Tag Archives: Contests & Giveaways

The Winner of the Unlocked Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Purity Headphones from Monster, Is …

We have run the list of entries through a random winner generator, and the results are in! Chris Leckness, or @cleck673 on Twitter,wins the unlocked Nokia Lumia 800 mobile phone and the Nokia Purity Headphones by Monster! The Lumia 800 and headphones are on their way to me; as soon as I have them, they [...]

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Let PourTaste Point You Toward Your Next Happy Hour, Plus We Have a Giveaway!

Jon Yeager is a mixologist based out of Nashville, TN, and he desperately wants to share his knowledge with you. He has created a website which he calls “Pour Taste,” where he shares his experiences with the best cocktail lounges in bars from his travels around the country. Yeager also contributes cocktail recipes on a [...]

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Meathead’s Temperature Magnet Contest Has a Winner

If you happen to be friends with Gear Diary reader Rodney St. John, you can now feel safe to go to a cookout at his house. That’s because Rodney is the lucky winner of a Meathead’s Temperature Magnet. He will have absolutely no excuse for undercooking your burger or burning your chicken wings to a [...]

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Win an Unlocked Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Purity Headphones from Monster!

This contest is now closed, and the winner will be announced shortly. Thank you for participating! =) Here’s a great contest for anyone who’s been ogling the slick combo created by the Nokia Lumia 800 and the Monster Purity Headphones: We’ve been offered an Unlocked Nokia Lumia 800 and a set of Nokia Purity headphones to [...]

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Stem Innovations iZON Remote Room Monitor Giveaway

We installed a Vivint home automation system at home and up at our lake cabin two years ago. It is a great way for us to monitor what is happening there when we don’t have a chance to get up to the mountains for an extended period. Perhaps the best aspect of the system is the ability [...]

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GD Weekly Is Coming Soon and You Can Win an iPad Just by Signing Up!

To celebrate the upcoming launch of GD Weekly we will be giving away a new iPad. (Actually, we are giving away an Apple gift certificate for $500 that you can put TOWARDS the new iPad of your choice or anything else that Apple sells, but let’s just go with the “we’re giving away an iPad” [...]

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Did You Backup Today? One Lucky Person Will Be Able To for Free!

What day is it?  It’s World Backup Day!  Today is the day when you should start backing up your data — if you don’t already.  When is the last time you backed up all that important data?  Your kids’ pictures, tax information and other data you just hate to lose should be regularly backed up as [...]

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AmazingRibs Meat Temperature Guide Might Just Save Your Bacon and Another Contest

There are lots of ways to determine the doneness of meat that you are grilling or roasting in your oven. (Notice I didn’t say “BBQing.” Where I come from BBQ is a noun, not a verb.) In addition to meat thermometers and a nifty little iPhone app that I’ve reviewed lately, sometimes it’s best to [...]

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Win a New iPad When Gear Diary’s Newsletter GD Weekly Launches!

You might have noticed some changes here on Gear Diary lately. One thing that hasn’t changed — and that never will — is our commitment to covering the wide range of gear we love to use and doing so without a lot of “tech-speak”. After all, “Everyone CAN understand technology; sometimes it just takes a [...]

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Last Chance to Win Beyza Cases’ Zero Series for iPhone and iPad

We tried something new with our Beyza Case Zero Series giveaway, because we have two Zero Series cases for the iPhone 4/4S and one Zero Series 11″ MBA sleeve that are looking for good homes. Instead of giving an end date to the contest, we decided to run it until we hit 30 entries. Well, [...]

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Zinio for iPad Serves Up Magazines in High Definition

The new iPad’s retina display is pretty amazing. Pull up a picture in the photo app and you will quickly see just how bright and sharp the display is. After using the new iPad for a few days, I went back to the iPad 2 and, as I expected, there is no going back. That [...]

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Our OXO Organizational Tools Giveaway has a Winner!

Our winner is Oasis789, who lamented “My dorm room is a huge mess, clothes everywhere. I gotta get me some organization!!” That sounds very familiar to me. When I was in college, Stanford did not notify you in advance who your new roommate would be. Since I drove from Tennessee and he drove from Rhode [...]

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Oxo Gadgets Around the House, and a Giveaway!

Last year, I was fortunate enough to be able to participate in the Food Blog Forum that was being held was being held in my hometown of Nashville. A group of like-minded bloggers met to discuss all sorts of aspects to blogging about food, recipes, restaurants and gadgets. (I’m still waiting for the invite to [...]

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Winners of the “Chew For the Loot” Gum!

We had some great entries in the “Chew for the Loot” contest! Congratulations to Mig O. and Linda P.! Please email us with your mailing address, and we’ll get your gum out to you right away! For everyone, even if you didn’t win, be sure to buy a pack of Trident or Stride gum for [...]

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Announcing the Winner of PlayStation Vita Plants vs. Zombies Game Giveaway

We have a winner for our PlayStation Vita Plants vs. Zombies Game Giveaway!

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PlayStation Vita Game System Review – Part I

Gamers gain a more robust mobile console experience with the PlayStation Vita versions using Wi-Fi/3G or Wi-Fi only online capabilities plus a rear touchpad, two analog sticks and a sharp OLED display.

BANG! Your Lights Are Out

Back in the days when I was on the look out for the “perfect tablet” (in other words, before I [...]

RIP Eugene Polley, Inventor of the TV Remote at 96

Image courtesy of Wikipedia I remember reading an article about 25 years or so ago! on how everything wired was [...]

Get a Droid RAZR 16GB 4G LTE Plus $25 Apps Plus $40 Credit Plus Double Data

AmazonWireless had the 16 GB Droid RAZR for just $0.01 with new two year contract. Thatnis pretty amazing considering the [...]

Windows XP’s “Bliss” Background: A Blissful Happenstance

Most people who have been using PCs in the past decade or so have doubtless seen this image, the default [...]

Google Music Pre-Summer One-Day $2.99 Album Sale!

Google Music is having a cool one-day ‘pre-summer’ sale with a bunch of albums for $2.99, including Daft Punk, Smashing [...]