Avast ye! Google has announced the national winner of its fifth annual Doodle 4 Google competition, and we’d like to congratulate second grader Dylan Hoffman of Caledonia, Wisconsin for his fine work. As a response to this year’s theme, “If I could travel in time, I’d visit…,” Dylan created a pirate scene doodle that features a vibrant parrot, a rotund swashbuckler and a treasure chest full of loot to form the Google logo. According to Dylan, he’d ideally, “Sail a pirate ship looking for treasure, have a colorful pet parrot and enjoy beautiful sunsets from deserted islands.” Sounds quite nice — especially without the scurvy.
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Doodle 4 Google winner cashes in with ‘Pirate Times’ drawing, finds a Chromebook in the treasure chest
Finally, a contest where everybody gets something for free! The Van Buren Boys, the folks behind addictive 
It’s movie time, folks. The bad news is that you have to bring your own popcorn. The good news, on the other hand, is that the feature film and the TV are on us! Thanks to the folks at Universal Studios Home Entertainment , there’s a 40-inch 1080p HDTV up for grabs. 
We’re not going to lie: we sometimes wish our giveaways could extend out to us as employees. Skullcandy just released its latest lineup of new gear, and the Supreme Sound Hesh — billed as a mid-tier on-ear headphone that has the sound of sets twice its cost — looks pretty tempting
Nothing like a smooth action movie with Tom Cruise to inspire our latest giveaway, eh? This time Paramount Home Media Distribution is stepping up to the plate to celebrate tomorrow’s release of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol on Blu-ray and DVD, and it’s offering a pair of special edition Zeal Optics Z3 Transcend GPS goggles (by special edition, we mean the box is M: I -branded), as well as a copy of the movie! But if you don’t win this time, you may still have a chance to get something: the first two runners-up will receive the movie as well. 
The amazing three day iPad giveaway campaign continues, and we’re only halfway through. Day two is already here, and it’s time to enter to win another new iPad. 
The response has been absolutely amazing since we began our regular series of giveaways two months ago. As a way of showing our gratitude — not to mention the fact that these contests aren’t going away anytime soon — we’re offering up three new iPads over the next three days! That’s right, you’ll have the chance to win one of Apple’s latest tablets each day through Friday. 
Are your grandmother’s decade-old earbuds just not cutting it any more? Time to get a pair of your own. 
Ah, nothing takes away from the beauty of a new spring quite like the demands of Uncle Sam. TurboTax is hoping to relieve you of much of that stress, finally bringing its easy-use software in the form of an Android tablet app — and even Kindle Fire users get to share the apptastic love , which is why the tax software company hooked us up with three of them to give away to our fine readers. You may be procrastinating until April 17th to file your taxes, but this contest only lasts for two days, so head below to leave a comment
Not everyone needs a Nokia Lumia 900 — in fact, we imagine that there are plenty of you out there that could care less about LTE and the larger screen. That’s where the Lumia 800 comes in real handy… 
