Gift Guide: Software company swag

by Marc Perton Dec 21st 2005

What do you get for the geek who has everything? How about some software company swag? Software companies large and small offer everything from the Google Goo pictured above, to Mozilla's plush firefox dolls, to logo-pimping t-shirts. Some of my favorites include the non-logo t-shirts from Mac developer Panic Software (they include one featuring the Mac "spinner" and one that boasts "i make macintosh software"). If you really want to impress, you can hunt down collector-level swag on eBay, including old Apple lapel pins and Microsoft bobble-head dolls.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Michael Cicconi said 12:08AM on 12-22-2005

If anyone can find me some Google Gulp, I'd really appreciate it.

http://www.google.com/googlegulp/

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