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A Personal Thank-you From Gizmo Updated 25. December 2011 - 20:50 by ianjrichards
It is Christmas Eve here in Sydney Australia. Not all cultures celebrate Christmas but almost everyone celebrates the end of the year. It is a reflective time; a time to look back on the year, a time to count our blessings. The last year has been a wonderful year for the Gizmo’s Freeware website. The site is in great shape with lots of new content and many new initiatives. And as a bonus we now have 50% more daily visitors than at the start of the year and this has pushed us into the top 5000 websites in the world. These may be small achievements for a commercial website but for a community website with no paid staff, no offices and no assets it is remarkable. This has been achieved by because of the generosity, talent and dedication of the team of volunteers who run this community website. To these wonderful people I give my hearty thanks. And in the same manner I thank you dear readers. Without your support there would be no Gizmo’s Freeware. In particular I’d like to thank you for the quality of the comments so many of you have left on our website. We regard these comments to be just as valuable as the site articles themselves and of great value to other users. They reinforce the concept that Gizmo’s is a website site created by freeware users for freeware users. It is not our site; it is your site. The fact that we have managed to survive and grow means that we can continue to tell many people about the wonderful array of quality free software that is available. For well-off users in developed countries free software is a bonus but to the unemployed, disadvantaged and citizens of third world countries freeware it is an absolute necessity. As the New Year approaches we have many new challenges to face and I hope that with your trust and support we can meet those challenges and keep the site focussed firmly on meeting your needs. From my heart I thank you all for your generous support. And to all our readers, in over 224 different countries across the globe, may I wish you peace, health and prosperity in 2012. Gizmo December 2011.
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Printer-friendly version Comments by Dr Eam (not verified) on 28. December 2011 - 18:04 (86132) You guys always make me look very smart and on top of things whenever I post the link to your site in any number of public places, and I do that at least once a week, and so do 2 other members of my family. You guys really do a sensational job and should be very proud of what you have accomplished with this.
Vote up! 0 reply by Rajeev L (not verified) on 28. December 2011 - 14:15 (86125)thank you for all the wonderful tips and tricks that you share. I am grateful to your help and refer to you as my first point of reference if i have to look for anything related to software. I am glad to have discovered this website.
yours sincerely,
Rajeev L
Vote up! 0 reply by bks (not verified) on 27. December 2011 - 13:07 (86065)thanks for your support and suggestion. Happy New Year 2012.
Vote up! 2 reply by Rey (not verified) on 27. December 2011 - 3:26 (86031)Being from Cuba, a country where must people doesn't have Internet access, and now an emigrate who doesn't have much money to spend in software, I appreciate very much this site for those many years of advise and guide in the use of freeware.
Thanks
Rey
Vote up! 5 reply by Vale (not verified) on 26. December 2011 - 15:31 (86017)Thank you for ALL!!!
Vote up! 2 reply by Anonymous_Coward (not verified) on 26. December 2011 - 6:46 (86003)thanks Gizmo, for a great website...thanks to all the editors at TSA and thanks especially to all the authors of the many fantastic freeware programs out there. Never ceases to amaze me how much great great free stuff is available and not just on Windows - there's a ton of great linux stuff too. TechSupportAlert sure has come a long way since the days of "46 best utilities".
Vote up! 4 reply by Mark Ferrante (not verified) on 26. December 2011 - 2:02 (85988)Thank you for all you do! Pkease know you are appreciated! Happy new year to you and all who read this!
Vote up! 3 reply by deetailed on 26. December 2011 - 0:52 (85985)Heaps of appreciation to you and all the staff, Gizmo. I found this site at the beginning of this year and it's a breath of fresh air among the many free "review" sites that do little more than list down. Greetings from Indonesia.
Vote up! 3 reply by Australia (not verified) on 26. December 2011 - 0:40 (85984)Gizmo...
Thank you so much for creating such a wonderful website
-empowers us with more skills and knowlege, with software we wouldnt
otherwise know about
-such an easy to read website with each article on one page
-no vested interests by any reviewer or contributor apart from empowering one another
-puts commercial biases completely aside - unbiased and unfiltered information
Every mainstream PC Magazine and PC Editor should be shouting out "Gizmo's freeware" to the world, funny they dont isnt it ? Instead they push their sponsors products and leave people unaware of the full range of freeware treasures that are available
May you and your website excel even more in 2012 !
all Gezmos team,
Merry Christmas for all and peace for all people and specially my love EGYPT my country and many thanks for you.
You guys in Oz always get there a day before we do in Alberta. Sights of things to come? Along with others, many thanks for your excellent site - not least for its reliability and trustworthiness, virtues never to to be under-estimated on the WWW.
Stan
Dear Gizmo Team,
Wish you Merry Christmas & Wonderful New Year 2012.
Thanks for all the ur valuable contributions.
Regards.
Vote up! 4 reply by Bodhi (not verified) on 25. December 2011 - 6:21 (85939)Dear Gizmo and all the editors at TSA,
Merry Christmas to you, all. May you have all the blessings you wish for this season as you have been to us.
Bodhi
Vote up! 5 reply by Zebedeeboss on 25. December 2011 - 5:57 (85938)Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Keep up the good work.
Thank you...
Vote up! 5 reply by RLP (not verified) on 25. December 2011 - 3:12 (85934)Thank YOU for this excellent service. You have helped me many times and I very much appreciate it. Please keep it up!
Vote up! 4 reply by craines (not verified) on 25. December 2011 - 1:20 (85931)Thank you to all the editors and those that keep the site going here. Your time and efforts in everything you do here are greatly appreciated.
It's such a great site full of useful information and a friendly atmosphere.
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Best Wishes to All in the upcoming New Year!
Vote up! 4 reply by jg (not verified) on 25. December 2011 - 1:04 (85930)merry christmas and a great 2012 to everyone here at gizmo. thanks for sharing your time, energy, generosity and knowledge the way you do. best wishes to you all.
Vote up! 4 reply by LRE (not verified) on 24. December 2011 - 22:24 (85925)I had no idea your were an Aussie site! Thanks again for such a great contribution to the web, from the deep south (Victoria).
Vote up! 4 reply by revratdd (not verified) on 24. December 2011 - 22:04 (85924)Merry Christmas to all at Gizmo's and tell all your fans.I wish I had the time and the expertise to become an editor for you.
Vote up! 4 reply by Denis Gauthier (not verified) on 24. December 2011 - 21:07 (85921)Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Denis (Montreal Quebec)
Vote up! 4 reply by Glasswitch (not verified) on 24. December 2011 - 20:07 (85920)Thank you for a fantastic site I love it and I also live in OZ, Merry Christmas to you
Vote up! 4 reply by Kenn M. (not verified) on 24. December 2011 - 19:36 (85919)Thank you for maintaining the highest quality standards that a website can offer. This is one of the few sites I recommend to all......
Merry Christmas and a Joyous up-coming New Year....
Hey guys if you want some nice snow for Christmas then come to Russia!
We have enough for the whole world and it is totally FREE )))
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all!
Alex
Vote up! 6 reply by SusanJean (not verified) on 24. December 2011 - 19:24 (85917)Thank you for one of the best resources on the web! I have passed your site along to many friends and relatives looking for a reliable source of information.
All the best from chilly Ottawa, Canada (minus 17C right now)
Susan
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
John in Australia
Vote up! 3 reply by Herman (not verified) on 24. December 2011 - 19:06 (85914)As a regular visitor of your sites I am very grateful and hope for your growing further and mantaining your quality.
You spread sofware in the world and among people from different cultures, places and ages. I myself am 77 years old and live in Brazil, in a city called
PORTO ALEGRE (the free translation of its name: Happy Harbour).
Merry Christmas and Happy 2012!
Herman
I have to come clean and admit something. I am one of those people that fixes all kinds of computer hardware & software issues for free because I hate to see people spend useless $ on crappy service. When someone asks me which software is best for this or that, this website is where I send them FIRST due to the absolutely top notch quality everything. I can't begin to tell you how much research time this site has saved me on free tech support.
Happy Holidays to all people in all parts of the world & hoping for a prosperous new year!!
Vote up! 6 reply by mmmike47 (not verified) on 24. December 2011 - 18:04 (85911)Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all...........this site is among the best, most trusted around and I thank you for such consistently safe/useful information.
Warm regards from -
Long Island, NY
Yes, there is a cyber-Santa Claus. Thank you Gizmo for giving your readers wonderful gifts every day of the year! I never download software without checking your site first -- not only for your own experts' descriptive opinions, but for those of your experienced commenter/readers as well.
Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, the Winter Solstice or just the New Year, may it be a better one for all of us, thanks to your efforts and insights!
Funny, you don't write with an Australian accent. :)
Vote up! 8 reply by mitch07 on 24. December 2011 - 16:55 (85908)Hello from Ardèche (France);
I wish you a very great happy Christmas....
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