Send hilarious, personalized Santa messages with Google Voice
Ho ho ho! I remember, when I was 8, Santa called my father's mobile phone. He had a message for me, and it blew my mind. A few years later, my dad told me it was his best friend, and he had bought a new SIM card just so I couldn't trace the number! Ah, the lengths adults go to preserve the magic of Santa Claus.
Today, things just got a whole lot easier. If you want to create a personalized message for a (younger) special someone, there's the Google Voice-powered Send A Personalized Call From Santa. There are hundreds of options to choose from -- more than enough to convince the recipient that it's a message just for them -- and most of them are hilarious. Once you're done, you can send it as a phone call (in the US only, alas), by email, or simply grab a URL.
Check out my message from Santa if you want to hear a sample of what this piece of awesomeness can produce. I love how it correctly synthesizes my name.
If you don't have someone to send a Santa message to, please give the link to any friends and family that do have children. This is the kind of thing that makes the festive season truly memorable.
Today, things just got a whole lot easier. If you want to create a personalized message for a (younger) special someone, there's the Google Voice-powered Send A Personalized Call From Santa. There are hundreds of options to choose from -- more than enough to convince the recipient that it's a message just for them -- and most of them are hilarious. Once you're done, you can send it as a phone call (in the US only, alas), by email, or simply grab a URL.
Check out my message from Santa if you want to hear a sample of what this piece of awesomeness can produce. I love how it correctly synthesizes my name.
If you don't have someone to send a Santa message to, please give the link to any friends and family that do have children. This is the kind of thing that makes the festive season truly memorable.













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Subscribe to commentsm0r1artyDec 10th 2010 2:45AM
Ok Anthony,
15 years ago at the ripe old age of 17 I got a brick of a Motorola with a flip microphone on it. I reckon I was still ahead of the curve when it came to having one (It was a deal where they shake the pennies from idiot students pockets) and didn't see them in common use for another 5 years or so.. And buying new SIM cards wasn't an easy thing to do.
So if you were 8 and your dad had one (Let's say at the same time as me) then he'd have gone to a lot of trouble to make this Santa call to you. This makes you 23 and your dad a bit of a silly man for not just deleting his friends name or changing it to Santa for a bit.
There's my festive tale of Christmas past for you :)