Thankuz is a free to use website that lets you send online thank you notes to friends. You start by signing up for an account and then modifying a preformed thank you according to your specifications. You can choose what the note is for and the theme for the note using the buttons below it.

You can also add an optional image to go with the note. The image needs to be less than 1MB in size. The note itself can be emailed to your friend or shared with them on Facebook or Twitter. Your thank you note is also published on a unique URL where visitors can view it and leave comments after signing.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you send online thank-you notes.
• Offers various themes for the notes.
• Lets you select note type.
• You can add a photograph with the note.
• Note is published on a unique URL.

Check out Thankuz @ http://thankuz.com (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

Anyone can immediately start making their own beast upon entering the website since creating an account is optional. When making or editing a beast, you get to choose its body, arms, legs, eyes, mouth hat, background, as well as each body part’s corresponding color. After building a beast, your creation will be saved in the website’s beast gallery, so that other people can also view and use them.

Grabba Beast is a fun and entertaining monster generation website and it offers a handful of things that you can do to these user-generated monsters. Give the site a visit and unleash the monster from within you.

Features:

• Build your very own customized beast.
• Browse, rate, comment, and edit beasts that are created by other users.
• Share a beast to your friends via email, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Mixx, Blogger, Tumblr, Delicious, or StumbleUpon.
• Order a poster of a beast.
• Send an ecard featuring a beast.
• Download wallpapers of a beast (you may choose the size of the image).
• Similar Tools: Mashuparts, Someecards, Pingg, and Postcard.fm.

Check out Grabba Beast @ www.grabbabeast.com

To create a Face eCard, you can upload your photo and fit your face to the area of the eCard by resizing and rotating your picture. You can then preview the photo to watch your face in the animated card, or click done to complete the changes. You are now ready to fill out the form and send it to your friends. It took me around 30 seconds to create an animated face eCard and send it to my co-worker, so creating your own will be quick.

You can choose between 17 templates covering different occasions with more features and templates to be added in the future. This tool is ideal for anyone who loves to work on friends’ funny face and putting it on a cartoonish animation for ultimate fun!

Features:

• Free; no sign up required
• Needs flash to work
• Plaster your face in an animated eCard
• Resize or rotate any image to fit the face into the card area
• Take 30 seconds to create a Face eCard and send it
• More features to be added
• Find out newest templates

Check out GotFreeCards @ www.got-free-ecards.com/face-ecards

The website start with a gallery of different-sized cards.  Top categories include Christmas, Father’s Day, Thank You, Easter, Thanksgiving, Birthday, and more. Once you have selected the card template that you want, a flash interface will load to help you customize your card. Upload a photo to add and manipulate your cover image. You can also rotate, zoom, or resize photos that will best fit the design.

You can also change the text styles, resize the text, or edit the current text and replace it with a personal message. In addition, you can select several sticker designs that you can add to your card. You can save the card for future editing or print it directly from the website.

Printable-Cards is a nice and easy alternative to e-cards and expensive holiday cards. With this website, you can create real, personal cards that your friends will appreciate while saving lots of money.

Features

• Free; no sign up required.
• Direct printing of cards from the browser.
• Choose from two main sizes.
• Categories include Christmas, Thanksgiving, Birthday, and more.
• Edit picture (resize, rotate, zoom).
• Change color and style of texts.
• Change fonts.

Check out Printable-Cards @ www.printable-cards.gotfreecards.com

Using SendShots only takes three easy steps: record your video, select your recipients, and then send your video. You can preview the video you made before sending. The website also allows you to post a message along with your video.

SendShots is a convenient web tool for creating private personalized video greetings quickly and sending them to your friends and family in time for the holidays.

Features:

• Record and send private video messages to other people.
• Record your message using a webcam.
• Write a message along with your video.
• Send video messages to multiple emails.
• Free, requires a valid email.
• Similar tools: EyeJot and VoxLite.

Check out SendShots @ www.sendshots.com

This fun greeting card service lets you choose which Santa Claus body part you would like to place a tattoo on: his arm, back, lower back, chest, tummy, or knuckles. The length of your personal message is entirely dependent on the body part that you choose. For instance, the knuckles entitles you to only 8 characters while the tummy allows you three lines of personal message. You can even upload your own photo and post it as a tattoo on Santa Claus’ back.

Features:

• Send a customized e-greeting card for free.
• Tattoo Santa’s body parts as your personal message.
• Choose from 6 of Santa’s body parts.
• Inking Santa’s back lets you upload a picture as a tattoo.
• No signup is required.

Check out Tattoo Santa @ http://www.rga.com/holiday07/

Start with choosing one of the default characters or upload a custom image. For a custom image, identify the facial features by dragging points across the picture. Once done, select the greeting you want to play and choose the scale you want. You also have the option to add/remove teeth from your character.

Your talking character is all set. You can email it to anybody you want.

Features:

• Create a talking character in 3 easy steps.
• Choose from dozens of characters.
• Upload a custom image and turn it into a character.
• Select from dozens of voice messages.
• No registration required.

Visit TalkingPhoto @ http://www.pqdvd.com/flashediter/edit.php

If  you are planning to make some cards for this holiday season, then Free Printable Cards is a free and convenient option available for you.

The site also has Free Ecards, Photo Cards and Event Reminder sections.

Photo Cards: This section lets you create photo cards in a snap. Just upload a photo, select appropriate effects and fill in the details to send your ecard.

Free Ecards: Has animated ecards on a wide range of topics. You can customize the ecards by adding an image and uploading music.

Event Reminders: Do you forget anniversaries, holidays and birthdays? then this section is for you. Here you can set alerts with the event details and get reminded by email for free.

Key Features:

• Create and print cards for free.
• Customize the cards by adding an personal notes and images.
• Includes event reminders, free ecards and photo cards.
• Free, no registration required.

Check out Free Printable Cards @ www.printable-cards.gotfreecards.com (by Srikanth AD from Techonaut)

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

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