Macworld: A world of schwag

I’m used to my share of schwag — free giveaways — from attending dozens of conferences, mostly as a member of the press. But the schwag I got today as a conference speaker must have set some kind of record. In the interests of full disclosure, check it out:

• a hangin’ big black Macworld duffel bag

• Parallels Desktop for Mac, letting me run Windows on my laptop (thanks! planned to shell out $80 for this later this month)

• Griffin’s iTrip dock connector

• a zCover for my iPod nano and a rhino-skin and an Aluminum V2 case for my video iPod

• a sleek SK Soundkase carrying bag ith a slot for an iPod

• JBL’s on stage micro portable iPod music dock

• iMainGo’s portable sound system for the iPod

• a Skooba laptop bag

• iPod: The Missing Manual (a book)

• USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter

• bruCLONE’s backup & restore utility

• Prosoft’s Data Rescue II emergency hard drive recovery

• FasTrack Schedule 9

• Readiris Pro 11

• pzizz: energy for life disc (whatever that is)

• FontAgent Pro 3.3 (nice!)

• Virus Barrier, from intego

• PDFPen

• Fetch, including a Fetch stuffed dog my 7-year-old named Fetchers

• CrashPlan offsite backup

• MultiAd Creator Professonal disc

• ETY Plugs

• Popcorn 2, from Roxio

• Mariner’s MacJournal journaling software

• Invisible Shield

• DriveSavers data recovery

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