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.

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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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1. By phone – Call provided number and speak to record.
2. Text-to-speech – Enter your text and let the app convert it to audio.
3. via Mic – Use your computer microphone.
4. upload file – Upload an existing audio file.

When the audio is ready, AudioPal will send the link to your email address. Just follow that link to get the embed code for your site.

Features:

• Create embeddable audio greetings and alerts for your site or web profile.
• Create as many audio alerts as you like.
• Set your audio alert to auto-play on every page load or new visitor.
• Free, no registration needed.
• Similar tools: ProfileGreeting.

Check out AudioPal @ www.audiopal.com

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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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Cards are organized under different categories like birthday, friendship, love and more. You can also check out editor’s pick and popular cards section to see the cards popular among users.

You can also submit cards you’ve created. No sign up required for sending an e-card. Type in the email address and you’re done. Cards are ranked on the basis of viewers’ ratings.

Features :

• Online greeting card designer.
• Create  and send personalized e-cards (free) and printed cards (paid).
• Choose from a category or look for the popular ones.
• Submit cards you’ve created.
• No sign up required for sending an e-card.
• Cards ranked by viewers’ ratings.
• Similar sites: PenCake and GotFreeCards.

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To start first register on the website. Then go to the recorder page and click on “record a new greeting” to start recording. When finished recording, you can replay it, and if satisfied copy paste the embed code onto your website.

Features:

• Record sound greetings and add them to your site.
• Record as many greetings as you like.
• Lets you host only 3 recordings at any given time.
• Replay your recordings and embed them onto your site, blog or personal webpage.
• Free and easy to use.

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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.

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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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Moreover, you can add music, text and other fun effects to the greeting and send to friends via link and email.

Features

• Create funky greeting crds and virtual Christmas cards online.
• Add your pictures to dancing Santa Clause and Santa’s Elf.
• Add music, text and other effects to greeting cards.
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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.

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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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