Tech Olive

We love a good news story, and with only two people manning the controls at Tech Olive, we sometimes miss some good ones. This is where you, the loyal reader, can help us out. We have a ‘Tip Us’ section at the top-right of the website. Here you can send in your juicy news tips that you’ve secretly come across or share a simple news story that you want us to cover. Don’t worry, we’ll credit you for sure (unless you want to remain anonymous, of course).

We also have a feature called ‘Ask the Olive’ where you can send in your PC tech questions that you’ve been yearning to ask. Maybe you’re having trouble deciding what keyboard to buy? Maybe you got a BSOD and don’t know how to fix it? We are here for you!

Just a quick reminder since we never really announced this in the first place. At the bottom-right corner of all our posts is a sharing center where you can easily share our posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Digg, as well as email. Also, if there’s another social medium that you want to see in this sharing center, let us know and we’ll consider adding it!

Hello, Earthlings! After we realized that we have a ton of cool stuff just sitting around and collecting dust, we decided to get rid of it the easy way by giving it away to our loyal readers. This cool stuff ranges from stickers to gaming headsets to case fans to gaming mouse pads and more. Some items are brand new in the box, while others have been opened up for review purposes.

Here’s the deal, we’ll be giving away one item through Twitter every week until we run out of stuff to giveaway. On Mondays at 6PM EST, we’ll announce on Twitter the prize that we’re going to give away for that week. Anyone who retweets that tweet will be entered in the drawing for that prize. You’ll have one week to retweet until we announce a winner and then start the next giveaway.

In simple terms, just be sure to join us on Twitter on Mondays at 6PM EST for your chance to get some cool, free stuff!

A few rules:

- You can only win one time (to keep it fair).
- You must be a resident of the United States (sorry, foreigners).
- Winners will be notified via DM in Twitter. They must respond before the next week’s giveaway or else they will forfeit their win.

Current Giveaway:

For this week, we’re giving away four Razer discount codes! We have two free shipping codes and $10 off and $5 off codes. Out of all the participants who retweet this tweet by April 12th, we’ll randomly choose four people who will get one of these codes.

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Nope, I didn’t forget “something important,” unlike Tim himself did a couple months ago.  We at the Olive wish Tim a Merry Birthday and may his dreams fly as high as Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo.

And yes, according to the Olive Garden restaurant, the cake was a lie.

You might think this is uber lame, but we here at the Olive rely heavily on docks on our desktops. It was only appropriate to combine our love of docks to our love of Tech Olive. Enjoy.

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In accordance to our one year anniversary/birthday, we couldn’t help but to include at least one serious post on here. So, we thought it would be appropriate to have the editors of the Olive share their thoughts about the first year here and what it’s been like for them. Continue on after the break to read their testimonies.

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We’ve had a lot of content flow through Tech Olive this past year and a lot went on. Join us after the break to see a quick list of some interesting facts about Tech Olive so far.

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Hey now, we’re not that lame. We’ve had some pretty epic posts since our birth that scored high on the popularity scales. Follow the break for a recap of our most talked about posts.

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Hey readers! To celebrate Tech Olive’s upcoming first birthday, we’re going to be giving away a few things. KontrolFreek and J!NX have graciously donated some gear to have us give away to some lucky Twitterers!

All you have to do is follow us on Twitter (@TechOlive). If you’re already following us, you’re already entered! You can also receive an extra chance at winning by retweeting this. And while you’re at it, you should also follow our sponsors for this giveaway, J!NX (@JINX) and KontrolFreek (@KontrolFreek)!

One lucky grand prize winner will receive a $25 giftcard to JINX.com. We’ll then select two other winners, which will each receive a set of KontrolFreek’s FPSFreek and SpeedFreek Xbox 360/PS3 controller attachments.

We’ll pick winners by random selection and announce them via Twitter and this site on our birthday, which is September 29th.

Some Basic Rules

- Any U.S. resident is eligible to enter. Sorry, U.S. residents only.
- Only one retweet will be counted for each user.
- Please don’t make up different accounts. We have evil robots that check.
- Staff members and contributing writers of Tech Olive are ineligible to enter.
- The winner will be randomly selected and then immediately notified through Twitter for further action.

View the official rules here.

Looks like I’m not the only one….

(View the video after the break)

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