The winners are in (I
turned mine in minutes before the deadline and spent 17 minutes on it) for the
Does Your Code Think In Ink Contest.
Thanks to Julia for noticing
the announcement in
PC Magazine via TabletPCTalk.
The Grand Prize ($15K!) let you create
your own Font with your handwriting. That's a pretty amazing concept.
The First Runner Up
is weird...kind of like Alias SketchBookPro on LSD.
And my little sad applet that won me $2500 and a copy of Visual Studio Enterprise
Developer (which is available for sale) was originally called "ZenBar," then "GoogleBar"
and was changed by the contest owners when it was packaged up into an MSI to "Web
Search Power Tool." I thank them very much for the righteous changes.
Additionally, big ups to my
homies over at Tabula PC for a great writeup on the tools and what they do.
They said "If it weren't for this last runner up, I'd be
really dejected right about now. Scott
Hanselman saves the day! His Web
Search Power Tool may not be pretty or glamorous, but is exactly
what I want from a power tool - it's actually useful."
Also interesting to note is that I apparently live in South Carolina if you believe
PC Magazine. Considering that I live in Oregon and that I know no one in S.C.,
it'd be interesting to learn when and how I moved there, and how long I'll stay. :)
Read: The Winners are Announced (Finally) in the TabletPC "Think In Ink" PowerToy contest