'Macsimum News' Easter Egg Hunt Contest



We wanted to do something special for our loyal Macsimum News readers this Easter--and--have a little fun while we're at it. So we, along with our friends at MacOSG, are having an old-fashioned "Easter Egg hunt" contest, where you can win some great prizes (special thanks to all the vendors), including a US$150 BookEndz Dock for a MacBook.

Official rules:


Here is how the contest will work. Between February 25 and March 18, 2008, we will be placing "red" and "blue" Easter eggs (pictured below) in various daily articles--including Dennis' Macsimum Opinion column--posted here at Macsimum News. One article will have a "yellow" egg in it. Your job is to keep track of the number of articles with the red and blue eggs in them, and also the title to the article with the yellow egg in it.

Red egg: Blue egg: Yellow egg:


To enter:


Email your entry to us between March 19-21, 2008 (but NOT each day). Only one entry is allowed per person. Entries with duplicate email addresses will be deleted. All emails with the right answers will be put in Dennis' prized "Fedora" hat and winners will be drawn at random. We will post a video of the drawing, along with the winning names, on Easter Sunday. Good luck to everyone!

To send your entry, simply click on the email address below.

contest@macsimumnews.com
Then copy & paste the following in the email body:

Your name: John Deere (example)
Number of articles with red eggs: 65 (example)
Number of articles with blue eggs: 72 (example)
Title of article with the yellow egg: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (example)


List of prizes:


BookEndz Dock for the MacBook (Courtesy of BookEndz)





OWC Mercury Elite-AL FireWire 400+USB2 Combo Drive (Courtesy of Other World Computing (OWC) aka Mac Sales)





Leopard OS X: The Missing Manual (Courtesy of O'Reilly Media)





The Macintosh iLife 08 (Courtesy of Peachpit)





DropPoint gaming software license (Courtesy of MacSoft)





Base Response Earbuds (Courtesy of Newer Technology)





MacPool gaming software license (Courtesy of Bakno)





Griffin Reflect iPod Touch Case (Courtesy of Griffin Technologies)





MegaPhone for iPhone and iPod touch (Courtesy of Ecamm Network)





Thumpz Speaker Case for the 3G iPod nano (Courtesy of iFrogz.com)





Neon Tango gaming software license (Courtesy of Freeverse Software)





Titan Clear iPhone case from GizMac (Courtesy of GizMac Accessories)





Little Snitch privacy software license (Courtesy of Objective Development)





Speed Download 5 software license (Courtesy of Yazsoft)




More prizes may be added before Easter. Stay tuned. Also, any vendors interested in donating a prize and getting added to the list, please email us from the "contest" email link above. Thank you.


Congratulations to all the Easter Egg hunt winners!


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