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And here are some more winners from the 9th Birthday competition. Well done to you all!

Malcolm takes home a £20 gift voucher from Expert Shield UK plus a luxury silicone case from PDair, a copy of Fruit Salad and a copy of WordPop! His entry is here.

Shofar wins 2 screen protectors from Brando, 2 games of his choice from Astraware and a case from PDair. His entry is here.

Eric wins a luxury silicone case from PDair, 1 game of his choice from Astraware and 2 screen protectors from Brando. His entry is here.

Yet more prizes will be announced tomorrow…

Deciding the 9th Birthday competition winners has been incredibly difficult and so far I have only managed to choose the main winners. I will list all of the winners tomorrow, but in the meantime here are the main winners and why they won-

The first prize was £400, but I struggled to pick a winner who did enough over everyone else to take home the full amount. In the end I decided to spit it three ways and increase the prize fund.

Peter takes home £150 plus a case from Piel Frama, a case from PDair and 2 ultra clear screen protectors from Brando. His entries are here, here, here, here and here. There may be more, but the volume and quality of his work has been amazing over the past few weeks and he deserves multiple prizes.

Kelvin also takes home £150 plus a case from PDair and 2 screen protectors from Brando. His entries are here and here. The volume may not be so high, but the quality is again excellent.

Janine also takes home £150 for 2 articles that will be published later this week. They came in over the weekend and it would be fair to say that Janine does not pull her punches in her views on women and smartphones and the subject of trolls.

Bob takes home the £50 voucher from Clove plus a case from Piel Frama, a case from PDair and 2 ultra clear screen protectors from Brando. His entries are here, here and here. Bob has consistently helped out over the past few months and the quality keeps on rolling in.

Come back tomorrow for the full list of winners. THANKS to all of you who took the time to enter the competition and for all of the great content. The past two weeks have been much easier for me thanks to you all:)

The 9th Birthday competition winners will be announced on 247 tomorrow morning. I have some serious thinking to do tonight because there were many excellent entries and a lot of prizes to give away. Come back tomorrow for the full list of winners.

PDA-247 has somehow managed to reach the 9 year milestone and to celebrate a competition will start today which gives you the chance to win some BIG prizes. There are a variety of ways in which you can win so whichever way you prefer is fine by me. Please note the change of closing date- this is due to some personal commitments which I need to keep this week and thus I need more time to choose the winners. Here is how you can enter-

Reviews and Thoughts: Send in your reviews, mobile thoughts and any other content you believe would be suitable for publishing to shaun (at) mailstm.co.uk. Quality is the top priority here for a chance of winning the big prizes.

Why you should win: Add a comment to this thread explaining why you should win a prize in under 30 words- the funnier the better.

Or you can simply add your comment as to what PDA-247 has meant to you over the past 9 years- the more ego boosting the better:)

PRIZES

1st Prize:

£400 (or local currency equivalent) towards the mobile device of your choice. Actually you can spend it on whatever you like because I will send the prize money via PayPal or your preferred alternative method.

2nd Prize:

£50 to spend at www.clove.co.uk.

3rd Prizes:

2 cases from www.pielframa.com (you can choose the case you want).
5 cases from www.pdair.com of your choice (retail value $28 each)
5 aluminium www.pdair.com cases of your choice (retail value $28 each)
10 luxury silicone www.pdair.com cases of your choice (retail value $18 each)
22 Ultra Clear screen protectors from http://shop.brando.com.hk/

4th Prize:

A £20 gift voucher for any item from www.expertshielduk.com

5th Prizes:

10 free copies of WordPop! Volt for iPad and 10 free copies of WordPop! for iPhone.

5 games of your choice from www.astraware.com.

10 copies of Fruit Salad and Solitaire for iOS from Mastersoft.

Terms: The closing date of the competition is 7th February 2011 (midnight UK time) and no entries will be accepted after this time. Winners will be announced on 9th February 2011 on PDA-247.

“Shaun and the contributor gang at PDA-247 have done an awesome job keeping the site fresh and relevant all these years even though the mobile tech world has changed almost beyond recognition since the site was started! They feature changes and new tech with genuine enthusiasm and honesty in a way that you can’t get anywhere else. I said it years ago, and it’s just as true today: I still check back every day.” Howard Tomlinson. CEO, Astraware.

“A website that keeps abreast of modern smartphone technology which provides conversation and rich indulging content like no other site.  It’s not just about what’s hot, its about discussion and over the years PDA-247 has built a strong community of followers that should be proud to be  part of it.” Jonathan Love, Clove Technology.

I have disabled the mobile version of PDA-247 again after some of you complained that it is still popping up on desktop browsers. I experienced this myself last week as well so will work over the weekend to find a permanent fix. Thanks for your patience.

The whole idea of paying to view a blog on an Amazon Kindle is strange to me, but if you really want to there will be a PDA-247 version available within the next 24 hours. I will post the link when it is published, may already be live actually, but feel free to give it a trial and let us know what you think.

Just a quick point. If you are expecting an email reply or haven’t seen one of your comments (first time commenters only) posted, I am having some email problems. It seems that only about 50% are getting through and that a HUGE amount of spam has come in (over 500 emails last night alone).

So, if you are waiting for a reply please be patient…

If you use EverNote you can now load any PDA-247 content into your EverNote account by clicking the Elephant below each article. You do need to click the title first to bring up the single article page, working on that one, but tests have gone well so far and this could be useful if you want to read the longer articles and reviews later on. The resulting pop-up offers you the choice of which notebook to save the article in and the final article should show just the text and images from the article itself, not the entire site page. All feedback welcome.

While doing some research for my retro N770 review yesterday I stumbled across the very first Clie World Magazine which is till available online. The writing isn’t great, but it may bring back some memories for you of when we used to get excited by the simplest of developments in the PDA world. You can read the whole of the first issue here.

“Welcome to the ‘pilot’ edition of CLIEWorld Magazine. In this first issue you will find a taster of what to expect in future issues such as reviews, articles and loads of interesting CLIE/Palm OS related information. This issue if free and is really a tester to see what future features are required by you- the reading public. You should expect at least 4 times the content in future issues. I would be grateful if you could take the time to let me know what type of content you would like to see in the future (email me: webmaster@clieworld.co.uk).

Finally I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to this first edition, in particular George Birman and Sean Charles, and look forward to working with you all for a long time to come.”

This is a quick reminder that you can donate to PDA-247 if you enjoy the content every day. Details are on the about page and there are some perks for any donation of $5 and above. It is very difficult to come up with iPhone or Android related perks due to the way the software is sold, but I continue to hunt out deals for you if I can.

There are a few adverts on 247 and the goal of any site is to use income to cover the costs and turn a profit, but if I am honest it is not always easy to do that. The site will continue no matter what, but any help would be appreciated. Thanks for listening:)