I'm thrilled to announce the launch of the first-ever macosxhints.com contest: The Mac OS X Hints Best Hint Contest. This is a little contest designed to reward our hint contributors throughout the summer. So without further ado, here are the basics of the Best Hints Contest:
- For the months of July (retroactive to July 1st), August, and September, the Macworld editorial staff will be choosing the three best hints that were published in each month.
- Each month, the three winners will receive:
- First place (gold medal): 30GB Apple® iPod® and a 12-month Macworld subscription.
- Second place (silver medal): 1GB Apple® iPod® nano and a 12-month Macworld subscription.
- Third place (bronze medal): 1GB Apple® iPod® shuffle and a 12-month Macworld subscription.
- The Macworld editors will score the hints on a scale from 1 to 10, based on a mix of criteria including the usefulness of the hint and the clarity of the instructions. We'll then rank the hints based on the average score, and pick the three highest-ranked hints each month.
It's also important to note that entries must be submitted via the standard macosxhints.com submissions page, not via an email to me (or any other method). There will be a reminder about the contest (and the need to include your email address), as well as a link to the rules, directly on the submissions page.
So if you've got a hint in mind, and you've just been waiting for a good excuse to type it up, now you have one -- we'll be giving away nine iPods and Macworld subscriptions over the next three months, and you could be one of the winners! Finally, I'd like to thank Macworld for making this giveaway possible; the opportunity to do things such as this as a way to thank the members of the community is one of the things I was looking forward to when I chose to join them just over a year ago.
If you have any questions, please feel free to post them here and I'll do my best to post replies.
-rob.

