What we wrote in October 2009

Halloween Pranks

Some pranks to play on your friends just in time for Halloween!

LittleQuiz & The Irish Independent

Newspaper media whoring

LittleQuiz.com was profiled today on the Irish Independent under the title “Life’s a pitch for some of Ireland’s most promising technology startups.” We are very thrilled to be featured alongside such great emerging companies as DownloadMusic.ie.

Irish Independent & LittleQuiz.com

Huge thanks to Marie Boran of GadgetRepublic.com for the above. We have a scan of the complete page if anyone missed the other great Irish companies listed.
The six companies profiled were :
Directebooks.com
Cauwill
SecondTeacher.com
Grab Radio
DownloadMusic.ie
LittleQuiz.com

LittleQuiz & UCC Campus Radio

Radio Media Whoring

Thanks a lot to UCC Campus Radio for giving us a few minutes of air time in October:

Check out the audio here. Warning : It’s 12 minutes long!

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Caption this & win some swag! #2

Congrats to Kieran Power for winning last week’s Caption Competition. He beat off some stiff competition from 35 other captions! Thanks again to Victor Barry for picking the winner.

Here is this week’s image :
Caption Competition Win Some Swag - Week #2

We have even added some made up names to help you. Go knock yourself out : Caption / Comment below and you could be walking away with some cool swag of your own!

UPDATE 06/11/09 And the Winner ( as picked by Victor BarryRedFM) is::
Brian Clayton with:

“Despite barry passing out, fin and kate enthusiastically volunteered to be next for the vodka supersoaker”

Well done Brian, and thanks to Victor Barry for helping out again!

Quiz #6: An iPod Touch from VidVend.com

Win An iPod Touch from VidVend.com!

Sponsor: VidVend.com [ visit sponsor | take quiz ]
Prize:
An iPod Touch from VidVend.com

This week you can win the completely brilliant and utterly handy 8GB iPod Touch from VidVend.com. They’ll even throw in a couple of cooking videos of your choice so you can take your recipes right into the kitchen or share them on your blog!

Vidvend is a video licensing website for food videos that features 100s of HD quality videos that you can download in an instant and use either online on your blog or website or for display purposes. Vidvend also produce bespoke videos for brands, agencies and publishers.

With the cool 8GB iPod Touch on offer you can listen to music playlists automatically created just for you, plus watch movies and videos on a brilliant 3.5-inch screen. Built-in Wi-Fi means you can surf the web, send email and so much more!

To win this great prize: Just head along to the home page of LittleQuiz.com here and answer those three little questions! Contest closes Sunday, November 1st at Midnight.

Week 5 winners

Winners Drawn

The monkey has drawn names from his hat and we’re delighted to announce the winners from Week 5 at LittleQuiz.com:

Roseanne Smith – Dublin – 250 Euros of cosmetics and The Beautie Guide to Gorgeous
Kevin Coleman – Tipperary – €100 in cold hard cash, baby!
Siobhan Lavern – Location to be updated – The totally brill Little Quiz Swag Bag

Congratulations to everyone who’s going home with great prizes, and many thanks to our Week 5 sponsor, Beaut.ie, who made these prizes possible. If you didn’t win this week, don’t despair – there are plenty of ways to win, and our next contest launches today!

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Feeling lucky?
Head along to the home page of LittleQuiz.com here and answer those three little questions to be in with a chance to win this week’s prize!

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Curb your spendthusiasm

Lovely Snacks

Need to save up for that rainy day? How better than to create your very own Money Spending Log.
Yep it’s just as easy as it sounds.

1 : Buy (or better still : Find) a pocket sized notepad and pencil.
2 : Record every single cent you spend starting from now. (Everything from a cup of coffee to the car insurance)
3 : At the end of each week transfer all the weeks spend to an excel file
4 : Start the next week trying to improve on the previous week’s spend.

There are many benefits to keeping a log of your spending including:

  • Curbing that impulse buy, you’ll think twice about that Twix if you have to enjoy it while writing down how much it costs.
  • It might help with that diet that you’re always banging on about (<- I'm talking to myself here)
  • As sad as it sounds, it may be fun trying to beat your own previous score/spend.
  • You will force yourself to come up with other money saving ideas. (You will most likely make birthday cards from now on, who knows you could even become a little artist.)

Have some ideas on this yourself? Do comment below.

Caption this & win some swag!

Since last week’s caption contest went down so well, we may as well have another! After all you did ask us. (Well one of you!)

This week we’ll have someone judge the best comment.
We shall give out one swag bag as a prize. Best of luck!

Here’s this week’s picture:

Puppy Dreaming

Picture credit

Go caption it!
We’ll leave it open until Saturday, announce winner on Sunday 25th October.

UPDATE: The winning caption has been chosen by the legend Vic Barry from RedFM

And the winner is…
Kieran Power with:
If I pretend to be asleep maybe he’ll go away

Well done Kieran, a swag bag will be making it’s way to you shortly!

Quiz #5: €250 Worth of Cosmetics from Beaut.ie

Win €250 worth of beauty goodies and the new book from Beaut.ie!

Sponsor: Beaut.ie [ visit sponsor | take quiz ]
Prize:
€250 worth of beauty products and the new book from Beaut.ie

It’s one for the girls: A FABULOUS opportunity to win €250 worth of cosmetics, beauty products, bath goodies and goodness knows what, all hand-picked and lovingly bundled up by the beauty mavens at Beaut.ie, Ireland’s leading beauty blog. We have absolutely no idea what you’ll get, but we are already jealous. So use them, share them or stash them away for ace stocking stuffers, but for the love of God tell us what arrives so we can turn green with envy (and then cover our greeness with Realness of Concealness, possibly the best beauty product ever.)

Also included is one precious, beautiful copy of the JUST LAUNCHED Beaut.ie Guide to Gorgeous, Ireland’s first beauty book. If you don’t win this week, you can pick your copy up at Brown Thomas, Easons, or online at Amazon!

To Win this Prize: Just head along to the home page of LittleQuiz.com here and answer those three little questions! Contest closes Sunday, October 25th at Midnight.

Week 4 winners

Winners Drawn

The monkey has drawn names from his hat and we’re delighted to announce the winners from Week 4 at LittleQuiz.com:

Frank DavidsChoice of mobile phones & 100 Euro phone credit
Grainne Donovan €100 in cold hard cash, baby!
Patrick NagleThe totally brill Little Quiz Swag Bag

Congratulations to everyone who’s going home with great prizes, and many thanks to our Week 4 sponsor, LouderVoice.com, who made these prizes possible. If you didn’t win this week, don’t despair – there are plenty of ways to win, and our next contest launches today!

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Feeling lucky?
Head along to the home page of LittleQuiz.com here and answer those three little questions to be in with a chance to win this week’s prize!

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