I find new gadgets mainly by staring at my computer screen when I should be doing something else. Something else important. Something else with a deadline. Something else I have no desire to actually do.

And that’s exactly how I stumbled onto Grip’d Ltd’s Send to All app. It was made by a developer in Boca Raton whose owner is also the CBS12 tech correspondent in South Florida, where I monitor current events to tweet for Manta Ray Inn. He put out a message looking for an intern.

From sand to sending ... a typical day on the Internet.

I don’t know a soul who could help him in South Florida, but I clicked on his profile because my other option was to write a blog post. And I followed the link to his website. At some point in the surfing, a photo of my friend Teresa Mears popped up as one of his followers, which made me feel all warm and fuzzy.

Please tell me this is also how you waste time on the Internet, because it’s getting embarrassing.

All this screwing around resulted in my charging .99 to Discover for the Send To All app, which is designed to allow me to set up groups and email them rom my iPhone without typing in individual addresses. Until that moment, I hadn’t realized this was a problem because I’ve never used my phone to contact multiple persons with the same message.

Wonder if that’s because it’s a pain in the butt and I automatically steered around it?

To try it out, of course, you have to sync it to your iPhone, a process in which I somehow managed to erase my entire phone contents and had to rebuild it. Then sync it. So far, as a procrastination tool, Send To All is scoring very well with me.

Fortunately for people who aren’t killing time, setting up mailing groups is as simple as typing a name and clicking among your contact list to add them to that list. Mailchimp integration is coming soon. I’m going to guess that it emails these groups just fine – I didn’t actually have anything to say to our partner list I built, so the research came to a screaming halt at that point.

The only suggestion I have is that they make this for the iPad because I’m far more likely to talk to a group of people on that tool than I am my iPhone, which I relegate to GPS driving directions, my bar code scanner, and texting these days.

Unless, of course, fiddling with the phone gets me out of something else …