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Thank you to those advertisers and sponsors who support 40Tech, and keep the lights on, and keep me motivated. This month the thanks go out to Giztopia, which is running a 4 week ad for its gadget recycling and buyback service. If you’re looking to unload a gadget, check them out.

At the end of 2010, I took a look at this site’s demographics. Over the past few years, I’ve gotten to know some of you quite well, but my look through the site stats was a bit more impersonal back then, since none of the data is tied to any particular person. I simply was curious about where the 40Tech readers lived, what browsers they used, and other similar data. More than a year and a half later, I thought it would be interesting to see how things have changed.

LastPass is the 40Tech community’s choice for 2011 App of the Year. After almost a week of voting, LastPass outdistanced the second place finisher, Springpad, by over 250 votes. If we had voted ourselves, LastPass would have merited strong consideration. As a convenient and secure password manager, it is one of a handful of apps that the 40Tech team uses on a daily basis. One of the earliest posts we wrote, and still one of our most popular, was a comparison between LastPass, KeePass, and eWallet, with LastPass coming out on top as our favorite password manager. LastPass fared just as well when we put it through the paces against 1Password. Do you use LastPass

Bye bye 2011. We hope everyone had a great and safe night last night, and we wish you all a fantastic and prosperous 2012 — filled with happiness, good times, and 366 (Leap Year) days of awesome geekery.

To start you off, hit the jump for some sweet geekiness. They’re not tech… but they’re definitely tech-inspired and will get you close to your nerdy heart!

It’s that time of the year where you see lists everywhere you turn. Now it’s our turn, as we present you with our list of the top 10 most popular 40Tech articles of 2011. These are articles that were posted in 2011, so popular older articles, like our look at Evernote as a GTD tool, [...]

It’s that time again, folks. A time of laughter, a time of cheer — a time of the gifting and receipt of fun tech toys. Oddly, I don’t have any on my list this year. I just want a toolbox. Well… Skyrim wouldn’t hurt, either. And a new computer. Maybe an iPad 2 upgrade — or maybe for my PS3 60GB to stop with the stupid yellow light of death stuff. Yeah, I’d like that one for sure.

Enough about me, though. What fun tech toys do you hope for this holiday season? What do you plan on gifting? Sky’s the limit here — and no tech is too small, either. If you want to give or get a personalized, full-sized Transformer, that’s cool. If you have your heart set on an archaic (but still awesome) calculator watch, hey, who am I to judge? It’s all gravy, here on 40Tech, so have at it!

In the meantime, I leave you with this incredibly hilarious image. It has almost nothing to do with tech, has everything to do with geek awesome, and if it doesn’t make you smile through the also-inevitable holiday stress, then… well… I got nothin’.

Thanks again to Glyde.com and Sanebox, the current advertisers on 40Tech who are running an ad of 4 weeks or longer. Glyde is an easy and cheap way to buy, sell, and organize video games, DVDs, tablets, eReaders, iPods, and books. Think of it as a way to sell your gear, often at a better price. Sanebox helps keep you productive by filtering your Inbox by separating emails that you must deal with right away from ones that can wait at least a couple of hours. It does this automatically, with no fuss and bother. Thanks to both of them for their support.

If you’re interested in advertising on 40Tech, you can see our rates, traffic information, and the available slots in our advertising media kit. You can purchase by the week or longer, and you get a discount and two mentions in a post like this for certain multi-week purchases.

Thanks to Glyde.com and Sanebox, our current advertisers. Glyde is a way to buy, sell, and organize video games, DVDs, tablets, eReaders, iPods, iPhone, iPads, and books. Sanebox automatically filters your Inbox by separating emails that you must deal with right away from ones that can wait at least a couple of hours. Thanks to both of them for their support.

We’re planning no more than two of these “thank you” posts per month (or per every 4 weeks). If you’re interested in advertising on 40Tech, you can see our rates, traffic information, and the available slots on our advertising page. You can purchase by the week or longer, with certain multi-week purchases getting you a discount and a thank you in two posts like this.

We know that you can’t get enough of us. That’s what we like to tell ourselves, at least. If you like what you read here, then your tastes might overlap with ours. In addition to what we post here, we post links and tips of other items of interest at a few other places around the web. Here are some links to where else you can find us online.

I don’t know about you, but my gaming time is pretty limited nowadays. When I do game with others online, I don’t want to join in with a bunch of griefers, cheaters, and immature players. Where then can I look for some like-minded players? Well, here at 40Tech, we’ve got a great community, with many mature commenters and friends. Perhaps some of you would like to do some gaming, in the right environment, and with the right game and platform? If so, let’s set up a time that we can game together.