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.
Related Articles:
$10K+ Ghacks Christmas Giveaway AnnouncementGhacks Christmas Giveaway Announcement
Announcing the 4th Annual Ghacks Christmas Giveaway
Ghacks Christmas Giveaway Recap
Announcing the 2010 Ghacks Christmas Giveaway
Enjoyed the article?: Then sign-up for our free newsletter or RSS feed to kick off your day with the latest technology news and tips, or share the article with your friends and contacts on Facebook, Twitter or Google+ using the icons below.
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 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, 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!