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We have a winner!!!

Congrats to Masem who was WON!!

Yes, the crew at Dave's iPAQ will be having a giveaway tonight for an Hewlett Packard H4355 iPAQ PocketPC. How do you win? Be sure to be at the site logged in and registered where we will select one lucky winner. You wont want to miss this giveaway since we are also going to be bundling a CasesOnline 4355 leather case. Total prize giveaway is $549.00!!! So make sure you are here tonight for your chance to win!

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Winner will be selected no later than 1:00am EST on Monday July 26th. Must be registered to win. Previous winners are eligible to win! All members are eligible no matter where they live.

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Not sure but you wont want to miss the site next week.. Another big review.
when the next big give away!
NICE
MASEM was the winner. It has been posted in the forum with a screen shot...Thank you everyone
Is the winner going to be listed here tonight?
Good night and good morning everybody !!! Sleep tight and good luck !!!
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 3, 1! AND THE WINNER IS .... Dave!!!
who's still here? who ever wins .. is the WINNER !!!
Oen, two, three.... go go go
Your brutal Riko.
Another hot Sunday night in Idaho. Just keep hitting the reload-page button.
Interesting way to keep iPaq lovers awake. Sleep depervation rocks!!
Was it a dream?
Oops..missed it. Getting.... sleepy....
who won? server kicked me off for 10 min
I think I'm the 300th poster!!!
Stress test server at 300th post!
WE LOVE DAVE'S IPAQ!!!! :)
I think I am going to PM everybody just for fun. :)
This is cool!!
Will I be the 300th?
I'm sure its not really the 300th that wins.... (Am I the 300th?)
I might be 300 ?
I fell asleep at my desk. I had a dream that I won an HP4355.

Or was it a dream? Hmmmm....
i will be 300th
It would be great to have one of these!! I hope I win; but good luck to all!

Christopher Spera
yeah, yeah, yeah, i'm SO EXCITED!!! ;)
and the winner is.....
I don't know who is but I'd like just to tell you that this night I have lost my sidegrip!!!
What happened?
Hmmm. Just as long as there isn't a problem with the database used to pick the winner! ;)
Will mine be the 300th message?
THe servers were jammed pack when will the winner be announced?
Hehe it will probably take Dave until 1AM just to get the winner announcement to post!
lol. i predicted the outage. i cant believe i was right
I got booted off the site, didnt think id make it back in.
Yeah! Back for more fun!
Waiting for hmmm... 8 hrs now.. :)

Ugh, database problems.
I think we've now proved that, yep, there are limits to technology :)
Wow, we broke it...
LOL I could hear the server screaming all the way up here.
yep, I'm getting the database errors too....
I have no new private messages...
Yeah...I did, I hope we don't crash the system before we find out the winner!
me me me !!!
I will never say PalmPilot again
I will never say PalmPilot again
I will never say PalmPilot again
I will never say PalmPilot again
Anybody else getting Database errors?
Well I here an waiting.....
Did I win?
Do we have to be logged in here or just at the site?
Suzanne Sugarbaker would have said, "you know, all those other girls ran around the Miss Georgia Pageant pretending like they cared for one another...saying things like 'It doesn't matter to me who wins, I'm enjoying the comraderie and meeting other girls from all over Georgia.' Not me! I didn't give a flip about those other girls. I just wanted that crown on MY head." Good luck!!!
good luck to every one!
To think, I could have had a Sony Clie with that great memory stick thingy. Instead I get a 4355. Thanks Dave, you and your team are awesome.
Surely this prize has been designed to stress test the forum software!
500th poster wins.
staring at 240x320 pixels flat on my back with a sleeping spouse at my side...
Just sync'd my clock with what the government says so I'm ready!
5
Did we kill the site?
Whoops read too fast....158 members & 48 guests. That's better. ;^)
Wouldn't it be nice if Dave's iPAQ gave away an iPAQ to each of us logged in to this thread?
8 minutes
ooh! ooh! miawong mi excited! whoo-hoo! :)
OK, found it...213 at the moment. Odds aren't as good as the 50 something a while ago. :)
Dave should realize that anything which involves giving away free ipaqs should include chat rooms, not message boards. It takes too long to scroll to the bottom.
Does running out of Cigs qualify as a non-smoker?
9 minutes
There will prolly be around 500 responces by the end of this
... watching tour de france replay again to keep me awake... i'm still heeerrrrreee ... 'happy b-day to my wife'... :)
Any way for us to tell how many users are online at once? Be kind of fun to know.
Good luck everyone...
I am in the same boat texz6, but I actually emailed my boss and let him know I would be in later in the day :)
We are having bad storms in the Atlanta area. We lost power on my street. I just came back up. Of course, I had to skip checking my disks, didn't want to miss anything!
I want it and need it! I can just visualize unwrapping the shipping container and finding a new H4355 inside. Yeah baby!
Too bad Hortons hasn't gone wireless...you could sip the coffee, enjoy a chicken salad croissant sandwich and surf at the same time.
Once upon a time in PPC land, a benevolent prince named Dave found a poor soul who needed a free ticket to techno land. . .

And sruckel lived happily ever-after. Great Story
Sure hope I win since my IPAQ crapped out for good yesterday!!!!!!! Sure hate the thought of redoing everything but if I win I would gladly suffer!!
In order to win... you must not be a smoker or a coffee drinker... ;-)
Of course, no one really knows if there is some sort of hidden criteria...
l'm hanging in here! On my Ipaq..... Need to be at work by 4:30 AM. It's going to be a long day.
13 minutes!
but Davesipaq.com has always been the best place for ppc info, and it looks so good with its new format! (in case desperate story is not the hidden criteria and flattery is...)
Oh my god. I'm almost out of cigarettes. I can't leave. I'm losing it. Oh the humanity. For the love of god let it be over soon.
Stuckel, if Starbucks hadn't dropped the "mocha Coconut Frappachino", I'de be in the same place as you! :)
Broke the Most users ever online record, Knew that was gonna happen.
Hahaha...what makes you think we won't?
Just a few more minutes???
Thanks berpoi and back at ya!
wouldnt it suck if we overloaded the servers at 12
It's going to be so jammed at 1pm
Thats my desperate story... lol.
STOP PUSHING!!
I'm tellin Dave
I wish everybody good luck.
I do not have a PPC ...I had an old Palm Personal for a while before I switched to a Nino (which, btw, were really cool, but very large.) then at one point had a 3635 before having to sell it to get some cash.
This is really exciting...
This is too important. I just wet my pants to stay in line.
I just know it is going to be 1 AM when the winner is actually chosen and if the rest of you freaks are anything like me, we are all going to be bald before it is over... AND we will have Broudar's nervous tic to boot!
Hey man, this thing shoudl go to some poor sap who's ipaq recently died and he came here for tech support. Specifically one who can't afford to buy another ipaq.... wait, thats a perfect description of me! Give me the ipaq! I'm needy!

;D
If the weather would get a little warmer, I'd be sailing on my boat for a midnight cruise. Of course, then I'd loose my chance to win!
And then who ever is picked as winner must respond within 30 seconds... via PM... ;-)
Never had an iPaq. Was about to buy the 4150 until the hx4700 rumours started. Now I see they should be announced this week. Yay!
I have to pee. Would somebody hold my place in line? Too much Starbucks :)
LOL Radionita,that would really suck to lose your connection right at 12. Good Luck on staying connected.
18min to midnight and the ipaq will be mine quite soon
Let's not talk about American's Cup...it always makes me think of Larry Ellison...
"double-double" – a coffee with double cream and double sugar added.
To us its a special burger ordered not on the menu at in-n-out burger
I have an ipaq already too, but it is an aging 3650 with a nexain dual slot sleeve with the extended battery.. It is by no means a "pocket" PC any more. :)
That's just a nervous tick that makes my eyes do that.
So how many minutes more?
This is giving me a heart attack. I keep losing my connection!
I wish that were true?
The hidden criteria to win is to guess the hidden criteria.
awesome!
I already have an IPAQ, so if my name comes out of the hat this will be a gift to a tech friend who was laid off. I'll settle for the Boston cream :-)
last person to post before the cutoff is the winner...
Coolness
is this the place to wait??? I was thinking the same thing as someone down the line there...is there a hidden test, some sort of secret sleuth?
cmon baby, daddy needs a brother for his ipaq! LOL
There's only one America's Cup as far as I'm concerned. And it has to do with sailing, not soccer. But we all have our vices, don't we?
Roll up the rim to win! <-- oops, wrong contest
lol... "double-double"... American colleagues always say, "Huh?"
@Kati: Similar reason why I'm here...
Leafs, Timmy's and Molson. John is a happy boy.
Now I need an iPaq.
Watch out for that Broudar guy... He has shifty eyes.
I'll have a medium double-double, a Boston Cream
and a box of mixed Timbits to go?
Thundering and lightning here too AND I lost my internet connection for a few minutes. I was really, really praying for it to come back up. Whew!
I wish everybody good luck but i think this already mine, jejejeje just joking. good luck everyone
Closest Hortons here is in West VA...I wonder if we'll ever see one east of the Appalachians.
I already have one. Am I greedy for wanting another? I think not. I could make them talk. I could make them sing together!
Tim Hortons in upstate NY as well. Although I don't really care for them much.
Great unit. My Wife is coveting...!
I am recovering my pocket PC from a hard reset...
Mmmm.... Timmy's... *drool*
what about sidegrips (h2210) with screw as a second prize?!?!?
Oh no! Its thundering and lightening here. My laptop battery only works for about 20 minutes and my UPS is only good for 10. Please please please don't fail me now power company. I'm so sorry I ever cursed you!
are we all still awake?
119 members and a half hour to go...
There is a new Tim Hortons down in Warwick, RI (not far from Providence.)
Hey! I'm still using a 3635!
It is 1127AM in my country!
There's nothing more Canadian than Hockey...unless it Tim Hortons..sigh..very few Hortons here in the U.S.
Great idea!
Is second prize a 3635??????

Just kidding, great idea for the site
HALT - MODULE CORE HEMORRHAGE

Control has been yielded to the
SYSTEM PERIL DISTRIBUTED REFLEX.

This medium is classified, and has a
STRONG INTRUSIVE INCLINATION.

In 4 days, network throttling will erode.

In 18 days this medium will metastasize.

COUNTDOWN TO WIDE AWAKE AND PHYSICAL:
29:06:42:29:602

Make your decisions accordingly.
Gardens still stands... vacant. :-( New stadium is Air Canada Centre. Beautiful arena... but not the same.
Do you like soccer?
Brasil won the match agains Argentina, for the America Cup.
Well, I'm ineligible for PPCT giveaways... But not here! ;)
Colonie, NY checking in and awaiting receipt of my new 4355! ;-)
A fellow Leafs fan?? I guess the Gardens is long gone...replaced by the Molson Center?
I'm logged and ready.
Is the winner going to be picked at random? Or is there some sort of hidden test! LOL
houston, tx
Please... please... let it be me please...
Best Daffy Duck voice:

Mine, Mine ,Mine. It's all mine. You can't have it.
I think I'm still awake....
Get inline - behind me!
TANSTAAFL! Looks like it may not apply tonite!
Way to go, Dave!
GM
Yea, but I lost my running back today too.
How about a Leafs fan? *blush*
Oh...a Chicago Cubs fan beats a BoSox fan for desperation - and patience - any day.

My wife won't let me buy one, but I really REALLY want one!!!
Good luck to all.
Great keyboard, great idea!
I want it
Luck be a lady tonight! ;)
This would be an awesome birthday present for me! Right on my birthday!
91 members. 79 guests. nice.
Oh....the plots thickens !!! Hmmm???
I'm a Boston Red Sox Fan and a Miami Dolphin fan there is no one more desperate then me.
I wanna win! (of course so do all of you!)
No matter who wins everyone will be delighted they are here. This is fun
I wanna win, I wanna win!!!!

(does whining help?)
Ok...Dave..I pick the number 4...um...3...no..5...uh...5 ! Yeah that's it!
Dave, I'll give whatever he offers +10% .... just kidding :) But that is starting to sound pretty desperate!
Perhaps Dave's going to have each of us pick a number between 1 and 100 to determine the winner?
I wanna win!!!!
Alright. I'm psyched! Let's go!
Cool site!
Cool prize!
Wonder if bribery works....haha
Posted by dreamchaser, 1 minute ago

If you win then we'll know it did.....
mmorse-

LOL. I like the most desperate idea.
Wonder if bribery works....haha
I've lost a sidegrip just now.....
How is the winner being selected? Randomly, or on some unknown basis, like "Person who seems most desperate?"
I can't see "x hour xx minutes left" in mobile version....
Thanks Dave! Your "1 hour 45 minutes left"... at the time it appeared :) ... clarifies that you did mean EDT.
We're here and anxiously waiting.....
way to go Dave!
Hmmm...thank goodness I'm not the only female here...was beginning to think this was a 'guys-only' venue. :-)
what time will the last posting should be for the eastern side? 2AM of Monday, July 26? it'll be down the wire.. good luck to all... :)
That's great to own one.
Was waiting for the hx4700 to be released, but this will do just nicely! :-)
I must be crazy. look at the watch!!!! good children should sleep at this time in the morning LOL

ok, the longest night goes on...

:-)
i'll give to my wife so that she could use it for her schooling. it'll be her bday gift this coming August. that'll be cool. :)
If I win I promise to not charge my son for my 3850. I might even through in an SD with it.
Do I have to be logged in at Midnight? I'm on my work laptop, and it's about to run out of gas! D'OH!
Wow - another great giveaway...glad I checked my email tonight...and glad I took off from work tomorrow so I can stay up late to play!
I just came back from Circuit City, barely leaving without one of these in my hands... Maybe there's a reason for me not buying one tonight? :-D
Someone asked about women - I'm here!!! Does that mean it goes to the female?? That would be sweet!
Pretty
Hope to see that 4355 in my hands....
Only 59 members logged on and one of them is Dave....so that is a 1 in 58 chance, right?

Coolness.....
Increible. Espero tener un poco de suerte y ganarme el premio.
Gracias Dave
We have set a number of these HPs up for the company - GREAT units and very easy to integrate with mail server - at least that is what the corporate netguru indicates. The boss loves his. Me? I am far enough down the food chain that I don't have the pleasure of being emailed in the back yard.
great give away I hop eI get it
1 hour 45 minutes left
EST (Eastern Standard Time) is GMT-5 ... EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) is GMT-4.

When a typo affects the computation, we call it a bug :)
Maybe should have been announced as GMT (-5hrs) to avoid the EST EDT confusion!
This is all an evil plot to keep me up till 0200 eastern - wonder what the total attendance will be?
I think he was refering to Daylight Savings time, but I could be wrong.
My email notification said 1:00am EST. Oh, well. I been wanting something to do GPS with. Thanks, Dave.
Let's hope....
Okay. I'm confused. I thought I knew when the EST thing. What with the EDT thing? I don't get it? Please let it be me...EST or EDT! Whatever! Just let it be me.
Well I am here. :)
I think EST was a typo.. right?
I never win anything anyway! You guys can have it. Hey, No women here?
Let's see... it's summer... therefore most of us who are in the US Eastern time zone are in E*D*T, not EST. 1AM EST corresponds to 2AM EDT... hmm, this is gonna be harder than I thought ;)

"Obviously", this giveaway is biased towards the West Coast ;)
make my month, dave!
I'm praying...

Please let it be me...
Just a few more hours...
I just know I will win.LOL
I'll definitely be logged on...and I wonder if Dave will play Santa again between now and Christmas...
Will the winner be selected at exactly 1200 EST or simply sometime before then?
Yea, what Riko said?
I was curious about how they will know if we are still logged in as well.
Good luck to all,and thank you to Dave!
where do you register?
How can you tell if we are logged on or not? I mean if I refresh the page at midnight, but then I read a lengthy forum post, I might not refresh again for quite some time. It might look like we are not logged on, when in fact we are .. logged on that is.

Hehe, can you tell I really want to upgrade my 3650? :)
international
Great! A h4355 PLUS a leather case to go with it. But is this limited to US forum members, or it's international?
Sure would be nice to win a great iPAQ. My 3970's battery is fading fast and I was looking at the hx4700. Thanks for the contest, Dave.
Just another great reason to check in daily!
I cant believe we have 50 guests in the forum.. They wont win!
lol. Too funny. You are correct. Never noticed that little icon there. I've looked at your profile, but never noticed the IM piece. Guess the eye is naturally drawn to the top and left of any page. At least for Top to Bottom, left to right readers. Kind of like photos. The photographer can direct the eye where he/she wants it.
ok i am in bed with my ipaq :) with netfront hooked on davesipaq.com :) lol :) hmmm i think an audio book might keep me awake :) i hope its gonna be a nice day on monday :) all these new ipaqs getting anounced will give enought info to spend the day.
Oh... really love this giveaway..
Waiting and waiting..
Just read the invitation, and hopefully made it. I have been thinking of getting one of this! I might get it free! Thanks Dave.
I have never one anything. hope this will be a change of luck for me. the unit is really great.
Tom McIndoe
lol many of you dont look at my profile ... Compusmurf
Post your comment here.
WOW! Dave, what a great giveaway! Thank you for all your hard work!
Am I late?
Let the games begin because on the 26th i will own a new ipaq and there's doubts about it
!
Only hours to go..........
I've been a passive observer, but just registered for this opportunity.
What time is it EST now?
Maybe I should be more of a poste4r than a reader. Good luck all :D
Ahhh Dave. If you post your ICQ/MSN/YAHOO or AIM account here, the whole world can start harassing you to keep you awake at midnight! :)

If you were in Florida, I'd buy you a cup of coffee to keep you going.... :)
Count me in..this is a cool event. Keep up the great work Dave...great site!
Hey Dave, you look very nice today! And I'll say nice things to you all the time if I get a certain private message in the middle of the night!
Ah the good old prize draw, nothing warms you more than the chance of winning an Ipaq! How is everyone tonight? Loving the new look of the website these days, the facelift has really worked.
zzzzzzzz maybe ill fall asleep and forget
An old fart like me can't usually stay up late enough for this givaway.....but I'm gonna try.... :)
Are we there yet????
I agree about the NoDoze and coffee! :)
I'm ready for my new toy ;-)

I am in...
Ya-hoo, would be graet to replace my ailing 3100. Good thing I'll be here at work, logged in to Dave's iPaq at that time....and also at 01:00 to receive the PM :-D

Dave
I am in...
Ok enough of the compliments... It wont get you the ipaq :)
Wow, Dave, you're terrific!!!!
Wow. I would have thought more posts than this.
So it's open to those of us in the UK, but only if we are online at 5am? What's that about daylight saving time? Does that mean I need to be here at 6am? If it's 6am then I might set an alarm, but if it's 5am then it just about puts us UK'ers out of the giveaway......
Great timing! I have had my 2210 replaced once and it is on the fritz again, just bump it and it shuts off. I'll be here Dave.
Let the games begin...
Thanks for the great chance on this H4355! Kudoes.
This is great! Dave, you have some great giveaways.
Thanks for the giveaway. Great job you've done over the years on your site. :)
had to register and will be here tonight, cuz I really need one these!
I really needed this, oppps....I really need this, thanks for informing us Dave!
Cool giveaway, thanks Dave

a_wlee
This is awesome Dave!
Good luck all!!!
That's a nice looking PDA and I especially like the price.
Dave i hope an HX4700 review will be up then :D i am sure most ppl under an HP NDA will be able to give in info to the new ipaqs tonight since rummors say that they will be anounced on monday :D

An HX4700 review is something worth looking out for and not the Giveaway :D
im defidently staying up tonight. I'd love to have this right before my vacation
Jippyyyyy.... We in South Africa can't afford those toys....Would be nice.
:)
Now that would be SWEEEEEEEEETTTTT!!
Thin I might need to stay up tonight. That would be a nice toy!
Let's hope I'll get this one :)
Good Luck for all........
More reason to be a registered user
This would be so cool to win!! I just registered a username, even though I visit this website everyday! :D
Nodoz. . . check
1 gallon Starbucks. . .check
heavy metal music LOUD. . .check
Pocket Informant regenerating task alarm. . check
Full bladder pressure. . .check

I'm ready for you, Dave. Give me that 4355, dude.
Hmmm, erm, yup!!!

Just worked out that's 5 a.m. where I am, must set my alarm!
Nope.. I will contact you via Private Message at 1am!
"So once the winner is notified, do they need to respond within a certain time period?"

i hope not! LOL i will prolly fall asleep here on my pc, it will be 5 in the morning here in the uk :)
This is great! Just be here at midnight LOGGED into the site and you are eligible to win.
I hope that I win! I have been longing for a PPC with a built-in keyboard and Wifi.
Gee.....my 3650's replacement.
So once the winner is notified, do they need to respond within a certain time period? just wondering....GREAT IDEA THOUGH!!!!!! I would loooove one of those (as i drool)!
What a giveaway !! You won't need to ask where I'll be tonight..
cool. Maybe I can finally retire my old 3150 and get a real iPaq :-)
I'll be here.....
It's a bit hard/expensive when u are on dial-up, but I'll give it a try :)
I want to win...
To win would be nice.
I hope I'm not too late. I sure could use a new iPAQ 4355...
Looks like it will be a busy...and long night Dave!!

(I think Dave likes playing Santa!!)
Thanks for the giveaway - I'll be here! :)
easy enough for me to be here at 11pm - 1am or so. Hmm... the email said 1am EST was the latest it would be given away, so that would be midnight my time. See everyone thereabouts.
I'm in.
So when is it in GMT??? this is confusing!! Also can someone clarify who is elligible? The article does not even state if its only for US or someting like past davesipaq.com giveaways so my guess is that it should be for everyone.
i'll be there too
I'll be here.....
I'll be here.....
he he he he he... i'll be waiting...
indonesia time (GMT +7)
he he he he he... i'll be waiting...
indonesia time (GMT +7)
well, mine is about 4 years old, so i could certainly use a new one!!!
I have been thinking that the 4355 would be a nice replacment to my 5455 and now that vaja has cases for them I really want one now.
Great! I've been wanting to purchase one for my wife. She does a lot traveling by car and would like to provide her with one loaded with a GPS solution.
Havent been here in a long time! Thanks for the email
Ok! Where's the phone? Can someone tell me what this (http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11861_na/11861_na.HTML) link is all about. It must be a pda tease. Though I would race out to p/u one asap.
Hey what about me ;)
Fanastic Give away - It's going to be a long night for those of us in the UK
Just signed into the site
Is there any particular place we need to be?

The Forums, the main page, etc?
Just when I got use to a 3.8" screen now it's a 3.5" either way it's a nice gem.
Nice
I need a third ipaq so my whole family can be equiped.
phillprice: EST is GMT-5, so the thing should end at 5 o'clock in the morning for you... 6 counting the daylight saving, 7 o'clock for me :-O

I'd also like to know if overseas ppl are eligible! oh, well, that'll be a hard contest... don't think I can stay awake thet long!!! ;-))

nice thing, however, I'll give a try! :-)
Holy crap now THATS a give-away!
what is the time difference of British Summer Time to EST (for us Brits) and are we even eligible over here?
Incredible!! I was at CompUSA yesterday looking at one! What a terrific giveaway Dave...see you tonight (or should I say very early tomorrow morning?).
Wow, It would be great to own one of these beautiful units. Unfortunately I'm lucky if I canaford battery's for this anymore. Damed ex took it all. I guess I should have encrypted the phone book :(
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