Prize Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Postcard on the Run giveaway: discounts, free postcard packs and a personal card from Selena Gomez!

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 27th, 2011)

Selena Gomez, Postcard on the Run, and TUAW have teamed up for an awesome promotion for all our readers, as well as the chance to win some pretty sweet prizes to boot. Postcard on the Run is an iOS and Android app that allows you to bring a physical touch to your digital memories by letting ...

Skype for Mac design competition announced

by Dana Franklin (Mar 24th, 2011)

Designers, start your creative engines! Today, on its official blog, Skype announced a chat styling competition to find the world's best theme for Skype for Mac. "We want you to create the chat style for an upcoming version of Skype for Mac that will be enjoyed by millions of people around the ...

Apple C&Ds Gawker over bounty on tablet info

by Mike Schramm (Jan 14th, 2010)

Yesterday, as you might have heard, the blog Valleywag offered up a total of $100,000 in prize money for information on the rumored Apple tablet. They posted on their site that they were offering bounties for pictures, information, or eventually a full $100,000 for a hands on of the currently ...

Holiday giveaways: NBA apps and prize pack

by Michael Rose (Dec 26th, 2009)

The crowds in the stores and the recuperation from holiday over-indulgence got you down? We've got the prescription: more cowbell holiday giveaways galore! There's several on tap for this weekend, and a couple of them will be App Hub exclusives, so you'll have to check there later today to see what ...

TUAW Retro Giveaway Part 1: Newtonian artifacts and the web in '96

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 1st, 2009)

In the spirit of today's April Fool's/Apple birthday blasts from the past, we've got a giveaway prize pack that will remind us all of days gone by. [Yes, this is an actual giveaway, not a joke. -Ed.] Long before there was the iPhone, there was the little PDA that could: the Newton. While it may have ...

TUAW Back-to-School Giveaway Day Eight: Baseball Cap

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Aug 22nd, 2007)

Another weekday, another prize. Today's giveaway is a baseball cap with the Apple logo on it (and an Ambrosia pack). A black cap, the flex-fit variety, suitable for wearing on one's head. Seeing as how quite a few college students like to wear these things, we hope today's prize will find a good ...

TUAW Back-to-School Giveaway Day One

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Aug 13th, 2007)

Perhaps calling it a back-to-school giveaway is bad. Whether or not you're going back to school right now you're eligible to win one of our prizes. To be honest, there's nothing particularly scholarly about the prizes either. It's just an excuse to give away 14 rounds of prizes. For the next 14 days ...

$10,000 Mac hack bounty not yet claimed

by Michael Rose (Apr 20th, 2007)

Update: One of the two targets has been compromised. How do you spice up a security conference in lovely Vancouver, BC with a sense of risk, reward and fun? If you're the organizers of CanSecWest, you offer a prize to anyone who can work an exploit on two MacBook Pro machines; said prize, originally ...

Memorial City Store Grand Opening Announced

by Dan Lurie (Jun 13th, 2006)

Mac geeks in and around the Houston, TX area have begun receiving the "Come meet your new neighbor" emails which Apple sends out in preparation for a new Apple Store opening. The store located in the Memorial City Mall will hold its grand opening on June 17th at 10AM. As is standard practice with ...

Apple Store FlatIron Crossing Grand Opening report

by David Chartier (May 6th, 2006)

I have emerged victorious from my first ever Apple Store grand opening, and I have to say: it was pretty cool. There was one heck of a line that ran far outside the closest mall entrance, and it was really cool to see people from all walks of life, including Dan Lurie from The Apple Blog and Jeff ...

Broomfield, CO Apple Store opening this weekend, too

by David Chartier (May 2nd, 2006)

I think it's safe to declare today as "Apple Store News Day." First Toronto's on the map, then Zürich and now a store I've been waiting for: Flatiron Crossing Mall in Broomfield, CO. I just received the email from Apple about the grand opening, the prizes, the glitz and glamor... The ...