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We have a New Editor

June 4th, 2007 by Al in Site News
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I am delighted to announce that Coolest Gadgets has a new editor, Edwin Kee. Edwin has been writing for us for the best part of a year and I’m sure will do a fantastic job in this new role.

I will continue to post on CG but will now be able to spend more time behind the scenes, sourcing contest prizes and completing an addition I’ve been working on the last few months (more to follow on that one soon).

So thanks Edwin for accepting the role and fixing the typos I’ve probably just made :) .

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$25 TG Winner - Guess the number of screen resolutions

May 5th, 2007 by Al in Site News

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Our latest contest was to guess how many different screen resolutions have been used to view this site over the past 7 days and I am delighted to say it proved a bit more difficult than our previous guess the image competition.

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We had entries ranging from 2 (hmmm) right up to 122 and to be honest I don’t think anybody deserved to win :)
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$25 Contest - Screen Resolutions

May 4th, 2007 by Al in Site News

thinkgeek.gifI was just checking visitor statistics and came across a pie chart which showed what screen resolutions people use to browse Coolest Gadgets at. As our guess the gadget competition was a bit too easy, I wanted to make the next contest a bit trickier and this statistic seemed an ideal contest candidate.

So to have a chance of winning a $25 Think Geek voucher simply leave a comment with the number of how many different screen resolutions you think have been used to view Coolest Gadgets over the last week.

The winner will be whoever gets closest (or exact), in the case of a draw whoever posted the closest comment first wins.

The contest is open for the next 24 hours, good luck. Oh and only one entry per person for obvious reasons.

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CG - 20th most subscribed blog?

April 24th, 2007 by Al in Site News

Top 100 Blogs

Some really sad stat head cool guy called me Al Carlton over at Self Made Minds has produced a list of the 100 most subscribed to blogs ranked by FeedBurner subscriber counts. At the time of writing CG is ranked 20th with 28984 readers :)

The chart doesn’t show sites that don’t use FeedBurner or publish the figures, hence the omission of gadget legends Gizmodo but I still reckon it’s pretty cool.

So thanks to everybody who follows our daily gadget quest via the feed and also thanks to all the other sites who don’t publish their feed counts thus giving us a chance to be twentieth :) . Cheers to All Gadgets for the idea of the slanted image.

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$20 Guess the Gadget, Winner is…

April 18th, 2007 by Al in Site News

BraBaby

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We had our first guess the gadget contest yesterday which turned into a “copy what the person above me said” which would of been okay if the first person hadn’t got it right. However first commenter Jack got it right, it’s a bra washer, well a device to protect your bra in the washing machine, the BraBABY. Joat then totally gave the game away by giving away the URL *rolls eyes*.

Richard made me laugh by changing his answers:

Is it a light? Or perhaps a set of stackable storage baskets…

That’s the way, now everyone knows it’s for washing bras… and everyone can enter the lucky draw! Thanks!
(It’s a bra washer!)

Mark S is right, it’s a bra holder

and Matthew of Gadget Venue had the most amusing answer: “Its a double secure hamster prison cell. Really!”

I’ll take Bra Washer or holder as the correct answer, so courtesy of random.org the winner is…. Read the rest of this entry »

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How many daily gadget posts should we do?

April 2nd, 2007 by Al in Site News

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We’re currently in the process of recruiting some new blood to the writing team of Coolest Gadgets, we’ve had about 20 applicants which I am sifting though (if you haven’t heard back from me yet you will do very soon, whilst if you meant to apply it’s not too late yet).

Whilst taking on new writers I thought it would be a good time to re-evaluate how many posts we do on a daily basis and more importantly how many posts you the reader would like us to do on a daily basis. So please let us know by voting in the poll or leaving a comment.

How many gadgets would you like us to write about every day?
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If you reading this via the feed or a personalised Google home page you’ll need to visit the site to cast your vote. Thanks in advance everybody.

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We’re recruiting, looking for new gadget/technology bloggers

March 27th, 2007 by Al in Site News

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Things seem to be going a bit manic here at the moment, so it’s time to expand the team with one or more new writers.

If you enjoy finding new and interesting technology and gadgets. Can write in fluent English, have a somewhat humorous or quirky style, and can commit to writing from home (or work if you can get away with it) so many posts per week, we’d love to hear from you.

In return you will be paid on a per post basis, as well as having your writings exposed to 35,000+ readers on a daily basis.

If you’d like to apply please send a brief a bio about yourself and a sample gadget post (like the sort of posts you see here) to tips [at] coolest-gadgets.com. Thanks in advance.

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Added an Award Winning Humor Blog to the Network

March 27th, 2007 by Al in Site News

Say No To Crack

I’m delighted to announce that we’ve just added a new award winning site to our network, Say No to Crack a humor for all ages blog. I’ve been a fan of SNTC for a while and when the opportunity arose (and it being the end of my tax year) I just couldn’t resist.

Anita, the main writer on Say No to Crack has done a fantastic job in building the site in such a short space of time and is the main reason why it won the 2007 Bloggie Award for best new weblog. Anita has agreed to continue writing with us and is a fantastic addition to the team.

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