Last year’s Christmas Giveaway was a very successful endeavor. We were able to hand out hundreds of commercial software programs to ghacks readers. Here is a short description of what happened last year for new Ghacks readers. We decided last year that it would be nice to use the marketing power of Ghacks to convince software companies to donate some of their software programs for a giveaway. We were able to close several deals with highly respected companies which resulted in one giveaway per day from December 1 to December 24. Ghacks readers could participate by simply leaving a comment in a Giveaway post which would entitle them for taking part in the drawing of the winners.
We want to continue the tradition this year but instead of just writing to software companies that we think might fit we would like to do it different this year. We are asking you to leave a comment with software that you would like to see in the giveaway. We will take your suggestions and contact the companies that produce these software program to see if they are willing to participate in the giveaway.
We cannot guarantee that the software companies that you mention will donate some of their products but we will do our best to convince them that it’s a win-win situation for all sides. Leave a comment below if you would like to see a software program or developer included.
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Norton Internet Security 2010
Hello! You’re a PC? I’m a Mac :-)
So, best gift for me would be ONE or TWO of:
- Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac
- VMware Fusion 3.0 for Mac
- Guiffy SureMerge 9.0 for Mac
- Araxis Merge for Mac
- DeltaWalker for Mac
- Super Flexible File Synchronizer for Mac
- ChronoSync for Mac
- Path Finder for Mac
- ForkLift for Mac
- Transmit for Mac
- Speed Downloader for Mac
- Launch Bar for Mac
- iSubtitle for Mac
- Bento 2 for Mac
- DiskWarrior for Mac
Thank you for listening :)
Hm… great!
two things that immediately come to my mind:
- PDF X-Change Viewer (Docu-Track) – http://www.docu-track.com/home/prod_user/PDF-XChange_Tools/pdfx_viewer
(love it because of tabs, low memory footprint & ability to search several documents at once)
- BS Player (http://www.bsplayer.org/)
Windows Seven, Microsoft Office 2007, Macrium Reflect Pro or KIS 2010 xD
:D
you forgot Autocad and other expensive software :))
No offense! :D
G Data InternetSecurity 2010
Kaspersky Antivirus would be nice Christmas gift.
Oh please try to find the following one:
FILEminimizer Pictures
Raymond already made a giveaway but SO many people attended that I couldn’t even post in the topic. And the company is apparently cooperative for making giveaways :)
http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2009/10/27/giveaway-200-fileminimizer-pictures-license-to-be-given-away/
Thanks!
Any product from Acronis (especially True Image Home 2010)
SuperAntiSpyware Pro
AudialsOne
Hi
winpatrol pro, superantispyware lifetime, vistaglance pro, avira task manager pro, wincatalog pro, Getright, screensteps desktop.
Dear Santa,
I would very much like to receive ‘Prevx (3.0) Maximum Protection and Cleanup’
Big hug, Santa :)
Macrium Reflect Pro
Kaspersky Antivirus will be good to have , Santa wont mind
The two from my wish list:
– UltraMon by Realtime Soft
– Girder by Promixis
Thanks ghacks!
Windows 7 Ultimate, Winpatrol Plus, Fileminimizer Office 5, Fileminimizer pictures 2, internet download manager, advanced system care pro.
Advanced System Care PRO would be pretty cool :)
If you would at all consider hardware with awesome software on it, Motorola Droid would be awesome. Might be hard to secure that one though. Worth a shot!
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended.
What the heck? When you wish,wish big!
WhiteSmoke 2009, StyleWriter or MS Office 2010
Winpatrol Pro would be great. ObjectDock Pro would be another good one though.
I know that you gave “Fast Picture Viewer” to everyone last year, and it would be great if you could do that again :)
I got a license and has used to software ever since, but I lost my license when I changed from Vista to Win7 so I actually bought a license (properly the only license I has ever bought :P). Anyway its a really good software, and I think some more people should use it :)
Also you could give ConvertXtoDVD again? It’s a great piece of software and I didn’t get a license last time :)
I’ve also heard alot of good things about SUPERAntiSpyware (yea, the name sounds like a fake program, but I think it’s good) and you can get some “lifetime” licenses which would be really great.
And ofc. you could end by giveaway KasperSky (or another AV) away the last day (24).
Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred
Whitesmoke
Ultrarecall (Info manager)
NetCentrics GTD addin for outlook
I’m with William– Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred!!
UltraMon
Evernote 1 year Pro membership
DropBox Pro 1 year account
TVersity Pro
Here’s some ideas:
- Photofiltre (http://www.photofiltre-studio.com/news-en.htm). This is my primary free photo editor. An upgrade to the pro version would be nice!
I have licenses for these other products below but think they are good products that others would be interested in also.
- I have been using the Maple Pro product for a long time and like it.
http://www.crystaloffice.com/index.html. Contact Denis.
- Neatimage – noise reduction for digital cameras and scanners
http://www.neatimage.com/index.html?m60
- Star Envelope Printer Pro
http://www.starresoft.com/envelope.htm
- TaskInfo (application and system monitor)
http://www.iarsn.com/taskinfo.html
A package of stardock software would be cool.
Quicken Home and Business 2010
ZoneAlarm Security Suite, ZoneAlarm Extreme Security, Acronis True Image Home 2010, jv16 PowerTools 2009, Advanced SystemCare PRO, the payed mmm version, Trojan Remover, Xplorer2 Professional and van dale. To name a few.
I’d like to see USB Safely remove again or how about the pro version of Google translate Client and Acronis True Image would truely rock
I agree with paulus & NightFlyer. Some ZoneAlarm product and USB Safely remove would be great :)
And what about PgcEdit? It’s a tool that can change lot’s of things on DVD’s, you can remove trailers and ad’s in the beginning of a DVD, and you can edit it buttons, etc.
Microsoft’s Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) would be fun to have
To “Bestdestny” wish BIGGER :)
https://cofee.nw3c.org//
PDF X-Change Viewer Pro
Total Uninstall
DxO Optics Pro 6
onOne Plug-In Suite
Windows 7 Firewall Control Plus
windows 7 ultimate, photoshop cs4, tomtom for iphone
How about Adobe Photoshop Elements?
SuperAntiSpyware Pro would be good.
Hi Santa-Martin!!
You know this approach is a double cutting knife, don’t you?
Still, I’ll take the oppurtunity to make my personal wishes.
1. Security:
Online Armor++ (or Online Armor Premium + a-squared Anti-Malware, work great together), SuperAntiSpyware Pro (life), Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware (full).
2. Maintenance:
Puran Defrag (latest) – one of the few with a really effective boot defrag.
3. Office:
FILEminimizer Pictures (latest).
And last, sth in the entertainment sectoer wouldn’t be bad, i.e. a nice game, but not the shooter or racing type. Maybe give a shot at Tella Games about the new Monkey Island series (they did give the 1st episode out as a promotion) – maybe we can get lucky.
What ever the treat, I’m sure it’ll be more than enjoyable.
Thanks in advance!
Total Commander or xplorer2 would be great as file managers/explorer replacements.
Malwarebytes for security.
For Text editor, if you can please contact Sublime text http://www.sublimetext.com
And I might as well ask, even if it may not be very realistic: MS OneNote.
Malware Bytes
Windows 7 Pro (no surprise there)
Paragon HDD Manager / Macrium Reflect Pro
Adobe Photoshop Elements
Acronis True Image, no question – should be on every PC from day 1.
Alternatively, Windows 7? After Vista they owe me, big time…
Windows 7,
Photoshop CS4
DataViz RoadSync for Android
OnOne Plug-in Suite for photoshop
Nik Color Efex for photoshop
jv16 PowerTools 2009
One of the apps from: http://www.collectorz.com/
Windows 7
ObjectDesktop from Stardock
My vote goes to Acronis True Image, since as far as I remeber I haven´t seen any giveaway of it (apart from the specific hardware ones) and it´s a top notch soft.
I would love BSPlayer PRO
bookworm, zuma, mummy maze … from popcap, http://www.popcap.com
J. River Media Center
PocoMail / Barca
Nod32
DefenseWall
Aaah, what a good idea! I have been through the list above and agree totally with Windows 7 Ultimate and SUPERAntiSpyware but would like to add to the list.
Navicat Premium
http://www.navicat.com
Source Code Library
http://www.highdots.com/
These two would be brilliant!
Living Cookbook would be nice… especially for the holidays
but hey I’m not picky… ;-)
Acronis True Image 2010
Camtasia Studio
SnagIt 9
Replay Media Catcher
Thanks for trying on our behalf!
Dear Santa Martin, Thank you for my present last year of the Fast Picture Viewer license. Just like HNicolai I lost my license, but if you give it this year I promise to be a good boy and not lose it again. Presents or not, you still rock Martin. Thanks for all the good work you’ve done all year.
Carbonite backup,kaspersky and norton
Noise Ninja – http://www.picturecode.com/
Total Commander 7.50a would be a nice gift from santa :D
USB Safely remove will be cool…..
It’s christmas guys. A time of fun, family, giving/receiving, frivoility, egg-nog, and GAMES.
What about some great games from Steam/Valve. LFD2 would be unreal, so would Machinarium, Braid {ack thats hard to play] and World of Goo.
Maybe EA could throw some in as well. Better still. Ask all the game publishers ;)
@ DanTe
Being a Digital Forensic investigator myself, I could give you a copy of COFEE but then I’d have to kill you ;) [Actually the Open Source Forensic Toolkits are LOTS better]
Windows 7 x64 Manager
W7 x64 Device driver auto detect/download software
Please
Fineprint
Windows 7
Winpatrol Pro
UltraEdit
Thanks.
ESET NOD32
hi!
last year I won 2 softwares, which was great – thanks Martin, you rock! This year, I would bid for a copy of:
Win 7
Adobe CS4 (any of the variations or any of the individual softwares)
SUPERAntiSpyware
and as someone mentioned above: I’m not picky and thanks for all Martin
NovaPDF, solid PDF generator (PrinterDriver) that doesn’t use Ghostscript.
SyncBack, the most feature extensive and tweakable backup and sync tool.
Total Commander
Very good WYSIWYG web page creator:
Sitespinner Pro
http://www.virtualmechanics.com/downloads/index.html
Awesome file sync:
ViceVersa PRO 2.5 build 2500
http://www.tgrmn.com/
Best file manager ever:
Total Commander, Version 7.50a
http://www.ghisler.com/
Outstanding anti-keylogging:
KeyScrambler Premium 2.6.0
http://www.qfxsoftware.com/Download.htm
Thank you very much!
Acronis True Image
SNAG-IT 9 by Techsmith
A screenshot software package that I use daily, if not hourly,
- for following my progress during development,
- for emphasis in emails,
- and for alerting my end users to screen/report changes.
I couldn’t live without it.
I swear to God I don’t work for these guys. I just think this S/W is the shizzle!
Windows 7 (no money to purchase, absolutely my big dream..)
Windows 7 Ultimate!
I’ve noticed that frequently software companies will offer free giveaways of
a version of their software which is about to be updated to a newer one.
For instance, Symantec might give out a free copy of Norton 2009 just
around the time they’re going to release the new 2010 version. You might
be able to get many companies to give away free copies this way.
I would love to have a recent copy of Adobe Photoshop, One of the big
Security Softwares (Norton, Kaspersky, Avira, etc), Anti-Malware programs such as Superantispyware, and other such utilities.
And certainly, we should not eliminate the possibility of game or two.
My wishlist would have :
- KIS 2010
- Winpatrol Plus
I would love to have the new Returnil Home Lux (been using Returnil 2008 premium, and it’s great, but my license is going to expire in January). Others that would be nice are Previx Maximum, Paragon System Backup 2010 (Pro), E-Scan, G-Data, and Evernote Premium.
any batch text converter. especially from doc to txt.
and a powerful find replace text software from any text document.
Hello! You’re a PC? I’m a Mac :-)
So, best gift for me would be ONE or TWO of:
- Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac
- VMware Fusion 3.0 for Mac
- Guiffy SureMerge 9.0 for Mac
- Araxis Merge for Mac
- DeltaWalker for Mac
- Super Flexible File Synchronizer for Mac
- ChronoSync for Mac
- Path Finder for Mac
- ForkLift for Mac
- Transmit for Mac
- Speed Downloader for Mac
- Launch Bar for Mac
- iSubtitle for Mac
- Bento 2 for Mac
- DiskWarrior 4 for Mac
Thank you for another opportunity to receive gifts :)
Rather than specific Brands, Here are a couple areas where if there is a product, it would be very nice to include:
- PDF Editor/Metadata Editor, or a new improved pdftk (Toolkit)
- Installation Maker, many of the freeware ones are not intuitive or are too limiting
- Batch File writer (getting syntax and usage correct on FOR and other commands is downright nerverwracking)
- GIS (Geographic Information Systems)
ACD Photo Manager or Pro (not sure if even older version is possible) would be amazing to see as a giveaway. They tend to give their software to some camera vendors as oems and some software goes to magazines so maybe they will join a giveaway.
Directory Opus 9
One simple request….Windows 7
- Windows 7 (any version)
- Office 2010
Thanks!
I’d like to see Ghacks editions of Ubuntu, Firefox or Gimp!
I will like to see the follwing :)
KIS 2010
USB SafelyRemove
TuneUp Utilities
KeyScrambler Premium 2.6.0
UltraEdit
Acronis True Image 2010
Camtasia Studio
SnagIt 9
Malware Bytes
PS Tray Factory: http://www.pssoftlab.com/
Would be great if could be included some of the following :
- Terabyte Image for Windows/Image for Linux/Image for Dos
- Raxco PerfectDisk
- Puran Defrag
- SoftSphere DefenseWall HIPS
- Storagecraft ShadowProtect
- WinRar
- Sandboxie
- Acronis True Image
- Windows 7
- Agnitum Outpost Pro (lifetime license)
Photoshop, any Ashampoo product, WinRar and… EA Sports’ NBA Live 07 & 08 !!!
If You want Ashampoo products check here http://for-free-on-internet.com/2009/09/ashampoo-burning-studio-2010-v910-unless-you-want-the-latest-v-912/ or search through the site for ashampoo related software here http://for-free-on-internet.com/tag/ashampoo/
Hmmm, Getright (may not be the pro version, but it’d be a welcome one)
If possible… Microsoft Windows 7 Professional/Ultimate
or Norton Internet Security
Maybe some of the following:
Total Commander, PowerISO, Snagit 9, Sandboxie, Kaspersky Antivirus
Windows 7 please!
I am going to add to the SnagIt 9 Crowd. I need something to lift my spirits and that would do the trick.
Thanks for asking.
I’d like to see Adobe Photoshop!
And some security app would be nice too :)
Good news, we already have two companies and products on board that many of you wanted to see in the competition, stay tuned for more ;)
Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2.0
Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended
Adobe Framemaker 9
MadCap Flare 5
Directory Opus 9.5
something unique I believe :) PL/SQL Developer (http://www.allroundautomations.com/plsqldev.html)
TuneUp Utilities
Image for Windows
Agnitum Firewall