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New Autodesk SketchBook Ink App Delivers Stunning Creative Tools for iPad
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Vegas Tech Start Up Questionable LLC Launches Questionable Friends iPhone App
23 May 2012 4:53 PM | No CommentsLAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Questionable™ today introduced Questionable Friends™ for iPhone®. Questionable Friends lets you send questions to your contacts and provides instant feedback as questions are answered. Answers can be ...
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Sidecar Revolutionizes Phone Calls by Bringing “Smart Calling” to Smartphones
22 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsSAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Launching today, Sidecar (www.sidecar.me) is a new mobile app that brings Smart Calling to smartphones. Smart Calling allows people to share live See What I See video, brilliant ...
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TransCore Launches Mobile iPad App for TransSuite Traffic Management System
21 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsWASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intelligent Transportation Society of America Annual Meeting – TransCore brings the ease of mobile computing to its TransSuite® advanced traffic management system (ATMS), launching its iPad® ...
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Cellfish Marvel’s The Avengers Live Wallpaper Android App Reaches 1.3 Million Downloads
16 May 2012 2:05 PM | No CommentsNEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Marvel’s The Avengers Live Wallpaper Android personalization app, created by Cellfish, has been downloaded 1.3 million times, driven by the massive success of Marvel Studios’ blockbuster movie. ...
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gadget club Archive
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Gadget Club Round 3 Voting
Posted on August 5, 2009 | No Comments
Let's do this one last time, friends. TO VOTE COMMENT ON THIS POST WITH THE EXACT NAME OF THE DEVICE YOU’RE VOTING FOR. THAT IS THE ONLY TEXT THAT SHOULD APPEAR. I WILL DO AN SQL QUERY ON THE COMMENTS DB TO FIND THE WINNER. LITERALLY COPY AND PASTE THE NAME OF THE DEVICE INTO THE COMMENT FIELD AND POST IT. VOTE ONCE. VOTE ONLY ONCE. DON’T USE AMAZON’S MECHANICAL TURK. DON’T ASK THE WEIRD GUY FROM IT WHO YOU NEVER INVITE TO PARTIES BUT TALK TO AT WORK TO MAKE YOU A VOTING SCRIPT! IF YOU ARE THE WEIRD GUY IN IT, I’M SORRY. THEY JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND YOU. IF I HELD A PARTY YOU COULD COME. IF YOU CHEAT I WILL BE SAD. I WILL CLOSE VOTING ON MONDAY AT NOON EASTERN!
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Gadget Club Round 2 Winner
Posted on August 4, 2009 | No CommentsOK. I’m happy to report that Round 2 of the Gadget Club Contest passed by without a hitch and now we’re on to Round 3. Before I show you the new entrants, however, let’s announce the Round 2 winner, shall we? Based on my queries, here is the breakdown: Beer Pong 2 WIIPOD 37 NBPlex 5 Crazy Camera 2 GeckoCords 22 So, as we see, the WiiPod [...] -
Gadget Club: Round 2 Voting
Posted on July 30, 2009 | No CommentsOK. Let’s try this again. I’ve passed out the first set of prizes to unnamed persons and this is Round 2. TO VOTE COMMENT ON THIS POST WITH THE EXACT NAME OF THE DEVICE YOU’RE VOTING FOR. THAT IS THE ONLY TEXT THAT SHOULD APPEAR. I WILL DO AN SQL QUERY ON THE COMMENTS DB [...] -
Gadget Club: Round 2
Posted on July 29, 2009 | No CommentsOK. Let’s try this again. I’ve passed out the first set of prizes to unnamed persons and this is Round 2. TO VOTE COMMENT ON THIS POST WITH THE EXACT NAME OF THE DEVICE YOU’RE VOTING FOR. THAT IS THE ONLY TEXT THAT SHOULD APPEAR. I WILL DO AN SQL QUERY ON THE COMMENTS DB [...] -
Gadget Club: The Aftermath
Posted on July 27, 2009 | No Comments
OK. Keep the Gadget Club entries coming.
I'm going to keep the Gadget Club contest going as originally advertised and will change the voting procedure on Wednesday for new entries. Keep your entries coming and hopefully we can avoid gaming the system this time around. There's no reason we can't have some fun here, so let's move towards peace and harmony.
Click through to read full rules and regulations and we'll run the second round on Wednesday. Good luck!
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The Gadget Club is on hold for now
Posted on July 24, 2009 | No CommentsSo I'm putting a hold on the Gadget Club contest for now. I've notified a person that he won this week, just to get it out of the way. See, I got this email from an entrant.
Hey, I want to withdraw from the contest. The contest (and me along with it) have gotten a little out of hand. I submitted something because it seemed like a fun contest. After I found out I was in, I worked my social networks in a get-out-the-vote campaign. I was kind of miffed when I saw the guys scripting the votes and your reset of the votes seemed like your threw out the baby with the bath water. I decided to not spam my social networks for a second go. When I grumbled to someone yesterday, they suggested I use mechanical turk to put them back. I figured I had 150 legitimate votes thrown out, so I put that up on mechturk. Dirty, yes, but I thought both should have been DQed. Now the whole thing is grimy, and I just want to forget it happened. If you let the contest go and I end up with the most votes, I don't want the prizes, or I'll donate the cash value. Interesting social experiment.
Essentially two people tried to game the contest, one contestant was disqualified and the voting was reset, and one contestant got angry. I see his point but please, guys, see mine: we do contests for you. CG doesn't get any cash for these giveaways. I do them so you guys can get some cool stuff. I like you guys. I really do. But I've found over the years that you guys don't do creative contests. I could basically say "Comment and you'll win a robotic goat" and you'll comment until your fingers bleed. However, when I ask "Just make something cool - doesn't have to be professional" it's crickets. -
Gadget Club Entrants: The first round
Posted on July 22, 2009 | No CommentsWe received about 20 entries in the Gadget Club contest so far - not a huge number but impressive enough to offer some hearty competition. So I present to you, dear readers, the first five contestants in our Gadget Club contest. It was hard to pick just five and the remaining entrants will go back into the pool next week.
Please go through each one and assess it for value, salability, and funitude.
Remember: the contest is running for two more weeks and any entrants not chosen here will be added to the pool next week. Head over to the main post to read the full rules and conditions and good luck!