OK, Freebie Tuesday is becoming really popular so we must keep up with the expectations! This time FireHost is giving away Wacom’s New Bamboo Pen and Touch (launched just a few days ago) to help TWO Creative Professionals get in touch with Secure Hosting practices.
Who is Firehost?
FireHost is web hosting secured. They provide advanced hosting techniques like web application protection to help keep your sites (and your clients’ sites) running smoothly online, protected from hackers.
Application security is especially important for websites built on open source platforms like Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla. Without proper protection, these sites may be susceptible to SQL Injections, DoS attacks, Cross-site Request Forgery, Google Hacking, and a host of other attacks that can take you offline, or worse… out of business.
Design Oriented Services
On the quest to protect websites, FireHost has really honed into our unique needs as designers. They take the headache out of managing a technical hosting environment and provide:
- SSL VPN Administration so you can manage files for multiple clients from one protected, server login
- Open Source Expertise and Installation Support so you can explore new CMSs with confidence
- Global Content Delivery capable of delivering the websites you design to visitors the world
Happy People
Don’t take their word for it, ask your peers about their experience with FireHost’s secure hosting. They protect:
- Chris Wallace @chriswallace
- Casey Barthels @barthesis
- Nathan Smith @nathansmith
- Damian Madray Designers’ Couch @depthskins
- Kyle Steed @kylesteed
- and Yours Truly @inspiredmag to name a few
Bamboo Pen & Touch from Wacom
Bamboo Pen & Touch combines the benefits of Multi-Touch with the comfort and precision of Wacom’s ergonomically-designed pen. The result: a powerful new way to work with your computer. With Multi-Touch, you use simple hand gestures and finger taps on the tablet’s surface. And because the active area is larger than traditional mobile devices and laptop trackpads, it’s comfortable and natural to use. Easily move around your desktop, scroll through documents, navigate the web, zoom in and out of photos, and rotate images.
Need precision? Pick up the pressure-sensitive pen to edit photos, create personal greetings, make sketches, and mark up documents in your own handwriting.
Using Bamboo is easy—even if you’re new to the touch experience. The included tutorial will teach you how to use simple hand gestures to move around your desktop, make selections, and complete other tasks on your computer. You can even customize your Bamboo experience by assigning your own shortcuts to the four ExpressKeys™.
Bamboo works with your existing computer: desktop or laptop, PC or Mac. And it’s an incredible value with the included software: Adobe® Photoshop® Elements and Nik® Color Efex Pro™. Sleek and black, the tablet makes for a stylish addition to your workspace. Attach Bamboo to a standard USB port, set it comfortably by your keyboard, and let your intuition guide you.
Basically it makes an iTablet out of any computer :]
The Giveaway
Enter to win one of the two Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch packs offered by Firehost & Inspired Mag:
- tell us in the comments why you deserve the ultimate tool for designers & Multi – Touch enthusiasts
- follow @FireHost & @InspiredMag on Twitter
- tweet this message: Get a Free Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch from @FireHost and @InspiredMag http://su.pr/29HyXz RT to enter the giveaway!
The Winners
- Jason – why do we need one? hmm… to start, it’s for our intern, who obviously is pinching pennies and even $99 plus tax would pinch her bank account. why we want her to have one… if she were to win, she would probably jump up and down and spin around with so much excitement, that she would fall over, bump her head, and in the process of her accident, would see all sorts of amazing creative visions and inspiration for designing cool things, helping us to make more money so that we would be able to pay her in more than free lunches, which is only causing weight gain not creative gain
- Luke Jones – It’d be absolutely amazing and a great help if I won this, I’m a struggling freelance designer, and this piece of kit would allow me to spread my wings that little bit further and show the world what I can do. If I were to win this, it would be one of the best things that could happen to me.
Congrats guys, you’ll be contacted by the Firehost team. Thx everybody for your entries and stay tuned for more!
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Mark Jones October 2, 2009
There is a hole in my designer soul that this wonderful piece of designy gooodness would fill. Plus, it would bring the planets into perfect alignment and all would be right in the universe; again.
Cheers,
jonesy
Chetan Sachdev October 2, 2009
why I deserve the ultimate tool ?
Because, I am good in programming and I am learning designing and this tool will be very helpful to improve my skills :)
Matthew October 2, 2009
I’d love the opportunity to break free from my mouse in UX and design work.
Retweeted here: http://twitter.com/mkammerer/status/4564841628
Sneh Roy October 2, 2009
wow! fantastic giveaway! Thanks for organizing it. Followed and tweeted. I’d love to win this because I have been exploring the world of vector character development and this would be so so handy :)
Thanks!
Jen (AKA Andolaurina) October 2, 2009
Because I love my Wacom Intuos but mine is too big to be portable (and hard to balance with my laptop on the go!). This would let me illustrate and work in Photoshop and Poser wherever I choose to go—even at my mother-in-law’s house!! Plus, it’s pretty, shiny and cute! :)
Thanks for the cool giveaway.
sandman6665 October 2, 2009
Great giveaway! I believe I deserve to win the prize because it’s been years I am doing graphic design and still I haven’t use this digital pen technology. I know it’s weird but it’s true, i love vector drawing but over the years i am using scans of my drawing sketches. I believe it would make my life easier with Bamboo. Digital artists deserve to have this.
Tony Retrobot October 2, 2009
I’m gonna be plain honest and just say that I really really want to win this Wacom tablet. I’ve never had the luck of actually winning a contest like this, so my chances are probably slim. I still would like to win though.
Jessica P. October 2, 2009
I make a lot of illustrations on the computer and having one would make it so much easier. :)
I followed and tweeted about it http://twitter.com/jsp4zc/status/4568147587
Chris Morata October 2, 2009
My current Wacom tablet is outdated, and I would GREATLY benefit from a brand new one, especially one as cool as this new Bamboo Pen & Touch! Not to mention the fact that my nickname is Panda…
Help a brotha out!
LianJim October 2, 2009
Because feel like touching this bamboo~
@LianJim
David schiffner October 2, 2009
I deserve this awesome prize because wacom and inspired mag are epicly awesome!
Dave Cryer October 2, 2009
OK, great giveaway! My daughter is awesome at art, but thinks she is just a bad at drawing. It would be really nice to surprise her with this as a prize. I would be able to encourage her to explore her talent on the computer too. Maybe she could email in her computer art done with the Wacom.
Juarez Menegassi October 3, 2009
I need it to bring a bit of beauty to thie harsh and wounded world we’re living in.
Peace through design for the win! ;D
@juarezmenegassi
Brian October 3, 2009
Hey I’ve always wanted to get a start in graphic design and comic design and but in the past I have been severely limited to borrowing the pen pad that my friend owns. I’ve now moved back home and I’m more in need now than ever for the tools to work on that goal.
PHSChemguy October 3, 2009
I’m a web designer at a high school, and I would totally get to show my kids how awesome the Bamboo tablets are.
Ionut October 3, 2009
Because there is no other way of expressing what you feel inside in a simple, clear and innovative manner.
Stay hungry and be creative!
Christian Daugstrup October 3, 2009
I just got into digital painting. I love it and i would love to have one of these to keep working!
Memeza October 3, 2009
Trying to find a replacement for my old Wacom tablet.
Cheryl October 3, 2009
I deserve this because i would def be appreciated that i got it! plus im a designer ive been put out of a job now going to school this would def help me out in my class. It’s really hard now since I got laid off and can’t really afford much and if i do have money it goes to my little sister shes in middle school and have to support her :) thanks for having this awesome giveaway
followed you both @ich3ryl22 and Rted !
Thanks again!
Jennifer P October 3, 2009
I deserve this due to I am going back to college to learn all of the computer arts and this is an item I need to complete my courses. Yes I’m one of the out of work hit by the economy older peeps, and I want to make a better life for my sons and I. This would help with that.
tweeted @jjpdream
Matthew Wengerd October 3, 2009
Hey!
I’m a late blooming designer and recent mac convert. The multi-touch relationship to the macbook is just the ticket for me to improve my work.
Sean October 3, 2009
My mouse just isn’t doing it for me!
Kal October 4, 2009
It’ll go well with my rollermouse and a touch sensitive Wacom will bring big benefits in my Maya studies!
Idiocracy October 4, 2009
I could really use it for modelling for the game I’m making.
Daniela Blanco October 5, 2009
Why I deserve it?! Just because it’s THE ULTIMATE TOOL for designers & Multi – Touch enthusiasts, obviously!
And well… begining freelancers don’t have much money… :( as you guys must know…
I’m going to win the Bamboo Pen & Touch for sure if you guys could just see the price of it in my country: Brazil! Yep… it’s sad! But you are going to make me happy! :)
John Darrow October 5, 2009
My daughter is a college student working in graphics arts, and my son is planning for possible architectural study in college. Either one could make good use of this!
heartEheart October 5, 2009
It would help expand my design capabilities.
Chaitanya VRK October 5, 2009
I guess I need one, because I don’t have one!
Luke Jones October 6, 2009
Thank you so much for the graphics tablet!!! I’m so happy.
My gmail account got hacked today so I thought it was a joke!
Definitely brightened up my year!
Alex Peterson October 8, 2009
I’m getting some serious RSI from using my mouse and could really do with some multi-touch action!
stive klock November 16, 2009
i like the win this best wacon.
plz.
sd,
stive
Romy February 27, 2011
I want to win because I was begging my parents to buy one but, they said it was too expensive and they need to save up money for the summer. I’m only a 11 year old girl, wanting to become a famous artist and singer. But, my work with a mouse was horrible, and I receive more compliments when I draw on paper, unfortunately I don’t have a scanner, nor a camera. So, thats why I want to win. My parents are really poor and when I become famous, I’ll have loads of money to help my parents. <3
BrightAli March 8, 2011
I really want one I am saving up for one but I am still working on it. So far I got six dollars!
Can you go to my website and donate maybe?
Or you can just click the ad.
dred July 10, 2011
useful information, thanks this post
Eldjotnar September 27, 2011
It would really make my day to win this for many reasons. Firstly, I’m a video game designer, currently working with some Flash games. The tablet would be a help, just drawing stuff. Secondly, when I work as a graphic designer, this would make my life much easier, while doing various projects.