THIS Christmas, prove to your friends and relatives that you are an
unrepentant technogeek and send them a computerised Christmas card over the
Net.
The benefits are threefold: there is no last posting date, you do not need a
stamp and you’ve probably already got all their addresses on file. As an extra
bonus, there is no danger that your card will return next year as a gift tag on
a present.
For a free animated Christmas card complete with sounds, have a look around
the selection on offer at the Blue Mountain site at
http://www.mirror2.bluemountain.com/eng/christmas/index.html.
Once personalised with a message, the cards are e-mailed to the recipient.
The alternative is to create your own card. The Kris20.zip file on the site
at http://www.dmi.net/dmi/dmifiles/035a.htm is a DOS program that lets you
build your own card from a selection of pictures and text styles. The results
can be saved to disc or e-mailed direct to your granny’s PC.
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If that’s too much trouble, there are firms that will do it all for you. The
gnomes at http://www.cybersys.pp.se/csc/ will put the card of your choice on a
unique Web site and tell the recipient where to look for it.
