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Title: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: mouser on January 26, 2008, 10:37 PM

Winners of the January 2008 Giveaway Drawing

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January 2008 Giveaway Drawing

Supporting Members, you've got until the last day of the month to take advantage of this month's Discounts (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?board=85.0)..

This Month's Special Discounts and Giveaways (https://www.donationcoder.com/Specials/index.html):


Winners of 'Surfulater' (5):
Winners of 'AM-Notebook' (3):
Winners of 'Backup4All Professional' (4):
Winners of 'BB Flashback 1.5' (5):
Winners of 'Beyond Compare' (2):
Winners of 'Camtasia Studio (TechSmith)' (3):
Winners of 'SnagIt (TechSmith)' (3):
Winners of 'Directory Opus' (3):
Winners of 'Double Killer Pro' (5):
Winners of 'Direct Access' (3):
Winners of 'FontCreator Professional' (5):
Winners of 'FontExpert 2007' (5):
Winners of 'Genie Backup Manager Pro' (5):
Winners of 'GoodSync' (5):
Winners of 'Help & Manual 4 Professional' (3):
Winners of 'Local Website Archive' (3):
Winners of 'MainType' (5):
Winners of 'My Life Organized' (3):
Winners of 'NoteZilla' (5):
Winners of 'novaPDF Professional' (4):
Winners of 'PerfectDisk Professional' (5):
Winners of 'RecentX' (5):
Winners of 'AI Roboform' (5):
Winners of 'Super Flexible File Synchronizer' (3):
Winners of 'SyncBackSE and Onlick Utilities' (5):
Winners of 'TechSupport Alert Premium 12 month subscription' (3):
Winners of 'True Launch Bar' (10):
Winners of 'Website-Watcher Business' (3):
All winners are now being notified by email to their forum email address.  If you haven't received an email but your name is listed above, check spam filters and forum email address, and then mail [email protected] and let us know you never got any mail.  It can take a few days for companies to send you your serial number; if a few days pass and you haven't received it - send a reminder to the company email as noted in your winning notification email, or to us by replying to the email you received or to us directly.

Curious about how we award prizes?  See https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=1684.0 for a discussion about our custom prize optimizer utility. Winning something one month reduces your chances of winning the next month, and being helpful on the forum slightly increases your chances.
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: mouser on January 27, 2008, 12:59 AM
Congratulations to everyone who entered and thanks to cthorpe for wrangling up all these giveaways.

And thanks to all of the companies that donated copies for us to give away!

Don't forget the discounts run until the end of the month:

ps. Remember that if you didn't win this time, you'll have a better chance of winning next time.

Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: tinjaw on January 27, 2008, 01:08 AM
Congratulations to all the lucky winners! (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/esmileys/gen3/1Small/wow2.gif) :beerchug:
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: mitzevo on January 27, 2008, 01:43 AM
Congrats winners! .. and congrats to myself for my 300th post.. wooo. Now I'll just go cry about not winning any thing for ages  :Thmbsup:

edit: joking of course.. /me wipes tears away ..  ;D
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: Darwin on January 27, 2008, 01:52 AM
Wow! Camtasia Studio - thank you Techsmith and Donationcoder  :-*
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: lanux128 on January 27, 2008, 03:02 AM
Congratulations to all winners! and a big thanks goes to cthorpe and the companies that sponsored the prizes. :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: taichimaster on January 27, 2008, 03:04 AM
Wow! Camtasia Studio - thank you Techsmith and Donationcoder  :-*
-Darwin (January 27, 2008, 01:52 AM)

+1.  Thank you TechSmith, cthorpe, mouser, and the entire DC community!  :-*
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: TucknDar on January 27, 2008, 03:12 AM
Yay! Local Website Archive :D

Been using the free version for quite some time now, so I'm very happy to have won the Pro version :up:

Thank you again for your discount work, cthorpe!!
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: vegas on January 27, 2008, 04:06 AM
Congrats all, wish I would have known there were 2 copies of Beyond Compare, I wouldn't have put all my eggs in that basket, hehe.  Lets do it again Next Month!
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: Jibz on January 27, 2008, 04:41 AM
Congratulations to the winners! :Thmbsup:

Here's me being bored:

I went through the drawing result posts I could find in this forum section, and there was a grand total of 683 prizes won.

These prizes were won by 486 lucky people.

Of those, 138 have won twice or more, and 44 have won three times or more.

The three most winning users were:

superboyac (6: XFilesDialog, ACDSee Pro, MyBase, HDDLife, Zoom Player Pro, EverNote Plus)
dcm (5: Process Lasso, PageSpy Pro, MetaProducts Links Organizer, MusicIP Mixer Premium, FontExpert 2007)
Darwin (5: File-Ex, Almeza Apps, Collectorz organizer, Notezilla, Camtasia Studio)

Disclaimer: Winning of course relates to how many programs you enter the contest for, and how many others enter for the same programs .. that being said, I'd still love for superboyac to buy me a lottery ticket :mrgreen:.
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: mouser on January 27, 2008, 06:23 AM
Here's the link again describing how winners are chosen by the program: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=1684.0

There are a few ways to "game" the prize system which i probably need to address in the prize optimizer..

Things i'm not thrilled about and may try to change:
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: mouser on January 27, 2008, 06:28 AM
ps1.
I'm happy to have more suggestions on how the prize optimizer could be tweaked -- so send me your suggestions!

ps2.
Due to Jibz' excellent detective work, users Darwin, superboyac, and dcm have been placed on the permanent BAN list and shall never win another prize  ;D  Please direct all hate mail to jibz and send him a nice big poisonous attack creature.  (just joking!)
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: mitzevo on January 27, 2008, 07:42 AM
ps1.
I'm happy to have more suggestions on how the prize optimizer could be tweaked -- so send me your suggestions!
-mouser (January 27, 2008, 06:28 AM)
I think people with less than 25 posts shouldn't be able to enter. So they don't imbalance all the others who actually contribute and etc.

ps2.
Due to Jibz' excellent detective work, users Darwin, superboyac, and dcm have been placed on the permanent BAN list and shall never win another prize  ;D  Please direct all hate mail to jibz and send him a nice big poisonous attack creature.  (just joking!)
-mouser (January 27, 2008, 06:28 AM)

Lolol. I actually asked today in IRC if any body had won more than 2 or 3 prizes.. :) And now Jibz has done some good snooping and presented the facts :)


Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: mouser on January 27, 2008, 08:01 AM
the problem with basing things on posts is that people might start posting just to reach that threshold (and i note as this thread (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2625.msg97101) demonstrates that some people are already post-count-crazy).

and if we only allowed people with more than x posts to enter it would lead to a lot of new members here feeling tricked.

but, we could do something where we add the tiniest of weight to users who are minimally "active" on the forum (say 5 posts in the last six months).
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: app103 on January 27, 2008, 08:06 AM
"Your estimated happiness value from this prize: 100%."

OH YEAH!

(https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/esmileys/gen3/1Small/banana.gif)(https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/esmileys/gen3/1Small/wow2.gif)(https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/esmileys/gen3/5Large/7877.gif)

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Disclaimer: Winning of course relates to how many programs you enter the contest for, and how many others enter for the same programs .. that being said, I'd still love for superboyac to buy me a lottery ticket .
-Jibz

I don't enter that often. As a matter of fact, I rarely enter...only when I see something I really really want, or really really need.

I have won 3 times in the last 2 years.

Font Expert 2006
Surfulator
and now Beyond Compare

I think I have better luck than most here with my ratio of wins:losses, so maybe I should buy you that lottery ticket.  ;)

I think people with less than 25 posts shouldn't be able to enter. So they don't imbalance all the others who actually contribute and etc.
-mitzevo

There are a lot of people that donated to the site that have never made a single post. They have contributed and deserve to win just as much as anyone else.

There are also the 'silent' members that are promoting us outside this site, on their blogs and other forums. They also deserve to win just as much as anyone else.

Not all ways to contribute are visible within the forum. Limiting it to people that have made a certain number of posts would be very unfair.
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: mouser on January 27, 2008, 08:15 AM
another minor observation about fairness in choosing winners.

I've noticed that my obsession with "fairness" in awarding prizes for these drawings and for the few programming contests we had where we gave prizes is fraught with dangers.

The whole reason i wrote the prize optimizer was because i thought there should be a fairer way to choose winners based on what they want and to give everyone a chance to win.

But taking such an approach means i sometimes agonize over these things and struggle to figure out the "fairest" solution, when i often don't have enough information to make a "fair" decision.  For example when we had a big programming contest with very expensive prizes, i struggled hard with the idea that some people could not afford this if they don't win it, wheras for others price wasn't an issue, but maybe pride was, etc.

Also, if you try to make a decision about what would be the "fair" way to give out prizes, then some people might feel upset at why you didn't think they were more worthy, and maybe you just forgot about something, etc.

One huge advantage to just making everything just a purely random choice is that people can get mad at the universe when they don't win, instead of getting mad at you  :-\

So, i think i've given up trying to figure out a way to make these things go to the people that really deserve them, and let it mostly be luck, with just a small number of heuristics to try to make it a little more fair overall in the long run.
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: ciderman on January 27, 2008, 08:19 AM
Hello!

Thank you Donationcoder and company behind Truelaunchbar :Thmbsup:

Ps. Now i have to decide which one to use Truelauchbar or Launch Bar Commander.......
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: mouser on January 27, 2008, 08:26 AM
One thing people can do to help things work out right:
Don't enter to win programs you aren't going to use!

Especially for the big expensive programs, please don't try to win them just because they are expensive -- if you do win and you don't really use the program, you are taking away this prize from someone who might not have been able to afford it and who would have put it to good use.
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: oldfart on January 27, 2008, 08:36 AM
My thanks to you folks at DC for GoodSync.  I really appreciate the opportunity to win a much needed program and I am very pleased with what I won.  Now that I'll be in the small chance to win pool for the next few months, I wish good luck to all the other entrants.  Thanks again.
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: Lashiec on January 27, 2008, 08:39 AM
I'm speechless :-*

I'd like to thank cthorpe, for his hard work, DC and the community, for setting up the drawing (and choosing an app different than mine, that boosted my odds of winning it ;D), aignes, for providing the licenses, the academy, my parents who are...

/me gets carried away from the stage by angry moderators

BTW, I see that xplorer² was included in the giveaway, but nobody won a license. What happened?
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: mouser on January 27, 2008, 09:12 AM
BTW, I see that xplorer² was included in the giveaway, but nobody won a license. What happened?

was nothing to do with xplorer^2 author -- we just were juggling to many that we never contacted author in time to get it organized, but we will follow up.
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: rkrause on January 27, 2008, 09:13 AM
As one of the happy winners of a My Life Organized license, my sincere thanks to mouser, cthorpe, and TaskMan (MLO developer Andrey Tkachuk). This is very cool and much appreciated. Of course, now there's additional pressure to get my unruly life in some kind of order . . .

Rick
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: mitzevo on January 27, 2008, 09:41 AM
There are a lot of people that donated to the site that have never made a single post. They have contributed and deserve to win just as much as anyone else.
Well then you add in a check to see if user has donated..

edit: so that's in effect then.

the problem with basing things on posts is that people might start posting just to reach that threshold
Yeah, it's quite obvious when people are trying to get their post count up (*cough*)..

So I guess my idea is null and void now.. lol.. I forgot about the people who donated / contributed offsite / etc and didn't make any posts here at the forum.
But if they can't even make one post and want to enter the comps.. shame on them.
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: mouser on January 27, 2008, 09:42 AM
you already need to be a donating/supporting or honorary member to enter.
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: Falcon_four on January 27, 2008, 09:47 AM
Wow!! I've actually won something!!!!!  :D

...Now to go and spend some £'s on lottery tickets..I'll see how my luck holds out.

Many Thanks to Mouser and cthorpe!!

Many thanks to everyone one else involved and the DC community :Thmbsup:

>>>>F4>>>>
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: iphigenie on January 27, 2008, 10:21 AM
That's a lot of very happy people  :Thmbsup:

I would suspect that the only reason some people won more than one is that there were not that many entrants for all the categories, and hey, in the end that is only fair.

I only picked I think 5 that I wanted to win, I could have picked more but I know I am a software addict so I watch myself... I made sure to only list things that I actually knew I would use (partly because I dont want to regret it when i see the giveaways for the next few months...) so I am super happy I won one of them   :-*
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: Jibz on January 27, 2008, 10:23 AM
Just for the record, I was in no way complaining about the selection process -- I know mouser has put a lot of effort into making the program doing it as fair as humanly possible :Thmbsup:.

I just sat there looking at the winner list and pondered how many had actually won multiple times, which was of course more than enough of an excuse for me to write a perl script to sort through the data :lol:.
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: mouser on January 27, 2008, 10:29 AM
Jibz, i certainly didn't get that idea I just wanted to give some background for anyone new to the site.

In case people don't know, Jibz is member #3 on this forum.  Members 1+2 are the default admin account and me.
One of the nicest people i know and he and i have worked together on some fun projects (e.g. Octane (http://octane.sourceforge.net/)).

ps. any effort looking at stats of the site and stuff like this i support 100%, i think it just makes things more interesting and fun :)
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: jgpaiva on January 27, 2008, 10:30 AM
app: wise comments, as always. I also think that linking the probabilities of winning with the number of posts would be VERY unfair.

Right now, i think the prize optimizer works very well...
Winners of 'Help & Manual 4 Professional' (3):
jgpaiva
:D :D :D

Thanks a lot!!  :greenclp: :greenclp: :greenclp:

Now... I just need to get some courage to start working on GridMove's new help file ;)
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: cranioscopical on January 27, 2008, 11:21 AM
It's always nice to win something - thank you!

Thanks, in fact, to everyone here at DonationCoder. As I see it, everyone here contributes to the success of the site and so -- directly or indirectly -- helps to make every aspect work well, including the giveaways and discounts.

Extra thanks to mouser and CThorpe and to others who worked directly on arranging (and donating) the current, very impressive list of items to win!

mouser: The fact that the optimizer does not keep track of how many times you've won, only that you've won in the recent past.  If I modified that those who have won many times would not be winning so often, even if they have been entering a lot and for a long time.
and
Should we more actively try to bump the weights of people who are actively contributing on the site?

It seems that the more you try to weight things, the more subjective the system becomes. My vote would be for the closest approximation to a truly random system that can be accomplished. That way, everybody has exactly the same chance to win, every time. When one tries to impose 'fairness' on a system the higher becomes the chance of introducing inadvertent inequities.

mouser: It might be nicer to put in some term which looks at how many times a person has entered and lost and boost their chances of winning if so.
Should the optimizer keep track somehow of whether you won the most prized prize or the least?

Again, my 2¢ goes onto the pile for random selection, same argument.

There are so many variables and imponderables to try to control -- entered and lost often, entered and lost seldom, didn't enter at all because no desired software in some drawings, entered every drawing no matter what...and on, and on...

To be 'fair' requires some subjective assessment of, and assumptions about, behaviour and you don't have access to the required motivational data. Seems to me that every attempt to 'deskew' the system will only skew it in another direction.

And, mouser, it's no small tribute to you that whatever you decide after taking the collective pulse will likely be just fine with almost everybody here!

Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: iaksma on January 27, 2008, 11:51 AM
I'm a complete noob here and must say thanks to DonationCoder!  I won a copy of RoboForm and couldn't be happier.  I don't know where I've been for the last 3 years - I only discovered this site last week  :o, but I will be visiting here daily from now on. 
Thanks again!
Jill
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: Rhutobello on January 27, 2008, 11:58 AM
Congrat to all winners :Thmbsup:

Congrat to all site members to have such a bunch of good people working for the best of us all. :-*

Thx to Mouser and crew for all you do for us....even if most of us don't won this time  ;D
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: KenR on January 27, 2008, 12:35 PM
I'm a complete noob here and must say thanks to DonationCoder!  I won a copy of RoboForm and couldn't be happier.  I don't know where I've been for the last 3 years - I only discovered this site last week  :o, but I will be visiting here daily from now on. 
Thanks again!
Jill
-iaksma (January 27, 2008, 11:51 AM)

Welcome to DC Jill.
Ken
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: KenR on January 27, 2008, 12:40 PM
Congratulations to all the winners. I hope everyone enjoys their new software!

In the midst of all the excitement and enthusiasm, I would humbly request that people keep in mind THIS MONTH's giveaway is in preparation for the site's upcoming fundraiser. As the name suggests, DonationCoder requires us to give in order to keep doing what it has been.

Please consider contributing financially in addition to the other ways you contribute to the site.

Thanks, Ken
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: Darwin on January 27, 2008, 12:44 PM
Yes! Welcome Jill and congratulations on winning Roboform. I've been using it for several years and really can't imagine life without it!

A big, though belated, welcome to Rhutobello as well. I hope to see more of both of you here at DC over the coming months  :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: ThalSwe on January 27, 2008, 01:31 PM
Just sending a big thanks as I ended up getting SyncBackSE  :-*
The estimated "100%" was correct as this certainly is what I wanted and,even more so, needed.
Hopefully clever usage of said program will allow me to not loose all my data (which happened recently).

:Thmbsup: for the DC community.
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: hamradio on January 27, 2008, 01:48 PM
WOW!

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Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: thebaglady608 on January 27, 2008, 01:56 PM
A...awesome!  My first time entering the giveaway (and my first post here :coughcough:), and I win!  Thank you so much!

I can understand your desire, Mouser, to try to give everyone a fair shot at the goods:  the folks who don't have cash but do participate, the folks who don't participate much but donate (like me  >_>), etc.  I have to say that as someone who essentially is brand new here, I appreciate you trying to take everything into consideration.  :)  And really, there's no better way to draw people into a community than to have them actually win something from a contest like this. Though I won't likely have a lot of time to post/watch, feeling like I'm not shut out from things like this just because I don't post all the time makes DC seem like a much more welcoming place.  Thanks again.
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: fiberhax on January 27, 2008, 03:04 PM
Thanks DC for BB Flashback.  I mainly joined the site to support the ScreenShotCaptor program, it was too useful to me to not support, and I won another useful piece of software.  Thanks again!!  :)
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: Phil White on January 27, 2008, 04:02 PM
Like thebaglady608, my first time entering the giveaway (and my first post here) and I win. Thanks to all.

I have been trying Directory Opus for a few weeks and had just about made up my mind to make the purchase, so I am certainly 100% happy. I guess I had better support the fundraiser as an additional thankyou. :D
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: kanomie on January 27, 2008, 04:34 PM
Hi all,

Thanks for the software, True Launch Bar i won this time.

Normally i browse this site daily without login in, always enjoying the conversations here :)

Thanks and greetings,

K
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: y0himba on January 27, 2008, 05:38 PM
True Launch Bar!  NICE!  Thanks again Donation Coder!
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: KenR on January 27, 2008, 06:48 PM
Wow. Lots of new voices. Welcome and congratulations to all of you. I hope you all come to like DC as much as I have.

Ken
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: zj on January 27, 2008, 10:05 PM
 ;D
Thank you mouser and cthorpe!
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: Perry Mowbray on January 28, 2008, 05:12 AM
Wow. Lots of new voices. Welcome and congratulations to all of you. I hope you all come to like DC as much as I have.
-KenR (January 27, 2008, 06:48 PM)

I think this has summed up a great effect of these give-aways: the new voices (Congratulations and welcome!!  :Thmbsup: )

Concerning tweaking: I'd have make the winning history count forever but on a reducing scale: so that those that had never won would, in terms of the winning history, have a better chance than those that had won.

For pure randomness, I don't think if someone won last month that they should be excluded from wining next month, but it should be rare.

How about: if you had the chance of winning as inversely proportional to the weighted number of times you'd won (where the weighting decreased the further you went into the past)?
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: johnk on January 28, 2008, 05:15 AM
I've been away from home for the last few days, with no internet access (not a nice experience). Came back to find a licence for Super Flexible File Synchronizer in my inbox!  Thanks to Tobias, cthorpe and the rest of the DC team.
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: TheQwerty on January 28, 2008, 06:01 AM
Well since I won, I have to say the selection process is perfect, and I'm glad it's not based on posts!   :P

Thanks mouser, cthorpe, everyone here at DC, and most of all, the developers who have had a part in creating and providing this month's prizes!   :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: gally on January 28, 2008, 06:37 AM
Thank you mouser, and the Donationcoder community, for the programs you all build, for the giveaways you conduct, and for a chance for us "unknowledgable in building programs/coding" to share in yours.

Thank you cthorpe, and all the companies that gave all the wonderful prizes.

I, also, joined the site mainly to support the ScreenShotCaptor program. As far as my "not posting" goes,... talk little, read, listen (and try to learn) much...

Thank you, again, to all of you!
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: cranioscopical on January 28, 2008, 09:36 AM
How about...

The more you win, the greater the chance of winning again until one lucky member simply receives every piece of free software?  ;)

Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: Darwin on January 28, 2008, 03:42 PM
How about...

The more you win, the greater the chance of winning again until one lucky member simply receives every piece of free software?  ;)

-cranioscopical (January 28, 2008, 09:36 AM)

Works for me  :P
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: iphigenie on January 28, 2008, 05:36 PM
He, I know... If you are super happy to have gotten one or especially several pieces of software... donate a tad extra back to the site or your favorite person on it... 

especially if you missed the fundraiser :)
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: richdr on January 28, 2008, 09:10 PM
Thanks mouser for starting this great site and the great programs!!

Thanks cthorpe for getting the discounts and giveaways (especially since I won Syncback SE my 2nd time entering ). :)

Thanks every one at DC for making this a very interesting site. I don't often have much time to peruse the site but I usually find something useful when I do. I am not a very chatty person and am much better at listening than talking.   :-[

Thanks again everybody!!!
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: Liquidmantis on January 29, 2008, 09:55 AM
Woohoo!  Free software!  That'll help offset all the money I've spent on new software over the last couple of months between the great DC discounts that have been rounded up and general holiday discounts.

Let's see if I can remember the new purchases:
TruePianos VSTi
EverNote
ClipMate
Dash
Beyond Compare (DC discount)
I didn't buy NoteZilla but it led me to RecentX which I'll have to buy in the next couple of days now that my trial is about to expire
TeraCopy Pro
Direct Folders
ObjectDock
With all that I need to register PS Tray Factory now that the trial expired.

A lot of those were purchased based on user mini-reviews and user comments here at DC.  I love this place!

Time to download Surfulator and start playing. 
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: shylo on January 29, 2008, 08:31 PM
First time entry in the give-away contest and I won the only software I picked, MyLife Organized, for which I am very grateful.  Wish I had more time to spend here and really get familiar with all the great things to like about the site.  Maybe if I really put to use all the "user friendly" attributes of what I just won, I'll be back more often, but first on to organizing my life.

Thanks to all
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: BrokenNails on February 01, 2008, 02:54 AM
I have to admit I'd completely forgotten about this contest since entering, and since I spend most of my time on this site browsing the General Software Discussion forums I failed to notice the prize drawing announcement.

It was only after my ISP sent me an email reminding users that their new spam tool was user-configurable that I checked my webmail and noticed a Donationcoder email marked as spam (for shame!). I wonder if the "You won" part of the subject line was what did it in....  ;D

Anyway, thanks heaps!  :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: oltimer on February 01, 2008, 04:30 PM
A a recent discoverer of DC, after being led here by a search link for software I already owned, and a first time contributor to DonationCoder in January, I am immensely pleased by winning a license for SyncBack SE and OnClick Utilities.  Thanks to everyone at DC for having the giveaway and to the folks at 2BrightSparks for providing the software licenses.   :Thmbsup:

I had already sung your praises to a number of friends.  It is now time to sing those words of praise louder and further afield. 

I will be back again soon to keep trying to find the perfect programs for my needs.

Thanks again to all and an early Happy Valentines Day to a some easy to love software authors, publishers, and publicists.   :-*
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: alxwz on February 08, 2008, 06:46 PM
Heja, I won again (2nd time)! Thank you cthorpe, mouser, the software's authors and everyone else involved!
And this font manager might even be really useful in my job at that *** publishing company ...  :)
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: qwibbles on February 09, 2008, 02:39 PM
Wow.

First time I have entered an online draw, or any draw for that matter, and I won something.
100%+ happy.

Thanks DC and everyone else on the site for making it great.

Oh yes ... and my first post  :).  

Brought here from LifeHacker after reading about 'silverlight' for Windose application FARR, which is my view is awsome ... (Replaced SlickRun and Launchy).

Thanks again all.
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: Darwin on February 09, 2008, 06:46 PM
Welcome to DC qwibbles  :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: llc_silly on February 10, 2008, 12:43 AM
Thanks Donationcoder.com!Thanks  TaskMan, cthorpe, and mouser for a My Life Organized license.
I REALLY appreciate your help and this gift! :-*
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: Darwin on February 10, 2008, 09:55 AM
And welcome to IIc_silly as well (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/esmileys/gen3/2Signs/welcome.gif)
Title: Re: January 2008 Software Drawing Winners
Post by: tigerlan on March 07, 2008, 08:06 AM
At last, you're back on line.
Thank you so much the whole team at DonationCoder for all the good and hard work, with a special thanks for my RecentX prize.  :-*