Canadian financial expert Preet Banerjee is giving away an Apple iPad via his blog, Wheredoesallmymoneygo.com! The catch is that the winner will have to answer a "skill testing question" (which I'm assuming will have to do with finances, but I'm not sure).
The contest ends at 5:00 PM EST, so please hurry if you'd like to enter. :-)
Head on over to Milk and Cookies for a chance to win a copy of "The Kneebone Boy" by Ellen Potter. She will give the copy away when she hits 50 Google Friend Connect followers. (It looks like a very cool children's fantasy book, and I'd love to read it - even if I don't win, I'm hunting this down at the library or bookstore. :-) )
Another last minute contest, because I just found this one. :-)
Head on over to DustinNikki Mom of Three to win a Crazy Dog T-Shirt. Ends 5/22 at 11:59 PM EST (TONIGHT!)
You can see all their great retro shirts over here.
I'm personally trying for the t-shirt shown below. Even after all these years, I still have a soft spot for My Little Ponies!
...I somehow didn't include this in my weekly "giveaways I'm entering" post, and I don't know how I did that. So this is late, whoops.
If you'd like to win a totally awesome Strider PREbike (balance bike) for your preschooler (ages 1-5), go on over here to Bizzi-Mommi's blog before 11:59 PM tonight (5/22)!
You can also go to the entry page by clicking on the pic of the awesome PREbike below:
My weekly contest post. I'm late this week - didn't have time on the weekend.
Two of these end TONIGHT, so please hurry if you'd like to enter them!
VERY IMPORTANT: if you get an email asking you to sign up to review an iPad (and if you do, you get to keep it) - trash the email, it's a scam! They'll ask you to log into your email account, then take over your account and spam your friends.
Just got one of these emails today, googled it, and trashed it forthwith. The sites involved (so far) are btincgroup.com and testitandkeepit.com.
More information at Riding with Jessica and Geek Sugar.
Please pass the word!
On to the giveaways:
Sweeps4Bloggers is giving away a $40 Coldstone Creamery gift card. Ends TONIGHT, 5/18, at 8 PM PST! |  |
There are two "Where's Spot - Anniversary Edition" DVDs that I'm trying to win this/next week! I'd love to have this for my 2-year-old nephew.
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Minnesota Mama's Must Haves is giving away Flicka 2 DVDs to TWO winners! If I win, I'll have a hard time deciding whether to give the DVD to my 5-year-old nephew or my 9-year-old niece, as they both love horses! Ends 5/19. |  |
1 Boy + 1 Girl = A Happy Mom is giving away a set of 5 hand mirrors from Little Pink Plum. Ends 5/19. |  |
I'm entering three contests for Tooth Fairy DVDs that end this week! (Well, one ends next week, but I'm including it anyway. ^_^) I'm trying to win this for my 9-year-old niece, who loves this movie.
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Our Family Treat is giving away a Kidorable umbrella. I'm trying to win this for my 5-year-old nephew. :-) Ends 5/21. |  |
Sweeps4Bloggers is giving away a LunchBots stainless steel lunch container to THREE winners! Ends 5/21. |  |
Sweeps4Bloggers is also giving away a 4-pack of Mrs. Renfro's gourmet salsa - TWO winners! Ends 5/21. |  |
Experimental Mommy is giving away a $50 Western Union card to FIVE winners! Check out Western Union's site here. I'd like to win this for my mom. Ends 5/21. |  |
Sweeps4Bloggers is giving away Smiley Cookies from Eat N' Park to THREE winners. Cheerful and delicious. :-) Ends 5/22. |  |
Sweeps4Bloggers is also giving away Pravana Fresh! Dry Voluming Shampoo to FIVE winners. This sounds really useful! Ends 5/23. |  |
Another contest that ends tonight (5/14)! Enter to win a black pearl bracelet from Pearl Paradise and Money Saving Mama in Michigan. Contest ends at 10 PM EST!
Another last minute giveaway! I'm not even sure when this giveaway ends today, but I'm going to try to enter anyway! (I'd love to win this for my mom!)
Go on over to Frugal Housewife for the chance to win a Delta Pilar TouH20. Ends some time today (5/14)!
Savvy Coupon Mommy is giving away a Wii console! This contest ends tomorrow (5/14), so hurry!
Connected2Christ is holding a giveaway for a Litter Robot II Eco unit which ends tomorrow (5/12).
For those not familiar, these are kind of the pinnacle of both coolness and user-friendliness so far as automatic litter boxes go, and they are also ultra-pricey. I have wanted one of these for years, but $300+ is just too much for me to justify for a litter box. So I'm crossing my fingers and hoping very hard. :-)
My weekly contest post, for some of the giveaways I'm entering which are ending this week. Two end tonight, so hurry if you'd like to enter! Hope you all are having a great Mother's Day. :-)
Networking Witches is giving away a Hokey Croquis Fashion Sketchpad. I'm hoping to win this for my niece, who wants to be a fashion designer when she grows up. Ends TONIGHT (5/9) at 11:59 EST. |  |
Sweeps4Bloggers is giving away a $50 Stride Rite gift certificate. Ends TONIGHT at 8 PM PST. |  |
| Reviews and Reflections is giving away really nifty Guidecraft library cart. I have to admit that I'm entering this one for myself rather than my nieces and nephews. I'm a big fan of libraries (being a bookworm, I spent a sizable percentage of my childhood in 'em), and I just think it would be so neat to have a library cart for my books. Ends 5/10 at 8 AM. |  |
| Craft Gossip is giving away a a Photoshop Elements & Premier 8 software bundle. I'm hoping to win this for my oldest nephew, who is an artist and photographer. Ends 5/10. |  |
| Eighty MPH Mom is giving away a a Sunshine Kids Car or Booster Seat (your choice of 4 styles). I'm hoping to win a car seat for my mom, who ferries my 2-year-old nephew around and has trouble fastening her seat, which is rather old. Ends 5/10. |  |
| Mom's Balancing Act is giving away a Delta faucet - your choice up to a $300 faucet! I'm really hoping to win this for my mother, who has wanted to get a new faucet for the kitchen for quite a while now. Delta Faucet Company has quite a lot of neat features for their faucets, including technology to let you "touch on" a faucet and motion-sensing technology, among others. You can check their faucets out at their website. Ends 5/10. |  |
| The Mommy Files is giving away a $50 1-800-Flowers gift certificate. I'm also hoping to win this for my mom. :-) (It may be a little late for mother's day, but who needs an excuse to send flowers to their mom?) Ends 5/10. |  |
| Second Time Around is giving away a random High Sierra bag. Still trying to win one of these for my nephew, who is going to college in the fall! Ends 5/12. |  |
| A Nut in a Nutshell is giving away The Magic Warble, a children's fantasy book by Victoria Simcox. I'd never heard of this book before this contest, and it looks like a really interesting read. :-) (I'm a big fan of children's fantasy...Diana Wynne Jones is one of my favorite authors.) Ends 5/12. |  |
| Shawn's Sharings is giving away a set of wonder hangers! These actually look really neat, and I'd like to win them to help organize my overloaded closet. Ends 5/12. |  |
| Savvy Coupon Mommy is giving away a pair of Jollys garden shoes/clogs. Trying to win these for my mom! Ends 5/14. |  |
| Sweeps4Bloggers is giving away a $50 Joy of Spa certificate. I'm hoping to win this for my sister-in-law, who loves massages. :-) Ends 5/14. |  |
| Bizzi-Mommi is giving away a really awesome Guidecraft Rocking Pirate Ship! I'm trying to win this for my 2-year-old and 5-year-old nephews. Ends 5/15. |  |
| Sweeps4Bloggers is also giving away a $25 gift card of your choice from Gift Card Mall! Or, actually, they're giving away FIVE of them to five lucky winners! Have I mentioned how awesome Sweeps4Bloggers is lately? Ends 5/15. |  |
Here are a few last-minute contests. Hurry, they end today (Friday, 5/7!)
The Mommy Files is giving away a Tooth Fairy DVD! Or rather, she's giving away two of them, so you have two chances to win! I'm hoping to win this for my niece, who loves this movie. | |
I'm also entering two contests for "How To Train Your Dragon" games...one for a Wii game for my nephew, and one for a DS game for my niece. I really hope I win one of them! :-) It's a really great movie, BTW - completely transfixed everyone in my family who went to see it, including the adults. I highly recommend going to see it, if you haven't, while it's still in the theaters!
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This is my weekly giveaway post, with giveaways I'm entering this week. I do get extra entries for posting about these, but you can go enter, too. :-)
I'm cutting it really close on a few of these, sorry! (My nephews were over and then we were watching Ponyo, and I looked up and it was 6 already!)
Closet of Free Samples is giving away a Twilight Turtle! This is a soft turtle with a hard shell that projects the stars and moon on the ceiling. Really cute, and my niece has actually wanted one of these for years (she loves turtles), so I am entering it for her. This giveaway ends TONIGHT (5/2). I am not sure when...looking at her sidebar, it might be 8 PM! Not much time - go enter now if you're interested! |  |
Sammi's Blog of Life is giving away a package of Shirley J's Universal Sauce. I'm really curious as to how this stuff works (you can make different sauces with it?) so I'm entering. Ends TONIGHT (5/2) at 10 PM! |  |
Mint Green with Envy is giving away $25 Amazon.com gift card. Yeah, this one's for me. :-) Ends TONIGHT (5/2) at midnight! |  |
Serenity's Giveaways is giving away Yoplait Greek "Nourish Your Inner Goddess" Prize Pack. I'm hoping to win this for my mom. :-) Ends 5/3. |  |
Sweeps4Bloggers is giving away a Panano Children's Boutique $45 GC. Or, actually, she's giving away TWO of them, which doubles your chances! Ends 5/3. |  |
Bizzi-Mommi is giving away a Zoobie. It's a stuffed animal, pillow, and blanket all rolled into one! I'm hoping to win a tiger one for my nephew. Ends 5/3. |  |
Bizzi-Mommi is also giving away an awesome K'Nex package, with many different K'Nex sets included. I'd love to win this for my nephews. Ends 5/3. |  |
Mom's Balancing Act is giving away an Xtrema 10" skillet.. It's ceramic and doesn't scratch! Xtrema also makes many more ceramic, unscrachable kitchen items...see the Xtrema site for more info. Ends 5/3. |  |
Networking Witches is giving away the Tooth Fairy movie. Or, actually, they're giving away TWO copies, which means higher odds! I'm entering this for my niece, who loves this movie. Ends 5/4. | |
Minnesota Mama's Must Haves is giving away Shred Sled. I'd love to win this for my older nephew, who is into sports like skateboarding and snowboarding. Ends 5/5. |  |
Sweeps4Bloggers is giving away a "Fur Shui" book. This book looks interesting, and I love cats, so I think I'd like it. Ends 5/7. |  |
No Time Mommy is giving away an Audiovox 8" portable DVD player! Ours is breaking at the seams (a screw is loose right around the connection to the screen, so the screen wobbles), so I'd love to win this to replace it. Ends 5/8. |  |
Sweeps4Bloggers is also giving away Honestech VHS to DVD software. I have a ton of old anime fansubs that I'd love to convert to DVD, so I'm entering for that reason. Ends 5/8. |  |
Guys, be careful about surfing around on Wordpress sites today (or for the next few days, probably). It looks like quite a few Wordpress sites and blogs have been hacked. See here for more information. And here.
More discussion amongst Wordpress users here.
Edit: if you are the owner of a blog/site that's been hacked, check near the bottom of that discussion! They tell you how to fix it. There's also some good information here and here, though it's not as detailed.
GoDaddy is reporting that it's due to a handful of sites having outdated software, but I've run into at least 3 infected blogs today. The problem is, it's hard to tell which ones are infected when I have a million tabs open and I have to crash the browser to get away from the "Warning: Your computer is at risk of malware attacks!" scare messages.
I did manage to finally get a site to stay open long enough to look at the code, and found a line that looks like the Javascript script shown here. With the kp.php file included.
If you encounter an infected site, you may get a popup telling you that you have malware or are at risk. You will then be directed to a scanning program on a website, or something that looks an awful lot like a virus scanner finding a lot of bad things in your computer. DO NOT BELIEVE IT. This is a ploy to get you to download their program, which IS actually spyware/malware.
If you are told that you have malware or spyware by a program that doesn't quite look like your normal virus program, DO NOT LET IT DOWNLOAD ANYTHING TO YOUR COMPUTER. And definitely don't let it install anything! If possible, don't even click on anything in the popup window. (Yes, including the "x" in the corner...it could be the equivalent of clicking the "OK" button in some cases.) Instead, crash your browser using CTRL-ALT-DELETE and then start anew with a fresh browser session if possible. You may lose any tabs you have open, but you'll be safe.
The one I kept running into looked a lot like the virus/malware my sister and her family were infected with last year. (i.e., Internet Security 2010.) It was nasty and really hard to clean out.
If you don't think your computer is infected, but keep running into the problem described above, consider editing your hosts file to block the malware sites involved. The malware site I keep being redirected to is "www1.protectsys28-pd.xorg.pl" (don't visit that site, okay.) I've also seen "www3.workfree36-td.xorg.pl" (and don't visit that one, either.)
If you believe that you have been infected, please go here and follow the instructions. This is what I use! It's a long process to clean your computer out, but I've used the MajorGeeks Malware Removal Guide a bunch of times for friends and relatives and my own computer, and it's really helpful. It does work, it just takes time and effort to clean everything out.
If I could recommend installing and running one program in that guide, I would tell you to get MalwareBytes Anti-Malware. It's a really good program. It won't catch everything, but it will clean out most things.
Heck, even if you don't think you've been infected, it's a good idea to install it and run the program on a monthly basis...or even more often.
Be safe.
Last minute - again, just found this, and it ends tonight at 11:59 PM.
Click here to enter to win the most awesome bouncy ball ever at the Ethertons. (I really want to see this in action, so...*crosses my fingers*.)
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