Father’s Day is a week from Sunday. No card yet? No ideas? There’s an app for that.
For those with Android-based smartphones, Fathers Day Wishes from Zephyrzone Studios in the Google Play store is a free app for making electronic greeting cards.
The program’s description lists its strong points a having “professionally designed Father’s Day images with beautiful text,” which can be shared on Whatsapp, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, Line and many other social media sites.
At the Apple App Store, a similar program, titled Father’s Day Wishes & Cards, is also available free.
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For the grilling dad, apps are available to cover all manner of backyard barbecue methods and grills. A top-rated app, available for both Android and Apple smartphones, is How To BBQ Right.
The app is by Malcom Reed, a YouTube personality who has amassed a 1.2-million-plus following. “I spend my life cooking,” says Reed, “mostly slow​-smoked barbecue.”
For those with a printer at home, Woman’s Day offers 43 printable card designs – the type that goes into an envelop and gets delivered by mail. (So hop to it if you want to get it delivered by the weekend.)
Here’s the link:Â www.tinyurl.com/PrintFDayCards. An example of one of those designs is included with this column. It is from Aubree Originals.
And if other ideas fall short, Amazon offers more than a dozen books that are collections of “bad Dad jokes.” Example: “I thought the dryer was shrinking my clothes. But as it turned out, it was the refrigerator.”
Lonnie Brown can be reached at LedgerDatabase@aol.com.
