Opera Widgets blog

We're on final approach to the end of this journey, my friends. This week, we're giving away the last ever ThinkGeek prize pack. Tears well as I write this.

Before I announce the lucky soul who nailed this one, I want to say a word about the rest of the competition. We are accepting widgets for the next two weeks. All submissions will end July 31st at 10:00 AM CET. Then, our prize jury will be sequestered in a hidden mountain fortress where they will sift through all the widget entries. After exactly one week of fighting, biting, spitting and bribing they will emerge on the 8th to crown a widget king or queen and award the presitigious Macbook Pro. Woo Haa!

Now, the final weekly prize goes to a first-time winner. The Artist's Sketchbook is the closest thing I've seen to a widget that emulates (actually does a better job than) the greatest Windows app of all time, MS Paint. Unlike MS Paint, I can have it it running on my desktop when other people are in the room. Congratulations, Grafio, on an awesome widget. This shows how many features and capabilities can be packed into a these babies and I hope it's an inspriation for the next wave of widgets to come.

I know you have waited patiently and anxiously to find out who won this week's ThinkGeek prize. And I wanted to tell you, but things have been a little hectic with these hijinks going on in Seattle.

But I have my duties and I'm proud to reveal this week's winner. You know, I don't think there are many tags on My Opera for set theory. Heck, I haven't had a set theory on anything in years. My idiotic digressions aside, this baby is impressive, fascinating and elegantly coded.

So congratulations Holger Will. I didn't believe another clock widget would garner so much attention or in my case utter frustration, but this one has. Great job, Holger. The other clocks are Richard Dedekinds to your Georg Cantor.

So that's three winners in three weeks. I think this competition is heating up. I'll have another announcement about a cool ThinkGeek deal and then very soon we will reveal the grand prize.