If you are within vicinity of New York, you may get a chance to collect some free goodies. Matt will be running the New York Usability Test to test the WordPress interface in New York City, and will be looking out for some volunteers to help him and his team of developers.

There will be a few round of test sessions running from this week till next week at the testing facility in Union Square.

Participants get to walk away with $75 WordPress gift certificate that can be redeemed for WordPress merchandises or WordPress upgrades.

Interested volunteers can register here, the lucky one will get a reply within 24 hours to be scheduled a session for the test.

Hence, no harm trying.

There is a chance for Coolest-Gadgets (CG) readers to win a fantastic Sony NWZ-A829 Walkman Video MP3 Player.

All that you need to do is to answer three very simple questions:

Question 1: What is the ‘special blue’ key feature of the NWZ-A829 Walkman?

Question 2: What is the LCD screen size of the NWZ-A829Walkman?

Question 3: How light is the NWZ-A829 Walkman?

Then, submit your answers.
(methods of submission...)

Writers can stand to win $1000 worth of monetary prize by submitting an article to this Writing Contest. The main subject of this contest is

"My Life Without..."

Participants will be asked to imagine life without their favourite gadgets, websites or technology, and write an article based on how modern technology has completely changed the life of human beings. The winner will be based on users' votes, with the first prize - $1000 to be won by the participant with the highest rating score.

(find out more about the writing contest...)

Exclusive especially for M1 customers in Singapore, the Samsung SGH-Z240 mobile is only S$38 (£13) when a customer subscribes to a new 2-year plan contract with M1, or upgrade their phone thereby extending their contract to another 2 years. The new mobile phone contains the state-of-the art technology, which combines a list of features together with fashionable colours on changeable covers. This is in conjunction with the film, Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End, which is to be released on May 24, 2007.

I choose to write this post, because I happened to consider upgrading my ancient Nokia 3310 mobile phone, which is at least 6 years old.

As according to some sources, the Nokia 3310 is a dual band GSM900/1800 mobile phone released in the 4^th quarter of 2000.

This particular phone model was one of the most successful phones and it has sold extremely well, with over 100 million pieces being sold.

I did not have the deepest urge to upgrade my robust mobile device, but whilst in Singapore, I was highly tempted by the extremely low price offered by mobile service provider, in this case, M1.

(more in detail below...)

Coolest-Gadgets (CG) is once again having another contest - guessing the screen resolutions.

Al, the owner of CG, is running a gadget competition to get participants to guess what screen resolutions are being used by CG visitors. This may seem to be relatively easy since if you own a site, you can technically check out from some statistical tools, e.g. Google Analytics, to obtain some close answers.

Anyway, the prize is to win a $25 Think Geek voucher. Below is what you have to do:

Simply leave a comment at the post with the number of how many different screen resolutions you think have been used to view Coolest Gadgets over the last week.

Remember to hurry! The contest is only open for the next 24 hours (probably lesser now),