3D Greetings
- This is a unique, free
digital card service that lets you send eye-popping 3D
animated greetings as executable E-mail attachments. The
cards can be personalized to include your message. No
special software is required to view these cards; they
use 3D Planet's own embedded animation player. Categories
include holidays, birthdays, humor, "Digital
Kiss," "Congratulations," "Thank
you," "Get well soon," and more. (For Windows
95/98).
Just Postcards
- A quality free digital
postcard site, Just Postcards offers eight categories,
including such topics as "Angels,"
"Fantasy Art," "Humor,"
"Vintage" and animated greetings. Some of the
cards feature the work of Canadian cartoonist Tim
Peckham. There's also a handy search engine to help you
find just the card you need.
CyberKisses
- Send your sweetheart an
animated "kiss" at this clever free digital
card site. There are kisses for girls, kisses for guys,
hugs and smooches of all varieties, from blown kisses to
healing kisses to smiles, nibbles and even wet kisses. If
it involves puckered lips, it's here.
St. Patrick's
Day Cards - The major
free graphics site, The Animation Factory, is offering a nice free St.
Patrick's Day digital greeting card service. Just select
the image you want; personalize your card; preview it;
and send it. A nice way to sending a greeting for St.
Patrick's Day (which is March 17).
Virtual Insults
- OK, so sometimes you don't
want a greeting card with all these sappy "I love
you" Hallmark sentiments. There's someone out there
who's annoying you and you want to tell them what you
REALLY think. Virtual Insults has got what you need.
Here, the fine art of insults is personified. You can
send someone a witty (or not so witty) insult, complete
with sound effects (such as a toilet flushing, etc.)
Perfect for all "occasions."
E-mail Art - Here's a novel and classy way to
get your sweetheart's attention. E-mail Art offers small,
executable files that you can send with your E-mail. Once
executed, they create lovely, fascinating artworks
depicting roses, right before your eyes. Fun to watch. (For Windows 98/95
and NT).
Free Cards for Music Lovers - Like the title says, this is a nice free
digital card service that features images of many top
pop, rock and country stars. Just select the thumbnail
image of the artist you want and follow the instructions
to send your card. Artists include Jewell, Natalie
Imbruglia, Cher, Meredith Brooks and others.
Greeting card software offer - Usually, we don't list offers that cost
anything. But this is a great deal. For only $1, you get
a free copy of the full commercial version of Holiday
& Seasonal Photo Cards software, a do-it-yourself
greeting cards program. You also get a no-obligation
3-month membership to Netmarket, a Web retailer. (U.S only). Only
works with color inkjet printers.
uGreet.com's Digital
Cards - Nice variety
of free digital greeting cards at this new, up-and-coming
site. Topics include: Friendship, Love, Birthday,
Wedding, Travel, Sports, and more. Just select the
category you want, choose an image and background and
personalize your card with your message. You can then
preview it (and make any adjustments you'd like) and send
it on its way.
Virtual Post
Cards - Here's a nice
up-and-coming free digital postcard service. Card topics
include cats, flowers, sunsets, landscapes and
butterflies and more are promised soon. There are some
lovely photographic images here.
Planet K
Cards - A nice new
free digital greeting card service. Easy to use: just
select the image you want, customize it, and add your
personal message and you're all set. Topics include
"General," "Humor,"
"Romantic" and children's cards with more
promised soon.
One
Stop Card Shop - Nice
new free digital postcard site with a small, but growing
selection of original card images to choose from.
Categories include gemstones, underwater, flowers,
weddings and birthdays. Just browse through the thumbnail
images; select the one you want and add a personalized
touch and you're all set.
Regards.com Digital
Postcards - This free
digital postcard site offers the wacky "Dancing
Baby" card, as well as an impressive collection of
cards for any occasion, which you can personalize,
preview, and send instantly from the site. Categories
include "Holidays," "Ethnic,"
"Entertainment," and "Classics."
Sourd-Prise
Digital Postcards - This
interesting free digital card site is the only site we've
seen that offers E-cards with pictures related to the
topic of deafness and sign language. (Available in
English and French).
Postcards
of Italy - This site
offer free digital postcards featuring lovely images of
landscapes and monuments in Italy. They also offer
romantic and humor postcards.
Greetings
Online - Greetings
Online's free cards are sent as attachments with your
E-mail. Just select the category you want and pick a card
from one of the thumbnail images. You can then preview,
customize and send your card. The cards here all include
animations, sound effects and background MIDI music. Your
recipient will receive your card via an executable
attachment. For Windows: Macintosh deliverable cards
coming soon.
Fork-O-Grams
- Have you ever stumbled
across a really bad Web site? You know, the ones that
take forever to load. And when they do load, there's
nothing worthwhile to see? Or the ones with the really
painful backgrounds that makes it hard to see the text?
Well, send that site's Webmaster a
"Fork-O-Gram." It's a free message that you can
easily send any Web site owner that lets them know that
they need to work on making their site better.
Abstract
Painting Digital Postcards - You can get free digital postcards at this
site that feature lovely abstract photos and paintings by
artist Hayato Tominaga and others. (Offered in English
and Japanese).
Inspirational Greeting Cards - These are lovely,
"Christ-centered" free electronic greeting
cards. They feature beautiful images, sound effects,
background music and Bible verses. Download one and
attach it to an E-mail. Your recipient may then simply
doubleclick the program and enjoy a multimedia
presentation.(Download time is about two minutes with a
28.8 modem.)
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---something that can help boost
visitors!
Virtual
Chocolate - Send your
fellow chocolate lovers a virtual treat at this quality
free digital postcard service. Just select a delectable
chocolate image and type in your personal message. These
"treats" are mouthwatering (and calorie-free!)
MessageMates
- This service offers cool,
free digital animations that you can personalize and send
as E-mail attachments. Themes are added every week.
Current topics include Frank Sinatra, "Alienz,"
and the World Cup.
Virtual
Business Postcards - This
unique service offers free digital business-related
postcards. Just select your design (and, if you'd like,
an accompanying MIDI file); view the preview and send it.
Your recipient will receive E-mail advising her or him
where to pick up the card.
Cyrano
Server - Are you too
shy to tell someone you love how you feel? Then click
over to this innovative free greeting card site, which
will write your love letter for you, based on your input.
Note: site requires the free Shockwave plugin for your browser.
Flying Saucers Virtual Greetings - If you're tired of the "same old, same
old" virtual postcards, give this site a whirl.
There's "The Virtual Magic Eight Ball",
"The Virtual Alien Abduction", "The
Virtual Spanking" and more offbeat topics here,
submitted for your approval.
ElectronicPostcards.com - This advertiser-supported free service
features musical digital postcards in many categories.
Images include fine art (everyone from Manet to Pollock)
and photography. Categories include birthday, friendship,
get well, inspiration, insults, love, miss you and thank
you. There's also over 100 songs from which you may
choose for background music for your card.
"2
mom luv me" digital cards - This eye-catching site offers over 50
original free digital greeting cards, many of which are
animated. Categories include: "I love you, "
"Thanks," "Get well,"
"Congratulations," "Birthday,"
"Miss you," and more, as well as offbeat topics
like "Kranky Cards" and "Kooky
Cards."
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.
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.
The Print Shop
LiveMail - This isn't
just another digital postcard site. Rather, it's a
software program (the "Lite" version of which
is free) that allows you to custom build cool animated
cards that you can send to anyone with a Java-enabled
(read: non-ancient) browser. The intuitive interface
makes it easy for you to add text, images, sounds and
animations to your card. Cool!
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.
The
Digital Postcard - This
is a major, well-done E-mail greeting service. Many
images are available and you can customize your digital
postcard's color, backgrounds and music. You can even
link to any picture and/or sound on the Web. You can even
add a sound selection from your own computer. The Digital
Postcard allows Webmasters to add its service to their
own Web site---a sure way to pull in more visitors!
LoveGrams
- This site offers over 75
designs. Topics include: flowers, emotions, exotic,
"Your Pic," nostalgia, fun and more. Just
select the thumbnail image you want and fill in your
personalized message in the form. You can also add a poem
to your card, as well as music.
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).
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.
Cgreetings:
Animated Greeting Cards - Send an animated greeting card. Categories
include "Friendship," "Love,"
"Birthday," "Congratulations,"
"Hello," "Thank you,"
"Wedding," "Anniversary," and
"Get Well."
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.
Virtual Hugs &
Kisses - Send a hug
or kiss to your sweetheart over the Web.
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.
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 Shakespeare,
Jewish, Christian, Muslim, endangered species, wolves,
Chinese New Yera, Native Americans, Interactive Art, 3D
and stereograms
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