Let’s face it, location scouting is hard work. And Map-A-Pic is the app that helps you with that work. But what if you want to take a break, and share a beautiful view with your loved ones? We’ve built a new app for that, called Stampie. Stampie is a simple and pretty-looking app that creates electronic postcards — with your smiling face in them! It takes 5 seconds or less to create a such a postcard.

1) Take a picture of something beautiful with your iPhone

2) the app switches to the front-facing camera so you can take a picture of yourself. That picture goes into the virtual “postage stamp.”

3) Your postcard is “stamped” with the current date and your city.

That’s it. You can move and resize the stamp if you want, or you can just save or share the postcard! It’s a fun and unique way to share the joy with your loved ones. So, next time you’re out scouting for locations, send someone a Stampie postcard, and brighten their day!

Stampie is available on any iPhone or iPhone touch that has a front-facing camera. It currently sells for US$0.99 or equivalent amount in other currencies. App Store link.

The new version (1.4) also includes a fix for emailing locations with lots of pictures. In the older versions, emailing a location with about 8 or more pictures would cause the app to run out of available memory, and the emailing would fail. Now we resize the pictures before sending them, so you can email locations with as many as 20 pictures and more.

Thanks for using Map-A-Pic, and stay tuned for more updates!

Good news again! We’ve released a FREE version of Map-A-Pic. So now you can try our app before you buy it! Map-A-Pic Lite has the same great features as the full app, except:

1. The app can have up to 5 locations in its database (vs. unlimited in the full version). Once you have 5 locations, you can add new ones if you delete some of the older ones.
2. The Sun Insights feature only available for your current position, for today. With the full version, you can view the Sun Insights for any of your saved locations, for any day in the future. In case you didn’t know, Sun Insights is our new feature that shows the times of sunrise, sunset, and the morning and evening Golden hour.

If you want to try out Map-A-Pic risk-free, why not download it now?

Another new feature in this version is the built-in picture editor. Now, you can tweak the pictures of your locations by improving their color balance, cropping, and applying some exciting filters.

We have also refreshed the look of our app, making it much prettier, and made some important improvements to the location list/map view. Now it’s much easier to flip between the list and map views of your saved locations. If you search your locations, or filter them by tags, that search or filter will apply when you switch from the list to the map view, and vice versa.

The new location details screen now is now much more spacious, with the pictures and the notes getting their own full-screen view. Just tap on “Details”, “Pictures” or “Notes” at the top to switch to the section you want.

The “Sun” button at the bottom takes you to the Sun Insights screen, where you can see the sunrise/sunset/Golden hour times for this particular location.

These are just some of the great features included in Map-A-Pic Location Scout 1.2. If you already own the app, be sure to download this free update. And if you don’t have it yet, get it from the App Store now!

If you’re a blogger and would like to post a preview, possibly an exclusive one, of the new version before it hits the App Store, let me know! I’ll send you the screenshots, the press kit, and answer your questions  about the app. Your readers will thank you for that information!

If we get 25 qualified requests or less, we’ll send the free download codes to everyone who emailed us. If we get more than 25 requests, we’ll determine the winners in a fair and unbiased computer-based drawing

We’re looking forward to making this small contribution to the community. Please pass along this offer to all your friends who are eligible to participate!

The submissions end on May 20, 2012, May 23, 2012, 23:59 pm Pacific Standard Time. We’ll email the free download codes by May 23 May 25.

Our promise and fine print:

• We will NOT share your email with anyone.  We hate spam too.
• We will NOT put you on any mailing list. We know you get enough email already
• We may, however, email you individually to follow up and ask about your experience with our app
• This offer is void where prohibited

Please leave a comment or email me if you have any questions about this giveaway!

- Pavel

Stop by and say hi!

I have a number of cool features lined up for the future releases of Map-A-Pic for iPhone. One of them will definitely be the iPad support. I know you love your iPads and want to have Map-A-Pic running on them. I’m going to make sure it happens. There are other features as well, but I’ll keep them secret for now. Send me your suggestions! If I get enough users talking about the features they want, then we can use the democratic process to decide which ones should be addressed first. So don’t be a stranger and write me.

One more thing. If you like the app, please consider leaving a positive review on the App Store. If you can, like us on Facebook, or tweet about us. It’s hard to promote an indy app, and every little thing helps. In return, you’ll get more exciting app updates, my undying gratitude and +50 points to your karma.

Enjoy my app, take great pictures, and take care!

Pavel
Seattle, Washington

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