.KEYWORD scavenger0901
.FLYINGHEAD EXCITING CONTEST
.TITLE Win a cool LAVA lamp in PalmPower’s second scavenger hunt
.DEPT
.SUMMARY In order to encourage you to learn more about our fabulous advertisers, we’re offering a second installment of the Official PalmPower Scavenger Hunt. Why not take a 5-minute break and play? It’s your chance to win a snazzy new LAVA lamp provided by AppForge, Inc.
.AUTHOR Anastatia Levari
Welcome to PalmPower Magazine’s Scavenger Hunt. As you probably know, some pretty cool advertisers support PalmPower Magazine. We want to do our best to make sure our readers and our advertisers get together and hang. So that you can spend more time with our great advertisers and hunt around on their sites, we’re offering you the second installment of the Official PalmPower Scavenger Hunt.
The great thing about the ads in PalmPower is that every one is potentially useful to you because every one contains information and solutions especially for Palm handheld users. We often get compliments about them, like the one at http://www.palmpower.com/issues/issue199911/pplte1199002.html.
So, not only do you get a chance to win a wonderfully cool LAVA lamp, graciously provided by AppForge, Inc. (at http://www.appforge.com) you get a chance to learn more about how to get the most out of your Palm handheld. It’s a win-win situation where you get the chance to actually win something.
Upon successful completion of the Scavenger Hunt, you’ll be entered into a drawing to win your very own LAVA lamp. It’s true that PalmPower has a heck of a lot of readers, but if you’re determined to win the groovy LAVA lamp, you probably have a really good shot at it. It’s fun, the odds are way better than being hit by lightning, and it only takes a couple of minutes. What are you waiting for?
.H1 What’s the deal with LAVA lamps?
In 1963, Edward Craven Walker, an engineer, designed the first motion lamp. Walker called his invention the Astro Lamp. By mixing a bit of this and a bit of that, he discovered a hypnotic light, which has made LAVA-brand motion lamps a piece of Americana. Two American entrepreneurs brought the Astro Lamp to the USA after seeing the lamp at a German trade show in 1965. They bought the rights to manufacture the lamp in North America, and renamed it the LAVA-brand motion lamp. The LAVA lamp became a cultural icon of the 1960s and 70s. There’s still only one manufacturer of the LAVA lamp, Haggerty Enterprises (at http://www.lavaworld.com).
.H1 This LAVA lamp brought to you by AppForge
The far-out folks at AppForge, Inc. have kindly donated a snazzy Silver Streak LAVA lamp, pictured in Figure A, to be given out to the lucky winner of this month’s scavenger hunt.
.FIGPAIR A AppForge has donated this psychedelic LAVA lamp as this month’s prize.
The lamp features white LAVA blobs floating in orange liquid, which just happen to be AppForge’s official colors. You might have heard of AppForge. AppForge software was created to solve the difficulties developers encounter in the embedded development industry. AppForge software works with Microsoft Visual Basic to program Palm OS devices. The AppForge management team has more than 50 years of combined experience developing mobile, wireless, and handheld applications. Plus, they’re providing a lucky winner with a LAVA lamp!
.H1 Where do I look for the answers?
The answers to the scavenger hunt, (either an advertiser’s name, product, or information about them), can all be found on our advertisers’ sites. This month’s answers can be found by clicking on the ads on PalmPower’s Home Page, News Page, and Table of Contents page. Any ad on these pages is fair game. Check the banner ads and the mini-banners at the top of these pages, and the blue text ads at the bottom of these pages. The big banner on the Home Page is a rotating banner, so you may have to refresh your browser a few times, in order to see both the ads.
Then, because we’re extra tricky, you may have to do further clicking-around on our advertisers’ sites to find the answers.
.H1 How do I enter?
Playing is very easy. Just follow the simple steps below to take advantage of this great opportunity to win a fantabulous cool LAVA lamp.
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.BULLET Read the clues;
.BULLET Click on the ads and "scavenge";
.BULLET Gather the answers (an advertiser’s name, product, or information on them) into an email message. Each question is numbered, so please number your answers appropriately. Please note that there are two answers for question one, so list both answers after the number 1;
.BULLET Be sure to include your name, phone number, email address, and shipping address at the bottom of your email.
.BULLET Send your answers to scavengerhunt@palmpower.com by September 25, 2001;
.BULLET If you’ve gotten all the answers correct, you’ll be entered into a random drawing for a free cool LAVA lamp;
.BULLET The lucky winner will be contacted via email and announced in the October issue of PalmPower.
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.BEGIN_SIDEBAR
.H1 The clues
Use these clues to win a prize on which your friends will feast their eyes.
.H2 Clue #1
Others have these products too,
But we offer them in blue.
What PalmPower heartily recommends,
You should buy them for your friends.
What do we sell and what can you choose?
Go on and scavenge, you’ve nothing to lose.
.H2 Clue #2
Now your sport,
Can’t be cut short.
We’re number one,
And give you more fun.
You’re intelligent, and so are we.
Tell us now, who may we be?
.H2 Clue #3
When you don’t have lots of space,
You can use our database.
With your toys, we’re compatible.
With memory cards, we’re portable.
In order to win this game,
You need to know our name.
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.H1 Happy hunting
So that’s the contest! Don’t miss this great opportunity to be the coolest kid on the block and win your very own cool LAVA lamp. Email your contest entry today, to scavengerhunt@palmpower.com.
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.H1 Product availability and resources
For more information on AppForge, Inc., visit http://www.appforge.com.
For more information on LAVA brand motion lamps from Haggerty Enterprises, visit http://www.lavaworld.com.
To email your contest entry, write to scavengerhunt@palmpower.com.
For more information about Palm computers, visit http://www.palm.com.
.H1 Bulk reprints
Bulk reprints of this article (in quantities of 100 or more) are available for a fee from Reprint Services, a ZATZ business partner. Contact them at reprints@zatz.com or by calling 1-800-217-7874.
.END_SIDEBAR
.BIO Anastatia Levari is a copy editor with ZATZ:Pure Internet Publishing. She can be reached via email at anastatia_levari@zatz.com.
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