Springdoo – You Ought To Be In Pictures

When you’re far away, email, ecards, and digital images maintain a connection with family and friends, but they can’t replicate the intimacy of home movies. Conversely, the logistics of recording and sending video over the Internet can be daunting. With Springdoo, you can’t send the entire family vacation video, but you can send a multimedia email up to three minutes long.

Springdoo is server-based and a snap to use. After you create a free Springdoo account, log into the company’s site, click a few buttons, enter a message for the email, and record your message. Recipients receive an email with a link to the Springdoo site where they go to play the message.

The first time you log-in, a pop-up window will ask for permission to access your microphone and Web cam (both of which you’ll need for multimedia recordings) and help you establish some basic settings.

If you have a microphone but no Web cam, you can also send audio-only emails up to 10 minutes long. If you have no equipment, Springdoo will recommend some you can purchase directly from Amazon.com through its site. Springdoo also gives you a Contacts list and helps you import existing contacts from a variety of email services.

Springdoo’s privacy policy says it does not share your information. We wouldn’t use the service too often, but for birthdays, holidays, and other special occasions, it might be just the thing.

URL: www.springdoo.com

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