HotHardware (subscribe) showcases the hottest tech hardware and tests it out to see how it really performs. From installing new hard drives into laptops to overclocking the latest Intel chipsets, they’ve got all your hardware needs covered! You can also compare prices between products (memory, HDDs, SSDs, computers, etc) right on their website.

Alrighty! What can you win in this contest?

First prize: Flip UltraHD. The fantastic peeps that make the Flip Video Pocket Camcorder have been kind enough to supply the HotHardware team with a brand new Flip UltraHD Pocket Digital Camcorder with 8GB storage. Yup, those Flip Video cameras record in glorious HD 720p — which looks awesome on Viddler, by the way!
Second Prize: HH and Viddler swag.
Third Prize: HH and Viddler swag.

To Participate you have 30 days to:
- Record 60 second clip of your PC/Mac/Linux setup, DSLR, smart phone, television, or whichever piece of hardware you own, and explain why it is so hot.

To Submit:
- Submit your video at contests.HotHardware.com or just upload it to Viddler and tag with ‘hhcontest‘.

Entries will be judged by HotHardware team members Dave Altavilla and Marco Chiappetta.
They will choose a winner by the follow criteria:
- Best setup – higher quality, fewer submissions
- At Random – lower quality, more submissions

60 seconds is incredibly short and easy. Go get your camera and submit a video of your flaming hot hardware now! Giddy up!

Some of the Viddler team members (Kyle, Jeff, Rob, and myself to be exact) attempted to get a KFC Double Down Chicken Sandwich (which I wrote about on my blog). We FAILED. Will you?

Here is your challenge: Find a KFC that offers the Double Down Chicken Sandwich. Buy one. Eat one. Record the whole thing. Share it on Viddler. And we’ll pay for your next KFC lunch. Enter by linking to your video in the comments.

I’ve held all of you in suspense for long enough, so let’s announce the winners.

Foolery: Ultimate Edition

Rog42 from Sydney, Australia, tricked us in to believing that we could get a discount from Microsoft by getting a tattoo behind our ear. He really does work for Microsoft, so was really sly. See his video below.

Rog42 scored himself the option between a ThinkGeek OR Amazon gift card to the value of $100 and a Viddler t-shirt! Giddy up!

The Cheeky Tricks

The only other participant in this contest was CheekTV. Their April Fools’ Day video was featured here on the blog and showed some fantastic ways to prank your friends in and around the home. Nice! Watch CheekTV’s video below.

What? That’s it? Yup! Now we’ve got all these spare t-shirts we’ll have to figure out what to do with. Participate next time, yo.

Here’s the video the won Rog42 the rad prize:

Here’s the video that won CheekTV sweet Viddler schwag:

Every year Google seems to top everyone with their April Fools’ hoaxes. They sure have had some creative ones! This year I’d want to see everyone in the Viddler Community have a crack at pranking someone — nay, everyone! — with a good April Fools Day joke!

Upload your video(s) before or on April Fools’ Day (April 1st), add them to the group on April 2nd, and you’ll be in the running to win a USD$100 gift voucher from ThinkGeek OR Amazon! AND a Viddler t-shirt.

7 runners up will also receive Viddler t-shirts to prance around in!

You can buy pretty much anything from ThinkGeek: Wi-Fi detecting t-shirts, power outlets for your car in the shape of a coffee cup, candy tablets that make sour foods taste sweet… you name it, they’ve probably got it. For everything else, there’s Amazon.

Don’t go tagging your videos with ‘April Fools’, ‘prank’, ‘joke’, etc until April 2nd. We want your pranks to be believable. You can send me links to your video(s) once April Fools’ Day is over and you’ve successfully pranked all your peers. He he he!

Get your prank on!

See The Top 100 April Fools’ Day Hoaxes of All Time if you need some inspiration.

No doubt you’re gearing up to visit your loved ones very soon or snuggle up with the ones you live with. I’m going to be in Texas! Yeehaa!

I feel that everyone should let their inner child go wild for the Christmas Contest this year! So I’d like everyone to make a video when they go and meet Santa to ask him for something this year.

Add the tag averygiddyxmas2008 and post it to the What I Want For Christmas group before January 7th and you may just win a glorious gift basket created personally by members of The Viddler Team!

Here’s a video I made with the instructions:

Don’t leave your video until the last minute. Go out and meet Santa today.

Happy *insert your holiday here*!

It’s a cool idea, but so is a window. Everyone has a window, right?

The requirement for this contest is to upload a video between now and the 6th of December, 2008, stating whether or not you need an umbrella in your town right now. This should be fun for all the folks up north experiencing snow squalls. Add your videos to the UmbrellaToday group.

Check out my video below for more information and find out if I need an umbrella in Phoenix, Arizona, right now.

Did I mention you could win an umbrella just for entering this contest? Yeah, giddy!

Do you have a radical idea for a contest on Viddler? Send me a message and let me know.

Jacobburke has gone and given me a heart attack with the first video response, with a costume involved not only being topless, but wearing quite a fancy skirt as well. Nothing but pure AWESOME.

The Community Spotlight is for featuring special content by members of our community. Do you have a special video you’d like to share with the rest of the community?

If you would like to suggest a video to be featured in our Community Spotlight, feel free to send me a message or just comment on this post.

The Community Spotlight is for featuring special content by members of our community. Do you have a special video you’d like to share with the rest of the community?

If you would like to suggest a video to be featured in our Community Spotlight, feel free to send me a message or just comment on this post.

What it also means is that for the entire month of October, I will be looking for Halloween-related videos in the Trick or Treat group and featuring them via Twitter and in the Community Spotlight.

Here’s an example of a question you could answer for a Trick or Treat video:

Other questions or topics you could cover for Trick or Treat month:

• What is the best costume you ever had for Halloween?
• Tell us your favorite ghost story!
• Do you believe in ghosts? Why or why not?
• Candy corn… gross or delicious?
• What will be your Halloween costume this year? (Please show on camera!)
• Do you give out candy for trick or treating?
• Favorite horror movie… what’s yours?
• Have you ever worn a costume that totally bombed?
• Pumpkin carving demonstrations!
• Black cats… are you superstitious?

So, here’s the deal –

• Join the group.
• Record or upload a Halloween-related video!
• Tag video with “trickortreat” and add it to the group.

Let the fun begin! I want to see costumes and carved pumpkins, hear great stories about Halloween adventures and misadventures, and somebody has got to know a really good ghost story that they’re willing to tell with a spooky flashlight on camera. Bring on the spooky month of ghouls and goblins!