Here are the winners of the ZapStore.com sponsored giveaway:

Congratulations to the winners! We will contact them personally to get their shipping addresses to send their prizes.

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The winners were chosen using the Random.org sequence generator. Each valid entry was assigned a number and a random sequence of those numbers was generated using the sequence generator. The entries for the top 4 numbers in the sequence were chosen as the winners.

*Amit Bhutani did not send us his address in time and hence has been disqualified. We conducted the draw again using the same random sequence generator and Arjun Sood came out to be the winner.

A big thanks to ZapStore.com – the sponsor of this giveaway.

[UPDATE Thu 15-Dec-2011 11:00 AM]: The contest is now closed. Any further comments will not be considered as valid entries. Stay tuned for winners announcement.

We love our readers. We love bringing forth the most exciting and useful tips, tricks, views and reviews for our users to consume. But sometimes, we love to show our appreciation by rewarding you guys for loving us!

The Occasion

Sometime back the nice guys at ZAPstore (the exciting new online electronic store) contacted us about their launch and we decided to use this opportunity to reward our amazing readers!

The Prizes

• 1 TB portable hard drive
• Jabra EasyGo Bluetooth Headset
• 2 * SkullCandy D-2XL Headphones

The prizes have been kindly sponsored by ZAPstore. The online electronics store that cares about your wallet and more!

The Task

You have to post a comment below answering the following question:

“What is the most desirable gadget according to you and given a choice, which celebrity would you want to endorse it?”

The contest runs till Dec 15 10:00 AM IST. Make sure you leave your answer before that.

PS: Since we are supposed to physically ship the products, this contest is only open to residents of India.

• Binit Tanna
• Vinamra Jaiswal
• Nuno Gomes

Congratulations!

FYI, We ran a Random Sequence Generator to come up with 3 lucky winners.

The winners need to send us their email addresses to info <at> woikr <dot> com no later than 7th September 2011. The account login details will be directly communicated to the winners through email. 

Thanks every one for participating. For those who didn’t win, we’ve got another giveaway live at the moment and lots more coming up real soon. Stay tuned.

Once again, Thanks Binverse for sponsoring the giveaway.

If you have an iPad and are usually on the move with it, you might have faced a situation where you wanted to access a file on your PC back home. The folks at LiniQue have developed an iPad app which can help you in such situations. UniQXcess is a $2.99 iPad app which, coupled with a free PC based server software running on your computer back home can let you access any file you have shared on your iPad anywhere in the world as long as you are connected to the internet.

The app works as follows:

• Install the free software on your PCs (yes, multiple computers are supported)
• Sign up for an account
• Specify what folders you want to share
• Sign in to your account on your iPad
• Start accessing the files you your remote computer

Once you have signed in, you can select the computer you want to view your files from. The app has a very intuitive interface and even lets you preview most of the files. In addition, you can also open the files in any of the installed viewers on your iPad.

The app has built in preview functionality for MS Office (doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx), PDF, Text files, Web files (html), Image files (jpg, bmp, png, gif) & Zip files. Here is a video demo of the app:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBCl2DkVyWg

Review:

I set up the server on my windows PC at home and shared a folder with multiple types of files in it. The app seamlessly opened the supported file types and also identified the installed viewers on my iPad. The search functionality is pretty useful if you have a folder with lots of files. There are buttons you can tap to sort the file list based on name, type and modified date.

You can also download any file to save it locally on your iPad. This is extremely useful in situations when you might be roaming in an area where you might have intermittent internet access.

I have also been told that the upcoming versions will support more file types including mp3, mp4 files and dropbox accounts (wow). There is also an android version available for INR 45.20.

Although the app is pretty good at what it claims to do, there is one thing which I believe can be improved. The login screen has a keys icon, tapping on which sends your password to your email address without confirming with you. There is no “Forgot Password?” text next to the icon. I just tapped it out of curiosity and the app told me that my password has been sent to my email! In addition to this, the password is sent in plain text to my email, which I believe might not be the safest way considering its the password to access my personal files stored on my PC over the internet. Although, I believe that this can be fixed with an update and should in no way stop you from buying the app.

Conclusion:

UniQXcess is an awesome app for people who carry their iPad with them and use it for viewing/editing critical files. Nothing beats the peace of mind of having access to all your important files from anywhere in the world and UniQXcess gives you that. We give it 4.5 out of 5 stars.

Giveaway:

We have two promo codes of the app to give away to our readers. If you want to win one, just take the following steps:

• Like woikr on Facebook
• Leave a comment below mentioning how you will use the app if you won it

Two lucky winners will receive a promo code each for the app on the iOS App Store. We will announce the winners on 10-Sep-2011.

[Thanks to LiniQue for the review copy and promo codes for give away.]

What is Usenet?
Usenet is one of the oldest computer networks built in 1979, that’s almost 10 years before the World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berner-Lee. It supports news and file transfer across networks. Usenet is now primarily offered by premium service providers like Binverse.

What is Binverse?
Binverse is one of the top Usenet providers in the US and provides a safe/secure and a fast way to Usenet. Binverse is popular because

• It doesn’t speed cap your downloads
• Transfers data through a 256bit encrypted SSL connection.
• Built-in search – you can search and download from within the application
• Preview audio/video and image files before downloading them fully.
• Crawls over 100,000 Newsgroups (more files)
• Over 800TB available files to download
• Runs on Windows and Mac OS (you can use the same account details)

Usenet vs. Torrents?

How To participate in the Giveaway?
You just need to leave a FB comment below. That Simple!
3 lucky winners will get 1 Binverse account each. Winners will be announced on 4th September 2011.

Once chosen, we’ll ask the winners for their email addresses and Binverse (the sponsor) will send the account details directly to you.

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Thanks a lot to Binverse for sponsoring the giveaway!

UPDATE 5th September 2011 
The giveaway is now closed. The 3 lucky winners have been announced.