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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Contest Comments 7 Oct 27th, 2009

Ads on blog

Dear visitor,

This blog is non profit and will remain so. The reason why you may see some Google Ads (if you didn’t block them) is that I want to cover the hosting expenses (~$100/year).

So from now on the following fair policy applies:

  • revenue of up to $100/year goes for hosting
  • revenue >$100/year goes for charity, prizes (please give suggestions)

There are four ad places on this domain:

  1. One the main page after the first post
  2. At the end of every single post
  3. On the Books page
  4. On the SkypeGadget page

Hope that this ads fit well in the design of the site and do not disturb your visit.

Best regards

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Personal/Blog Comments 2 Oct 21st, 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.

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Personal/Blog Comments 2 Aug 1st, 2009