This may be the coolest iPod app I've ever seen. GoPostal is a service app for iPhones that allows you to snap a photo, compose your own custom message, and send a postcard from your phone or computer. It's dirt cheap and more fun than summer craft camp. Made by a company called Print Your Life the app can be accessed at their website (click on Design a postcard from your computer). You can create an account or be a guest. The process takes seconds and the resulting postcard is not an e-card, it's mailed through the post office. Cost of...

The term "Smartphone" refers to most cell phones in use today. Early cell phones simply made radio-telephone voice conversations possible, but today we find that phones give us lots of extra features like internet, e-mail, text messaging and even computer applications. "Smart" gadgets in anyone's book. The Washington Post called Nokia's entry the most popular, that surprised me. The Post says in a recent article that iPhone will swamp Nokia in 2013. I would have put Apple ahead already, but the typically inflated price point on the iPhone is likely a stumbling block. You can expect a smart phone to: ...

Amazon spit out a new Kindle announcement today. Are they being a little too voluminous with this stuff? Bigger. Ok. Deluxe - well, the price is pretty deluxe, for Amazon profit. And everyone knows the letter "X" is marketing magic. If there's a reason for boomers to care about this product release (sometime during the summer) maybe it's the almost 3X more display real estate. But come on, the price tag!  In a time of econ crunch, belt tightening and rampant job losses? It's very close to $500. $489. Other Kindle features: It'll handle PDF (portable document format) Adobe's ubiquitous...

I don't have an iPhone but I have an iPod Touch, which, when I got it, I figured would not be of much use to me. I was wrong. Because of apps, I use the little bugger all the time - my iPod touch is always at hand. I know people who won't make a move without their iPhone, or some other-brand sort-of equivalents. They app themselves through each day. Do you? The people at Apple told me, "It's the apps!" when I asked them what's so cool about these iPods and iPhones. And they are dead spot on. On Twitter (get an account...

Ezines. Digital newspapers. The moguls have predicted it for years and now it's coming and they can't stop it. The demise of print media as we know it is not far off -- to be replaced by digital readers, iPod publications, Amazon Kindle, cell phones and other tablets. Electronic reading is the way. Here's a terrific piece by Computer World writer Mike Elgan Here Comes The E-book Revolution, Six trends are conspiring to drive electronic books into the mainstream. Take time to read the whole article. I love his comment that today's young people read more than prior generations did. Think about that. I...

Someone is dissin' the Beatles. At first, my hackles were raised as this Canadian journalist explained, in great detail, how possibly irrelevant much of the Beatles' music is to the digital music world of today. Lynn Crosbie's piece, Boomers Have Dictated Popular Taste Too Long in the Globe and Mail is fairly forthright - and makes sense. Her hook is that there's talk of the Beatles catalog being released in digital format for media players, iPods and so forth. Crosbie doesn't see this as a huge gain for the world. Consider one of her comments, "Those tyrants, the baby boomers, have dictated popular taste...