| Activegrams |
This clever, innovative
site offers free animated entertainment and greetings, delivered by E-mail.
Activegrams range from occasion-based messages to comic strip serials to
absurdist animations with sounds effects, etc. They can be delivered in
several ways: as an E-mail attachment; as HTML mail; or they can be placed
on a custom page whose URL is E-mailed to the recipient.
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| ArtNet
Italia |
ArtNet Italia, a dazzing
arts site in its own right, now offers classy digital postcards that feature
photos, painting and sculptures. You may preview your card before sending
it. Languages supported include English, German, Spanish, Dutch and Hindi.
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| Blue
Mountain Arts Greeting Cards |
An extensive site that lets
you send musical, animated greeting cards for every occasion. Topics include:
friend, birthday, congratulations, love, kids, new baby, support, "Follow
Dreams," sympathy, get well, family, wedding/anniversary, thanks, thinking
of you, apology, graduation, vacation and welcome back. The site also features
specialized topics, including Shakespear, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, endangered
species, wolves, Chinese New Yera, Native Americans, Interactive Art, 3D
and stereograms.
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| CyBEAR
Gram |
This site lets you send
cute, teddy bear images. You may also include a song with your greeting.
Selections include "Pretty Woman," "In the Mood," "Happy Birthday," and
more.
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| Cyrano
Server |
Are you too shy to tell
someone you love how you feel? Then click over to this innovative site,
which will write your love letter for you, based on your input. Note: site
requires the Shockwave
plugin for your browser.
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| CoolCards |
You can use this freeware
program to create and send multimedia notes: "thank you" notes, flames,
invitations, birthdays, etc. Your recipient gets the digital card as a
tiny attachment to an E-mail message. There's no need to go to a pickup
site on the Web, no special viewer required (just a browser or a JPEG viewer).
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| Celebration
Cards |
This site offers free digital
postcards in several categories: seasonal holiday greetings, virtual roses,
"5-minute vacations" and cartoons.
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| Cine
Chennai Cards |
This service offers free
images from Bollywood (India's version of Hollywood)
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| Cgreetings:
Animated Greeting Cards |
Send an animated greeting
card. Categories include "Friendship," "Love," "Birthday," "Congratulations,"
"Hello," "Thank you," "Wedding," "Anniversary," and "Get Well."
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| City
of the Silent: Postcards from the Grave |
This decidedly different
E-mail card site offers over 30 images of tombstones, cemeteries and various
macabre images, which you can send anonymously, if you wish. (You may also
add music). The site supports the following languages: English, Spanish,
Dutch, Hindi, Swiss, German. The only drawback to this site is that, after
you select an image, you must make a note of its associated number and
return to the welcome page to send your card.
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| E-Cards |
This is one of the better
digital greeting card services around. The number of image categories is
vast and includes: "Current holidays and special events," "Animals," "Indigenous
Peoples" and "Art." You can also send V-Cards (Internet Camera Postcards)
here. V-Cards are connected to Internet cameras, which intermittently take
new snapshots. A V-Card of "sunny Antarctica" may change to "Antarctica
at night" by the time the recipient picks up the card. This site is supported
by advertising and every card you send from this site results in a donation
to the World Wildlife Fund.
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| Earth
Day digital postcards |
Get ready for Earth Day
(April 22) with a selection of free digital postcards, featuring three
nature scenes.
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| I
Luv You.com |
This site is offering "1-Step
free personalized Internet Web cards." Easy to set up; just fill out the
form.
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| Outback
digital postcards |
The Aussie restaurant chain
has a hyterically funny free digital postcard service. Just pick a story,
fill in your choice of nouns and verbs and let the fun begin. G'day, mate.
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| Penny
Lane |
Penny Lane is in my ears
and in my eyes....ooops, sorry, where was I? Say, this is a pretty cool
free digital postcard service with a rock theme. Choose a postcard themed
after your favorite band: the Beatles, Stones, U2, Wallflowers, etc.
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| Postcards
from Prison |
This decidedly offbeat free
digital greeting card service offers various memorable images from the
annals of crime and justice. From Clint Eastwood in "Escape from Alcatraz"
to James Cagney in "Angels with Dirty Faces," to real-life prison photos,
you'll find it here.
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| Princess
Diana Digital Postcard |
This site offers greeting
cards featuring the great lady. Other choices available, as well.
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| Regards.com |
This hot new free digital
postcard site offers the "Dancing Baby" card as well as cutting-edge, "multimedia
story" cards (they're in the "Specialty Cards" category). These cards greet
the recipient with a music-enhanced story, with a message and nice animation.
These cards are sent as E-mail attachments and require Windows 95 or 3.1.
Regards.com also offers standard digital postcards which can be sent instantly
from the site.
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| Romantic
Electronic Greetings |
Choose from among an array
of romantic images and send your loved one a digital postcard.
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| Send
someone an "E-Kiss" |
This free service offers
the "E-Kiss," a form of online postcard. The sender picks what kind of
kiss they like, adds a message, and sends it (via E-mail) to someone. The
receiver gets an E-mail which tells them that someone has sent them a kiss,
where to go to view it, and gives them a unique "Kisscode" that allows
them to retrieve the correct kiss.
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| Shawna's
Virtual Flowers |
Here, you can send a flower-themed
digital postcard for that special person in your life. Many images here
and you can customize your "arrangements." Categories include: anniversaries,
birthdays, congratulations, get well, "I'm sorry," new baby, sympathy,
"Just for Men," and exotic flowers. You can include a MIDI sound file with
your greeting.
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| Titanic
Postcards |
This clever site allows
you to send "Marconigrams," which have a period look & feel and look
like actual correspondence from the doomed ocean liner.
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| Virtual
Insults |
Are you pissed off at someone
and want to tell them how you really feel? Send them a "virtual insult,"
something that's best described as an "anti-greeting card." Here, you can
select a nice, witty (or not so witty) insult and customize it with sound
effects (such as the sound of a toilet flushing), your own message, etc.
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| Virtual
Hugs & Kisses |
Send a hug or kiss to your
sweetheart over the Web.
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| 123Greetings |
This site lets you send
a personalized greeting card. More than 100 occasions & 500 different
cards online. You can send pizzas, kisses, hugs, smiles & flowers.
And if you run a Web site, this site allows you to easily create your own
greeting card site for free.
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