By Thomas Fordthomas.ford. Thursday, July 20, 2006 1:37:25 PM
artist, MS Paint, prize
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.
By Brian J.brianj. Friday, July 14, 2006 9:36:34 AM
widgets, opera, competition, prize
...

The other day, we announced
Johnnysaucepn as the
weekly winner of our
ThinkGeek competition. If a healthy dose of awesome geeky goodies wasn't enough for him, we're sweetening the pot. Johnnysaucepn has been deemed our monthly winner for the
Opera Widget Competition. We'll be sending him an Opera-loaded Nokia 770 Internet tablet.
So what now, you might ask? For our next monthly prize we'll be giving away a
super-slick, brand spankin' new Macbook Pro.
If you've been thinking about
creating a widget, no time has been better than now. Not only is each widget submitted this month eligible for the weekly prizes from our friends at ThinkGeek and this month's Macbook Pro, but you'll also have a chance at winning a fist full of bills in our
Widget World Cup. To further sweeten the pot, we'll be sending a small token of thanks from our Oslo office for the widget creator that submits the 500th widget to
widgets.opera.com.
Congrats to Johnnysaucepn - our reigning widget ninja

Now, go forth and conquer!
By Thomas Fordthomas.ford. Wednesday, June 14, 2006 11:10:14 PM
prize, widgets, Continuum Hypothesis, Georg Cantor
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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.