Twelve 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
1st place
Vickie Bartlett
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Congratulations! Tweeted as regDreg.
Thank you for providing this service to everyone! Congrats on the 12 years and let there be more! Tweeted as @EinSF
Congrats!! twitter name is sevee01
happy anniversary.
good job so far.
@jgideonshepherd
Tweeted
Thanks for a great site!
Posted as @paulgrunwald
KneeDeep2005 RT Win an HP laptop and lots of other goodies @thegadgeteer Full details at http://tinyurl.com/lyybcv
@Mike Yes, you can enter
You haven’t written a review for me in a bazillion years.
Heck, I’d be happy with the Vaja case coupon, but a new computer would be sooo cool! I’m npkeith on twitter
May you have another 12. I’m a fellow gadget-lover.
Check me out at Twitter.
GadgetGirl2009
Congrats and HAPPY BIRTHDAY from @tarheelblue89
Twelve is an awkward age, just on the cusp of those dreaded teen year. Congrats on the milestone. My tweet is MatthewTucker83
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
I’m following you on Twitter and tweeted as @deanna_j.
Done – @tophewing
I’ve been following “The Gadgeteer” for many years now. The reviews have always been “spot on” and I’ve never had the sense that a vendor had bought them off in return for a favorable review. Very honest reviews! Thank you for your many years of service to the TTASA community! (TTASA=Tech Toys Acquisition Syndrome Anonymous)
WOW!! Sweet giveaway! Also, it’s so cool, that you have a really big website(obviously I’m talking about The Gadgeteer) and your friend founded Gear Diary, which is also really big!!
Happy Birthday! Wow 12 years old on the web, you’re old…
@lewyzz
Happy 12th. Twitter @gjdewitte
Nice, congrats on the big 1-2!
Did my duty, @Pop_Goes_Slappy.
Fantastic site, great 12 years with more to come! Excellent contest and prizes. tweet – MrPeabody56
Thanks, Julie! I wish I had found your site 12 years ago instead of 3. Keep up the good work, and thanks for the contest!
@Civisi on Twitter.
retweeted by @theheartofrock I Love your blog, I read everyone of your posts, and then I wait patiently for tomorrow. Thank you Judy
Congratulations on your anniversary! Hope you have many more!
@Catran1
Congratulations on this milestone Julie!
Thanks for a wonderful site to visit.
(contest! contest!) @drmcnutt
Wish you the best.
I love the gadgeteer! I tweet as @timcallow
Congrats!!
Hey I tweeted under the name Delilahiris
Thanks!
Happy Birthday to the-Gadgeteer. Congratulations and good job Julie.
LindaHP
Happy birthday! Twitter is @sunquistadora
Great site! I tweeted @bradandkrit
Happy Birthday…? Anniversary…? Reason to celebrate sounds good! from twitter: Capt_Awesome
Done, and happy anniversary!
klcoll
I just RTed the message. My twitter name is @melvynadam.
(And happy anniversary!)
Congratulations Gadgeteer at making 12 years!!
My first tweet with user namer @no2putts!!
Jamie Hoban
Hip Hip Hoooray! Happy Birthday!!!!! ^.^
tweet @colina21
Happy Anniversary and congratulations, Julie!!
Hope I win the laptop – promise to reformat the hard drive and find a way to get Snow Leopard to be the primary operating system (sorry, don’t like Vista or Windows 7/aka Vista SP2)
Don
Congrats on 12 years! Been following for eight of them.
@Haesslich
Thanks! And Happy Birthday!
Twitter Name: @sbprime
Congrats on 12 years !, very informative
Congrats! My main source for the best gadgets. Tweeted by 1000Acres.
Congrats on 12 years of fantastic reviews.
@gabrielnovo
@grounddevil
congrats! and happy bday
Twitter name: ghtk808
Happy birthday
@tykent
Happy Birthday!!!! (tweeted by miz_ling)
Congrats on your twelfth birthday! I remember being on Geocities too – and leaving with my own domain as well =)
Tweeted as ftjl
Congratulations, tweeted, name is bacchus71
Julie:
Congratulations on the longevity and success of Gadgeteer.
Question. My daughter, Meredyth, is a contributer. Does that disqualify me from entering the contest?
Cliff Tuttle
Pittsburgh Legal Back Talk
http://www.pittsburghlegalbacktalk.com/
Happy Birthday Gadgeteer!!!
@herronm on twitter
Tweeted as vettinai. Thanks and congrats.
Congrats! Lets keep it going for 12 more years…Tweeted as arz.
Congrats, RT tweeted @Dave_Was_Here
Wow – congratulations on 12 years! Seems like just yesterday when I was following your site daily with my US Robotics Palm Pilot!
Oh, twitter name = cptnrandy
Congratulations – and you’re just getting started.
Retweeted as MicroZealous.
Happy BD. Tweeting at keithsopher.
Grats and best wishes! @cezex
Happy Birthday!!!
Re-tweet from MajorHavoc
I tweeted under @Erockus. This blog has been great to follow. Happy B-Day!
Happy Birthday Gadgeteer!!!!
LOL, my first comment, i forgot to put my twitter, so here it is:
@qwertyriffic
congrats on 12 years of playing and doing what you love, and taking us along for the ride….
Twitter handle is @ajWinner
This is such an awesome giveaway. Happy Birthday, Gadgeteer! @eschow
Twitter name vlbsweeps
Happy 12th Anibirthary Gadgeteer! =)
@karrock
Happy Birthday!!
tweeted at http://twitter.com/penumakar
Well done on still geeking after all these years!
Levetation
Happy birthday from @geoffmeador
Wow … we must all be getting OLD or something …
My Twitter name is:
txa1265
Happy 12th Birthday Gadgetter. Here is to many great years to come.
My Twitter name is: Duddy07
My twitter is my name! avaviel. I really hope to get the top prize, and replace my current laptop….
Happy 12th! Looking forward to the next 12…… Need my daily fix of the Gadgeteer. Thanks for the chance to win some great stuff… My 6 year old Dell needs to be set free!!! I can only hope…
@jfriend024
@draganvidovic
Congrats on 12 years of bringing gadget news, just keep going, and having fun
You don’t look a day over, uh, erm… nine!
Did blogs even exist back then?
Tweeted as @geaked.
Congrats.
been following you a long time now…. Mucho Thanko’s
My TwitName is cheechwhiz
I’m looking to win that HP laptop. Oh yeah baby. I’m the winner!
Not sure why I never followed the feed before… silly me.
Happy 12th!
dmcohen
Happy Anniversary!
I would love the laptop, I have wanted one forever!
katmagick
Yipppiiieeee! I tweeted as @glenallengreen
Thanks for the opportunity!
Julie,
I TECHNICALLY haven’t written a review for the site either
brucethehoon is my twitter name.
weeeeeeee!
a great site i’ve been following since the good old days of the palm Vx and T|T!
congrats!
Tweeted @absolutmuah
tweeted! @daspiegel
Thanks for the great job, hope those 12 turn 20 and more!
Best,
Happy 12th! Been following for a few years now. Thanks for reviews and for the chance at winning awesome gear! Tweeted as @Robert_j_m
needsaname is the twitter “name” hee hee
Congratulations! Tweeted as ZeAQ
Happy Birthday, and many more I hope.
Thanks for all the thankless Gadget Swapping.
Tweeted as Itamimasu.
Congrats. Have always liked your writing. I posted on twitter as@bobnunnink
Congrats!. @djJASMAN
Happy Birthday Gadgeteer – Cheers to many more!
my tweeter = vbahns
Michael_Ng is my twitter name!
Tweeted as gabrieldj
Congrats!!
Count me in! I tweeted as @traveling_2
Congratulations Julie – Great idea – Tweeted as @flintytech
Thank you! Tweeted as @nenzal
tweeted as @crloga
Happy birthday.
I’ve been following you since the days when the primary focus was the Palm and WinCE PDAs. May you enjoy many more years of happy reviewing! Tweeted as @shel_tk
prou32456…Wowww 12 years
Happy birthday — keep up the great woork
Happy Birthday!!! Almost a teenager…:)
http://twitter.com/Heatwave316/status/3157454996
twitter id: heatwave316
Hi Julie.. Happy Anniversary !
Tweeted as Palmfox
Congratulations on twelve years. My twitter name is Ourmainframe
I am great fan of your site for a long time.
Congratulations!
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