We’ve hit the 7th day of our $9K Christmas Giveway and today we’ve got some hot prizes.  Our main prize today is a Belkin N+ Wireless Router and a Belkin N+ USB Adaptor worth $200 in total.  Don’t worry if you don’t win this one – we have another set to give away later in the month!  If that’s not enough for you, we’re also giving away today:

• a copy of Uniblue PowerSuite worth $100
• a copy of MediaMonkey Gold worth $40
• a copy of Tidysongs worth $40

That’s $380 in total in prizes!  To win all you need to do is guess the lowest number that nobody else guesses.  All bids are free - click here to play now!

Win $200 of wireless home networking hardware courtesy of Belkin

The Winner will receive a Belkin N+ Wireless Router and a Belkin N+ USB Adaptor donated by Belkin.

Belkin N+ Wireless Router

Belkin’s N+ Wireless Router features a USB Storage port on the back of the router for connecting USB storage devices such as an external hard drive or thumb drive to the network. Now you can centrally store and share media content and files from the USB hard drive to every computer on the network.

This router also features gigabit Ethernet ports for a wired connection that can handle applications that take up a large amount of bandwidth. The N+ router is based on the draft 802.11n 2.0 technology which provides the wireless range to easily cover any-size home or office. The N+ Router has the bandwidth and speed for handling media intensive applications that take up large amounts of your bandwidth.

Belkin N+ USB Adaptor

The N+ Wireless USB Adapter connects your desktop or notebook computer to a wireless network. It Provides optimal wireless range and speeds when paired with an N or N+ Router. roviding greater range and faster speeds, N offers an excellent solution for transferring large files such as video, music, photos, and documents among the networked computers in your home.

Based on the 802.11n draft, N Wireless enables multiple receivers and transmitters to send and receive data using Intelligent MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) spatial multiplexing techniques which greatly increases speed, coverage, and the reliability of the wireless network.

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We’re 1/5 of the way through our Christmas Giveaway where in total we are giving away over $9000 in prizes.  On day 4 we gave away several prizes:

• Uniblue RegistryBooster 2010 Worth $30!!
• Uniblue PowerSuite Bundle Worth $100!!
• Free Copy Of WinRAR Worth $45!!
• Recover My Files Professional Worth $100!!
• TidySongs Worth $39!!!
• Bulk Image Downloader Worth $24.95!

Congratulations to the winners!!

Christmas Giveaway Day 5

Today we’ve got a special prize courtesy of the generous team at linksys: The winner of this auction will win a cutting edge Linksys WRT610 Dual-N Band Wireless Router Worth $200! We’ve also got the following available to win today (auctions close at 8pm PST):

• Acronis Disk Director Suite 10+Acronis True Image Worth $100!
• A-squared Anti-Malware worth $40!!
• Media Monkey Gold worth $40!!

To win all you need to do is guess the lowest number that nobody else guesses.

Win Linksys WRT610 Dual-N Band Wireless Router Worth $200!

This top of the range router is built to last. Expect to have it in your household for many years. we’d like to say a big thank you to Linksys for making such a generous donation. If you want to learn more about the Linksys WRT610 then check out the Linksys blog, facebook and also twitter for the latest Linksys offers.

We’ve actually got two of these to give away later on in the giveaway.  Not only does this amazing router support 802.11n giving you the fastest possible transfer speeds and range, it also has two band of Wireless-N. Both bands are available at the same time:

• You can use the more congested 2.4Ghz 802.11n band for surfing and general net usage.
• And you can use the 5Ghz 802.11n band for applications that need the best connection e.g. streaming music, gaming or HD (even 1080p over wireless!) video

The WT610 router incorporates MIMO technology – so smart that it adjusts your signal in realtime based on the router AND card location to ensure you get the best range and coverage.

Key Features:

• Internet-sharing Router and 4-port Gigabit Switch, with a built-in, dual-band, speed and range enhanced Wireless Access Point
• Works simultaneously in the 2.4 and 5 gigahertz radio bands, doubling your network capacity
• Use the less-crowded 5GHz band for time-sensitive music, video streaming or gaming
• Use the 2.4GHz band for non-critical traffic, and your legacy Wireless-G and -B devices
• Both bands use Wireless-N technology for robust speed and range, and more complete coverage throughout your home
• Also works with Wireless-G, -B, and -A devices
• 4-port Gigabit switch delivers wired speeds that are 10 times faster than 10/100 “Fast Ethernet” connections
• Storage Link lets you connect a hard drive or flash-based USB storage device to allow access to your music, video, or data files from within your network, or through the Internet
• Built-in Media Server, streams music, video, and photos to any UPnP compatible media adapter
• Wi-Fi Protected Setup helps make wireless configuration secure and push button easy
• Wireless signals are protected by industrial-strength WPA2 encryption, and your network is protected from most known Internet attacks by a powerful SPI firewall
• Easy to install on a Windows PC or Mac with Cisco Setup Wizard
• Included Network Magic software helps manage and optimize your network
• Includes 30-Day Free Trial of Trend Micro Internet Security software to help protect against viruses, spyware, and identity theft
• All ports support Gigabit speed and Auto-Crossover (MDI/MDI-X) — no need for crossover cables
• Complies with the IEEE 802.11a, 802.11 b, 802.11g, and 802.11n draft 2 standards

Win Acronis Disk Director Suite 10 + Acronis True Image 2010 – Worth $100!!

The lowest unique bid in this auction will win not one, but two great applications – Acronis Disk Director Suite 10 + Acronis True Image 2010 – Worth $100!!

Acronis Disk Director 10

Looking to secure your PC at the same time as making it quicker? The n this classic app is for you. Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 is the easiest and most convenient partition manager and hard disk toolkit. It brings together the most popular disk management functions, partition recovery tools, and boot disk manager for Windows XP and Vista desktop systems.

Key Features:

• Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 combines a number of previous Acronis disk management tools into one solution:
• Partition Manager allows you to resize, move, copy, split, and merge partitions without losing your data
• Boot Manager is a multi-boot software utility that allows you to install multiple operating systems on your PC
• Partition Recovery allows you to recover accidentally lost or deleted partitions
• Disk Editor is a disk drive repair tool that allows you to perform advanced operations on your hard disk drive, such as restoration of boot records and hexadecimal editing.
• Don’t worry if you don’t win the auction, you can try this app for free.

Acronis True Image Home 2010

Acronis True Image is one of the best known PC applications. Now supporting Windows 7, with Acronis True Image Home 2010, rest assured that all your important data including images, music, documents and applications are well protected and can easily be recovered in the event of any disaster.

• Easy and Fast Backup and Recovery: Acronis True Image Home 2010 provides home users reliable and timeless backup and recovery of their operating system, applications, settings and personal files.
• Friendly, Windows®-style User Interface: From an intuitive graphical interface, you can easily define where, locally or online, and how often to backup a PC based on your needs.
• Acronis Online Backupâ„¢ to a secure location: Optional Acronis online storage services are available to automatically backup valuable data or files over the internet to a secure location.
• Continuous data protection: In addition, Acronis Nonstop Backupâ„¢ provides continuous system and data protection, preventing data loss

To try Acronis True Image Home 2010 free, click here.

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In a further attempt to woo Windows 7 Ttesters, Microsoft is running a photo competition for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta testers where five lucky winners will win ‘Windows 7 Swag’.  To enter, Microsoft Connect users need to send in a photo of themselves in their testing environment, be at the most insane desktop in the world, or in an interesting location:

A potential Winner....

If you weren’t a Windows 7 tester then you can console yourself by entering our $9000 Christmas Giveaway!!

Windows 7 Photo Contest

Dear xxxxx,

As we get settled with our new team and in our new building we’d like to take the opportunity and ask for your help in introducing YOU to the new team! We have lots of empty wall space surrounding our offices and we’d like to devote a large chunk to honoring our awesome Windows 7 beta participants!

We have already hung a series of computer generated push pin maps (courtesy of MapPoint) of participant locations and would like to supplement this with large collages of photos.

If you are interested in submitting a photo for us to use, please ensure you follow the guidelines listed below.

Photo Requirements – Your submission must comply with the following criteria in order to be accepted and qualify for the drawing:

1. Your photo must be submitted in JPEG format
2. You must use the following naming convention: <(Connect handle)> EX: John Smith (scrappydog90).jpg
3. You must email the picture to [removed] by COB on January 15, 2010.
4. The subject line of your email must be “Windows 7 Photo Contest”
5. Your photo must be of a high-resolution such that you could print at least a good quality 3″ x 5″ from it. (e.g. no driver license or passport photos)
6. Your photo should reflect you as a unique individual (e.g. no driver license, passport photos or mug shots)
7. You may submit more than one photo, however you will only be entered once in the drawing

Suggestions – Be Creative and Have Fun!

• Photos of you and your beta test environment
• Photos of you that reflect your specific locale e.g. well-known landmarks
• Photos that show your passion and enthusiasm for technology

By submitting your photo to us you agree to the following terms and conditions:

I hereby grant Microsoft Corporation the irrevocable right to use and reproduce for internal promotion purposes related to the Windows 7 operating system or other related Microsoft products and/or services, in the United States or elsewhere at any time, my name and my photograph or likeness. I specifically release Microsoft and its agents from any and all claims, of any and every nature, based on any use or uses of the above. I certify that I am over eighteen years of age and am under no legal or contractual disability to grant the rights and license above.

All successful entries will be put into a drawing and five random winners chosen to receive some great Windows 7 SWAG!

We look forward to your submissions!!!

Regards,

The Windows Beta Team

Jura, Paul, Wendy

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Our Christmas Giveaway is picking up momentum now with lots of users having fun bidding for free to win a share of over $9000 in prizes.  On day 3 we saw some very frantic bidding in our reverse auctions, with one of our prizes going for a record amount:

• $300 In Amazon Vouchers – Lowest Unique bid $16.99 (!!), won by vamtastic
• Copy of a-squared Anti-Malware 4.5 – Lowest Unique bid $1.08, won by vjnag81

Congratulations to our winners.

Day 4 Christmas Giveaway

Now that everyone seems to be getting the hang of the free reverse auctions, I thought we’d have our largest prize day so far. Today we are giving away:

• Uniblue RegistryBooster 2010 Worth $30!!
• Uniblue PowerSuite Bundle Worth $100!!
• Free Copy Of WinRAR Worth $45!!
• Recover My Files Professional Worth $100!!
• TidySongs Worth $39!!!
• Bulk Image Downloader Worth $24.95!

Power Suite From Uniblue – Worth $100!!

The lowest bid in this auction wins THREE great applications worth $100!!

This Power Bundle from Uniblue includes:

• RegistryBooster 2010 Worth $29.99
• DriverScanner 2009 Worth $29.99
• SpeedUpMyPC Worth $29.99

RegistryBooster 2010

RegistryBooster is the easy answer to all your Windows registry problems. This award winning software starts by conducting a deep scan of your registry, checking for file extension errors and other registry conflicts. RegistryBooster will then repair or remove unused, corrupted and harmful files so optimizing your PC’s performance. You can then use regular scans to keep your registry structured and your PC speeding along at peak efficiency. With RegistryBooster you’ll see immediate increases in performance and decreases in system conflicts.

Click here to run a Free Registry scan

DriverScanner 2009

With so many drivers installed on your system you cannot reasonably keep track of which drivers have been updated, which is why you need driver update management software to help out. Driver Scanner is the perfect solution for automatically updating drivers, saving you the hassle of having to identifying all your system’s drivers, then find updates for them using, before then downloading them from the manufacturer’s website. Driver Scanner scans your PC’s drivers and checks them against our comprehensive library of the latest drivers, to give you a full list of all those that need to be updated. With single click simplicity Driver Scanner will then install each update on your PC. But what’s more, Driver Scanner will also backup all your drivers to an external device, meaning that the next time you reinstall your system you can load up all your latest drivers, from one place

Click here to run a Free driver update scan

SpeedUpMyPC 2009

SpeedUpMyPC 2009, Uniblue’s award-winning speed up computer solution, lets you monitor and control all your PC resources with easy, one click instructions. System settings, internet usage, disk clutter, RAM and CPU are all automatically scanned, cleaned and optimized for peak performance. You can also selectively disable or remove unnecessary background and auto-start processes to cut valuable seconds off your startup time.

Click here to run a Free Performance scan

Free Copy of WinRAR – Worth $45!!

WinRAR can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.

WinRar Benefits

• Using WinRAR puts you ahead of the crowd when it comes to compression by consistently making smaller archives than the competition, saving disk space and transmission costs
• WinRAR provides complete support for RAR and ZIP archives and is able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z, Z archives
• WinRAR offers a graphic interactive interface utilizing mouse and menus as well as the command line interface
• When you purchase WinRAR license you are buying a license to the complete technology, no need to purchase add-ons to create self-extracting files, it’s all included
• WinRAR is easier to use than many other archivers with the inclusion of a special “Wizard” mode which allows instant access to the basic archiving functions through a simple question and answer procedure. This avoids confusion in the early stages of use
• WinRAR offers you the benefit of industry strength archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a key of 128 bits
• WinRAR supports files and archives up to 8,589 billion gigabytes in size. The number of archived files is, for all practical purposes, unlimited
• WinRAR offers the ability to create selfextracting and multivolume archives
• Recovery record and recovery volumes allow to reconstruct even physically damaged archives
• WinRAR features are constantly being developed to keep WinRAR ahead of the pack

Free copy of RecoverMyFiles - Worth $100!!

Need file recovery? Or hard drive data recovery software?

Recover deleted files Quickly and Easily!

Recover My Files data recovery software will easily recover deleted files emptied from the Windows Recycle Bin, or lost due to the format or corruption of a hard drive, virus or Trojan infection, unexpected system shutdown or software failure.

“Recover My Files combines simplicity of use with the most powerful file recovery software engine, together with a unique capability of “on-the-fly” data preview while the search is being conducted.”

Recover My Files is fast and easy. No technical or data recovery software skills are required to undelete files. Use Recover My Files to perform hard drive data recovery, or if you are trying to unformat and recover data from floppy disk, zip drive, smart media, compact flash or other removable media. It is easy disk recovery software to undelete files and get data back.

Do not waste time and money on other software wondering if you can recover deleted files.Download and try Recover My Files undelete software free. Scan your drive and view your deleted files. If you can see your deleted files then data recovery is quick and easy.

Try Recover My Files

Free Copy of TidySongs

The winner with the lowest unique bid in this auction will win a FREE copy of Tidysongs worth $39!!

TidySongs is an easy and powerful program that will fix any missing or misspelled song details, add album artwork, remove duplicate songs and organize your music. Try Tidysongs free for your first 50 songs.

Try Now!

Remove Duplicate Songs

TidySongs features a smart duplicate song remover that searches your song library to find duplicates – even duplicates that are spelled differently. Use the options to choose to keep the songs with the higher bitrate or longer length. Simulation mode allows you to test things without accidentally removing songs you want to keep.

Fix Misspelled Song Details

Misspelled and missing song details makes your music ugly and impossible to browse on an iPod. TidySongs fixes misspelled and missing artist, album, name, track, year and genre details and renames artists and albums with their correct format (i.e. “Dave Matthews Band” not “Dave Matthews”).This is done automatically – you don’t have to type anything.

Fill In Missing Artists, Years and Genres

Make your song library easier to browse by letting TidySongs automatically fill in the artist, album release year and genre for each song. When fixing songs, you can choose to use information from the original album the song was released on or a compilation or greatest hits. TidySongs keeps your music organized.

Add Missing Album Artwork

Make your music look good. TidySongs automatically downloads high resolution album artwork for each of your songs so that it displays on your computer, in iTunes and on your iPod, iPhone, TV or other music player.

Other programs and websites make you manually find and add each image – TidySongs is automatic.

Automatic! No Typing Necessary!

How long would it take you to fix all of your songs by hand? What if you had more than 1,000 songs? TidySongs uses a smart online music database with information on more than 4 million songs to automatically download the correct details for each of your songs so you don’t have to type it in.

Bulk Image Downloader Worth $24.95!

In this auction we are giving away a full version of the brilliant Bulk Image Downloader, the best way to download multiple images from the web worth $24.95!

Not just for images; BID also supports VIDEO downloading from YouTube, Google Video, DailyMotion, MetaCafe, MegaVideo, YouPorn, PornHub, RedTube, Tube8, MegaPorn as well as directly linked video files (.avi, .wmv, .mpeg, .mov, .flv, etc)

Bulk Image Downloader is a powerful, yet very easy to use web gallery downloader.  Download the FREE 30 day trial and start downloading those images and videos now!

• Downloads entire image galleries automatically (no more endless right clicking to “save image as…”)
• Integrates with IE, FireFox and Opera. Just right click on a gallery page or gallery link and select “Download with Bulk Image Downloader”
• Download from video sites like YouTube, Google Video, DailyMotion, MetaCafe, MegaVideo, YouPorn, PornHub, RedTube, Tube8, MegaPorn
• Downloads thumbnailed video files (.mpg, .avi. .mov, etc)
• No complicated configuration or project files needed – it just works
• Works on sites that the other image downloaders don’t
• Automatically locates and downloads images that have had their true locations hidden by redirection “services” such as usercash, linkbucks, etc.
• Saves time – galleries are downloaded as fast as your connection will allow
• Saves bandwidth – adverts and popups are not downloaded, just the images
• Validates and automatically retries partial or corrupt images, resuming downloads where possible
• Automatically detects and downloads from most multi page forum threads and galleries
• Downloads vbulletin forum attached images
• Multiple gallery download jobs can be queued and downloaded at a later time via the integrated Queue Manager

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In tandem with our sister site Windows 7 News & Tips we are giving away over $9000 this December.  Yes, everyday between Dec 1st and Dec 24th we are giving away prizes worth over $300!!

Entry is free and you can enter as many times as you want.  All you have to do is visit our Christmas Giveaway and start bidding for free on the prizes you want to win.  It’s a reverse auction so the lowest unique bid wins.

Auctions will run from 24 hours each day starting at 8PM PST – keep checking the site for details of the new prizes added daily that you can win!

Start bidding now!!

Also visit ghacks where Martin is also giving away thousands of dollars in prizes!!

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We had some teething problems with the auction site yesterday that are now resolved and day 2 winners of our $9K Christmas Giveaway have now been notified.  Yesterday we gave away:

• Free utilities and performance software from UNIBLUE - Worth $100!!
• Free Unlimited Online Backup Account from Mozy - Worth $55!!
• More software from UNIBLUE - Worth $30!!
• Free Copy of MediaMonkey Gold - Worth $40!!
• Free copy of RecoverMyFiles - Worth $100!!

Day 3 Christmas Giveaway – $300 in Amazon Vouchers!!

Today in our Christmas Giveaway we are giving away $300 in Amazon vouchers in addition to another copy of  A-Squared Anti-Malware 4.5 worth $40!! To play all you have to do is visit our Christmas Giveaway auction site and start bidding in our reverse auction- all bids are free!  To read more and how to play click here.

Auctions will run from 24 hours each day starting at 8PM PST- keep checking the site each day for details of the new prizes you can win!

Start bidding now!!

Also visit ghacks where Martin is also giving away thousands of dollars in prizes!!

a-Squared Anti-Malware 4.5  - Worth $40!!

a-squared Anti-Malware 4.5 provides comprehensive PC protection against trojans, viruses, spyware, adware, worms, bots, keyloggers, rootkits and dialers.

2 cleaning scanners in 1: Anti-Virus + Anti-Spyware

• Not just any scanners, but a combination of two world class products – the a-squared Anti-Spyware, and the Ikarus Anti-Virus engine. Latest tests approve that both are cutting edge in Malware detection
• No doubling of the scan duration as would be the case with two separate scanning programs. Considerable performance improvement is possible thanks to the integration of the two engines on the lowest level
• No double price – two top security products for the price of one.

2 guards against new infections: signature scan + behavior analysis

• When a Malware infection is detected, the scanner puts the found objects under quarantine or deletes them finally
• Anti-Malware holds plenty of advanced options for experts to detect and delete Malware manually. For this purpose the integrated system analysis tool HiJackFree is included, and helps you to have all processes, services, auto-runs, open ports, browser plug-ins, LSPs and host entries under your control
• For tough problems our helpful Malware experts are at your disposal for free. With their help, any infection, no matter how resistant it is, can be purged – guaranteed

Protect your PC and start bidding now! If you don’t win then you can still try a-squared Anti-Malware 4.5 free for 30 days!

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Our Christmas Giveaway is now in full swing!  Martin secured some more prizes yesterday and we now have more than $9000 IN PRIZES TO GIVE AWAY! To play all you have to do is visit our Christmas Giveaway auction site and start bidding in our reverse auction- all bids are free!  To read more and how to play click here.

Day 1 Christmas Giveaway Winners

On the first day of the Giveaway we had 3 great prizes totalling $385 available:

• 1 Year Giganews Platinum Account Worth $300: winner ‘marclofs’
• Free Copy of WinRAR Worth $45: winner ‘infrablack’
• Copy of a-squared Anti-Malware 4.5: winner ‘vinods’

We had thousands of entries so it was surprising that the winning bids were all under 25 cents!  I don’t think this will happen again.  Well done to the winners!

Day 2 Christmas Giveaway Prizes

Auctions will run from 24 hours each day starting at 8PM PST

• Free utilities and performance software from UNIBLUE - Worth $100!!
• Free Unlimited Online Backup Account from Mozy - Worth $55!!
• More software from UNIBLUE - Worth $30!!
• Free Copy of MediaMonkey Gold - Worth $40!!
• Free copy of RecoverMyFiles - Worth $100!!

Start bidding now!!

Power Suite From Uniblue – Worth $100!!

The lowest bid in this auction wins THREE great applications worth $100!!

This Power Bundle from Uniblue includes:

• RegistryBooster 2010 Worth $29.99
• DriverScanner 2009 Worth $29.99
• SpeedUpMyPC Worth $29.99

RegistryBooster 2010

RegistryBooster is the easy answer to all your Windows registry problems. This award winning software starts by conducting a deep scan of your registry, checking for file extension errors and other registry conflicts. RegistryBooster will then repair or remove unused, corrupted and harmful files so optimizing your PC’s performance. You can then use regular scans to keep your registry structured and your PC speeding along at peak efficiency. With RegistryBooster you’ll see immediate increases in performance and decreases in system conflicts.

Click here to run a Free Registry scan

DriverScanner 2009

With so many drivers installed on your system you cannot reasonably keep track of which drivers have been updated, which is why you need driver update management software to help out. Driver Scanner is the perfect solution for automatically updating drivers, saving you the hassle of having to identifying all your system’s drivers, then find updates for them using, before then downloading them from the manufacturer’s website. Driver Scanner scans your PC’s drivers and checks them against our comprehensive library of the latest drivers, to give you a full list of all those that need to be updated. With single click simplicity Driver Scanner will then install each update on your PC. But what’s more, Driver Scanner will also backup all your drivers to an external device, meaning that the next time you reinstall your system you can load up all your latest drivers, from one place

Click here to run a Free driver update scan

SpeedUpMyPC 2009

SpeedUpMyPC 2009, Uniblue’s award-winning speed up computer solution, lets you monitor and control all your PC resources with easy, one click instructions. System settings, internet usage, disk clutter, RAM and CPU are all automatically scanned, cleaned and optimized for peak performance. You can also selectively disable or remove unnecessary background and auto-start processes to cut valuable seconds off your startup time.

Click here to run a Free Performance scan

Free Unlimited Online Backup Account from Mozy - Worth $55!!

The winner with the lowest unique bid in this auction will win a FREE Mozy Home Unlimited Backup Account worth $55!

Protect your files now with Mozy who have made online backup possible for everyone with an affordable, secure solution that’s easy to use.

Download and install Mozy to ensure your photos, music, Outlook files and other important documents are safely backed up at a secure, remote location.

Alternatives to MozyHome:

• Burn a new CD or DVD every Sunday night and store it at your brother-in-law’s office.
• Pay $200/year for an online backup service that uses old, mediocre software.
• Buy a $200 external hard drive and hope your office doesn’t burn down.
• Do nothing and don’t worry about backup. (We suggest closing your eyes, plugging your ears and repeating “I’m in my happy place, I’m in my happy place.”)
• Run a cron job of rsync, gzip and mcrypt piped over ssh to your friend’s server over his DSL line.
• Of course, we think MozyHome is the best and easiest solution to the backup problem!

Get MozyHome!

Free Copy of MediaMonkey Gold - Worth $40!!

The winner who has the lowest unique bid in this auction will win a FREE copy of MediaMonkey Gold worth $40!!

MediaMonkey is the best mp3 player on the market and the premium Gold service is even better:

• Organize music and edit tags in your audio library with a powerful, intuitive interface.
• Automatically lookup and tag Album Art and other metadata.
• Manage 50,000+ files in your music collection without bogging down.
• Manage all genres of audio: Rock, Classical, Audiobooks, Comedy, Podcasts, etc.
• Play MP3s and other audio formats, and never again worry about varying volume.
• Record CDs and convert MP3s, M4A, OGG, FLAC and WMA files etc. into other formats.
• Create playlists and let Auto-DJ & Party Mode take care of your party.
• Sync iPhones, iPods, & MP3 players, converting & leveling tracks on-the-fly.

If you want to give MediaMonkey a try, the free version is also excellent.

Try MediaMonkey now!

Free copy of RecoverMyFiles - Worth $100!!

Need file recovery? Or hard drive data recovery software?

Recover deleted files Quickly and Easily!

Recover My Files data recovery software will easily recover deleted files emptied from the Windows Recycle Bin, or lost due to the format or corruption of a hard drive, virus or Trojan infection, unexpected system shutdown or software failure.

“Recover My Files combines simplicity of use with the most powerful file recovery software engine, together with a unique capability of “on-the-fly” data preview while the search is being conducted.”

Recover My Files is fast and easy. No technical or data recovery software skills are required to undelete files. Use Recover My Files to perform hard drive data recovery, or if you are trying to unformat and recover data from floppy disk, zip drive, smart media, compact flash or other removable media. It is easy disk recovery software to undelete files and get data back.

Do not waste time and money on other software wondering if you can recover deleted files.Download and try Recover My Files undelete software free. Scan your drive and view your deleted files. If you can see your deleted files then data recovery is quick and easy.

Try Recover My Files

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Day 1 of our Christmas Giveaway has begun we’re we are giving away $8000 in prizes in December!! Everyday between Dec 1st and Dec 24th we will be giving away a minimum of $300 in prizes to lucky readers.  Entry is free and you can enter as many times as you want.  All you have to do is visit our Christmas Giveaway and start bidding for free on the prizes you want to win.  It’s a reverse auction so the lowest unique bid wins.

Auctions will run from 24 hours each day starting at 8PM PST – keep checking the site for details of the new prizes added daily that you can win!

Start bidding now!!

Also visit ghacks where Martin is also giving away thousands of dollars in prizes!!

Day 1 Christmas Giveaway Prizes – Auctions end 8PM PST 1/12/09

On the first day of the Giveaway we have 3 great prizes totalling $385 available:

• 1 Year Giganews Platinum Account – Worth $300!!
• Free Copy of WinRAR – Worth $45!!
• Copy of a-squared Anti-Malware 4.5 - Worth $40!!

Day 2 Christmas Giveaway Prizes PREVIEW- Auctions end 8PM PST 2/12/09

On the second day of the Giveaway we have 3 great prizes totalling $325 available:

• Free utilities and performance software from UNIBLUE – Worth $100!!
• Free Unlimited Online Backup Account from Mozy – Worth $55!!
• More software from UNIBLUE – Worth $30!!
• Free Copy of MediaMonkey Gold – Worth $40!!
• Free copy of RecoverMyFiles – Worth $100!!

To see all prizes click here

1 Year Giganews Platinum Account – Worth $300!!

The winner with the lowest unique bid will win a FREE Giganews Platinum account worth $300! With a Giganews Platinum account from the leading Usenet Provider you get Unlimited Monthly Bandwidth Allowance, 478 days retention and much more:

• 109,000 Uncensored Newsgroups
• 256-bit SSL Encryption and 50 connections
• 24hr Member Support
• 99%+ Completion rate
• Broadband Download Speeds

Don’t worry if you don’t win as Giganews currently have an amazing 50% off the first two months offer!

Free Copy of WinRAR – Worth $45!!

WinRAR can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.

WinRar Benefits

• Using WinRAR puts you ahead of the crowd when it comes to compression by consistently making smaller archives than the competition, saving disk space and transmission costs
• WinRAR provides complete support for RAR and ZIP archives and is able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z, Z archives
• WinRAR offers a graphic interactive interface utilizing mouse and menus as well as the command line interface
• When you purchase WinRAR license you are buying a license to the complete technology, no need to purchase add-ons to create self-extracting files, it’s all included
• WinRAR is easier to use than many other archivers with the inclusion of a special “Wizard” mode which allows instant access to the basic archiving functions through a simple question and answer procedure. This avoids confusion in the early stages of use
• WinRAR offers you the benefit of industry strength archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a key of 128 bits
• WinRAR supports files and archives up to 8,589 billion gigabytes in size. The number of archived files is, for all practical purposes, unlimited
• WinRAR offers the ability to create selfextracting and multivolume archives
• Recovery record and recovery volumes allow to reconstruct even physically damaged archives
• WinRAR features are constantly being developed to keep WinRAR ahead of the pack

a-Squared Anti-Malware 4.5  - Worth $40!!

a-squared Anti-Malware 4.5 provides comprehensive PC protection against trojans, viruses, spyware, adware, worms, bots, keyloggers, rootkits and dialers.

2 cleaning scanners in 1: Anti-Virus + Anti-Spyware

• Not just any scanners, but a combination of two world class products – the a-squared Anti-Spyware, and the Ikarus Anti-Virus engine. Latest tests approve that both are cutting edge in Malware detection
• No doubling of the scan duration as would be the case with two separate scanning programs. Considerable performance improvement is possible thanks to the integration of the two engines on the lowest level
• No double price – two top security products for the price of one.

2 guards against new infections: signature scan + behavior analysis

• When a Malware infection is detected, the scanner puts the found objects under quarantine or deletes them finally
• Anti-Malware holds plenty of advanced options for experts to detect and delete Malware manually. For this purpose the integrated system analysis tool HiJackFree is included, and helps you to have all processes, services, auto-runs, open ports, browser plug-ins, LSPs and host entries under your control
• For tough problems our helpful Malware experts are at your disposal for free. With their help, any infection, no matter how resistant it is, can be purged – guaranteed

Protect your PC and start bidding now! If you don’t win then you can still try a-squared Anti-Malware 4.5 free for 30 days!

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Yesterday I announced our Christmas Giveaway where we have prizes worth over $7k available for readers to win.  Everyday between Dec 1st and Dec 24th we will be giving away a minimum of $300 of hardware and/or software to lucky readers.  To be in with a chance of winning all you have to do is visit our Christmas Giveaway site and bid on the prizes you’d like to win.  It’s a reverse auction so the lowest unique bid wins – you can enter as many times as you like for free!

Auctions will run from 24 hours each day starting at 8PM PST – keep checking the site for details of the new prizes you can win!  Start bidding now!!

Day 1 Christmas Giveaway Prizes

On the first day of the Giveaway we have 3 great prizes totalling $385 available:

• 1 Year Giganews Platinum Account – Worth $300!!
• Free Copy of WinRAR – Worth $45!!
• Copy of a-squared Anti-Malware 4.5 - Worth $40!!

1 Year Giganews Platinum Account – Worth $300!!

The winner with the lowest unique bid will win a FREE Giganews Platinum account worth $300! With a Giganews Platinum account from the leading Usenet Provider you get Unlimited Monthly Bandwidth Allowance, 478 days retention and much more:

• 109,000 Uncensored Newsgroups
• 256-bit SSL Encryption and 50 connections
• 24hr Member Support
• 99%+ Completion rate
• Broadband Download Speeds

Don’t worry if you don’t win as Giganews currently have an amazing 50% off the first two months offer!

Free Copy of WinRAR – Worth $45!!

WinRAR can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.

WinRar Benefits

• Using WinRAR puts you ahead of the crowd when it comes to compression by consistently making smaller archives than the competition, saving disk space and transmission costs
• WinRAR provides complete support for RAR and ZIP archives and is able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z, Z archives
• WinRAR offers a graphic interactive interface utilizing mouse and menus as well as the command line interface
• When you purchase WinRAR license you are buying a license to the complete technology, no need to purchase add-ons to create self-extracting files, it’s all included
• WinRAR is easier to use than many other archivers with the inclusion of a special “Wizard” mode which allows instant access to the basic archiving functions through a simple question and answer procedure. This avoids confusion in the early stages of use
• WinRAR offers you the benefit of industry strength archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a key of 128 bits
• WinRAR supports files and archives up to 8,589 billion gigabytes in size. The number of archived files is, for all practical purposes, unlimited
• WinRAR offers the ability to create selfextracting and multivolume archives
• Recovery record and recovery volumes allow to reconstruct even physically damaged archives
• WinRAR features are constantly being developed to keep WinRAR ahead of the pack

a-Squared Anti-Malware 4.5  - Worth $40!!

a-squared Anti-Malware 4.5 provides comprehensive PC protection against trojans, viruses, spyware, adware, worms, bots, keyloggers, rootkits and dialers.

2 cleaning scanners in 1: Anti-Virus + Anti-Spyware

• Not just any scanners, but a combination of two world class products – the a-squared Anti-Spyware, and the Ikarus Anti-Virus engine. Latest tests approve that both are cutting edge in Malware detection
• No doubling of the scan duration as would be the case with two separate scanning programs. Considerable performance improvement is possible thanks to the integration of the two engines on the lowest level
• No double price – two top security products for the price of one.

2 guards against new infections: signature scan + behavior analysis

• When a Malware infection is detected, the scanner puts the found objects under quarantine or deletes them finally
• Anti-Malware holds plenty of advanced options for experts to detect and delete Malware manually. For this purpose the integrated system analysis tool HiJackFree is included, and helps you to have all processes, services, auto-runs, open ports, browser plug-ins, LSPs and host entries under your control
• For tough problems our helpful Malware experts are at your disposal for free. With their help, any infection, no matter how resistant it is, can be purged – guaranteed

Protect your PC and start bidding now! If you don’t win then you can still try a-squared Anti-Malware 4.5 free for 30 days!

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