Sharing pictures on Twitter, Facebook and Flickr is cool and all, but real friends know that the only place for showing off photos is the refrigerator door, stuck there with a novelty magnet. Who, though, can be bothered to visit the lab and actually get their photos printed?
Thanks to Shutterfly’s new Wink service, you can get your photos to a fridge anywhere in the world without leaving the comfort of your own iPhone. The iPhone app takes pics from your camera roll, your Facebook account or even your Flickr stream, prints them on proper photo paper and posts them to the address of your choice. Best of all is the format, which is a long thin (2 x 6″) strip just like those that plop out of the slot on photo-booths, which is where the young ‘uns used to hang out and get their photos taken in the olden days.
Once installed, you can sign into your online accounts and pick photos. Resize and arrange them and then hit “send”. Choose an address from your iPhone’s address book and you’re good to go — the strip will be mailed direct (or sent via email if you really want). Wink comes with one credit to let you try it out (I have sent menacing pictures of drums and hippies being dismembered to my ex-flatmate), and further strips can be bought for $2.50, which is probably less than a photo-booth session these days.
I have a sample of the strips which I picked up from Wink last week. The quality is great, and you don’t have to worry that you ruined a picture by blinking.
Wink Product page [Shutterfly]
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