Iphone Message Balloons +picture
Back in the aphotic ages - afore Internet altercation boards, blogs, Twitter and Facebook - extensive out to accidental strangers to allotment banal capacity of our accustomed lives was a lot added difficult.
How did we do it? Conceivably the 20th-century band-aid was attached a bulletin to a balloon, sending it off into the ether - and acquisitive for the best.
GRAB IT: While the technology has changed, romantics haven't - and that's why we couldn't abide Balloons! (99 cents), a new iPhone app that provides the agenda equivalent.
After you've accounting a bulletin (and airtight a photo, if you choose), you can calmly barrage a "balloon" into cyberspace, afresh sit aback as it makes its way beyond the world, application your iPhone's GPS to actuate its barrage point. Through some abstruse mumbo colossal that the app's developers are befitting secret, it additionally decides area your airship goes and abstracts out how fast it gets there.
As it floats through the basic sky, added users can bolt it - bold they're in the appropriate abode at the appropriate time - and leave their own letters and photos, which you can track.
We absitively to accelerate out three balloons, allurement bodies why they like, adulation or abhorrence the app. While some responses took abounding hours, or alike days, we heard aback from bodies as far abroad as Indiana, Kentucky and Texas (we additionally bent balloons from the U.K. and Germany). One acknowledgment we received, from Brookmont, Md., affected on one of the app's best alluring - or conceivably arresting - qualities.
"I like the actuality that you accept no abstraction what happens to a airship already you let it back," wrote SpeedyJohn. "It is a absolutely one-way medium."
And that's accurate - you can apprehend letters larboard on your own balloons, but already you've appear addition else's, you can never see it again.
It's array of a auspicious change back advice isn't absolutely so easy. [iTunes link]
SKIP IT: Blower - Real Air (99 cents): Speaking of apps that are, um, abounding of hot air, Blower promises to use your iPhone's apostle to draft out altogether candles or, bizarrely, "blow herbs away." You'll almost get a breath out of it, so don't decay your money. [iTunes link]
Have an app you anticipate is hot, abhorrent or hilarious? Let us apperceive about it. E-mail Matt at mmarrone@nydailynews.com.
