Picwing Blog

Get Free Prints for Your Picwing Album

edawerd — Mon, 24 May 2010 21:45:19 +0000

You can now get extra prints for your album just for telling your friends about Picwing. For every friend who tries Picwing, we’ll give you 10 extra prints for each of the recipients on your album. Your friends will also get 2 months of Picwing’s service for free – a credit card isn’t even required for them to try Picwing.

You can refer your friends through http://[your picwing album].picwing.com/refer

For example, if your Picwing album is ‘kimfamily’, refer your friends by going to: http://kimfamily.picwing.com/refer

Get 2 Months of Photo Printing Free — No Credit Card required

edawerd — Mon, 10 May 2010 21:55:57 +0000

We just made it even easier to try out Picwing. You can get Picwing’s photo printing service free for 2 months. The free plan includes 15 prints/month printed and shipped to your recipient twice a month. The catch? We only ask that you use your mom, grandma, or any other loved one other than yourself as the recipient.

No credit card is required — you provide your credit card information only if you decide to continue the service after 2 months.

Make someone you love happy: Starting sending photos to them for free in just 30 seconds

Give Grandma the Perfect Mother’s Day Gift

edawerd — Sun, 02 May 2010 00:11:58 +0000

Mother’s Day is May 9th! Surprise grandma this year with the perfect Mother’s Day gift – a Picwing subscription. All you have to do is occasionally upload or email photos to your Picwing album and we’ll make sure to mail them to grandma twice a month. She’ll love receiving fresh photos of the grandkids in the mail regularly!

Signup and upload your photos by May 2nd, and get a free Mother’s Day shipment

Signup for a Picwing subscription using the special link below, and upload some photos by May 2nd, 11:59pm. We’ll send out a special shipment of your photos to grandma in time for Mother’s Day. You’ll even get your first month’s service for free! There’s no better way to introduce Picwing!

♥ Signup here for the Mother’s Day special

Happy Mother’s Day from Picwing!

Helpful Links for Mothers

edawerd — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:52:58 +0000

In honor of upcoming Mother’s Day, we’ve made a few informational pages that give helpful tips and guidelines to various things related to motherhood and raising young ones. Some of the topics we cover include baby shower gifts, gift ideas for babies, baby scrapbooking, baby products, keeping in touch with parents, and grandmother’s baby showers. Going forward, we’ll be introducing new topics on a periodic basis, so check back frequently!

Happy Mother’s Day

Introducing the Picwing Printing API

edawerd — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:13:11 +0000

Today we’re happy to announce the Picwing Printing API.

Picwing customers love our service because it’s the easiest way to get their photos printed and mailed to loved ones. You can send photos to be printed through a variety of channels, including printing through iPhone, Android, Picasa, our Desktop Application, through email, or simply through our web interface.

In our continual mission to find new and easier ways for our customers to have their photos printed, we’re announcing the Picwing Printing API. If you have a service or application that handles a user’s photos, you can use the API to send those photos to the user’s Picwing account for automatic printing. Picwing will know who to print and mail those photos to, as well as when they want their mailed out. If the user does not have a Picwing account, they can easily signup for a monthly or pay-as-you-go account and try it out for free.

Integrating the Picwing Printing API is a great way to give Picwing account holders one less step in getting their photos printed. It’s also a great way to provide a photo printing option to your customers through our service.

The Printing API uses the OAuth protocol, so integration is secure and simple. We have a great OAuth tutorial for Ruby on Rails applications.

To get started, signup for an API key. We hope to see some interesting applications offer a photo printing option soon!

Print and Mail Your Favorite Photos Directly From Your iPhone!

echamussy — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:09:38 +0000

We are happy to announce the release of our free iPhone application. This is yet another great way for our users to send photo prints to their loved ones.

The Picwing iPhone application is available in the app store and it is very easy to use. Once the app is linked to your existing Picwing account, you only need to take a picture from your phone or select an already existing photo to have it mailed and printed – the photos are automatically sent to Picwing’s service and physically mailed to your distribution list of friends and family.

The iPhone application also lets you browse your photos, review the status of your prints, and even add a personal message to the back of each photo. New users can register for the service directly from their phone.

We are very excited to provide this new feature to our users. Please let us know if you have any comments or suggestions.

No more excuses not to send photo prints to the grandma!

Get the app here:

Keep in touch with relatives living abroad in 52 different countries

edawerd — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:38:32 +0000

“greggwenger: @picwing Would LOVE to use your service ! Why don’t you send to Switzerland ?”

A lot of our customers like to use Picwing to keep in touch with their relatives living abroad by sending photos home.

We’ve supported shipping to 20 different counties in the past. Today, we’re happy to announce shipping to 32 more countries. That’s right, you can now use Picwing to send photos to 52 different countries!

Here’s is our full list of countries we ship photos to:

Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Cayman Islands
Chile
China
Columbia
Costa Rica
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Malaysia
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Russian Federation
Singapore
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States
Venezuela
Vietnam

Kodak Gallery import working again

edawerd — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:38:43 +0000

If you’ve tried to migrate your photos from Kodak Gallery to Picwing.com lately, you’ll notice that it wasn’t working anymore. This was due to the fact that Kodak substantially changed their website, breaking the import script we adapted from Axon Flux.

We’re happy to report that the script is once again working. So, if you want to move your photos from Kodak Gallery to Picwing.com, where we won’t delete your photos, you can do it now.

Check out our original post on how to get your photos out of Kodak.

Print Photos directly from Picasa

edawerd — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:44:03 +0000

Google Picasa is one of the best Windows-based software for managing all your photos on your computer. With Picasa, getting your photos from your digital camera to your computer is usually as simple as connecting the USB cable. We want to make printing photos just as easy.

With the new Picwing plugin for Picasa (that’s a mouthful to say!), you can print your photos directly from Picasa with a push of a button! Simply select some pictures in Picasa, hit the “Send prints” button, and your photos are automatically uploaded to your Picwing album and queued to be mailed to all your recipients!

Learn more and download the print photos plugin for Picasa!

Print Photos Directly from Your Android Phone

edawerd — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:34:42 +0000

We’ve just released the world’s first mobile application that allows printing of photos from your phone. Using the “Print & Mail Photos” Android app, Picwing users need only snap a photo using the built-in camera on their phone to have them printed – the photos are automatically sent to the Picwing service and mailed to the user’s photo distribution list. If GPS is enabled on your phone, the nearest street address of the location that the photo was taken is even printed on the back of the photo!

The mobile application makes it even easier than it already is for users of the Picwing service to have 4”x6” photos printed and mailed to their friends and family.

So why did we decide to release a phone app? Modern smart phones now have 3+ megapixel camera, GPS, and fast internet connectivity, all within a portable form-factor that you can take anywhere, making it ideal to be used as a photo printing device. The “openness” of modern phone operating systems, such as Android, also allows us to integrate photo printing very nicely into the phone’s user interface.

Oh yeah, you can, of course browse and see all of your photos from the phone application, as well as see the print status of all your printed photos.

Downloaded the app for free! Just search for “Picwing” from the Android Market.