Windows 8 app contest: first wave of winners announced
The first 29 winners of our brilliant competition can now be revealed. But you still have 5 days to enter and win the biggest prizes!
The closing date for our Windows 8 App Generator competition is rapidly approaching - and although the main prizes are still to play for, we've already given out 29 prizes to designers just for entering!
From 27 November until Christmas Eve, we selected one lucky entrant every day at random to receive a brilliant 32G Windows tablet. We also picked one lucky entrant - again at random - for a special Winter Prize Draw, with an awesome bundle of tech, including a Dell Workstation, a Wacom 24 HD Tablet and a 16GB Lytro Camera. We're pleased to announce to the winners of both of these draws below.
But don't worry, there's still time to enter your app and win more fabulous prizes. You have until Wednesday 16 January to get your entries in to the contest. So get your skates on!
The winners and their apps are:
- Daily Prize draw winners:
Gary Pretty/Christmas Presents 
James Millar/Modernmap 
Paul Bond/Keep Calm 
Dylan Maryk/asdfmovie Soundboard 
Daniel Brown/Hull Computer Science Blogs 
Nathan Case/AuroraWatch UK 
Stuart Walton/Count The Sheep 
Steven Paske/GCSE Calculator 
Mark Dickinson/BBC Football My Club 
Anwar Ahmad Moon/Desi Music 
Clive Howard/Jungle - the fashion app 
Damian Sharp/Live Premier League Football 
Chris Newman/Disco Pulse 
Paul Michaels/GeeGeeEight 
Alexander Miles/Wordler 
Ian Walker/Live Tile news 
Daniel Da Rocha/Mortar Melon 
Paul Mcgee/Vikings! Tower Defense 
Simon Williams/Delicious Thai Red Curry 
Freckelton/Yatterbox Matt
Linda Hogg/cookbook for kids 
Rashed Hassan/The Country - Bangladesh 
Gerry Rohling/WSI Client 
Katherine Gordon/Learn Morse Code 
Alessandro Bellu/London Bikes 
Kevin Meehan/Visit Liverpool 
Paul Diston/Beyonce
- Winter Prize draw winner: Dominic Ayre/Study Planner
5 days left to enter!
Although the Daily Prize Draw prizes have been snapped up, the main prizes are still anyone's to win, including a Windows 8 Ultrabook, a Windows tablet, a Nokia Lumia 920 Windows 8 Phone, a Dell Workstation, a Wacom 24 HD Tablet and a 16GB Lytro Camera.
The top 10 winners in the competition - which is open to UK residents only - will also be invited to a prize-giving event on 7 February 2013, at London’s Modern Jago. So quick, enter your app today!
- Find out more about the competition, and enter your app, here.
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