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

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SendShots: Send Private Video Messages To Friends

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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/

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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

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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)

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FreePrintableCards: Provides Custom Printable Greeting Cards

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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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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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FlyGreetings: Stylish, Quality Designer e-Cards

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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.

Check out Pigspigot @ www.pigspigot.com/app/home (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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PigSpigot: Online Greeting Card Designer

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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.

Check out ProfileGreeting @ www.profilegreeting.com

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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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GotFreeCards: Free Animated Ecards, Event Reminders and Printable Cards

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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.
• Also see Send Video Greeting Cards with YouTube’s Holiday Cards.

Check out Cardfunk @ www.cardfunk.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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CardFunk: Funky Holiday Card Maker

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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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Flowers2Mail: Send A Virtual Greeting With A Flower Bouquet

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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.

Check out VoxCards @ voxcards.myvox.com

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