PalmHack VII Winners

Cobalt

• Honorable Mention, and their choice of LandWare software, to Steve Bennett & Hæmish Graham, for Bounce.
• Dishonorable Mention for a sponsor submitting an entry after the rehearsal, to Llamagraphics, for Snow. Prize: -1 copies of Life Balance.
• Llamagraphics Get A Life Prize, for the undisputed winner in the Cobalt Hardware category, Chain Mail Treo 650 Case, by Hæmish Graham.
• palmOne Time After Time Award, an unlocked Treo 650, to Parker Minardo, for Crazy Clock.

Garnet

• Honorable Disqualification, and a copy of AeroPlayer, for Butler Launches Real Player on 650 by Rob Johnson.
• Honorable Disqualification, and a copy of LandWare’s Small Talk, for Microsecond Timer by Jonaton Fernstad.
• Dishonorable Mention for Topicality, and a copy of LandWare’s Money Magazine Financial Assistant, for BrandPong by HandsHigh.
• Dishonorable Disqualification, and a copy of LandWare’s Leonard Maltin Movie Guide, for Sock Monkey Knife Fight by Scott Corley.
• An unlocked palmOne Treo 650 for WiFi Theremin by Richard Sewell & Iain Barclay.

Special thanks to palmOne, Oswin, LandWare, Llamagraphics, and Aerodrome, and an extra-special curse to the Demo Gods for an exquisitely-timed battery malfunction. Thanks to Eric Cloninger for the photos.

PalmHack VII

The seventh PalmHack programming contest is hereby announced, to take place at the 2005 PalmSource Developer Conference. Thanks to PalmOne, the grand prizes will be two unlocked Treo 650's, one for the best Cobalt entry, one for the best Garnet entry. Entries need not be HackMaster Hacks, and will be judged on the basis of frivolity, originality, and hackishness.

As is traditional, there are no actual rules, although hitting judges with chairs is unlikely to be rewarded. There may, however, be major bonus points for entries which:

• Run as native Protein apps under Palm OS Cobalt on the ARM® boards in the Lab.
• Were written entirely during the Developer Conference.
• Entertain the night-time Lab staff.

Entries which are actually useful are not officially prohibited, but suggest a lack of understanding of the spirit of PalmHack, and are subject to deduction of points.

Entries should be demonstrated and beamed to one of the judges in the Lab by 10:30 PM on Wednesday, May 25th:

• Kenneth Albanowski
• Doug Anderson
• Ben Combee
• Steve Lemke
• Flash Sheridan

Awards will be announced during the Conference Closing Session on Thursday, and also at http://flash-sheridan.name/spug/PalmHackVII.html. See also http://blogs.palmsource.com/devcon/2005/04/palmhack_vii_co.html, and Blogging the DevCon.