Tag: CONTEST

Back in July I posted about the Google Desktop Gadget Designer and a contest sponsored by Google for makers of gadgets, a.k.a. widgets. Yesterday, at long last, Google announced the contest's winners. The supreme ultimate winners, who will take home $5,000, are Marius and Yannick Stucki, who created diGGGadget, which is of course for keeping track of Digg. Second place went to Turhan Aydin for ...

VMware has announced the winners of its Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge, a contest which challenged teams to build preconfigured open source virtual machine images for VMware. I posted earlier this month about some of the very cool "Virtual Appliances" available at the VMware web site, and VMware's chosen winners are impressive indeed. The first prize winner is HowNetWorks, "a network ...

Today this year's winners of the annual Apple Design Awards were announced. The awards aim "to recognize technical excellence and outstanding achievement on Mac OS X" in eight categories. Here are the winners (uh, spoilers): Best Developer Tool: TextMate 1.5.2 Best Use of OS X Graphics: modo 201 Best Dashboard Widget: iClip lite 2.0 Best Automator Workflow: Build Real Estate ...

Apple gets a lot of accolades for its user interface design, and even Microsoft is turning some heads with Vista and Office 2007, but they should both be paying attention to the OS Eric Patterson made. Unfortunately for us, Eric Patterson's OS isn't real: It's just a mock-up of what he thinks Mac OS 10.5 Leopard should look like, and it's cool enough to have won Phill Ryu's Fake Leopard Screenshot ...

Last week, to not very much fanfare, Google released Google Desktop Gadget Designer, a full-fledged Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Google Desktop sidebar widgets. Er, gadgets. Gadget Designer features a drag-and-drop interface design tool, integrated debugging, project management, and most of the other basic features you expect in and IDE. Google also released of Google Desktop 4 ...

Microsoft is sponsoring a contest that challenges developers to create chatbots for the MSN/Windows Live Messenger network. The contest, called Invasion of the Robots, promises over $40,000 in prizes, including the grand prize, a sweet Alienware system or US$10,000 in cash. The deadline is September 15, and Judging will presumably be done by a Microsoft panel (the contest rules just say "qualified ...

Last week Mozilla Corp. finally announced the winners of the Firefox Flicks contest, in which independent filmmakers submitted short ads promoting the open source darling web browser. The grand prize winner, selected by "accomplished entertainment and advertising judges including the talents behind Charlie’s Angels, American Pie, and Six Feet Under," is "Daredevil," by ...

Awhile back we mentioned Firefox Flicks, a competition sponsored by Mozilla to create a promotional video for the maverick web browser. On Tuesday they started rolling out the first videos with six online today and a couple added each day.. I really enjoyed "Wheee!", though I think some Safari users might take offense. If you haven't submitted your Firefox Flick yet, you'd better get ...

I am both delighted and alarmed by the winners of Engadget's birthday cake contest. In case you hadn't heard, Engadget has been celebrating its 2nd birthday and ran a contest for the prize was a really sweet Alienware PC. The challenge was to bake the coolest gadget-themed birthday cake. I knew they'd get a lot of entries, but I had no idea the lengths Engadget's crazy readers would go to. I don't ...

Mozilla's Extend Firefox contest, which challenged developers to make cool extensions for Firefox 1.5, has come to a close and the winners have been announced. Winning the grand prizes were Michael Wu's Reveal for Best New Extension, Chris Pederick's Web Developer for Best Upgraded Extension, and Josep del Rio's Firefox Showcase for Best Use of Firefox 1.5 Features. Each of those developers will ...

Mozilla Corp. and the Vail Film Festival have teamed up to create a Firefox ad contest called "Firefox Flicks." The contest involves creating a killer ad for Firefox, then having said ad judged by some Hollywood folks, and hopefully winning loot and exposure. What Hollywood folks? McG (Charlie's Angels) is on the list, as is Freddy Rodriguez (Six Feet Under), plus Warren Zide, the ...

Open source image editing program the GIMP is celebrating its 10th birthday and to commemorate it they held a contest to design a splash screen. The winner, announced this week, is "Dialed In" by an artist called ix. The winning splash screen accompanies the GIMP's birthday release, version 2.2.10, which can be downloaded from its many mirrors. You can check out all of the entries in the ...