More Membership Prizes

Friday, 25 June 2004

It started last week with Brent Simmons’s generous donation of a copy of NetNewsWire for use as a prize during the Daring Fireball membership drive. I’m proud to announce a bunch of other excellent prizes.

Here’s what we have lined up:

• 1 copy of NetNewsWire from Ranchero Software

• From my former colleagues at Bare Bones Software:

  • 2 copies of BBEdit
  • 2 copies of Mailsmith
  • 2 copies of TextWrangler
  • 2 copies of Super Get Info

• 5 copies of Interarchy from Stairways Software

• From Six Apart, the winner can choose between a 1-year subscription to TypePad, or one commercial license for Movable Type

• From The Iconfactory, 1 copy of each of the following:

  • IconBuilder Pro
  • CandyBar
  • Pixadex
  • iPulse
  • xScope

• From Segment Publishing, 12 months of free web hosting on the Starter package

• From Jewelboxing, a 20-pack of their crackerjack professional-grade disc packaging system — winner’s choice between Standard (CD) and King (DVD) size

• From Jim Heid, 2 signed copies of his new book/DVD, The Macintosh iLife ’04

• From Fetch Softworks, 2 copies of Fetch, each with a Fetch mascot plush toy

• From Westciv, 2 copies of Style Master

• From Rogue Amoeba Software:

  • 1 copy of Audio Hijack Pro
  • 1 copy of Nicecast

• 1 copy of VoodooPad from Flying Meat Software

• 2 copies of iDrum (“The Drum Machine for Mac OS X”) from Glaresoft

• 1 copy of Path Finder from Cocoatech

The retail value of all the above software is a little over $1,300 $1,600 (!). My sincere thanks to all the above sponsors.

Here’s how the contest will work:

1. I’m extending the membership drive two days, so that it will run through next Friday, July 2. Everyone who becomes a member by the end of July 2 is eligible for the contest. (This, of course, includes everyone who has already joined.)

2. Winners will be selected randomly, using a simple Perl script along the lines of:

   print int(rand($number_of_members));
   

3. Each member can only win once. I.e. if there are 21 prizes, there will be 21 winners.

4. Members may, optionally, submit a list ranking the order of the packages they’re hoping to win. E.g., if you already own a license for one or more of the prizes, you’d rank those apps last. To submit a list, send an email with the prizes listed in your preferred order to this special address:

   contest@daringfireball.net

   Only messages sent to this address will be considered.

   Any winner who has submitted a message to this address will be awarded their top-ranked app from the remaining prizes. Any winner who has not submitted a message to this address will be awarded a random prize.