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Anne, Karen, and their teams from HP were an awesome addition to the Gnomedex sponsor roster last year. They were on-site with several of their products – and even gave away many things! I was fortunate to receive a TouchSmart from them during this time period, to review and use for myself. Even though I’m a Mac guy at heart, I have to admit I really love using the TouchSmart whenever I need to be on Windows. It runs beautifully, and has never given me any issues at all. It’s a powerhouse of a machine, honestly. I can convert videos while searching on the Internet, having multiple other programs open and even running a Skype conference all at once. There is no “lag”, like you would find on many systems while trying to do all of these things. And, of course, you can’t beat the sheer fun (and yes – functionality!) of using the actual Touch features! It’s not just me who loves this machine. My assistant, Kat, won a TouchSmart after the conference was over. She has used hers ever since as her primary machine, and is quite happy! HP continued with a presence this year at Gnomedex, too!

So why am I waxing poetic about HP and their products? I’m glad you asked! Not only were they awesome to work with during Gnomedex last year, they continue to support our community to this day. They’ve come up with an excellent new contest – just for all of you reading out there! You have a chance to win for yourself a brand-new HP Pavilion dv6t series laptop! Entering is so simple, you won’t even believe it. All you have to do is leave a follow-up comment on this blog post, (including your email address!) talking about HP. You can tell us what HP products you own – or have owned. You can talk about the ones you’d like to own. It doesn’t matter, so long as your comment talks about an HP product or service. Any comments which simply state things like “I want to win the HP laptop” will be disqualified. Put some effort into it! You should pore over the contest rules prior to entering, though. The contest is open now, and ends at 11:59 p.m. EST on September 30, 2009. The winner will be notified via email within three days of that date, provided they are proven to have a valid entry (as described above).

Not only is HP giving away a laptop, they also have cooked up an awesome deal for you to take advantage of! Take 30% off of the purchase of a customized HP Pavilion Notebook PC, configured at $1199.00 or greater at the HP Home and Home Office Store. Use coupon code: NBR49875. The offer excludes the HP HDX16t, HP Minis and all Compaq models. The offer is limited to the first 1800 coupons redeemed, and will become void after that. Only 1 redemption per person or address is allowed. The coupon is not valid with other promotions and restrictions apply. For complete conditions, see Coupon Information in the Customer Service section.

Post?slot_id=45124&url=http%3a%2f%2fsocialspark

I gotta thank everyone at HP for their continued support, and all of the opportunities they keep bringing to our community. Good luck to everyone who chooses to enter!

]]> Would You Like to Win an HP Laptop? is a post from Chris Pirillo

Anne, Karen, and their teams from HP were an awesome addition to the Gnomedex sponsor roster last year. They were on-site with several of their products – and even gave away many things! I was fortunate to receive a TouchSmart from them during this time period, to review and use for myself. Even though I’m a Mac guy at heart, I have to admit I really love using the TouchSmart whenever I need to be on Windows. It runs beautifully, and has never given me any issues at all. It’s a powerhouse of a machine, honestly. I can convert videos while searching on the Internet, having multiple other programs open and even running a Skype conference all at once. There is no “lag”, like you would find on many systems while trying to do all of these things. And, of course, you can’t beat the sheer fun (and yes – functionality!) of using the actual Touch features! It’s not just me who loves this machine. My assistant, Kat, won a TouchSmart after the conference was over. She has used hers ever since as her primary machine, and is quite happy! HP continued with a presence this year at Gnomedex, too!

So why am I waxing poetic about HP and their products? I’m glad you asked! Not only were they awesome to work with during Gnomedex last year, they continue to support our community to this day. They’ve come up with an excellent new contest – just for all of you reading out there! You have a chance to win for yourself a brand-new HP Pavilion dv6t series laptop! Entering is so simple, you won’t even believe it. All you have to do is leave a follow-up comment on this blog post, (including your email address!) talking about HP. You can tell us what HP products you own – or have owned. You can talk about the ones you’d like to own. It doesn’t matter, so long as your comment talks about an HP product or service. Any comments which simply state things like “I want to win the HP laptop” will be disqualified. Put some effort into it! You should pore over the contest rules prior to entering, though. The contest is open now, and ends at 11:59 p.m. EST on September 30, 2009. The winner will be notified via email within three days of that date, provided they are proven to have a valid entry (as described above).

Not only is HP giving away a laptop, they also have cooked up an awesome deal for you to take advantage of! Take 30% off of the purchase of a customized HP Pavilion Notebook PC, configured at $1199.00 or greater at the HP Home and Home Office Store. Use coupon code: NBR49875. The offer excludes the HP HDX16t, HP Minis and all Compaq models. The offer is limited to the first 1800 coupons redeemed, and will become void after that. Only 1 redemption per person or address is allowed. The coupon is not valid with other promotions and restrictions apply. For complete conditions, see Coupon Information in the Customer Service section.

Post?slot_id=45124&url=http%3a%2f%2fsocialspark

I gotta thank everyone at HP for their continued support, and all of the opportunities they keep bringing to our community. Good luck to everyone who chooses to enter!

]]> http://chris.pirillo.com/would-you-like-to-win-an-hp-laptop/feed/ 956 How to Enter Community Contests, Giveaways, and Sweepstakes http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-enter-community-contests-giveaways-and-sweepstakes/ http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-enter-community-contests-giveaways-and-sweepstakes/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:17:04 +0000 Chris http://chris.pirillo.com/?p=13149 How to Enter Community Contests, Giveaways, and Sweepstakes is a post from Chris Pirillo


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If you like contests, giveaways and free stuff… I have the site for you! Everyone loves these things – you know you do! You’re going to want to keep an eye on our new contest site every week!

I’ve been wanting to do more giveaways, and get people more involved. This was the perfect answer! We can do Twitter contests through here. We can even do video contests through here! We launched the first contest here at the beginning of the weekend, so it’s about over now. However, by the time you check the site out there may be a lot more things going on!

My plan is to try and do something at least once a week. I get hardware and software to review a lot – so why not give it away!? Just keep an eye out – keep it bookmarked! You can enter each contest you’re eligible for. Who knows what you might win?!

Want to embed this video on your own site, blog, or forum? Use this code or download the video:

]]> How to Enter Community Contests, Giveaways, and Sweepstakes is a post from Chris Pirillo


Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed

If you like contests, giveaways and free stuff… I have the site for you! Everyone loves these things – you know you do! You’re going to want to keep an eye on our new contest site every week!

I’ve been wanting to do more giveaways, and get people more involved. This was the perfect answer! We can do Twitter contests through here. We can even do video contests through here! We launched the first contest here at the beginning of the weekend, so it’s about over now. However, by the time you check the site out there may be a lot more things going on!

My plan is to try and do something at least once a week. I get hardware and software to review a lot – so why not give it away!? Just keep an eye out – keep it bookmarked! You can enter each contest you’re eligible for. Who knows what you might win?!

Want to embed this video on your own site, blog, or forum? Use this code or download the video:

]]> http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-enter-community-contests-giveaways-and-sweepstakes/feed/ 2 How to Send Free SMS Text Messages on the iPhone or iPod http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-send-free-sms-text-messages-on-the-iphone-or-ipod/ http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-send-free-sms-text-messages-on-the-iphone-or-ipod/#comments Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:46:10 +0000 Chris http://chris.pirillo.com/?p=12520 How to Send Free SMS Text Messages on the iPhone or iPod is a post from Chris Pirillo


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Hopefully within a few weeks, InfiniteSMS will be available in iTunes. That will allow you to send free SMS messages from your iPhone or iPod Touch. The App isn’t free, but the texts you send from it will be. Once the App has been released, I will be doing a giveaway where you can win this App for yourself! I have 30 codes to give away!

It’s really easy to use. Once you’ve entered your Google credentials, press the “New SMS” button. Then, key in any number you want to send a message to. Type your message – and send it! You will receive SMS replies free, as well! Messages won’t show up on your phone bill!!

You can send messages for free to any number within the US – even if you are traveling outside of the US at the time you send it! Messages are sent and received through Google using the Google Talk service. Your friend must respond. To prevent spam, Google may block you from sending to someone if they don’t respond after a couple of messages.

Now, as I said, I have 30 of these to give away. In order to win, all you need to do is to go to Twitter and send the following:

@chrispirillo I love sending SMS! http://go.tagjag.com/SMS

That’s it. If you want to be one of the winners of this App as soon as it’s available, send that tweet!

ADBonner: i love sending sms http://go.tagjag.com/SMS
about 20 hours ago
Sat Feb 14 20:03:39 +0000 2009
DunuDeSilva: I love sending SMS! http://go.tagjag.com/SMS
about 23 hours ago
Sat Feb 14 17:17:58 +0000 2009
jordannott: I love sending SMS! Go.tagjag.com/SMS class=”TweetDate”>about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 15:44:52 +0000 2009
skoinm: How to Send Free SMS Text Messages on the iPhone or iPod http://bit.ly/JA4xw (via @chrispirillo)
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 14:22:04 +0000 2009
skoinm: I love sending SMS! http://www.tagjag.com/SMS
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 14:21:50 +0000 2009
nickmontes: I love sending SMS!
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 14:10:21 +0000 2009
AppleGeeek: I love sending SMS! http://go.tagjag.com/SMS
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 13:47:56 +0000 2009
ScottShockey78: I love sending SMS ! http://go.tagjag.com/SMS
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 13:18:18 +0000 2009
mattmill: I love sending SMS! http://go.tagjag.com/SMS
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 13:12:33 +0000 2009
virustricks: Oh yeah happy valetines
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 08:53:50 +0000 2009
RandDuren: I love sending SMS!
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 07:05:44 +0000 2009
kennyiscool: I love sending SMS. http://go.tagjag.com/SMS
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 06:32:18 +0000 2009
johnnylucas: i love sms http://go.tagjag.com/SMS
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 06:23:11 +0000 2009
Kringalingen: I love sending SMS! http://go.tagjag.com/SMS
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 06:19:44 +0000 2009
AndrewF99: I love sending SMS! http://go.tagjag.com/SMS
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 06:19:43 +0000 2009
Kringalingen: I love sending SMS! http://go.taggag.com/SMS
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 06:18:20 +0000 2009
claudius753: that's all well and good, but where the hell is MMS! Biggest iPhone flaw IYAM
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 06:17:15 +0000 2009
Christyxcore: I love sending SMS! http://go.tagjag.com/SMS
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 06:16:39 +0000 2009
CannonGod: While you're discussing SMS I wanted to mention a free Twitter SMS service for Europeans called: http://twe2.com
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 06:14:24 +0000 2009
Christyxcore: RT @chrispirillo: How to Send Free SMS Text Messages on the iPhone or iPod http://bit.ly/JA4xw
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 06:13:43 +0000 2009
sacredgeometry: are you constanly tweeting?
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 06:12:07 +0000 2009
davidjlock: twickie FTW
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 06:10:06 +0000 2009

 
 

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]]> How to Send Free SMS Text Messages on the iPhone or iPod is a post from Chris Pirillo


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Hopefully within a few weeks, InfiniteSMS will be available in iTunes. That will allow you to send free SMS messages from your iPhone or iPod Touch. The App isn’t free, but the texts you send from it will be. Once the App has been released, I will be doing a giveaway where you can win this App for yourself! I have 30 codes to give away!

It’s really easy to use. Once you’ve entered your Google credentials, press the “New SMS” button. Then, key in any number you want to send a message to. Type your message – and send it! You will receive SMS replies free, as well! Messages won’t show up on your phone bill!!

You can send messages for free to any number within the US – even if you are traveling outside of the US at the time you send it! Messages are sent and received through Google using the Google Talk service. Your friend must respond. To prevent spam, Google may block you from sending to someone if they don’t respond after a couple of messages.

Now, as I said, I have 30 of these to give away. In order to win, all you need to do is to go to Twitter and send the following:

@chrispirillo I love sending SMS! http://go.tagjag.com/SMS

That’s it. If you want to be one of the winners of this App as soon as it’s available, send that tweet!

ADBonner: i love sending sms http://go.tagjag.com/SMS
about 20 hours ago
Sat Feb 14 20:03:39 +0000 2009
DunuDeSilva: I love sending SMS! http://go.tagjag.com/SMS
about 23 hours ago
Sat Feb 14 17:17:58 +0000 2009
jordannott: I love sending SMS! Go.tagjag.com/SMS class=”TweetDate”>about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 15:44:52 +0000 2009
skoinm: How to Send Free SMS Text Messages on the iPhone or iPod http://bit.ly/JA4xw (via @chrispirillo)
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 14:22:04 +0000 2009
skoinm: I love sending SMS! http://www.tagjag.com/SMS
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 14:21:50 +0000 2009
nickmontes: I love sending SMS!
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 14:10:21 +0000 2009
AppleGeeek: I love sending SMS! http://go.tagjag.com/SMS
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 13:47:56 +0000 2009
ScottShockey78: I love sending SMS ! http://go.tagjag.com/SMS
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 13:18:18 +0000 2009
mattmill: I love sending SMS! http://go.tagjag.com/SMS
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 13:12:33 +0000 2009
virustricks: Oh yeah happy valetines
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 08:53:50 +0000 2009
RandDuren: I love sending SMS!
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 07:05:44 +0000 2009
kennyiscool: I love sending SMS. http://go.tagjag.com/SMS
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 06:32:18 +0000 2009
johnnylucas: i love sms http://go.tagjag.com/SMS
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 06:23:11 +0000 2009
Kringalingen: I love sending SMS! http://go.tagjag.com/SMS
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 06:19:44 +0000 2009
AndrewF99: I love sending SMS! http://go.tagjag.com/SMS
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 06:19:43 +0000 2009
Kringalingen: I love sending SMS! http://go.taggag.com/SMS
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 06:18:20 +0000 2009
claudius753: that's all well and good, but where the hell is MMS! Biggest iPhone flaw IYAM
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 06:17:15 +0000 2009
Christyxcore: I love sending SMS! http://go.tagjag.com/SMS
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 06:16:39 +0000 2009
CannonGod: While you're discussing SMS I wanted to mention a free Twitter SMS service for Europeans called: http://twe2.com
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 06:14:24 +0000 2009
Christyxcore: RT @chrispirillo: How to Send Free SMS Text Messages on the iPhone or iPod http://bit.ly/JA4xw
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 06:13:43 +0000 2009
sacredgeometry: are you constanly tweeting?
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 06:12:07 +0000 2009
davidjlock: twickie FTW
about a day ago
Sat Feb 14 06:10:06 +0000 2009

 
 

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]]> http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-send-free-sms-text-messages-on-the-iphone-or-ipod/feed/ 18 What Do You Think About Giveaways on Twitter? http://chris.pirillo.com/what-do-you-think-about-giveaways-on-twitter/ http://chris.pirillo.com/what-do-you-think-about-giveaways-on-twitter/#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:08:10 +0000 Chris http://chris.pirillo.com/?p=12441 What Do You Think About Giveaways on Twitter? is a post from Chris Pirillo

I’ve taken to initiating (and participating in) giveaways through Twitter. Some people, however, don’t want any of it. They’re either taking Twitter too seriously, or they’re annoyed with the way people are performing giveaways.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with having fun – so long as it’s not overdone with friends and followers. I usually only tweet a giveaway action once, and that seems to be sufficient. Winners don’t seem to mind, either.

It’s so much easier to facilitate this over Twitter compared to my blog in most cases. I’ll actually do my best to tie the two together (especially if I’ve done a review of the giveaway in question).

For example, I totally forgot to mention the giveaway in my video review of Days of Thunder, but I was able to use the corresponding blog post to let people know they had a chance to score a license. We had tons of responses on Twitter, since my readers follow me there. Unfortunately, many of ‘em forgot to put the link in their tweet (per my directions) – and others didn’t understand that they needed to replace the [Car] variable with an actual vehicle:

clydereese: my favorite car is a 69 Rally Sport Camero.
about 12 hours ago
Sun Feb 08 15:36:26 +0000 2009
tomeppy: My favorite car is a Prius
about 23 hours ago
Sun Feb 08 05:00:12 +0000 2009
mr: my favorite car is ramone ( pixar's cars ref)
about 23 hours ago
Sun Feb 08 04:15:06 +0000 2009
loumacuser: I agree. Days of Thunder on iPhone is fun.
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 04:01:15 +0000 2009
vegasdodger: My favorite car is a 1974 Ford Capri, bright orange. Bought one once for $400, best damn money ever spent.
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 03:12:42 +0000 2009
Kon21: My favourite car is a Lamborghini Gallardo
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 03:07:09 +0000 2009
JustinLizaso: my favorite car is the batmobile
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 03:05:50 +0000 2009
Ledzeppelin99: My favorite car is Oscar Meyer Weiner car.
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:50:06 +0000 2009
BbWindowsHelpbB: – My favorite car is a 1976 Chevy Camaro.
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:50:05 +0000 2009
kyleheine: My favorite car is one that runs and is paid for.
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:43:14 +0000 2009
GraphicsGeek: my favorite car isn't a car. It's a jeep wrangler. But I'd still like a license :-)
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:25:43 +0000 2009
taficke: my favorite car is the 2009 Audi S8
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:22:31 +0000 2009
MacManLtd: my favorite car is a BMW Z3,4,5,6,7,8…n (a little math notation, I like the Z series all future models etc)
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:20:19 +0000 2009
Garrett67: My favorite car is the Chevrolet Camaro!
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:19:30 +0000 2009
Hadramie: My favorite car is Mercedes Benz B200 http://is.gd/iMBA
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:15:19 +0000 2009
JMacalinao: My favorite car is the Koenigsegg CCX. I like its style (the supercar look, I guess)
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:13:30 +0000 2009
Cboardkid: – My favorite car is a Lamborghini Murcielago.
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:11:43 +0000 2009
morontown: My Favorite Car Is a Mustang
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:10:46 +0000 2009
MardeeT: my favorite car is a 1977 Pontiac Trans Am!
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:08:22 +0000 2009
mwviolet: My favorite car is my 2008 Smart ForTwo Cabrio.
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:06:33 +0000 2009
brnboy313: My favorite car is the ferrari F430 Spyder
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:04:53 +0000 2009
jasonmbader: – My favorite car is The Corvette.
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:03:58 +0000 2009
GeekofTodd: My favorite car is a Mustang
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:03:39 +0000 2009
maviolet: my favorite car is smart
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:03:17 +0000 2009
benjamingeiger: – My favorite car is the BMW Isetta.
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:02:51 +0000 2009
66sweep: RT @chrispirillo: – My favorite car is a 1976 Chevy Vega.
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:01:43 +0000 2009
robpickering: My favorite car is Bugatti Veyron, can't beat 254 MPH!
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:01:35 +0000 2009
GrooveMachine: My favorite car is the Bugatti Veyron.
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:01:27 +0000 2009
iGerard: – My favorite car is [Car].
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:01:20 +0000 2009
Guitarking: – My favorite car is Audi R8.
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:01:18 +0000 2009
bedaman10: – My favorite car is [Car].
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:01:11 +0000 2009
macboy17: what are you talk about
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:00:58 +0000 2009
MikeMo94: heres somethin 2 think about…if u werent a person who constantly had their iphone on camera…would u jaiblreak?no1 would no
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:00:50 +0000 2009
adrius42: My favorite car is my Prius
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:00:47 +0000 2009
Atomicow: – - My favorite car is Mini Cooper
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 01:59:52 +0000 2009

Are Twitter giveaways worth doing?

]]> What Do You Think About Giveaways on Twitter? is a post from Chris Pirillo

I’ve taken to initiating (and participating in) giveaways through Twitter. Some people, however, don’t want any of it. They’re either taking Twitter too seriously, or they’re annoyed with the way people are performing giveaways.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with having fun – so long as it’s not overdone with friends and followers. I usually only tweet a giveaway action once, and that seems to be sufficient. Winners don’t seem to mind, either.

It’s so much easier to facilitate this over Twitter compared to my blog in most cases. I’ll actually do my best to tie the two together (especially if I’ve done a review of the giveaway in question).

For example, I totally forgot to mention the giveaway in my video review of Days of Thunder, but I was able to use the corresponding blog post to let people know they had a chance to score a license. We had tons of responses on Twitter, since my readers follow me there. Unfortunately, many of ‘em forgot to put the link in their tweet (per my directions) – and others didn’t understand that they needed to replace the [Car] variable with an actual vehicle:

clydereese: my favorite car is a 69 Rally Sport Camero.
about 12 hours ago
Sun Feb 08 15:36:26 +0000 2009
tomeppy: My favorite car is a Prius
about 23 hours ago
Sun Feb 08 05:00:12 +0000 2009
mr: my favorite car is ramone ( pixar's cars ref)
about 23 hours ago
Sun Feb 08 04:15:06 +0000 2009
loumacuser: I agree. Days of Thunder on iPhone is fun.
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 04:01:15 +0000 2009
vegasdodger: My favorite car is a 1974 Ford Capri, bright orange. Bought one once for $400, best damn money ever spent.
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 03:12:42 +0000 2009
Kon21: My favourite car is a Lamborghini Gallardo
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 03:07:09 +0000 2009
JustinLizaso: my favorite car is the batmobile
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 03:05:50 +0000 2009
Ledzeppelin99: My favorite car is Oscar Meyer Weiner car.
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:50:06 +0000 2009
BbWindowsHelpbB: – My favorite car is a 1976 Chevy Camaro.
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:50:05 +0000 2009
kyleheine: My favorite car is one that runs and is paid for.
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:43:14 +0000 2009
GraphicsGeek: my favorite car isn't a car. It's a jeep wrangler. But I'd still like a license :-)
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:25:43 +0000 2009
taficke: my favorite car is the 2009 Audi S8
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:22:31 +0000 2009
MacManLtd: my favorite car is a BMW Z3,4,5,6,7,8…n (a little math notation, I like the Z series all future models etc)
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:20:19 +0000 2009
Garrett67: My favorite car is the Chevrolet Camaro!
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:19:30 +0000 2009
Hadramie: My favorite car is Mercedes Benz B200 http://is.gd/iMBA
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:15:19 +0000 2009
JMacalinao: My favorite car is the Koenigsegg CCX. I like its style (the supercar look, I guess)
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:13:30 +0000 2009
Cboardkid: – My favorite car is a Lamborghini Murcielago.
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:11:43 +0000 2009
morontown: My Favorite Car Is a Mustang
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:10:46 +0000 2009
MardeeT: my favorite car is a 1977 Pontiac Trans Am!
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:08:22 +0000 2009
mwviolet: My favorite car is my 2008 Smart ForTwo Cabrio.
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:06:33 +0000 2009
brnboy313: My favorite car is the ferrari F430 Spyder
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:04:53 +0000 2009
jasonmbader: – My favorite car is The Corvette.
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:03:58 +0000 2009
GeekofTodd: My favorite car is a Mustang
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:03:39 +0000 2009
maviolet: my favorite car is smart
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:03:17 +0000 2009
benjamingeiger: – My favorite car is the BMW Isetta.
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:02:51 +0000 2009
66sweep: RT @chrispirillo: – My favorite car is a 1976 Chevy Vega.
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:01:43 +0000 2009
robpickering: My favorite car is Bugatti Veyron, can't beat 254 MPH!
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:01:35 +0000 2009
GrooveMachine: My favorite car is the Bugatti Veyron.
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:01:27 +0000 2009
iGerard: – My favorite car is [Car].
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:01:20 +0000 2009
Guitarking: – My favorite car is Audi R8.
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:01:18 +0000 2009
bedaman10: – My favorite car is [Car].
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:01:11 +0000 2009
macboy17: what are you talk about
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:00:58 +0000 2009
MikeMo94: heres somethin 2 think about…if u werent a person who constantly had their iphone on camera…would u jaiblreak?no1 would no
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:00:50 +0000 2009
adrius42: My favorite car is my Prius
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 02:00:47 +0000 2009
Atomicow: – - My favorite car is Mini Cooper
about a day ago
Sun Feb 08 01:59:52 +0000 2009

Are Twitter giveaways worth doing?

]]> http://chris.pirillo.com/what-do-you-think-about-giveaways-on-twitter/feed/ 9 How to Get Free Flowers Online http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-get-free-flowers-online/ http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-get-free-flowers-online/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:16:27 +0000 Chris http://chris.pirillo.com/?p=12349 How to Get Free Flowers Online is a post from Chris Pirillo


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If you’re going to buy flowers for someone, you might as well save money in the process! Check out what I may have for you at our coupon store before you buy! ProFlowers has decided to give away five $70.00 coupons to some of you to buy flowers for your sweetie!

So, how can you qualify to win one of these gift certificates from us? Go over to Twitter, and tweet the following:

@chrispirillo my sweetheart likes [insert favorite flower]. I’d like the $70 gift certificate, please. http://coupons.lockergnome.com/

You have 140 characters to do this in. You don’t have to word it exactly the way I did. However, you have to put the type of flowers, say you want to win, and add in the coupon link. Oh! Don’t forget to do @chrispirillo at the beginning of the Tweet, or I’ll not see it. If I don’t see it, you can’t win!

You can also enter at any of the following sites: Tecronical, Ploomy, Art of Manliness, MommyDaddy Blog, Gear Live, DadTalk, Family Blog, Joeprah, Building Camelot, DadoMatic, Patrick Says, Poop and Boogies, At Home Dad, Rude Cactus, Noo Dad, A Good Husband, Dad Centric, Dis for Dad, Daddy Forever, You Served, Email Your Military, Dad Blogs.

You have the instructions, so go forth and tweet! May the five sweetest people win!

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If you’re going to buy flowers for someone, you might as well save money in the process! Check out what I may have for you at our coupon store before you buy! ProFlowers has decided to give away five $70.00 coupons to some of you to buy flowers for your sweetie!

So, how can you qualify to win one of these gift certificates from us? Go over to Twitter, and tweet the following:

@chrispirillo my sweetheart likes [insert favorite flower]. I’d like the $70 gift certificate, please. http://coupons.lockergnome.com/

You have 140 characters to do this in. You don’t have to word it exactly the way I did. However, you have to put the type of flowers, say you want to win, and add in the coupon link. Oh! Don’t forget to do @chrispirillo at the beginning of the Tweet, or I’ll not see it. If I don’t see it, you can’t win!

You can also enter at any of the following sites: Tecronical, Ploomy, Art of Manliness, MommyDaddy Blog, Gear Live, DadTalk, Family Blog, Joeprah, Building Camelot, DadoMatic, Patrick Says, Poop and Boogies, At Home Dad, Rude Cactus, Noo Dad, A Good Husband, Dad Centric, Dis for Dad, Daddy Forever, You Served, Email Your Military, Dad Blogs.

You have the instructions, so go forth and tweet! May the five sweetest people win!

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]]> http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-get-free-flowers-online/feed/ 6 Wanna Win a Wii? http://chris.pirillo.com/wanna-win-a-wii/ http://chris.pirillo.com/wanna-win-a-wii/#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:36:28 +0000 Chris http://chris.pirillo.com/?p=12210 Wanna Win a Wii? is a post from Chris Pirillo


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Do you want a Wii? How would you like to win a Wii? You may be the winner if I am the winner of the Wii! The contest is open until Feb 6th, and all you have to do is click the mouse a couple of times! Head over to Geeks and get registered for a free account. Once you’re hooked up, click on the main page where you see Our Current Contest – Win a Wii!, which takes you to the rules page.

All you have to do is click the giant boxing glove for a sneak preview of the new “Ready 2 Rumble Revolution” game. After you’ve clicked, leave a comment in that thread, telling me why you want to win a Wii. Or, you can also leave a comment in the corresponding blog post that I wrote up for this contest.

That’s honestly all you have to do. If I am the grand prize winner in this contest – I will win a Wii. And if I win a Wii – one of YOU will get the Wii! I can’t make it any easier to help one of you win!

I launched this contest the morning I made this video, and there were already over 200 comments that people have left, trying to win. Make sure to get your comment in there so that you have a shot as well.

Someone is going to win a Wii… it might as well be you! I already have a Wii, so it will be a wee bit of fun to give this one away if we win!

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Do you want a Wii? How would you like to win a Wii? You may be the winner if I am the winner of the Wii! The contest is open until Feb 6th, and all you have to do is click the mouse a couple of times! Head over to Geeks and get registered for a free account. Once you’re hooked up, click on the main page where you see Our Current Contest – Win a Wii!, which takes you to the rules page.

All you have to do is click the giant boxing glove for a sneak preview of the new “Ready 2 Rumble Revolution” game. After you’ve clicked, leave a comment in that thread, telling me why you want to win a Wii. Or, you can also leave a comment in the corresponding blog post that I wrote up for this contest.

That’s honestly all you have to do. If I am the grand prize winner in this contest – I will win a Wii. And if I win a Wii – one of YOU will get the Wii! I can’t make it any easier to help one of you win!

I launched this contest the morning I made this video, and there were already over 200 comments that people have left, trying to win. Make sure to get your comment in there so that you have a shot as well.

Someone is going to win a Wii… it might as well be you! I already have a Wii, so it will be a wee bit of fun to give this one away if we win!

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]]> http://chris.pirillo.com/wanna-win-a-wii/feed/ 1 The Gift of LEGO, Star Wars and Games http://chris.pirillo.com/the-gift-of-lego-star-wars-and-games/ http://chris.pirillo.com/the-gift-of-lego-star-wars-and-games/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:24:32 +0000 Chris http://chris.pirillo.com/?p=11254 The Gift of LEGO, Star Wars and Games is a post from Chris Pirillo

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A few weeks ago, I was given the opportunity to go on a shopping spree at Sears, using $500.00. I could do anything I wanted to, and decided to buy toys for kids who otherwise wouldn’t have any this Christmas. Now I have the chance to give one of you some toys, as well.

Many of the toys I found at Sears made me remember my own childhood. I know the kids who will receive the toys Ponzi and I bought would otherwise not have gotten them. I can think of no better way to spread joy than to give things away. Ponzi and I were like kids in a candy store, running through the aisles and checking everything out. We were literally giddy! When we dropped them off at the donation site, the people there were just as excited as we were.

Now IZEA is going to allow me to give you a gift bundle worth $500.00! There are three different bundles you can choose from if you win. You can choose:

  • LEGO Wonderland – A variety of LEGO toys and books.
  • Star Wars Smiles – Filled with Star Wars toys and games!
  • Family Game Night – Several different family board games.

You can enter up to three times! Here’s how:

  • Leave a comment stating which bundle you want, and why, in Receiving the Gift of Giving. Understand, it’s only on that post where your comments will count. Commenting here isn’t gonna do you much good, unless you really want to leave a comment here for another reason.
  • Post to your twitter account if you have one, making sure you include – #Sears @chrispirillo http://bit.ly/giftwish – and whichever bundle you desire in your tweet.
  • Make an entry in your own blog if you have one, making sure you link back to this particular post URL and mentioning which bundle you want (and why). I register most trackbacks after I’ve received at least one click from your permalink to mine.

So there you have it… another giveaway! Good luck to everyone!

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]]> The Gift of LEGO, Star Wars and Games is a post from Chris Pirillo

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A few weeks ago, I was given the opportunity to go on a shopping spree at Sears, using $500.00. I could do anything I wanted to, and decided to buy toys for kids who otherwise wouldn’t have any this Christmas. Now I have the chance to give one of you some toys, as well.

Many of the toys I found at Sears made me remember my own childhood. I know the kids who will receive the toys Ponzi and I bought would otherwise not have gotten them. I can think of no better way to spread joy than to give things away. Ponzi and I were like kids in a candy store, running through the aisles and checking everything out. We were literally giddy! When we dropped them off at the donation site, the people there were just as excited as we were.

Now IZEA is going to allow me to give you a gift bundle worth $500.00! There are three different bundles you can choose from if you win. You can choose:

  • LEGO Wonderland – A variety of LEGO toys and books.
  • Star Wars Smiles – Filled with Star Wars toys and games!
  • Family Game Night – Several different family board games.

You can enter up to three times! Here’s how:

  • Leave a comment stating which bundle you want, and why, in Receiving the Gift of Giving. Understand, it’s only on that post where your comments will count. Commenting here isn’t gonna do you much good, unless you really want to leave a comment here for another reason.
  • Post to your twitter account if you have one, making sure you include – #Sears @chrispirillo http://bit.ly/giftwish – and whichever bundle you desire in your tweet.
  • Make an entry in your own blog if you have one, making sure you link back to this particular post URL and mentioning which bundle you want (and why). I register most trackbacks after I’ve received at least one click from your permalink to mine.

So there you have it… another giveaway! Good luck to everyone!

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]]> http://chris.pirillo.com/the-gift-of-lego-star-wars-and-games/feed/ 12 What Can a Bowler do With a Webcam? http://chris.pirillo.com/what-can-a-bowler-do-with-a-webcam/ http://chris.pirillo.com/what-can-a-bowler-do-with-a-webcam/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:45:27 +0000 Chris http://chris.pirillo.com/?p=10165 What Can a Bowler do With a Webcam? is a post from Chris Pirillo

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As we do every week, we gave away a web cam on Friday night. Thanks to Ustream.tv for providing the web cams!

The requirements to be eligible for our weekly giveaways are simple. Here is what you need to do:

  • You must be present in the chat room at the time of the giveaway. We don’t announce it much ahead of time, so you pretty much need to be a regular visitor!
  • You need to be subscribed to my YouTube channel.
  • You had to have left a recent comment on any post in my blog.
  • You must be a member of our Geeks Community.

That’s it! That’s the sum total of the requirements to be eligible. When a giveaway starts, all chatters in the channel lose chat ability. This is to help us be able to see only the winner talking, so we don’t miss out on their pertinent links. Then, our new automatic bot picker will choose a random name. That person has to give us their YouTube link, as well as the name they used to comment on the blog. We then verify the information… and have a winner!

Congratulations to this week’s winner… Bowler4Ever!

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]]> What Can a Bowler do With a Webcam? is a post from Chris Pirillo

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As we do every week, we gave away a web cam on Friday night. Thanks to Ustream.tv for providing the web cams!

The requirements to be eligible for our weekly giveaways are simple. Here is what you need to do:

  • You must be present in the chat room at the time of the giveaway. We don’t announce it much ahead of time, so you pretty much need to be a regular visitor!
  • You need to be subscribed to my YouTube channel.
  • You had to have left a recent comment on any post in my blog.
  • You must be a member of our Geeks Community.

That’s it! That’s the sum total of the requirements to be eligible. When a giveaway starts, all chatters in the channel lose chat ability. This is to help us be able to see only the winner talking, so we don’t miss out on their pertinent links. Then, our new automatic bot picker will choose a random name. That person has to give us their YouTube link, as well as the name they used to comment on the blog. We then verify the information… and have a winner!

Congratulations to this week’s winner… Bowler4Ever!

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]]> http://chris.pirillo.com/what-can-a-bowler-do-with-a-webcam/feed/ 4 When is Shareware Free? http://chris.pirillo.com/when-is-shareware-free/ http://chris.pirillo.com/when-is-shareware-free/#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:27:05 +0000 Chris http://chris.pirillo.com/?p=8003 When is Shareware Free? is a post from Chris Pirillo


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If you hear music playing in the background of this video, it’s a video game. We were getting ready for Gnomedex when this was recorded, and Maryam Scoble was here playing the game. She really wants one of these game arcades, but Robert is a meanie and won’t get her one! So anyway, I’m planning to give away some software tonight. The Mac Bundle Box was given away, courtesy of my friend Christian.

The Mac Bundle Box is 15 total Mac applications bundled together, for a cost of only $49.95. That is an amazing savings over buying each of them separately. Christian, Kat and I decided to run this contest a bit differently. All you had to do was reply to that blog post with a comment, telling us what your three favorite Mac Apps are, and why you love them. Of course, you also had to be present in chat to win.

FearedBliss was the person chosen randomly from the people who commented in the blog. He’s a regular chat member, which we always love to see happen! Congratulations, FearedBliss, and thanks for hanging out with us all the time!

We’re planning to do a software giveaway every week, so stay tuned! We’ll be giving away both Mac and Windows software in upcoming weeks, so you definitely don’t want to miss it.

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If you hear music playing in the background of this video, it’s a video game. We were getting ready for Gnomedex when this was recorded, and Maryam Scoble was here playing the game. She really wants one of these game arcades, but Robert is a meanie and won’t get her one! So anyway, I’m planning to give away some software tonight. The Mac Bundle Box was given away, courtesy of my friend Christian.

The Mac Bundle Box is 15 total Mac applications bundled together, for a cost of only $49.95. That is an amazing savings over buying each of them separately. Christian, Kat and I decided to run this contest a bit differently. All you had to do was reply to that blog post with a comment, telling us what your three favorite Mac Apps are, and why you love them. Of course, you also had to be present in chat to win.

FearedBliss was the person chosen randomly from the people who commented in the blog. He’s a regular chat member, which we always love to see happen! Congratulations, FearedBliss, and thanks for hanging out with us all the time!

We’re planning to do a software giveaway every week, so stay tuned! We’ll be giving away both Mac and Windows software in upcoming weeks, so you definitely don’t want to miss it.

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]]> http://chris.pirillo.com/when-is-shareware-free/feed/ 3 Would You Like to Win Mac Software? http://chris.pirillo.com/would-you-like-to-win-mac-software/ http://chris.pirillo.com/would-you-like-to-win-mac-software/#comments Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:15:06 +0000 Chris http://chris.pirillo.com/?p=7909 Would You Like to Win Mac Software? is a post from Chris Pirillo

Not long ago, I did a write-up about the Mac Bundle Box. With the Bundle, you get 15 apps for the Mac for only $49.95! It’s one heck of a deal.

Now, thanks to our friend Christian, we are giving one of these away here… live… Wednesday evening, August 20th. Yep, you heard me right. We’re giving this away! Kat will be here for Gnomedex, and she will be helping me with this one.

So what do you have to do to win!? It’s quite simple.

  • Own (or use) a Mac, of course. These programs aren’t designed for Windows. Don’t worry, we’ll be doing plenty more giveaways very soon that Windows people can enter!
  • Leave a comment on this post here in my blog. In the comment, you must list for us your favorite three applications for a Mac, and tell us why you love them. You don’t need to write a book, try to keep it to a sentence or two for each, please.
  • Be present in the chat room at the time of the giveaway.

That’s all there is to it! Get those comments in!

]]> Would You Like to Win Mac Software? is a post from Chris Pirillo

Not long ago, I did a write-up about the Mac Bundle Box. With the Bundle, you get 15 apps for the Mac for only $49.95! It’s one heck of a deal.

Now, thanks to our friend Christian, we are giving one of these away here… live… Wednesday evening, August 20th. Yep, you heard me right. We’re giving this away! Kat will be here for Gnomedex, and she will be helping me with this one.

So what do you have to do to win!? It’s quite simple.

  • Own (or use) a Mac, of course. These programs aren’t designed for Windows. Don’t worry, we’ll be doing plenty more giveaways very soon that Windows people can enter!
  • Leave a comment on this post here in my blog. In the comment, you must list for us your favorite three applications for a Mac, and tell us why you love them. You don’t need to write a book, try to keep it to a sentence or two for each, please.
  • Be present in the chat room at the time of the giveaway.

That’s all there is to it! Get those comments in!

]]> http://chris.pirillo.com/would-you-like-to-win-mac-software/feed/ 90 iPod Touch Contest Submissions http://chris.pirillo.com/ipod-touch-contest-submissions/ http://chris.pirillo.com/ipod-touch-contest-submissions/#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:22:43 +0000 Chris http://chris.pirillo.com/?p=7677 iPod Touch Contest Submissions is a post from Chris Pirillo

As we discussed earlier this week, I am giving away an iPod Touch to one of the Moderators from our live chat room. Below, you will find their submissions. The idea is, each Mod who wanted to enter the contest had to write up a short story, detailing a funny or embarrassing moment they have experienced in their lives on a computer. I am going to close comments on this post, so none will be allowed. Once these are posted, I will create a poll for you to vote for your favorite. No one’s name is attached to these, to make it much more fair. Please vote based on hilarity, creativity and just plain fun-ness.

Entry #1

I was working for a contractor at a big software company in Redmond installing their CardKey system. Since I was a n00b at this, it didn’t occur to me to question the orders from above, so I did whatever I was asked. One Friday, my partner asked me to run an “expired cards” report. So I did. I quickly glanced at the print out and nothing seemed out of the ordinary. We were working the next day, Saturday, so I’m at the terminal doing some programming when the Facilities Manager comes in. He was not a happy camper.

Apparently the “expired cards” report also voids the expired CardKeys at the same time. And sure enough, one of them belonged to none other than Bill Gates. He was locked out of everything, the front door, his office, everything. He had to have Security let him in. Why he was carrying such a card was beyond me, the print out didn’t indicate anything, other than there was no name associated with the card number. So there you have it, Bill Gates, pwned by yours truly.

Entry #2

The year was 1990. The World Wide Web didn’t even exist yet. I was in High School, and my school was on the cutting edge. They just installed Tandy computers in every classroom, and every student was going to be given an email address that they were to check daily for emails from their teachers and classmates. Since I helped out in the computer lab and happened to be in there just as the setup was finished, I was given credentials, encouraged to login and send emails to my friends who would be receiving their credentials later that day. In my excitement I quickly typed out the subject, “FIRST EMAIL!!!!!” and wrote a short paragraph boasting how I was sending the first email in the school. The next paragraph is where things started to go wrong.
I wrote about a teacher that had just walked in to the lab, and how she was yet again wearing too much makeup and a “very baggy dress only a nun would approve of.” I was explicit and offensive about how HOT she would be if she’d stop “caking on foundation like a circus clown” and “put on a tight sweater for once.” Just as I finished writing this, the Computer Admin told her that I was sending the first email. She approached me with excitement, “Oh I want to watch!” I quickly rushed to hit the send button before she could get in sight of the monitor. Whew, she didn’t see it and I didn’t get caught… or so I thought. But not even a second passed, and the Admin said, “Hey, did you hit Send All?” Yep, I hit the dreaded Send All button by mistake and the email went to EVERY email address in the school: ALL the students, ALL the teachers, and ALL of the facility! The Computer Admin opened the email and I stood there in horror as his face sank more and more with every word he read. I spent the rest of the day in the Headmaster’s Office, and I never heard the end of it from all my friends. Worse of all, that teacher never smiled at me again!

Entry #3

I was working on a computer and the owner called to ask if it was ready yet. I had been procrastinating on getting it done, so I told him that it wasn’t quite finished. We made arrangements for him to pick it up the next day.
It turns out, this machine needed a new hard drive, as the old one was dying. I grabbed a new drive and connected it to another machine with the original old one. I was going to Ghost the old to the new, which is something I’ve done hundreds of times. This would have kept all of the owner’s data intact for him.
Being in a hurry, I didn’t stop to backup the old drive. I proceeded with the Ghosting. Unfortunately, I figured out too late that I had hooked the drives up backwards. I Ghosted the new one onto the old one… wiping out all of the owner’s data. I was left with two blank drives, and the task of figuring out how to tell the owner his data had been lost.

Entry #4

It happened my during my last year in high school, on a day when the whole high school had no internet. This really made me mad, because my friend and I always used the ‘net during class. Instead, we decided that we should create a video of us doing funny stuff to pass the time. I decided to do a little dance and act silly at the beginning of it. When I tried to do one particular dance move, I tripped over my feet and the leg of a chair. I fell head first to the ground. Of course, the entire thing was recorded for posterity. Everyone in the room was laughing their heads off, including my friend. I was red with embarassment… and laughter.
I had hoped everyone would forget the incident. Instead, it was used as bleeper footage during my high school Senior video. Everyone saw me dance and fall, and everyone was laughing.

Entry #5

It was a hot 90 degree day. I had just taken a shower, and slipped into a pair of shorts. I had recently set up my first Ustream account, and decided I would stream for a bit. I get the stream up, and then started to watch the chat room. All of a sudden, my wife began laughing hysterically in the other room, as she was watching my stream.
She yelled out “For the love of god, go put a shirt on! You look like you’re sitting there naked!”. She continued to crack up as I looked at my video feed. Sure enough, I wasn’t sitting at the computer in shorts. I appeared to be a middle-aged man sitting at my computer naked. There were like five viewers at that point. I scrambled to turn off the camera and shut off the stream.
Instead of simply and calmly saying “wow, this looks bad, let me go get a shirt on” then standing up so they could see I was actually wearing shorts… I ended up looking like some pervy guy who accidentally caught himself on his webcam sitting there naked.

Entry #6

I was in a position of needing to print out speeches. There were six people, at three speeches per person… to be printed on 8×10 card stock. I wasn’t sure if there wsa enough card stock to print them, so a friend went out to buy more. All the school kids had raided the store, and there was none left to buy! Luckily, we had exactly enough, even though we were panicking as the last pages came off the printer.
Fast forward to the day of the speeches. We’re all on stage, reading them. In our hurry to make changes and get them printed, we had named the files “New version” or “newnewversion”, things like that. By the time we had gotten around to printing them, we weren’t exactly sure what we were printing. It turns out that instead of three different speeches, we had printed one speech THREE times. Needless to say, we were mighty embarassed when we were asked why we all had the same exact work.

Entry #7 has been Disqualified

Entry #8

Anyone who has ever had to install Windows 95 from floppies will appreciate this. You must, of course, install them in order from 1 – 5. One day when I was attempting to install Win 95 from floppies for a friend of mine, I could not figure out why the entire install was refusing to work. I checked everything I could think of, and nothing came to mind. I was about to the point of telling my friend he needed a new computer when it finally struck me what was wrong.
I was attempting to install the floppies in backwards order, beginning with #5 instead of #1.

Entry #9
Entry#9
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]]> iPod Touch Contest Submissions is a post from Chris Pirillo

As we discussed earlier this week, I am giving away an iPod Touch to one of the Moderators from our live chat room. Below, you will find their submissions. The idea is, each Mod who wanted to enter the contest had to write up a short story, detailing a funny or embarrassing moment they have experienced in their lives on a computer. I am going to close comments on this post, so none will be allowed. Once these are posted, I will create a poll for you to vote for your favorite. No one’s name is attached to these, to make it much more fair. Please vote based on hilarity, creativity and just plain fun-ness.

Entry #1

I was working for a contractor at a big software company in Redmond installing their CardKey system. Since I was a n00b at this, it didn’t occur to me to question the orders from above, so I did whatever I was asked. One Friday, my partner asked me to run an “expired cards” report. So I did. I quickly glanced at the print out and nothing seemed out of the ordinary. We were working the next day, Saturday, so I’m at the terminal doing some programming when the Facilities Manager comes in. He was not a happy camper.

Apparently the “expired cards” report also voids the expired CardKeys at the same time. And sure enough, one of them belonged to none other than Bill Gates. He was locked out of everything, the front door, his office, everything. He had to have Security let him in. Why he was carrying such a card was beyond me, the print out didn’t indicate anything, other than there was no name associated with the card number. So there you have it, Bill Gates, pwned by yours truly.

Entry #2

The year was 1990. The World Wide Web didn’t even exist yet. I was in High School, and my school was on the cutting edge. They just installed Tandy computers in every classroom, and every student was going to be given an email address that they were to check daily for emails from their teachers and classmates. Since I helped out in the computer lab and happened to be in there just as the setup was finished, I was given credentials, encouraged to login and send emails to my friends who would be receiving their credentials later that day. In my excitement I quickly typed out the subject, “FIRST EMAIL!!!!!” and wrote a short paragraph boasting how I was sending the first email in the school. The next paragraph is where things started to go wrong.
I wrote about a teacher that had just walked in to the lab, and how she was yet again wearing too much makeup and a “very baggy dress only a nun would approve of.” I was explicit and offensive about how HOT she would be if she’d stop “caking on foundation like a circus clown” and “put on a tight sweater for once.” Just as I finished writing this, the Computer Admin told her that I was sending the first email. She approached me with excitement, “Oh I want to watch!” I quickly rushed to hit the send button before she could get in sight of the monitor. Whew, she didn’t see it and I didn’t get caught… or so I thought. But not even a second passed, and the Admin said, “Hey, did you hit Send All?” Yep, I hit the dreaded Send All button by mistake and the email went to EVERY email address in the school: ALL the students, ALL the teachers, and ALL of the facility! The Computer Admin opened the email and I stood there in horror as his face sank more and more with every word he read. I spent the rest of the day in the Headmaster’s Office, and I never heard the end of it from all my friends. Worse of all, that teacher never smiled at me again!

Entry #3

I was working on a computer and the owner called to ask if it was ready yet. I had been procrastinating on getting it done, so I told him that it wasn’t quite finished. We made arrangements for him to pick it up the next day.
It turns out, this machine needed a new hard drive, as the old one was dying. I grabbed a new drive and connected it to another machine with the original old one. I was going to Ghost the old to the new, which is something I’ve done hundreds of times. This would have kept all of the owner’s data intact for him.
Being in a hurry, I didn’t stop to backup the old drive. I proceeded with the Ghosting. Unfortunately, I figured out too late that I had hooked the drives up backwards. I Ghosted the new one onto the old one… wiping out all of the owner’s data. I was left with two blank drives, and the task of figuring out how to tell the owner his data had been lost.

Entry #4

It happened my during my last year in high school, on a day when the whole high school had no internet. This really made me mad, because my friend and I always used the ‘net during class. Instead, we decided that we should create a video of us doing funny stuff to pass the time. I decided to do a little dance and act silly at the beginning of it. When I tried to do one particular dance move, I tripped over my feet and the leg of a chair. I fell head first to the ground. Of course, the entire thing was recorded for posterity. Everyone in the room was laughing their heads off, including my friend. I was red with embarassment… and laughter.
I had hoped everyone would forget the incident. Instead, it was used as bleeper footage during my high school Senior video. Everyone saw me dance and fall, and everyone was laughing.

Entry #5

It was a hot 90 degree day. I had just taken a shower, and slipped into a pair of shorts. I had recently set up my first Ustream account, and decided I would stream for a bit. I get the stream up, and then started to watch the chat room. All of a sudden, my wife began laughing hysterically in the other room, as she was watching my stream.
She yelled out “For the love of god, go put a shirt on! You look like you’re sitting there naked!”. She continued to crack up as I looked at my video feed. Sure enough, I wasn’t sitting at the computer in shorts. I appeared to be a middle-aged man sitting at my computer naked. There were like five viewers at that point. I scrambled to turn off the camera and shut off the stream.
Instead of simply and calmly saying “wow, this looks bad, let me go get a shirt on” then standing up so they could see I was actually wearing shorts… I ended up looking like some pervy guy who accidentally caught himself on his webcam sitting there naked.

Entry #6

I was in a position of needing to print out speeches. There were six people, at three speeches per person… to be printed on 8×10 card stock. I wasn’t sure if there wsa enough card stock to print them, so a friend went out to buy more. All the school kids had raided the store, and there was none left to buy! Luckily, we had exactly enough, even though we were panicking as the last pages came off the printer.
Fast forward to the day of the speeches. We’re all on stage, reading them. In our hurry to make changes and get them printed, we had named the files “New version” or “newnewversion”, things like that. By the time we had gotten around to printing them, we weren’t exactly sure what we were printing. It turns out that instead of three different speeches, we had printed one speech THREE times. Needless to say, we were mighty embarassed when we were asked why we all had the same exact work.

Entry #7 has been Disqualified

Entry #8

Anyone who has ever had to install Windows 95 from floppies will appreciate this. You must, of course, install them in order from 1 – 5. One day when I was attempting to install Win 95 from floppies for a friend of mine, I could not figure out why the entire install was refusing to work. I checked everything I could think of, and nothing came to mind. I was about to the point of telling my friend he needed a new computer when it finally struck me what was wrong.
I was attempting to install the floppies in backwards order, beginning with #5 instead of #1.

Entry #9
Entry#9
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]]> http://chris.pirillo.com/ipod-touch-contest-submissions/feed/ 1 World’s Slimmest Webcam http://chris.pirillo.com/worlds-slimmest-webcam/ http://chris.pirillo.com/worlds-slimmest-webcam/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:52:03 +0000 Chris http://chris.pirillo.com/?p=7602 World’s Slimmest Webcam is a post from Chris Pirillo


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Just as we do every Friday night, we gave away a webcam last week, courtesy of Ustream.tv. You must meet all three requirements in order to win! I was starting to wonder if maybe we wouldn’t give one away this week after all.

The requirements to be eligible for our weekly giveaways are simple. Here is what you need to do:

  • You must be present in the chat room at the time of the giveaway. We don’t announce it much ahead of time, so you pretty much need to be a regular visitor!
  • You need to be subscribed to my YouTube channel.
  • You had to have left a recent comment on any post in my blog.

That’s it! That’s the sum total of the requirements to be eligible. When a giveaway starts, all chatters in the channel lose chat ability. This is to help us be able to see only the winner talking, so we don’t miss out on their pertinent links. Then, our new automatic bot picker will choose a random name. That person has to give us their YouTube link, as well as the name they used to comment on the blog. We then verify the information… and have a winner!

Congratulations to this week’s winner… TheSlimJim!!

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]]> World’s Slimmest Webcam is a post from Chris Pirillo


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Just as we do every Friday night, we gave away a webcam last week, courtesy of Ustream.tv. You must meet all three requirements in order to win! I was starting to wonder if maybe we wouldn’t give one away this week after all.

The requirements to be eligible for our weekly giveaways are simple. Here is what you need to do:

  • You must be present in the chat room at the time of the giveaway. We don’t announce it much ahead of time, so you pretty much need to be a regular visitor!
  • You need to be subscribed to my YouTube channel.
  • You had to have left a recent comment on any post in my blog.

That’s it! That’s the sum total of the requirements to be eligible. When a giveaway starts, all chatters in the channel lose chat ability. This is to help us be able to see only the winner talking, so we don’t miss out on their pertinent links. Then, our new automatic bot picker will choose a random name. That person has to give us their YouTube link, as well as the name they used to comment on the blog. We then verify the information… and have a winner!

Congratulations to this week’s winner… TheSlimJim!!

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]]> http://chris.pirillo.com/worlds-slimmest-webcam/feed/ 12 Webcam Problems http://chris.pirillo.com/webcam-problems/ http://chris.pirillo.com/webcam-problems/#comments Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:33:43 +0000 Chris http://chris.pirillo.com/?p=7290 Webcam Problems is a post from Chris Pirillo

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Every week, we give away a webcam courtesy of Ustream.tv. This week was no exception! Congratulations to our winner, iNorganic.

The requirements to be eligible for our weekly giveaways are simple. Here is what you need to do:

  • You must be present in the chat room at the time of the giveaway. We don’t announce it much ahead of time, so you pretty much need to be a regular visitor!
  • You need to be subscribed to my YouTube channel.
  • You had to have left a recent comment on any post in my blog.

That’s it! That’s the sum total of the requirements to be eligible. When a giveaway starts, all chatters in the channel lose chat ability. This is to help us be able to see only the winner talking, so we don’t miss out on their pertinent links. Then, our new automatic bot picker will choose a random name. That person has to give us their YouTube link, as well as the name they used to comment on the blog. We then verify the information… and have a winner!

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]]> Webcam Problems is a post from Chris Pirillo

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Every week, we give away a webcam courtesy of Ustream.tv. This week was no exception! Congratulations to our winner, iNorganic.

The requirements to be eligible for our weekly giveaways are simple. Here is what you need to do:

  • You must be present in the chat room at the time of the giveaway. We don’t announce it much ahead of time, so you pretty much need to be a regular visitor!
  • You need to be subscribed to my YouTube channel.
  • You had to have left a recent comment on any post in my blog.

That’s it! That’s the sum total of the requirements to be eligible. When a giveaway starts, all chatters in the channel lose chat ability. This is to help us be able to see only the winner talking, so we don’t miss out on their pertinent links. Then, our new automatic bot picker will choose a random name. That person has to give us their YouTube link, as well as the name they used to comment on the blog. We then verify the information… and have a winner!

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]]> http://chris.pirillo.com/webcam-problems/feed/ 4 It’s a Free Computer! http://chris.pirillo.com/its-a-free-computer/ http://chris.pirillo.com/its-a-free-computer/#comments Sat, 31 May 2008 02:26:04 +0000 Chris http://chris.pirillo.com/?p=7246 It’s a Free Computer! is a post from Chris Pirillo

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Thanks to HP and BuzzCorps, Ponzi and I gave away a $5000 Dragon notebook last night! We had a lot of fun, and I’m sure our winner Ralajer is one happy camper in sunny California!


Unfortunately, the video of the drawing itself didn’t turn out so well. I was called away to go home to Iowa. My parents were in a bad car accident last week. They’re doing ok now, though. I don’t have a very strong Internet connection, so the video didn’t work too well. This is the reason we’re telling you about it after the fact in this video!


The requirements for my giveaway were simple:

  • You must be present in the chat room at the time of the giveaway.
  • You need to be subscribed to my YouTube channel.
  • You had to have left a a good comment to a post in my blog between May 22 and May 29.



Earlier, Kat chose a random blog post. My wife Ponzi then scrolled randomly through more than 175 comments on that post to choose a winner. And a winner we found! Big congratulations go out to Ralajer!!!!


Ralajer posted his comment on the post What do you do with your old Computers?. The comment is as follows:

I usually gift them to my siblings and with 6 of them with 11 nieces and nephews so there will always be an outlet for my old hardware not that I go through that many computers. But being the only computer knowledgeable person in the family I am also the adjunct tech support. I try to get them to learn about computers by telling to Google their problems and try to fix it which has worked for some of the more basic problems.


I’ve been playing around with turning the last one into a file server but I really don’t need it at present so I’ve not put much time into doing that. I’ve only recycled one computer after it physically broke it was a pain finding a center so I just waited until a eTrash day in front of Best Buy.

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]]> It’s a Free Computer! is a post from Chris Pirillo

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Thanks to HP and BuzzCorps, Ponzi and I gave away a $5000 Dragon notebook last night! We had a lot of fun, and I’m sure our winner Ralajer is one happy camper in sunny California!


Unfortunately, the video of the drawing itself didn’t turn out so well. I was called away to go home to Iowa. My parents were in a bad car accident last week. They’re doing ok now, though. I don’t have a very strong Internet connection, so the video didn’t work too well. This is the reason we’re telling you about it after the fact in this video!


The requirements for my giveaway were simple:

  • You must be present in the chat room at the time of the giveaway.
  • You need to be subscribed to my YouTube channel.
  • You had to have left a a good comment to a post in my blog between May 22 and May 29.



Earlier, Kat chose a random blog post. My wife Ponzi then scrolled randomly through more than 175 comments on that post to choose a winner. And a winner we found! Big congratulations go out to Ralajer!!!!


Ralajer posted his comment on the post What do you do with your old Computers?. The comment is as follows:

I usually gift them to my siblings and with 6 of them with 11 nieces and nephews so there will always be an outlet for my old hardware not that I go through that many computers. But being the only computer knowledgeable person in the family I am also the adjunct tech support. I try to get them to learn about computers by telling to Google their problems and try to fix it which has worked for some of the more basic problems.


I’ve been playing around with turning the last one into a file server but I really don’t need it at present so I’ve not put much time into doing that. I’ve only recycled one computer after it physically broke it was a pain finding a center so I just waited until a eTrash day in front of Best Buy.

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]]> http://chris.pirillo.com/its-a-free-computer/feed/ 87 Do you Really Want to Win this PC? http://chris.pirillo.com/do-you-really-want-to-win-this-pc/ http://chris.pirillo.com/do-you-really-want-to-win-this-pc/#comments Thu, 08 May 2008 05:21:26 +0000 Chris http://chris.pirillo.com/2008/05/07/do-you-really-want-to-win-this-pc/ Do you Really Want to Win this PC? is a post from Chris Pirillo

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I’m going to be giving away the HP Dragon Notebook very soon… May 29th to be exact. This notebook is something you definitely want to have. Make sure you follow the rules for this giveaway, or you’ll be crying when you aren’t eligible!

Make sure you’re subscribed to my YouTube account, come hang out in our chat room (you must be present to win, and I’m not announcing the time ahead of time!), and leave as many GOOD comments on my blog as you can between now and the drawing. Any insipid or inappropriate comments will be deleted daily, and you won’t be eligible to win. A good comment shows you have read the post, and are contributing to the discussion.

That’s all there is to it. What are you waiting for? Get to commenting!

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]]> Do you Really Want to Win this PC? is a post from Chris Pirillo

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I’m going to be giving away the HP Dragon Notebook very soon… May 29th to be exact. This notebook is something you definitely want to have. Make sure you follow the rules for this giveaway, or you’ll be crying when you aren’t eligible!

Make sure you’re subscribed to my YouTube account, come hang out in our chat room (you must be present to win, and I’m not announcing the time ahead of time!), and leave as many GOOD comments on my blog as you can between now and the drawing. Any insipid or inappropriate comments will be deleted daily, and you won’t be eligible to win. A good comment shows you have read the post, and are contributing to the discussion.

That’s all there is to it. What are you waiting for? Get to commenting!

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