Well our second iCarpus contest (What’s an iCarpus? Read the review) ended yesterday, so that means the winners need to be announced today! So without futher delay, here they are:
So there you have it! To the winners: You will have a private message waiting for you in our forums giving you further instructions. To all those who didn’t win, don’t be discouraged. We’ll have another contest of some sort posted in the near future, so keep your eyes glued to TalkAndroid.
Motorola knows it is, and they want to give you one. A contest started yesterday and entry simply requires a contestant to retweet a tweet that Motorola blasted out yesterday morning.
Want to try your hand at winning one of five R2-D2 edition Droid 2s from Motorola? All you need is a Twitter account, residence in the US, and be 18 years old to be eligible to enter.
Simply retweet the following Twitter message before 11:59 CT on October 19 to enter. The winners will be contacted via DM on Twitter on October 20. Hit up the source link below for the official rules, and may the force be with you.
Notion Ink wants to change their company logo and they want your help! Above you can see several logo submissions they’ve received from designers, but the right one hasn’t jumped off the page at them just yet. Think you can do better?
If you want to take part, send in one of your best designs for a new Notion Ink logo to “relations@notionink.com” with the subject line “Logo Contest”. Designs can be sent in until October 22nd 2010, live polls to vote same day, and closing by October 25th.
The BlackBerry PlayBook is pretty much the most anticipated BlackBerry device of all time. Even if you have no intentions on purchasing one it has certainly opened the eyes of BlackBerry fans everywhere and made them take a second look at what exactly, BlackBerry is doing and what their possible plans are for the future. Since we cannot as of yet, get our hands on the BlackBerry PlayBook the folks at BBIn have created us a pretty awesome PlayBook styled theme for the BlackBerry Torch 9800 and BlackBerry Bold 9700.
In an effort to keep us all calm while we wait for even more details to be released surrounding the BlackBerry PlayBook, BBIn has offered up 50 copies of their great theme. That’s 25 for BlackBerry Torch users out there and 25 for all you BlackBerry Bold 9700 users out there. Leave a comment here, tell us what excites you most about the BlackBerry PlayBook and which device you need the theme for. We’ll pick 50 of you all from those comments and that’s it. Good luck to all those who enter and big thanks to BBIn sharing the love!
Ever been watching a video clip on your BlackBerry device and wish that you could take a screen shot of the scene to post to Twitter or send to a friend? Previously, this was no easy task and users would have to try and pause the video at the correct point, and then screen shot that after waiting for the on screen information to disappear. Luckily these days are gone as VideoShots allows just this exact functionality with just a single click. Regardless of the media type, if your BlackBerry device will play it, VideoShots will allow you to take a screen shot of the single frame to save and share however you wish. If you love videos, and you love to share memories in everyway possible, this application is a must have for you. Check it out today in the CrackBerry Store for only $2.99.
Contest – We have 50 copies of VideoShots to giveaway! Simply leave a comment here for your chance to win. Contest ends Sunday at midnight PST. Duplicates will not be counted.
JavaScript sometimes gets a bad rap. Accusations of page size bloating, superfluous effects and failure to gracefully degrade are common gripes. But the truth is that none of those things are inherent in JavaScript, they’re just common in bad web design.
Take page size for example. Sure, JQuery is big, but even tiny scripts can do some pretty amazing stuff. Proving that claim is exactly the point of JS1k, a recent contest to see what developers could create in less than one kilobyte of JavaScript.
Among the rules of JS1k: The files size must be under a kilobyte, the demo must work in Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera and external libraries were forbidden — short scripts that reference 30MB worth of external scripts were disallowed.
The contest winners were announced Tuesday at the JSCONF event in Berlin. The experiments are really incredible given the files size restrictions. The winner Legend Of The Bouncing Beholder, is an old-school arcade game reminiscent of early Mario Brothers games.
Other winners include a Tetris game, a multiplayer pong game and our personal favorite Mother Fucking Lasers. Head on over to see the rest of the demos and be amazed at what you can do with just 1k of code. Be sure to view source so you can see how these tiny scripts work.
Note that, as of this writing, the site is experiencing ridiculous traffic, so if you get a 503 error, check back later when things have calmed down.
As you all know I have been a bit pessimistic about Nokia and North America, but then wrote the post about not caring too much because I am a fanboy who is sticking with them anyway. It turns out that Nokia wasn’t just giving lip service to North America and is actually taking steps to reach out. They just announced the Calling All Innovators, North America contest in partnership with AT&T and are having a full Nokia Developer Day at CTIA in early October. I may just have to start developing apps so I can get a Nokia N8 developer pack too
This contest follows the very successful one that concluded at Nokia World 2010 and is designed for developers around the world to create apps for North American consumers. AT&T and Nokia will be the judges of the apps and each developer participating in the CTIA developer session, held in October, will receive a Nokia N8 developer pack from Nokia.
As stated by Purnima Kockikar, VP Forum Nokia:
The commitment from Nokia is a clear message that we are serious about the North American market. Developers have the tools, the support from AT&T and the marketing power of Nokia to get visibility for their apps. Additionally, developers can make their Qt-based app available in Ovi Store to Nokia customers globally reaching tens of millions of customers.
There are 17 categories for app submission and consumers will contribute to finalist selection with the number of downloads counting towards part of the winning criteria. Will AT&T be getting the Nokia N8 officially? It seems that we are going to need devices here to download these candidate apps and I can’t imagine Nokia wants us using the Nokia E71x to do so.
We’re at Phandroid LIVE and while everyone here votes on their favorite T-Shirt – which will be put into production with the winning designer earning $200 - you can also vote at home! So check out the following designs, vote for your favorite, and by the end of the night we’ll have the plan for the first ever Phandroid T-Shirt!
Sprint is accepting submissions through Nov. 5 and will recognize the top of the class in five categories: entertainment, gaming, productivity, social networking and multimedia. Sprint will score submissions based on creativity, intuitive navigation, functionality and design.
Winners in each category will receive a $50,000 grand prize, an HTC Corp. EVO 4G with a year of service, a one-year membership to the Sprint Professional Developer Program and an invite to WIRED’s VIP party during the 2011 International CES in Las Vegas. The winning apps will be announced and showcased Dec. 16 at the WIRED store in New York.
The WiMAX Innovation Network initially covered more than 20 square miles in Silicon Valley. The plan was to give 4G developers a head start on commercial service launching in the Bay Area in 2010.
A number of bands have created music videos by stitching together a series of Street View images. The gmapify blog has created a great tutorial explaining how you can create your own Street View videos. The Wilderness Downtown incorporates your address in their music video (requires Chrome Browser).
Check out the Review, then Leave a Comment for your chance to win an iGrip Car Charging Dock for the BlackBerry Torch! We’re giving away 1 a day for 30 days!
This is probably one of the coolest BlackBerry accessories I’ve tested out so far. The iGrip car charging dock for the Torch 9800 mounts to the windshield or dash in your car and lets you easily drop in your Torch so you can use a navigation app on the go. I fired up AT&T Navigator while my Torch was in the dock and I have to say its just as good (if not better) than having a separate GPS unit. The dock is totally solid and stays secure so you don’t have to worry about it dropping off the window. I really like the latch that secures down over the Torch once inserted – it ensures the phone is held secure whether used in landscape or portrait mode. When you get to wherever you’re going, just pull your device out and take it with you. The video above is a bit of hand-on with the dock as well as a bit of in-car action to see just how it works. As of right now the iGrip BlackBerry Torch charging dock is only available via Smartphone Experts, so click on over to learn more and pick one up at ShopCrackBerry.com today!
Contest: We’re Giving Away 1 iGrip Torch Cradle a Day for 30 Days! So the goodgreatcompletely awesome folks at iGrip have hooked up a wicked contest for CrackBerry Nation. If you’re a BlackBerry Torch owner living in the USA and want a chance at winning an iGrip Cradle for the Torch along with a BlackBerry Car Charger, then all you need to do is leave a comment to this blog post (drop in some nice comments about why you want this bad boy while you’re at it!). We’ll update this post every day for the next 30 days with the previous day’s winner below.
It seems that Sprint is looking to push the boundaries of its 4G line of phones, according to a new Sprint sponsored contest focused on the creation of 4G focused apps. The mobile carrier has partnered with Wired, Reddit, and Ars Technica to bring us the “Sprint 4G App Challenge”, which is looking for innovative developers to strut their wares for some serious prize money.
The apps must fall under one of the following categories: Video, Multimedia & Augmented Reality, Gaming, Productivity, Business & Utilities, Social Networking, and Entertainment. The winners in each category will receive the following prize package:
$50,000
1 year membership to Sprint’s Professional Developers Program
250 hours for the Virtual Developer Lab
1 Evo device with 1 year service
Press announcements promoting winning apps
So, for all of you developers out there looking to make a name for yourselves, and to earn some good money for your hard work, you definitely want to check this one out. For more information about the contest, hit up the official page on Sprint’s website here.
Photo Courtesy of The American Museum of Natural History
Has a recent science breakthrough gotten you excited? Has some new development changed the way you work or live? How about telling the folks at the American Museum of Natural History all about it in a two-minute video.
The American Museum of Natural History in New York is having a video contest. The winner will win a weekend trip for two to New York City to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History on October 10, 2010.
Contestants are being asked to make a 2 minute video explaining how a recent scientific breakthrough has impacted them. the deadline is September 19th so if you’re looking for a weekend project this might just fit the bill.
Here are the Official Rules:
The Rose Center Anniversary Video Contest ends on Sunday, September 19 at 11:59 PM. Videos will not be accepted after this deadline.
All submissions titles must start with “Rose Center Anniversary Video Contest”
All videos must start with the Rose Center Anniversary slide (Download here — Warning: This is a very large file.)
Videos may be no longer than 2 minutes
Submissions must be uploaded via the contest page. Videos uploaded directly to YouTube will not be considered.
You must be 18 years of age or older to submit a video. If you are under 18 please have a parent or guardian submit the video on your behalf.
What are you waiting for? An invitation from Neil deGrasse Tyson? Well, all right then:
Do your kids love science? Do they love art? Are they creative? Get them involved with Charlie’s Playhouse Evolution and Art Contest. They choose a creature, change its environment and figure out what would happen with the evolution of that creature in its new environment. Visit Charlie’s Playhouse’s website for complete information and entry forms. The competition is divided into three age ranges and there are plenty of prizes to win. I’m one of the judges, and I can’t wait to see what all the kids think of.
If your kids aren’t yet familiar with the theory of evolution and Charles Darwin, this is a great opportunity to teach them. Then have them enter the contest! Entries are due by November 15, 2010 and winners will be announced on December 6, 2010. No purchase necessary.
Have you heard about Phandroid LIVE in Baltimore? If not you should check out the details cause it’s going to be awesome. We’re going to be giving away a bunch of Phandroid gear amongst other things, but we realized- “hey, what the heck, why don’t we have Phandroid T-SHIRTS?”
Now we’re giving YOU the chance to “Design The Phandroid T-Shirt” and win $200 bucks in cold hard (PayPal) cash. Oh… and everyone attending Phandroid LIVE in Baltimore will get a voucher for a FREE T sent to their doorstep!
Ready for the dealio (aka rules)?
The prize:
$200 USD (Must be accepted via PayPal)
2 Phandroid T-Shirts sent to you (anywhere in the world I can physically ship it)
Bragging rights (YOUR design on awesome Android apparel)
How To Enter:
Use the Phandroid Logo (download here) to create a design for the first ever Phandroid T-Shirts
Use the logo but be creative… we don’t just want a shirt with a logo!
To enter, send your entry as a low resolution JPG under 3MB to events (at) phandroid (dot) com
If your jpg is selected as a finalist, be prepared to send a high quality .EPS or .PSD of the file saved in 300dpi (required to win)
Provide details if you think it will help your cause (placement of image on shirt, color of shirt, etc…)
All entries MUST be received by September 19th, 2010 at 11:59 EDT
There is No Limit to the number of entries one person can submit
Master P is only allowed one submission (see above)
Winning , Selection & Announcement
Finalists will be announced at 6pm EDT on Tuesday, September 21st on Phandroid.com
Readers will have 3 hours, until 9pm EDT, to vote online for the winner
Phandroid LIVE attendees will have until 9pm EDT to vote manually (write-in) their vote
Online votes and Event votes will be added together and the finalist with the most votes will be named the winner
Winner will be announced on September 22nd at Phandroid.com
Additional Rules & Details
All submissions become the property of Phandroid.com
Winner must have a PayPal account to accept payment
T-Shirts will be sent to winner and Phandroid LIVE attendees at an unidentified future date
Qualifying entries may not use any trademarked or copyrighted material(s)
Phandroid.com has the right to adjust these rules at their sole discretion to improve the contest
And there you have it folks- we think this will be a pretty awesome contest. Do your best to create something sick that Phandroids will want to sport around town! Good luck!
Live in or gonna be in the LA area on September 11th? Then we have a great contest for you. Some of you may remember the BBM lounge event that was held in LA back in August. Well, another is taking place on September 11th and we got a chance for you all to win 1 of 5 VIP passes to the event for you (and a guest) thanks to the fine folks at Xomad. That’s right, you can gear up to head out to fun filled night in LA while sharing your love for BlackBerry and BlackBerry Messenger.
The rules are simple. Drop a comment here and tell us why you should be among those in attendance. ONLY LEAVE A COMMENT IF YOU CAN ACTUALLY ATTEND THE EVENT. Is it your wit, your charm, your beauty or just your straight up love for all things BlackBerry? We’ll pick 5 of you all to partake in some "BBM Tini’ drinking plus, you’ll get to enjoy an evening of entertainment provided by Ne-Yo. In addition to that, you’ll also get a chance to hang out with some celebs, though you’ll need to win to find out who. So get to it, leave your comment so we can start picking some winners. Good luck!
The guys at Twinkler Software let me know that for today (Monday) only they are offering up a bundle of AddOnis and WiFi Hero at 40% off. The bundle usually sells for $11.98, but today until midnight you can grab it for just $7.19. These two great apps add some great functionality to your device giving you more control over common tasks.
AddOnis: AddOnis extends system functionality, enabling features missing from the system that make your device easier and more efficient to use by adding all of the choices you always wanted to your menu selections.
WiFi Hero: WiFi Hero automatically controls your WiFi Power Status to save power and make your battery last longer. WiFi Hero can automatically turn off or turn on WiFi power (on GSM or WCDMA netwoks only) based on your location, screen status (on/off) and charging status (on charger/off charger).
Contest: In addition to the sale, Twinkler Software is giving up 40 app bundles to CrackBerry readers – This means you can win both AddOnis and WiFi Hero. To enter, just leave a single comment on this post. Contest ends this Sunday at midnight PDT.
You gotta love the Ongoing Follow CrackBerry Contest… you get a chance to win great prizes each month just for following CrackBerry on youtube, twitter and facebook!
For the month of August, each of our three winners is taking home an awesome prize depending on which social site they were following us on. August’s lucky winners are…. tehkseven (youtube), justjen808 (twitter), Jamie Lund (facebook). Congrats winners! We’ll shoot you a message through each of these sites to notify you about your winning or you can also shoot us an email to sitesupport @ crackberry.com if you’re reading this year and want to collect your loot asap.
September‘s Awesome Prizes: We’re mixing up the prizes so you’ll want to make sure you’re following us on all of YouTube, Twitter and Facebook so you get a shot of winning all three. Visit the follow crackberry contest page for full details.
Today Verizon amped up the hype machine on the upcoming Special Edition Droid R2-D2. This highly anticipated piece of hardware will be available exclusively online on September 30th but for eight lucky and hard working sleuths it will come free. Verizon has launched a viral contest today that will gradually leak “lost schematics” for the phone as fans decipher clues given through Twitter (@DroidLanding). There are eight schematics to be uncovered which are currently inactive links on the Droid R2-D2 website.
Device Gallery
Apps + Widgets
Wallpapers
Exclusive Video
Boot-Up Sequence
R2-D2 Soundboard
Home Screens
Enhancescan App
The first clue has already been given through Twitter, Attack Pattern Alpha. After putting the URL for that page in the C-3P0 tweet translator on the Droid R2-D2 website you will be redirected to the Picasa web gallery of Luka Kurtz, where you will find pictures of Luke and Porkins in their X-Wings. Unfortunately this is as far as the hunt has gone to this point and no lost schematics have been uncovered at this point. What do you guys think of this? Will you be getting involved or sitting this one out? Let us know in the comments.
The Web Font Awards are coming soon. It’s a new competition recognizing the most beautiful applications of web fonts in site design and technological achievements in type on the web. There’s no entry deadline or submission guidelines yet, but the contest will involve an actual meatspace awards ceremony and real cash prizes.
The Web Font Awards – the first ceremony to celebrate the newfound typographic freedom empowering Web designers across the globe. The Web Font Awards will be a design competition for websites using Web fonts. Aimed at promoting Web font awareness and adoption, the competition will be open to eligible users of any Web font service or technology.
Sign up at the site to be notified of dates, deadlines, rules and requirements as soon as they are available. Though we’re guessing this site (possibly NSFW) already has the top prize in the bag.
My main T-Mobile phone is currently the Nokia E73 Mode (see our Guide) and I just can’t give it up because it is so pocketable, focused on messaging, and gives me everything I really find essential on my smartphone. I started eating healthier and exercising more a few months ago and have lost over 20 pounds so far with my primary exercise of jogging. I have been using an Andoid device with Runkeeper for tracking my running, but was just sent an email that will have me using the Nokia E73 soon. The newly revamped Sports Tracker service and application is now up and running so get on those shoes and start sharing your workouts.
You can find the Sports Tracker application for your compatible S60 3rd and 5th Edition device in the Ovi Store. The Sports Tracker application can be used with the GPS in your smartphone to track things like calories burned while running and cycling speed over altitude changes. You can find a compatible heart rate monitor in the Sports Tracker shop so you can keep track and ensure you are reaching your heart rate goals as you workout.
Nokia is having a Sports Tracker competition launch contest where the first place winner gets an exclusive Ovi skateboard deck. Other prizes include heart rate belts, Ovi t-shirts, water bottles, and more swage. I like the looks of that green to white t-shirt and will be entering soon myself.
The competition is rather interesting since you need to make a funny or interesting shape with your Sports Tracker workout and share it publicly. This means you need to run, walk, skip, bike, skate, etc. in a unique route to create an interesting shape for the contest. I am going to have to give this some thought before heading out on the road to track my workout. They will pick the top 10 and then have you vote in a poll on the Ovi blog. You have to do this quickly as the contest ends in one week on Thursday, 19 August.
Hey, Kids and Teens! If you love to read, add one more book to your summer reading list and you’ll have the chance to win some pretty cool prizes. Joanne Manaster of Joanne Loves Science and Jeff Shaumeyer of Scienticity have teamed up to encourage kids to read science books. There are two contests, split up by age ranges: Kids Read Science is for ages 8-12, and Teens Read Science is for ages 13-18. The rules are the same, and pretty simple:
Choose a non-fiction book about nature, science, engineering, or math, or about people who work or worked in those fields. The book should help you understand more about what science is and how it works. Textbooks are not acceptable choices. If you need suggestions it’s good to ask a science teacher or librarian for ideas.
Read your book.
Make a video about your book. The video must be less than 5 minutes long, and must give the name of the book, the name of the author, and reasons why you would or would not recommend the book to your friends.
Post the video online. We’d prefer that you post it to your own account on YouTube.com and tag it with “KidsReadScience2010″ or “TeensReadScience2010″ . There are other posting options in the long form of the rules.
Fill out our official online submission form so we can find your video and so we know how to contact you if you win one of our fabulous prizes.
Do all this before the deadline: 11pm (CDT) on 22 September 2010.
Some of the prizes include an iPod touch for the teens, quality-optics binoculars for the kids, iTunes gift cards, T-shirts, and signed copies of science books (including the intriguingly-How to Defeat Your Own Clone). Check the prize list for more details.
Well, guys, the contest for winning LogMeIn’s Ignition app for Android has now come to a close. Thanks to all those that submitted responses in our forum thread, and to all those that responded incorrectly… sorry, folks, but your entries wont be considered.
Lots of entries came in on the app! Looks like everyone is excited and eager to get their hands on it. The winner will be officially announced tomorrow, so be sure to keep your eyes here for our winner!
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