11-11-11-11 Contest

First Place
(Handy Backup Professional – $99)

pro

Handy Backup Professional is an advanced backup software designed for small and medium businesses. It extends functionality of the Standard edition with the following functions:

  • Backup to SFTP servers
  • Image backup
  • Database backup via ODBC connectivity

2 x Second Place
(Handy Backup Standard – $39)

standard

Handy Backup Standard is a simple PC backup and data synchronization utility for home and small office. It lets you easily back up all specifics of your system and your favorite applications:

  • Outlook backup
  • My Documents backup
  • Desktop backup
  • Windows Registry backup
  • Individual files and folders backup
  • Program settings, playlists, skins, etc.

The rules of the contest are simple:

  • Write here (as a comment) or on another site (with link to this post) the most unusual way in which you could lose your data.
  • The text must be written in English.

Contest period:

  • Starts on October 27th, 2009 at 11:11 AM GMT
  • Ends on November 11th, 2009 at 11:11 AM GMT

Why 11-11-11-11?

  • Because the contest ends on 11/11 at 11:11.

Prizes:

  • Handy Backup Professional license
  • 2 x Handy Backup Standard license

Winning conditions:

  • The best 3 texts win.

Winners will be announced on November 12th.

Reviews of Handy Backup:

Remarks:

  • If you post as comment make sure you enter a valid e-mail address so I can contact you in case of winning.
  • If you post on another site make sure there are some contact details there.

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(+3 rating, 3 votes)  
Contest Comments 7 Oct 27th, 2009

I Won, Again

Since I found Community Credit (the community that “gives stupid prizes to smart people”), I submitted points for my activity (writing, presentations, organization etc.).

Maybe some remember that in April I won a set of ties from CC (reminder). There is a delay in sending the prizes – I talked to David Silverlight about this – but eventually the ties will be send. The delay is even larger because I will move to the Netherlands in the second half of August and my address will change, so I will receive both prizes there.

Yes, it is correct what I wrote above: “both prizes”. I just won the Grand Prize of July 2009!

I won a Mimo Mini USB Monitor. Since I first saw it, I knew that I want it :) It is a cool geeky gadget that allows you to extend your display on a 7” monitor that connects to USB. The cool thing is that you can attach more of this devices to a single computer (I think up to 6). It is not an indispensable device but it is small and portable so you can take it everywhere with you.

I hope the prizes will arrive soon so I can start the promised contest with the ties.

(+5 rating, 1 votes)  
Personal/Blog Comments 2 Aug 1st, 2009

More blog news – May 2009

Last week was exhausting. I spent four days at home working on the Communication Session (and Bachelor) project. The bright side is that I’m almost done with it and I have 2 months to write the paper thesis which should be more than enough. The bad part is that I only got the 3rd place in the contest :(

One of the bullets on my TODO list says “write part 2 and part 3 of the Software + Services. A Modern Approach article”. I promise I will try to write part 2 this weekend. Sorry for the delay!

I forgot to write about this: CommunityCredit is a website that “gives stupid prizes to smart people”. I’ve got in their contest and  won the 9th place in the April competition :-D I think this is great for the first try. My stupid prize is a set of geeky ties:

prize

They’re cool, huh? When I receive them (hopefully they’ll arrive soon enough) I will start a contest and someone will win one of them. Stay tuned for more details about the competition.

(+5 rating, 1 votes)  
Personal/Blog Comments 1 May 6th, 2009