Posted on July 26, 2008 at 1:15 am

Second Anniversary :: The Giveaway

It’s hard for me to believe that today is MacRecon’s second anniversary… time does fly… Anyway, straight to the point — just like last year, there’s going to be a little giveaway. Please read the rules before entering.

To enter the giveaway, simply leave a comment in this post below using your full name and a proper email address (for license creation purposes only — we all hate spam, so none will be involved). In the comment, just mention what did you name your Mac’s hard drive (or if you left its default name), or what did you name your iPhone/iPod in iTunes (or, once again, if you left its default name).

The winners will be chosen by a random drawing using Randomizer.org to pick up the comment numbers that will win something. All entries will close on August 5th. The winners will be posted and notified later that day.

Only one entry per person will be allowed. If it’s suspected otherwise, the duplicates be ignored automatically for the drawing.

This is the full list of this year’s prizes:
-BannerZest Pro
-Delicious Library 2 (two licenses to give away)
-iDive
-iShowU
-Mac Bundle Box (the winner will receive all 15 apps!)
-Picturesque 2
-PulpMotion Advanced
-YummyFTP (three licenses to giveaway)

This means that eleven commenters will win something this year! Good luck!

62 Responses to “Second Anniversary :: The Giveaway”

  1. Paul Santamaria on July 26th, 2008 at 1:41 am says:

    Macintosh HD is named ‘Oz’ while my iPod Touch is named ‘touchy oz’, and my user home folder in ‘landofoz’. It all stems from my times on the ESPN hockey boards (about twelve years ago now) and being the only Australian, oz just seemed like the most logical nickname. It even carries through to this day on my blog.

  2. Khurt on July 26th, 2008 at 7:22 am says:

    Mac HD is named “Macintosh HD” and the iPod is named “Khurt’s iPod Touch”. Yeah. I suck at naming. I wanted to use the name of a cat I one had, “Fuzzy Lizard”, but she choked on her cat litter and I thought that was a bad sign.

  3. Sachit Vithaldas on July 26th, 2008 at 7:50 am says:

    Hey, my mac hd is named “tifosi”, for the craze of red. My ipod is named “Sac’s ipod”.

  4. Pietro Iacono on July 26th, 2008 at 8:14 am says:

    Hi, my hd has the default name (Macintosh HD), while my iPod is just called “Nano”.

  5. Galley on July 26th, 2008 at 8:17 am says:

    My external drives are “GalleyDrive Sr.” and “GalleyDrive Jr.” My iPhone is “GalleyPhone”. I also have a shuffle called “GalleyPod Jr.”

  6. Carolyn Hayes on July 26th, 2008 at 8:47 am says:

    My iPod is Carolyn’s Nano because my son has an iPod also. My iPhone is yet unbought and unnamed - probably a thrilling Carolyn’s iPhone.
    My HD is named Macintosh HD and my external is named SimpleTech HD.

    Now if I had more stuff and networks I guess I’d have to be more creative but I just want to identify things easily when I’m setting up new stuff. LAzy, I guess.

  7. Matt Moriarity on July 26th, 2008 at 8:56 am says:

    I used to name all my mac hard drives after strong bad’s different computers (Tandy 400, compy 386, lappy 486). However right now my iPhone and macbook pro both have the default names

  8. Giel Demeulemeester on July 26th, 2008 at 9:08 am says:

    i just left the default name of my macbook pro’s hard drive

  9. Carlo Sobrevinas on July 26th, 2008 at 10:01 am says:

    I left both my HD with the default name but I tagged my ipods with my name and a description: carlo’s ipod, carlo’s ipod nano, carlo’s ipod video.

    I guess I should have been more clever, eh?

  10. Shishir A on July 26th, 2008 at 10:13 am says:

    My hard drive is called “datacube” and my ipod - “xpress’. I am yet to buy an iphone. Wonder what I will name it…

  11. Kerim Satirli on July 26th, 2008 at 10:26 am says:

    I just switched to a Mac (MBP to be precise) and, as always, it took me quite a long time to find a name. You see, I am one of “those” that put lots of thought into the whole process:

    I restrict myself to names that appear in mythologies around the world, yet, the arsenal of names is limited by the type of the device: Smartphones (Valkyrie) and Pocket PC (Banshee) were Irish mythology, iPods (Ratatosk) were Norse mythology and my former laptop was given a name based onIncan mythology .

    Since switching to OSX was such a big move for me, I decided to go for a name that would reflect the importance of the device: Nahual. Nahual translates into “something that is my cloth or skin”, which is a fair assessment given the fact that my MBP contains ALL of my digital life and as such provides protection (no data = no money = no cloth and eventually: no skin ;-) ).

  12. Antonin Haas on July 26th, 2008 at 11:26 am says:

    My harddrive is left as Macintosh HD, and I don’t changed the name for iPod too. Back on PowerBook G3 with Mac OS 9 (and before it), I always partitioned disk to 3 partitions - System, Application and Data disk, but with OS X I don’t think it has sense anymore…

  13. Namhong Kim on July 26th, 2008 at 12:30 pm says:

    My MacHD is called “something” and my iPod Touch’s name is “Touch Me” :)

  14. Terrence Gort on July 26th, 2008 at 1:50 pm says:

    ohh where to begin? My MBP’s is called “Simply Gort”, my iMac’s “iGort”, my old iBook’s “Old Gort”, my 1st ipod “Fat Gort”, my iPod nano “Mini Gort” and my iphone “bob” just kidding its called “Ringing Gort”.

  15. KyungHoon Kang on July 26th, 2008 at 2:43 pm says:

    My hard drive is called “Kusana” and my ipod - “Motoko’.

  16. Thomas Meldgaard Nielsen on July 26th, 2008 at 4:11 pm says:

    My Mac was called iJack for a long time due to a nice “Nightmare before Christmas” Jack icon I was using. Now it’s back to being called iMac :)

  17. Kevin Stauss on July 26th, 2008 at 5:15 pm says:

    My Mac’s hard drive is named ‘MacBook HD’ and my iPod is named ‘Kev’s iPod.’ I like to keep things simple. :)

  18. Hae Keun, Yoon on July 26th, 2008 at 6:17 pm says:

    My mac’s Hard name is ‘ibooki’ and my ipod is ‘blackbean’

  19. David Zumini on July 26th, 2008 at 10:06 pm says:

    Left my HD named “MacBook HD”. Boring, I know, but I did change the icon to a MacBook :-P

  20. Roberto A. Villarreal on July 27th, 2008 at 12:12 am says:

    My HD is named “fireb0x HD”, my iphone is name “fireb0x-iPhone 3G”

    The naming convention comes from when I used to manage a server farm. The domain was called netfire and each server was a “fireb0x” (as in blazing fast boxes). Each server had fireb0x, a dash, and a number or other designation. To this day I use it for all my devices, this includes fireb0x-ps3, fireb0x-360, fireb0x-wii, fireb0x-psp, fireb0x-macbook, fireb0x-iMac.

    Since I got married, I started naming my wife’s devices flutterb0x-XXXX since she likes butterflies (flutterbys).

  21. Gilbert on July 27th, 2008 at 1:06 am says:

    Hi, I’m Gilbert, the hard drive in Helen’s Mac. My iPod friend is called And. The prizes certainly look delicious. Happy 2nd Anniversary, and thanks for hosting the giveaway.

  22. Luke on July 27th, 2008 at 2:54 am says:

    I’m unfortunately poor at remembering to be witty when it comes to the time when I’m asked for names for such things, so Macintosh HD and Luke’s iPod Touch it is!

  23. Sungtae Kim on July 27th, 2008 at 3:02 am says:

    Hi, my hard is named “Macintosh HD” and iPod touch is named “black leopard”

  24. wonho chung on July 27th, 2008 at 3:54 am says:

    Hi, my hard is named “Macintosh HD” and iPod touch is named “chushi”

  25. golbin hacker on July 27th, 2008 at 5:42 am says:

    Hard is named “Bluecat”
    Bluecat is my wife’s nickname
    iPod touch is named “Golbin Pod”
    “Golbin” is Korean word. It’s mean “no brain”

  26. Hugo Matos on July 27th, 2008 at 7:19 am says:

    Hey, my mac hd is named “Sistema”, means system in Portuguese. My ipod is named “Hugo’s ipod”.
    Happy birthday! ;)

  27. Mike Thurlow on July 27th, 2008 at 8:26 am says:

    Hi. I’m pretty boring and left the default Macintosh HD as the name of the hard drive on my MacBook Air. My iPhone is also named Mike’s iPhone (again, pretty boring).

  28. Kevin Espino on July 27th, 2008 at 8:43 am says:

    Since I have linked the number 23 to numerous instances in my life, both my Macintosh HD and my iPod are all named “23″.

    Only icons differentiate them from one another. XD

  29. mini on July 27th, 2008 at 8:53 am says:

    My mac hd is named ‘MacOS’

  30. Nanda Firdausi on July 27th, 2008 at 10:30 am says:

    I just left it as default name

  31. Techslacker on July 27th, 2008 at 12:05 pm says:

    The name of the harddrive? I just left it alone. The name of my system though I change every now and then. Since I use the nick Techslacker and I have a laptop, I use the name TS-Mobile most of the time. It’s funny to see people’s reaction when they check their bluetooth and see that name because they then think that someone nearby is using that cell service.

  32. Dustin Fletcher on July 27th, 2008 at 1:58 pm says:

    I left my HD as “Macintosh HD”. I didn’t think about changing the name for it during the install, and I’d probably get tired of another creative name fairly quickly.

  33. erik on July 27th, 2008 at 2:22 pm says:

    another one with just a boring default ‘macintosh hd’ here, I’m afraid.

  34. Jóhann Gunnarsson Robin on July 27th, 2008 at 3:43 pm says:

    HD sadly has been left with the default “Macintosh HD”.

    My iPod on the other hand has earned the name “Egill Skallagrímsson”, which (for those that aren’t familiar with icelandic folk stories) is one of the toughest of the exaggerated icelandic “heroes”, drinking with his father (without his permission) and writing poetry at the age of three, killing his first enemy at the age of seven, and having such a thick skull that an axe couldn’t penetrate it.

    I named him (the iPod) Egill for his persistance, but this iPod has taken more bumps than can reasonably be listed, drowned a couple of times, and generally survived in my care/abuse for three years.

  35. Aaron Broberg on July 27th, 2008 at 11:48 pm says:

    my mbp is named Abe. My nick name growing up as kid. My nano goes by abe’s ipod. pretty creative huh!

  36. YoungJin Kim on July 28th, 2008 at 12:58 am says:

    My MacBook Pro name is ‘proyjkim’ and ipod touch also named proyjkim.

  37. Jinwon Song on July 28th, 2008 at 8:33 am says:

    MacintoshHD - Librabit 160
    iPod - Librabit 40
    AEBS - Librabit Wired

    Librabit = Libra + Rabbit (Chinese Horoscope)
    160 & 40 = HDD Capacity

    That’s All.

  38. Travis on July 28th, 2008 at 9:00 am says:

    HD = JiggyDrive. I have an old iPod nano that I haven’t used in ages but I have no idea what I named it. I’m pretty sure though, that it was something very clever and award worthy.

  39. Brett P. on July 28th, 2008 at 9:10 am says:

    iPod = Brett’s iPod
    HD = Default

  40. Veit Winkler on July 28th, 2008 at 8:56 pm says:

    My internal HD, the main one, is called “HD”, the first external is named “Data” and the other one “HD_bak_300GB”… pretty boring, hm?
    Well, I used to give my disks funky names but kinda got away from it. Maybe I should start that again:-)
    Cheers,

    V

  41. Paul Goodrich on July 29th, 2008 at 12:19 am says:

    My HD is named the default Macintosh HD. I used to rename main disks but don’t anymore…

  42. Gal Buki on July 29th, 2008 at 1:24 am says:

    My Mac HD is called “local”.
    I named my iPod Shuffle “Sam Gamgee” after the character in The Lord of the Rings.

  43. Jack A. on July 29th, 2008 at 9:23 am says:

    iPhone: Jack’s Phone
    Mac Mini: MusicBox
    –external: The Music
    iMac: Default

  44. Rafael Mediavilla on July 29th, 2008 at 11:23 am says:

    MacBook (Black) - Ex-Con
    iPod Touch - Chicken Bitches iPod
    iMac - Patty
    MacMini - iWant2Be

  45. Thorsten Klein on July 29th, 2008 at 11:24 am says:

    iPhone: on its way
    MacMini: Media
    Mac Pro: Base, Data, Backup, Windows

  46. clemi boubli on July 29th, 2008 at 12:25 pm says:

    just stumbled onto your site seeking software reviews. haven’t named anything - use the defaults

    clemi

  47. Gregory Zackim on July 29th, 2008 at 1:04 pm says:

    My Mac HD is named: Macintosh HD (Default Name)
    My iPod Classic (5th Gen) is named: Gregory Zackim’s iPod (Once again, the Default Name)

  48. scott on July 29th, 2008 at 4:40 pm says:

    My Mac Book HD is named “MacBook HD” by day, but by night it goes by the name “Bulk Vanderhuge!” (the exclamation point is part of the name).

  49. Gabi on July 29th, 2008 at 4:55 pm says:

    My MBP HD: Macintosh HD
    My iPod Classic (80 Gb): Gabi’s iPod

  50. Hanmoro on July 29th, 2008 at 8:16 pm says:

    My HD name is Macintosh HD. My three iPods and my touch are Moro’s iPod.

    There are left as default.

  51. Carol Stieber on July 30th, 2008 at 1:53 pm says:

    Actually, never have named my HD or ipod anything special - I use the defaults.
    I have enough trouble remembering my passwords!

  52. seunghee son on July 30th, 2008 at 3:26 pm says:

    My HD name is MBP system and ipod’s is ss

  53. drzekil on July 30th, 2008 at 8:41 pm says:

    My HD name is SHLee HD
    iPod’s is shinhyoung’s iPod

    hmm it is very simple..

  54. Barry Preston on July 31st, 2008 at 12:36 am says:

    My First mac is named ‘Snorkles’
    the every new mac/ipod since has been named
    ‘Snorkles Alpha’
    ‘Snorkles Beta’
    etc

  55. Brandon Jones on July 31st, 2008 at 4:43 pm says:

    My HD is names Haydee and my iPhone is the default (Brandon Jones’s iPhone)

  56. PowerZ on July 31st, 2008 at 8:31 pm says:

    Having only had my Mac for a short time, I didn’t even know about this blog until this evening. i have poked around some and it looks pretty interesting.

    Hard Drive is named Macbook Pro

  57. Kevin Espino on July 31st, 2008 at 11:13 pm says:

    My Mac HD is now named “Iced”. Hehe,

  58. Dante S. Regis on August 1st, 2008 at 4:59 pm says:

    Hey!

    My mac HD is named “Calula” and my ipod is now “Astumpleapow” :)

    Best

  59. Mathieu Laflamme on August 2nd, 2008 at 4:08 pm says:

    I named my nano “Monolith”, because it reminded me the monolith from 2001 : Space Odyssey. Then, a few months ago, I replaced my nano with a classic, wich I named “Megalith”, for obvious reasons.

    As for my internal HD, I named it “Macbook Pro”. My external HD partitions are named “Storage” and “Backup”, respectively.

  60. Ayodh Kamath on August 3rd, 2008 at 3:59 am says:

    Havent named my mac hard drive yet - so its still Macintosh HD.
    The nano is named - ayodh’s ipod (unoriginal.. I know :D)

  61. handsome on August 4th, 2008 at 3:18 am says:

    my hard drive is called the hardest drive

  62. Frank on August 5th, 2008 at 12:05 am says:

    Entries are closed. The winners will be announced soon.