users need only fire up Postagram 2.0 for iPhone or Postagram for Android, and connect to Facebook or Instagram (on iPhone only) to find and select photos sorted by type. Also new is the ability to send Postagrams to multiple recipients.

As usual, individual Postagrams cost $0.99 and are shipped with a glossy photo printed at 300-dpi that pops out of the accompanying bezel.

Postagram is a product of Sincerely, a startup co-founded by Matt Brezina and Bryan Kennedy, both formerly of Xobni. Sincerely’s intent is to make it simple for mobile phone users to send real, printed photos using the snapshots on their device."

Print and Ship Postcards From Your Favorite iOS Apps

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"“The printed photo [is] the world’s simplest but most ubiquitously appreciated gift,” Sincerely CEO and cofounder Matt Brezina says."

"More than a dozen launch partners will feature Sincerely’s print and ship technology in their iPhone apps, starting Thursday. Partners include Lonely Planet, Path, Pic Collage, Waddle, Quiption, Picsicle, Filtermania, Ship Mate, Interlacer, Pregnancy Progress, I’m Awesome and Color Effects.

At launch, Sincerely will continue to hand select app partners and evaluate interested parties on a case-by-case basis, Brezina says. The startup has already fielded inquiries from more than 200 developers, he adds.

App makers will earn 70% of revenue earned from the sale of each postcard above $0.99. Sincerely prices its postcards at $0.99 a pop, a fee that includes printing and shipping costs to anywhere in the world. App makers can keep the $0.99 price point in tact or price postcards higher to make a profit on sales through their apps.

Coincidentally, Sincerely’s SDK release comes just two days after Apple announced that it would enter the greeting card business with Cards, an iPhone application for creating, printing and sending greeting cards.

Brezina sees the Cards app as a competitor, but does not view it as a substantial threat to Sincerely’s business. In part because, he asserts, gifting is not Apple’s core business focus."

“We believe very strongly that a printed photo is this gift that every person on the street would appreciate,” Brezina says."

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Steve Jobs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Steve Jobs
Jobs holding a white iPhone 4 at Worldwide Developers Conference 2010
Born	Steven Paul Jobs February 24, 1955[1] San Francisco, California, U.S.[1]
Died	October 5, 2011 (aged 56)
Cause of death	Pancreatic cancer
Alma mater	Reed College (one semester in 1972)
Occupation	Chairman, Apple Inc.
Years active	1974–2011
Net worth	$8.3 billion (2011)[2]
Board member of	The Walt Disney Company,[3]Apple, Inc.
Religion	Buddhism[4]
Spouse	Laurene Powell Jobs (m. 1991–2011; his death)
Children	4
Relatives	Mona Simpson (sister)
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Steve Jobs

"Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011)^[5][6][7] was an American computer entrepreneur and inventor. He was co-founder,^[8] chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc.^[9][10] Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer.^[11]

In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula^[8] and others designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Macintosh.^[12][13] After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985,^[14][15] Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets. Apple's subsequent 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he served as its CEO from 1997 until 2011.

In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd which was spun off asPixar Animation Studios.^[16] He remained CEO and majority shareholder at 50.1 percent until its acquisition by The Walt Disney company in 2006.^[17] Consequently Jobs became Disney's largest individual shareholder at 7 percent and a member of Disney's Board of Directors.^[18][19] On August 24, 2011, Jobs announced his resignation from his role as Apple's CEO.

On October 5, 2011, Apple announced that Jobs had died at age 56 due to pancreatic cancer.^{[20][21][22][23]"}

Syria, Germany, Armenia...

"Jobs was born in San Francisco^[1] and was adopted by the Armenian family of Paul and Clara Jobs (née Hagopian)^[24] of Mountain View, California.^[5] Paul and Clara later adopted a daughter, Patti. Jobs' biological parents – Abdulfattah John Jandali, a Syrian Muslim immigrant to the U.S from Homs,^[25][26] who later became a political science professor,^[27] and Joanne Schieble (later Simpson), an American graduate student^[28] of German ancestry^[29] who went on to become a speech language pathologist^[30] – eventually married. The marriage produced Jobs' biological sister, novelist Mona Simpson.^[31] Jandali claims that he didn't want to put Jobs up for adoption but that Simpson's parents did not approve of her marrying a Syrian. Jandali was estranged from Jobs and never contacted him."

"Jobs always aspired to position Apple and its products at the forefront of the information technology industry by foreseeing and setting trends, at least in innovation and style. He summed up that self-concept at the end of his keynote speech at the Macworld Conference and Expo in January 2007 by quoting ice hockey legendWayne Gretzky:^[77]

There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will.

—Steve Jobs"

"Jobs was also a fan of The Beatles. He referred to them on multiple occasions at Keynotes and also was interviewed on a showing of a Paul McCartney concert. When asked about his business model on 60 Minutes, he replied:^[88]

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other's negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in business are not done by one person, they are done by a team of people."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs

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LEPORIDS (RABBITS and HARES). Another one of my non-traditional MAXIMUM CARDS with YOTH (Year of the Hare), from USA, made with a folded card which I can "postcardize" anytime, should I want. Should I? Pictorial postmark from Los Angeles, California, February 5, 2011

LEPORIDS (RABBITS and HARES). Another one of my non-traditional MAXIMUM CARDS with YOTH (Year of the Hare), from USA, made with a folded card which I can "postcardize" anytime, should I want. Should I? Pictorial postmark from Los Angeles, California, February 5, 2011.

All domestic LEPORIDS are rabbits.

The one above has flaccid downward ears.

The wild ones, rabbits and hares - don't.

What happens when a heart shape elongates its lobes? Won't it resemble a hare head shape, with upward ears? Find it in the above image.

If not, I'll find it for ya.

See my previous blogpost about the differences between RABBITS and HARES:

http://dorincard.blogspot.com/2011/04/part-1-whats-difference-between-rabbits.html

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2011

Guest Heart Thursday #78

Welcome to Guest Heart Thursday -
A place to share YOUR heart!

I like what Merrie Casteel commented at mashable.com: "Having just learned STEVE JOBS has passed, I can’t help but quote his words from 2005. “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.” In the end, no matter how much money or how much impact you have on the world, we all die. It is the one thing we truly all have in common. If that doesn’t change the way you live, I don’t know what will."

See the 10 slides here:
http://mashable.com/2011/10/05/apple-cards-greeting-industry/?WT.mc_id=en_my_stories&utm_campaign=My%2BStories&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter

"Were you surprised by Apple’s announcement of the new Cards app for iPhone? You shouldn’t be — it’s a multi-billion dollar industry that has so far weathered the recession better than most.

According to the U.S. Greeting Card Association, Americans send 7 billion greeting cards every year, with the average household buying 30 cards. Retail sales of greeting cards within the States are estimated to be in excess of $7.5 billion.

The figures are no less impressive when you leave U.S. shores."

I like what Merrie Casteel commented at mashable.com:
"Having just learned Steve Jobs has passed, I can’t help but quote his words from 2005.
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.” 
In the end, no matter how much money or how much impact you have on the world, we all die.
It is the one thing we truly all have in common.
If that doesn’t change the way you live, I don’t know what will."
http://mashable.com/2011/10/05/apple-cards-greeting-industry/?WT.mc_id=en_my_stories&utm_campaign=My%2BStories&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter

My maximum card with a computer keyboard key. More images here: 

http://s289.photobucket.com/albums/ll201/dorincard/World%20collections/United%20States/?start=all

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