To send someone a greeting, go to the site, choose which birthday song you want the person to hear, then type his/her phone number, name and hit send. While the messages can be send anywhere around the globe, the free version is limited to US and Canada only.

See BirthdayDialer coverage on FOX news:

Features:

• Send free birthday greeting via phone.
• Free option only available for US and Canada.
• Send as many messages as you like.
• Provides variety of birthday greetings to chose from.
• Free greeting will have a short ad from the sponsors at the end.
• Purchase tokens to remove ads and customize your message.
• Greetings can be send anywhere worldwide.
• Similar sites: RSSBirthday, BirthdayAlarm and FlyGreetings.

Check out BirthdayDialer @ www.birthdaydialer.com

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In a similar manner you can create a wishlist of gifts and contact the people who intend to give you gifts. They can choose to send the full price or a portion of the amount. Lottay tracks the funds you accumulate in the process and whether they are enough to buy the desired gift item.

Features:

• Giving and receiving gifts made simple.
• Quickly send and receive gift ideas and funds.
• Create an e-card with a personal message to send it along with the gift item proposal.
• Track money received from various donors.
• Free to sign-up and use.
• Similar sites: Wishlr, TigerBow, Webgiftr and GiftGen.

Check out Lottay @ www.lottay.com (via Lifehacker ) (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Wantz.it: Online Wish List Builder
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There are two ways to add items:

1. Browse and search Wishpot for products and add them to your wish list. Wishpot aggregates thousands of items from different online merchants allowing you to find products by various features. You can also view the most popular wishlist items and get ideas from other members’ wish lists.



2. Install Wishpot button on your browser toolbar and add items to your wishlist directly from sites like Amazon, BestBuy, Shopping… etc. Watch the demo below to see this feature in action:

Features:

• Discover and add your favorite products to your wishlist from any online store.
• Search and compare item prices from thousands of online merchants.
• Get price alerts when an item in your list goes on sale.
• Share your wishlists with friends and family.
• Import Amazon wishlist items.
• Organize wishlist items into various lists i.e. wedding registry, baby registry, gift ideas etc.
• Similar websites: Lisingly, Wishlr, Wantz.it.

Check out Wishpot @ www.wishpot.com (via AppScout)

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It has a good selection of pleasing e-card designs with new ones being added every day. Browse e-cards by category (Birthday, Christmas, Apology etc) or search with keywords. You can send an e-card up to 5 people by email, customize the underlying message and choose when exactly you want it sent.

Features:

• Directory of unique, stylish and well-designed online designer e-cards
• E-cards don’t contain annoying music or flash animation
• Send e-cards by email up to 5 people at a time.
• Free, no registration
• Similar websites: CardFunk, VoxCard and several others.

Check out FlyGreetings @ www.flygreetings.com (via GeekSugar)

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Once you are done, just save it and send it out. You can also browse and send eCards created by other artists and even see how they created it with the “replay” option.

Features:

• Draw and send personal ecards.
• Choose and send from hundreds of eCards made by other users.
• Rate eCards created by others and download them as wallpapers.
• Post comments on eCards or share them with your friends.
• Use your Facebook ID to login.
• Also see YouTube’s Holiday Cards and Disney E-Cards.

Check out PenCake @ www.pencake.com (by Tehseen from Ijaar.com)

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GotFreeCards is the quick, hassle-free way to send animated ecards to a loved one, coworker or friend, whether for a special occasion or just to say hello! It provides you with free animated ecards for Birthday, Mother’s Day, Get Well Soon, Holiday, Friendship etc. You can customize the ecards by adding an image or by uploading music to give it a personal touch.

In order to send a free ecard:

1. Select a card that suits your style, browse by occasion category and click on the “E-mail this card” button.

2. Add recipient name and e-mail address, then personalize your card with a special message, photo or song.

3. When completed click “Send this card”.

The site also has Printable Cards and Event Reminders sections.

Printable Cards segment allows you to design your own card and print it out. It provides you with a template, to which you can upload a photo or choose one of the many images available on the site. You can also add your own personal note or choose from among the many message options available.

Event Reminders section lets you set alerts with the event details and get reminded by email for free.

Features:

• Send animated ecards for free.
• Customize the ecards by adding an image or uploading music.
• Option to review a card after it’s been sent.
• Includes event reminders and printable cards.
• Free, No registration required.

Check out GotFreeCards @ www.got-free-ecards.com (by Srikanth AD from Techonaut)

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There is no limit on the number of dates you want to track and you can easily add and delete birthday entries anytime you want.

Features:

• Get feed alerts for birthdays and other events.
• Add as many birthdays as you like.
• Customize how many days in advance you want be notified.
• Free and no registration.
• Similar: BirthdayAlarm and RemiMe.

Check out RSSBirthday @ www.rssbirthday.net

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When you visit the site, you will see the bouquet in the middle with the flowers on the left. You can choose the bouquet and its color and also choose from a wide range of flowers to drag an drop into the bouquet. Here’s a sample bouquet which I created.

I sent the bouquet to myself and received the email almost immediately. The email had a link, which when clicked took me to the page which had the bouquet plus the greeting card (a tag rather) hanging onto it.

Hence it’s a hassle free, fun tool to send quick greetings.

Check out Flowers2mail @ www.flowers2mail.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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Oh and, you don’t need a microphone to record your voice greetings, instead call the provided number and say your greeting.

Features:

• Send virtual postcards with voice greetings to any email.
• Choose the postcard you like.
• Add text, change text color, font type, and font size.
• Record your voice greetings by calling given number.
• Similar website: Postcard.fm – for sending postcards with songs.

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Start with uploading an image then add a brief message and the address where it should be shipped to. HazelMail will then print and ship the postcard. There is a flat postage fee of $1.50, regardless of destination. A lot more vonvenient than going tothe post office.

Features:

• Design your own postcard and mail anywhere in the World.
• Creating postcards is free, you only pay flat postage fee of $1.50.
• Mail postcard anywhere in the world (where the postman can deliver).

Check out HazelMail @ www.hazelmail.com

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So next time you want to send someone a free greetings or birthday e-card try postcard.fm.

Features:

• Generate and send customizable electronic postcards.
• Create and email as many postcards as you like.
• Upload images and MP3s from you computer.
• Supported image formats: jpeg, png, & gif.
• Max. allowed MP3 file size: 20MB
• No sign-up or registration needed.

Check out Postcard.fm @ www.postcard.fm (via blog.go2web20.net)

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There are several ways to get the alerts including email, SMS and voice messages. Depending on the alert type you’ll be presented with different choices. For instance, a wake-up call alert can be delivered only via voice message. A birthday or news alerts can be delivered via text message or email. For match scores you can select any notification method you want. Basically, available delivery methods depend on the alert type.

Getting started is very simple. First you need to sign-up and get yourself an account, it’s free. Once the account is ready you can begin adding alerts. To add an alert, simply select the alert type, fill out the required fields, and choose how you would like to get it. Click “Save” and you’re done.

You can see and manage all of the alerts you have subscribed to from MyAlerts page. Demo Girl put together a nice video screencast showing this and other Alerts.com features in action, check it out here.

Please note, Alerts.com is a free service and doesn’t charge you anything for using their service. The only charges you may incur are those from your service provider. For instance, if your mobile carrier charges you for receiving text messages then the same will apply for messages originating from Alerts.com. You can read more about it here.

Go to Alerts @ www.alerts.com

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If you want to purchase or check the price for one of the listed gift ideas then just follow the link to one of the price comparison sites (UK only). However, if you’re from the US then you can search for the item on sites like PriceGrabber.

Features:

• Get gift ideas for different type of people.
• Browse suggested gift items by category.
• Check gift prices on price comparison sites like Froogle, Kelkoo, Dealtime, and PriceGrabber.
• No sign up or registration required.

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One great thing about RemiMe is that it’s very fast and easy to set it up. Import contacts, set reminder settings, done.

Features:

• Receive important event and birthday remainders by email.
• Manage birthdays and other events you want to be reminded about online.
• Add as many events as you need (no restrictions).
• Set how many times you want RemiMe to reminde you.
• Quickly import your contacts from GMail, YahooMail and HotMail.
• Search events online.
• Coming soon: SMS import, Facebook application, RSS feeds.

Go to RemiMe @ www.remime.com

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How It Works?: Basically, once you open account you can either enter birthdays manually or send mass email to all of your friends and ask them to do it.

Hi

Please click on the link below and enter your birthday into my calendar. It’s quick, easy and you’ll be helping me out:-).

http://www.birthdayalarm.com/dob/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

YourName

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