The Gadgeteer turns 12yrs old – Big birthday giveaway!

by Julie on August 3, 2009 · 264 comments

in Contests

birthday-cakeTwelve years ago this month (give or take a week or two) I started The Gadgeteer as a goofy little review site on the then free webpage hosting service Geocities. People seemed to like my reviews, so I registered the domain name four months later, moved to a real hosting site – and the rest is history!

I want to celebrate this 12th birthday with all of you, because without you (and my awesome team of contributors), the site would never have grown to what it is today :) Thank you, thank you, thank you!

For a chance to win an HP Pavilion dv4 laptop and lots of other goodies from (Vaja, Livescribe, Tom Bihn, Seagate, TokyoFlash, NZXT and FlipSide), keep reading!

Prize Details

1st place winner (1) will receive -
HP Pavilion dv4 (1145go) laptop with a 320GB hard drive and 4GB of memory
Tom Bihn ID Messenger bag and Brain cell sleeve
NZXT Cryo S laptop cooler
NZXT Avatar mouse
Livescribe SmartPen
Seagate FreeAgent Go hard drive (Red)
TokyoFlash Saishin Retsu (Gunmetal+Green LED) watch
Flipside wallet
$80 Vaja gift certificate

2nd place winner (1) will receive -
TokyoFlash NI (Stainless Steel+White LED) watch
Flipside wallet
$80 Vaja gift certificate

3rd place winner (1) will receive -
Flipside wallet
$80 Vaja gift certificate

4th place winners (7) will receive -
$80 Vaja gift certificate

How to enter

1. Between now and Sunday 08/09/2009 11:59PM EST, sign up with twitter and follow @thegadgeteer

2. Then send the following tweet:

RT Win an HP laptop and lots of other goodies @thegadgeteer Full details at http://tinyurl.com/lyybcv

3. Come back here and leave a comment with your twitter name.

4. At some point on 08/10/2009, I’ll pick 10 random winners using random.org. The winners will be contacted by email and will have 48 hrs to accept their prize. If I do not receive an answer, I’ll do other random.org drawings till all the prizes are gone.

Rules

1. One entry per person.

2. Must provide a US address for shipping.

3. Writers and friends of The Gadgeteer are exempt from entering this contest.

4. the-gadgeteer.com is not responsible for any lost packages or incorrect shipping addresses.

I want to give a HUGE thank you to the sponsors for this contest: HP, Vaja, Livescribe, Tom Bihn, Seagate, TokyoFlash, NZXT and FlipSide

Update 8/10/09 Winners Chosen:

Vaja Certs
1 Robert_j_m
2 Brett Q
3 Phil
4 FubarGuy
5 Sjan Evardsson
6 Dragan
7 Michele Pineda

3rd place
Jason

2nd place
Jeremy Rose

1st place
Vickie Bartlett

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{ 264 comments… read them below or add one }

1 hyjeong August 6, 2009 at 12:24 am

My twitter ID is hyjeong
Thank you!

2 Julian Williams August 6, 2009 at 1:14 am

julzzw is my Twitter name

Happy Birthday Gadgeteer! Happens to be 2 days before my Birthday as well! Best Wishes!

3 Hai-Yeong Jeong August 6, 2009 at 1:49 am

I am great fan of this site for a long time.
Congratulation!
My ID IS @hyjeong.

4 buddy August 6, 2009 at 2:25 pm

my twitter name is inverbras.

i enjoy your reviews too.

cheers..

5 Clare Gifford August 6, 2009 at 2:54 pm

Tweeted as drofgif. Congratulations meeting the 12 year mark! That is a duration that many others could never claim…… Thanks for the contest opportunities as well.

6 Your Fans August 6, 2009 at 3:13 pm

Happy anniversary !
from @simetriq

7 Jonathan Franzone August 6, 2009 at 4:10 pm

Happy anniversary/birthday/what-have-you from @franzone

8 Sjan Evardsson August 6, 2009 at 4:35 pm

Congrats on impressive staying power!

@evardsson

9 Lee Thornton August 6, 2009 at 8:28 pm

Happy Birthday to You!!! It’s been great reading everyday what is new and cool! Hope to see more and more Birthdays!

10 Lee Thornton August 6, 2009 at 8:30 pm

Happy Birthday to You!!! It’s been great reading everyday what is new and cool! Hope to see more and more Birthdays! @MoNkEyMaN912

11 Mandy Thornton August 6, 2009 at 8:34 pm

Gadgeteer Happy Birthday!!!!!! It’s been awsome I wish I was able right now to try and join the team Husband getting the family moved and it hasn’t been easy but I enjoy reading the new post and learn so much Thanks for the Site!!!!!!!!!

@MandyGT79

12 Mark August 6, 2009 at 10:35 pm

Happy Birthday Gadgeteer!! And many more to come!! This is one of my favorite websites. I always look forward to something new and sometimes wacky being reviewed here.

@Markubis09

13 Naomi August 6, 2009 at 11:24 pm

Happy Birthday!
from
@superdumb

14 Howard Kuo August 7, 2009 at 12:58 am

Hi Julie,
My twitter username is @howard_kuo

Happy Birthday The-Gadgeteer!

15 Monica August 7, 2009 at 8:21 am

Twitter is spinning and spinning. Can’t seem to follow you!

16 Lisa August 7, 2009 at 9:18 am

Happy Anniversary!

My twitter username is @lisantica

17 Karen August 7, 2009 at 4:02 pm

Happy Birthday, Gadgeteer! It’s so nice of you to give us the chance to get presents on your big day.

I twittered and my username is @ckkkmk.

PS
Save me a piece of cake.

18 Aron August 8, 2009 at 12:10 am

Happy happy birthday birthday!

My TwitterHandle is AronL!

Hopefully, a winner is me!!! :D

19 Aron August 8, 2009 at 12:10 am

Whoopsies, that was supposed to be @AronL

20 ryan tan August 8, 2009 at 11:09 am

twitter handle is rtanph – happy 12th birthday Gadgeteer! and welcome to the tween years! ;-)

21 Karen Batchelor August 8, 2009 at 12:35 pm

Julie–I’m @midlifetrip. Wishing you another great 12 years at Gadgeteer:-)

22 Kelly Dobbs August 8, 2009 at 12:37 pm

Thank YOU!!
my tweeter name is @urbangirlyoga.

Happy Happy Birthday!
Be Well.

23 Jackie Cheng August 8, 2009 at 1:50 pm

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GADGETEER!!!

@debugy2k

24 Justin August 8, 2009 at 3:46 pm

Twitter is @waidot

Thanks.

25 Darrin Schmidt August 8, 2009 at 6:48 pm

Whooho! Thanks for 12 great years of reviews! And many more . . . Twitter @dfractal

26 YoonFui August 8, 2009 at 9:16 pm

yoonfui is my twitter name. thank you.

27 Vikram August 8, 2009 at 11:37 pm

my twitter username is @vikramdhani

Thanks

28 Tony August 9, 2009 at 12:57 am

Happy Birthday gadgeteer

@twoloszynek

29 Adrienne August 9, 2009 at 2:16 am

Congrats on 12 wonderful years Julie!

My twitter handle is chcksum

30 bobby ziemba August 9, 2009 at 8:45 am

happy 12th!
twitter- @bobbyziemba

31 Carolyn G August 9, 2009 at 10:50 am

Wow 12 years, congratulations.

Twitter: carogonza

32 Syndi Ponte August 9, 2009 at 10:53 am

@syndi1285. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Congrats

33 JaydDragyn August 9, 2009 at 10:55 am

wow! 12 years? that’s amazing!! Happy Birthday!! :D

34 Ryan August 9, 2009 at 10:57 am

RyanEWolf

35 Jack Corzine August 9, 2009 at 10:58 am

My Twitter name is jackcorzine and I love your updates! Keep up the good work!!

36 tung yeung August 9, 2009 at 11:00 am

twitter is: tung1800
Happy Birthday Gadgeteers :-)

37 sara August 9, 2009 at 11:01 am

Twitter ID# @diysara

Congratulations on 12 years! and here’s to many more! ♥

38 Bill Bradford August 9, 2009 at 11:03 am

“mrbill” on twitter here.

39 Lindsey Groepper August 9, 2009 at 11:07 am

twitter.com/lindseygroepper

Love me some freebies!

40 JonelB August 9, 2009 at 11:12 am

My twitter id is JonelB!
Thanks for doing this giveaway! Congrats on 12 years!

41 Mike C August 9, 2009 at 11:17 am

Congrats on the 12 years, wishing you 12 more…
twitter- williammoney

42 Juergen August 9, 2009 at 11:20 am

Dancing rodents from jnievele ;-)

43 zorkor August 9, 2009 at 11:23 am

only US shipping? shame…

44 TheDreamer August 9, 2009 at 11:24 am

@LawrenceChen

45 tung yeung August 9, 2009 at 11:27 am

@tung1800
happy B-day!!! now where’s my prize

46 Gayle Watkins August 9, 2009 at 11:57 am

Happy Birthday!

My Twitter is @CleverGayle

47 Mark August 9, 2009 at 12:34 pm

RT’d at @atomic22

Thanks for the great giveaway, Julie. Big Gadgeteer fan for many years, best to you folks in for many more years. Congrats on the 12th Birthday!

48 Arthur Bartlett August 9, 2009 at 12:48 pm

Happy B-day my twitter name is bartletts4

49 Brad McMullen August 9, 2009 at 12:54 pm

Your website is the bomb. Bad for the marriage, but still great! My twitter is @quibbley.

50 steph August 9, 2009 at 2:39 pm

neat blog.
twitter: k1ngster

51 BritOnTour August 9, 2009 at 2:48 pm

Congrats from @britontour

52 joshjoshlol August 9, 2009 at 3:26 pm

the site’s almost old enough to drive! next thing you know, it’ll be off to college. they grow up so fast. happy birthday, gadgeteer!

twitter: joshjoshlol

53 Devin L. Ganger August 9, 2009 at 5:09 pm

Twitter ID is devinganger

54 Bernard August 9, 2009 at 5:46 pm

Tweet name: Bernard_Mel =]

55 Brandon August 9, 2009 at 6:32 pm

Congrats! Here’s to another 12 years!

Twitter username – brandonsteili

56 Tim August 9, 2009 at 6:36 pm

Congrats! @aliethel

57 Richard Raborn August 9, 2009 at 7:02 pm

Happy birthday Gadgetteer! Twitter name rabornmd

58 Richard Raborn August 9, 2009 at 7:05 pm

Did not see my comment pop up Twitter name @rabornmd

59 shanella August 9, 2009 at 9:37 pm

I’m @shanella

Congrats on 12 years!

60 Brett Q August 9, 2009 at 11:32 pm

Happy Birthday! 12 years is a big deal for sure.

@brettq

61 Marsha Keeffer August 10, 2009 at 12:21 am

Happy Birthday to The Gadgeteer! Thanks for all your great reviews, Julie and team…

My Twitter name is marsha.

62 bas.o August 10, 2009 at 12:52 am

happy birthday, love this website! tweet @chinoy885

63 Julie August 10, 2009 at 9:18 pm

Update 8/10/09 Winners Chosen:

Vaja Certs
1 Robert_j_m
2 Brett Q
3 Phil
4 FubarGuy
5 Sjan Evardsson
6 Dragan
7 Michele Pineda

3rd place
Jason

2nd place
Jeremy Rose

1st place
Vickie Bartlett

64 FubarGuy August 10, 2009 at 11:19 pm

Wow, thanks Julie! For all of your excellent reviews & insights. And, of course, free schwag! :D

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