With another holiday season here the decision of what photo, design or greeting to use on the family holiday card is upon many.
If you use Red River’s inkjet greeting cards you can use them all.
Using the company’s photo note card paper at home, with your own printer creates a custom greeting card for less than $1.00 per card according to Drew Hendrix, vice-president of Dallas based Red River Paper.
This factors in the costs of the envelope, ink and paper. The paper is pre-scored for easy folding and available in a variety surfaces including glossy, fine art, linen, matte and specialty textured papers.
They also give you a variety of sizes with 4×6, 5×7, 4×9-inch choices along with thank you note sized cards. Remember, these are the sizes after the card is folded to placed in an envelope
To make it a simple one stop shopping, the company also sells colorful translucent envelopes in a variety of colors to make a perfect match with the custom designed cards.
Red River’s inkjet greeting cards are made with surfaces to work with all of today’s dye and pigment based inkjet printers.
“We find that a wide variety of customers from professional photographers to the occasional home printer find on-demand greeting card printing to be cost effective, convenient, and more personal compared to store bought greetings,” said Hendrix.
To help users design and produce the cards, Red River’s web site offers some great assistance – for free!
The site offers some great help for card layout and printer setup along with videos and lessons for color management and printer maintenance.
www.redriverpaper.com/cardshop
The iP1 iPod/iPhone dock from iHome is part of the companies Studio Series, which was launched earlier this year.
With an exclusive partnership with Bongiovi Acoustics and their patented Digital Power Station technology users will hear a solid sounding desktop system.
If you’re scratching your head about the term Bongiovi Acoustics, the founder is Tony Bongiovi a cousin of John Bon Jovi, who also produced some of his music.
This sound system was designed to deliver great sound to current recordings as well as improve the sound on older tunes, which weren’t recorded up to today’s standards.
The added feature can be turned on and off depending on the sound being delivered and what is needed. For a neat display of the sound feature go to www.ihomeaudio.com/iP1 and hit the “B” button.
I found the system to be much more consistent with the extra feature off, but it’s a nice option to have.
What this all translates to is a great looking system, which delivers room filling sound from a pair of 4-inch glass-fiber woofers and 1-inch silk dome tweeters with a 100 watt amp. It’s advertised as distortion-free and that it is.
The unit also has a video out port for hooking up a display for viewing along with a wireless IR remote. With the remote users can navigate every feature of their iPod/iPhone.
Once docked, the portable players will also get charged.
www.ihomeaudio.com/iP1, $265
To me, the end of the year is the perfect time to use the Verbatim Ultralife Archival Grade DVD’s.
Most people store irreplaceable digital files (still images and videos) on a computer’s hard drive. This is fine until the hard drive dies, which is a guarantee at some point.
Even if you are one of the few who do indeed backup files on CD/DVD media, by using these DVD’s, users can expect these discs to last in excess of 100 years, assuming they have been stored in a proper location.
If you want to know how this is possible, Andy Marken, a company representative explained it this way. The discs are made with a Nobel metal as the recording layer – gold, which is not affected by the environment.
He explained that I can place a disc on the dash of my car down here (Texas) and the disc will warp, whip, what have you, and not be easily readable but the data is still there.
The discs cost more then a standard DVD but you will think they are well worth the money after a hard drive failure.
A good idea might be to burn your digital images on a set of duplicate discs, storing one at your house and a second disc at a different location.
Each disc will hold 4.7GB of data, which translates to thousands of images for most. A 50-pack spindle sells for around $90.00 while a 5-pack is about $15.00.
The Gboard shortcut keyboard makes life easy for the GMAIL users.
With 19 finger-friendly shortcut buttons on the 4.88 X 3.5 X .38-inch unit, users simply have to hit one of them to access simple things like spam and trash.
Each button is color-coded for simplicity and laid out in categories based on tasks.
Other buttons include access to compose, forward, search, select, results, show stars, escape, reply, reply all, archive, next thread, previous thread, next message, previous message, inbox and open/close.
Users won’t have to load any software to use it and both Mac and Windows users can connect the keyboard to any open USB port.
www.gboard.com, $19.99
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