• HP TouchSmart IQ816 PC
• HP HDX 18 series Premium Notebook PC
• HP Pavilion dv4 series Entertainment Notebook PC (with Windows Live)
• HP Mini 1000 (with XP)
• HP MediaSmart Connect
• HP Photosmart C6380 Wireless AIO (printer)
• HP 564 Photo Value Pak
• Microsoft Office Home and Student Edition 2007 (Student-Teacher Edition) – 1 DVD with 3 licenses
• Microsoft Windows Live
• Corel VideoStudio X
• Kung Fu Panda (2 widescreen DVDs; 1 widescreen Blu-Ray)

We made it easy to enter with the only requirement being that each contestant would share their best mobile tech tip that provides them magic.  The resultant entries are absolutely chock full of great mobile tech tips and will be saved for the ages to provide good help for all.

There were so many entries that it took us a long time to go through them all, and that we did.  Without further ado the winner of the jkOnTheRun HP Magic Giveaway contest is:

cr0ft (that is c, r, zero, f, t)

cr0ft has 24 hours to send Kevin or I an email (just click our cartoon head on the right) with his/her full name and shipping information for all the loot.  If we do not hear from cr0ft in that time we will announce the runner-up to get all the gear so if you know cr0ft ping them and tell them to get in touch with us.  Congratulations to cr0ft for sharing good advice for everyone!  Here is the winning entry:

The week of the contest has flown by and we want to point out that the last day to enter is tomorrow.  That’s only two days left to have a shot at over $6,000 of holiday tech goodness put up by our friends at HP and Microsoft.  Visit the official contest post for the rules, complete list of the prize bundle and more importantly to get your entry in.  You’ll be joining over 370 of your closest friends who already have entered and have a shot at this great gear.  Good luck!

Just a quick reminder that if you haven’t entered already you’d better jump in and do so soon.  The contest ends in just a few more days and that $6,000 prize package is definitely going to someone and it might as well be you.  Find the complete rules here and get your entry in right now!  Almost 300 of your friends have already entered so why are you sitting there?

Just a quick reminder if you haven’t seen our HP Magic Giveway contest post lately. The prize package is massive and includes a number of devices making the overall package worth over $6,000. Even if you have no intentions of entering, I highly recommend looking at the post. Why? Because we tried to create the contest in a way that would provide value to everyone, not just the winner.

Each entry is a comment to the main post and there are over 235 comments / entries as I write this. And each of those entries is the submitters best tech tip that has worked “magic” for them. There’s a ton of great, useful tips in the comment thread and with a few more days to run the contest, I expect we’ll see plenty more. Have fun and good luck with your submission; we hope you find some benefit in the many outstanding tips and tricks!

Here’s what’s being given away, all to one super duper lucky duck:

• HP TouchSmart IQ816 PC
• HP HDX 18 series Premium Notebook PC
• HP Pavilion dv4 series Entertainment Notebook PC (with Windows Live)
• HP Mini 1000 (with XP)
• HP MediaSmart Connect
• HP Photosmart C6380 Wireless AIO (printer)
• HP 564 Photo Value Pak
• Microsoft Office Home and Student Edition 2007 (Student-Teacher Edition) – 1 DVD with 3 licenses
• Microsoft Windows Live
• Corel VideoStudio X
• Kung Fu Panda (2 widescreen DVDs; 1 widescreen Blu-Ray)

That’s FOUR new computer systems accompanied by all that other good stuff.  The TouchSmart is a 25-inch all-in-one PC that is totally awesome, the HDX18 is an 18-inch laptop, the dv4 is yet another cool laptop and the Mini 1000 is the newest netbook from HP.  You could win all of this stuff in time for the holidays if you follow the simple rules and enter our contest.

All you have to do to enter the contest is to post a comment on this thread that shares your best mobile tech tip that has provided you the most “magic”.  That’s it, certainly not too much work to win all this cool stuff.  Your tip can be anything that makes your mobile tech work well for you and that you think worth sharing.  Explain your tip with enough detail that anyone can figure out how to start using your idea with no help.  Since this is a giving time of year and HP is sharing all this cool gear with the winner we think it would be super if the winner would share some of that stuff with those who need it.  There are four computers after all, and while it’s not a requirement it would be special to see it shared with others.  If you will share some of this prize package then tell us who you will share it with and why.  That’s all you need to do to have a shot at over $6,000 of great gear.

Here are the official rules for the jkOnTheRun HP Magic Giveaway contest:

1. Entries must be left in a comment on this post, nowhere else.
2. Only one entry per person.
3. Contest is open to all entrants world-wide.
4. Entry to consist of your best tech tip to share explained in detail.  Plans to share part of the prizes should also be left in the same comment.
5. Contest will accept entries from December 16 – December 22.
6. Kevin and I will choose the ten best entries and choose the winner randomly from them to be announced December 23.
7. Winner will have 24 hours to provide us with shipping information via email upon our announcement, otherwise an alternate winner will be chosen.
8. Our decisions are final.
9. Our friends and families are not eligible nor are any employees of the GigaOM network.

That’s it, now isn’t that simple?  Get thinking about your best mobile tech tip and leave the advice in your comment.  Only seven days until someone is going to have the best holiday season ever!  Good luck!

We’ve been patiently not so patiently waiting to get our own HP Magic Giveaway contest going where one lucky individual is going to snag over $6,000 worth of prizes.  There are 50 sites running their own contest as we’ve warned you so I hope you are all entering all 50 of the contests.  Here’s a list of the contests running live right now:

Given busy schedules as the end-of-year holidays approach, it’s easy to overlook a contest that kicks off anew each day. Here are the sites that are currently active in the HP Magic Giveaway, which is offering mega-large prizes to over 50 winners:

• Geeks to Go!
• Gear Diary
• Geeks!
• One Day, One Job
• Techie Diva
• Notebooks.com
• Geek.com
• Techmamas
• merlot mom
• Noticias Tech
• Info Wester
• Planet x64
• AbsoluteVista
• Barb’s Connected World
• Student Bloggers

Quite an eclectic list, although I couldn’t help but note that three of the sites have the word “geek” in the name; a compliment in my book. Many of the sites are reviewing the prizes in the contest package, so you might want to hit them up for more information on the latest HP desktops, notebooks and netbooks. Although our contest hasn’t kicked off yet, we decided early on that folks might appreciate a “factory sealed, new in box” prize, so we’re not reviewing the products. It’s simply a matter of preference on our part. Now we just have to think through how we’re going to give the package away when we kick off entries a week from today!

We’ve been so very busy but it’s important to take time to remind you that various sites have contests underway for the HP Magic Giveaway.  Our contest will kick off on December 16 but right now you can enter the contests underway at these participating sites:

Just a quick reminder that today kicks off a new round of HP Magic Giveaway contests. It amazes me that HP is providing fifty prize packages that are each worth around $6,000! Today marks the beginning of contests at The Gadgeteer, GottaBeMobile, and I Started Something. Each has different rules and requirements, some easy and some will take a wee bit of effort, so you’ll want to hit each site for a shot to win.

It’s a holiday weekend here in the US but don’t forget to be checking and entering all of the active HP Magic Giveaway contests!  Here’s the schedule in case you forgot because you can enter the contest of every single site participating (5 so far):

• HP TouchSmart IQ816 PC
• HP HDX 18 series Premium Notebook PC
• HP Pavilion dv4 series Entertainment Notebook PC (with Windows Live)
• HP Mini 1000 (with XP)
• HP MediaSmart Connect

Yep, you read that right, there are multiple complete computer packages!  That TouchSmart IQ816 is a 25.5-inch all-in-one PC that will knock your socks off.  This isn’t all that is being given away, no this is truly magic!  Here’s the rest of the prize package up for grabs:

• HP Photosmart C6380 Wireless AIO (printer)
• HP 564 Photo Value Pak
• Microsoft Office Home and Student Edition 2007 (Student-Teacher Edition) – 1 DVD with 3 licenses
• Microsoft Windows Live
• Corel VideoStudio X
• Kung Fu Panda (2 widescreen DVDs; 1 widescreen Blu-Ray)

One lucky winner on each of the 50 sites will win the complete package above with a value in excess of US$6,000.  We’ll soon be announcing exactly when the contest is open here but meantime you can visit the HP Magic Giveaway site for details and information about all the cool prizes.  This is so big that the winner can share the prizes with friends or family for sure.  Don’t you think?

That’s the deal: buy an eBook title on your device from your Fictionwise or eReader account and you’re entered into the contest. A randomly drawn winner receives a $500 store credit. Don’t have an iPhone or iPod Touch to buy a book on? No prob…. just make sure you’re on the newsletter list and log into your account between now and the contest end date. You can win an iPod Touch that way as well. Ten other random winners will receive a $100 store credit, while another hundred lucky folks will get a $10 credit.

I need to drop off and get reading… I’m finding it hard to keep up with my RSS feed of new eReader releases.

Brian Jarvis
Rick Huizinga
Jeff Hewitt

Congratulations guys and if you will email me your mailing address I will get your prize on its way to you.  I promise.

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