Good morning everyone! Friday is here and the big announcement that you all have been waiting for is finally here. I mentioned on the blog last week to stay turned because of something important to announce. I am proud to say that today will be the start of Levoltz.com’s One Year Blog Anniversary Prize Giveaway!

Just over a year ago I started this Technology blog to talk about my experience. Who would’ve thought over a year later this blog would have built a loyal following of graceful readers and helped a whole bunch of people.

As my way of expressing my appreciation towards everyone who has helped support this blog since its inception, I have been busy contacting our sponsors for some prizes to donate. They have come through with some amazing prizes and I hope everyone out there will enjoy winning some FREE swag.

Thanks to many generous vendors, I have a bunch of products I’m giving away this month to readers of my blog. Since I have so many items, I’m leaving the drawing open for all of them until the end of the month. Good luck!

Get Ready to Win as Levoltz.com Gives Away Over $2000 USD in Prizes!!!

Yes, you read that correctly. The total of all the prizes below adds up to over $2000 USD. Take into consideration shipping costs, taxes, etc and the total eclipses $1900 USD. Can you feel the love yet? 

Anyways, here is the list of their donations up for grabs!

• 2000 EntreCards For Entrecard Users(5 winners).
• ZAGG: invisibleSHIELD: iPhone 3G Full Body(3 winners).
• Hostgator Baby Plan Accounts (2 winners).
• 5 Premium Themeforest each(5 winner).
• Google Adwords $100 gift vouchers(2 winners).
• Bluehost Platinum plan(2 winners).
• Apple iPod Touch 8GB(1 winner)

Grand Prize

The winner will get one Xbox 360 Pro console, a 12-month Xbox LIVE membership, 1600 points and an Xbox 360 Messenger Kit.

How to Enter

If you want to win the above prizes with a total value of $1900, all you have to do is subscribe to our RSS feed, and leave a comment below.

• The contest will close on Monday 12th April 2010, at 5PM (Indian Time).
• This contest is open to readers Worldwide.
• Please make sure you put a valid email address in the email field.
• The winner will be contacted by email by Monday 14th April 2010.
• Only one entry per person is allowed, any multiple entries using the same email address will automatically be disqualified.
• Winners must respond to email notification within 48 hours or a new winner will be chosen at random.

Twitter Users:

• Login to your Twitter account and follow @levoltz.
• Tweet or Retweet this (or come up with your own creative line):

iPod Touch giveaway! If you want to win, follow @levoltz or visit http://wp.me/pAeFC-DE now! #levoltz

• Make sure you include the hashtag #levoltz in the end. Easier for me to trace.
• You can enter/retweet as many times as you like but don’t spam your followers please! 1 Tweet equals 1 entry.
• You can leave a comment below with your Tweet URL to alert me if you want to (Kiasu mah! Hahaha)

A Little Reminder

1. Shortlisted participants (Fake participants creating multiple accounts will be disqualified) will be randomly selected using a randomizer (using http://www.random.org/integers/). As mentioned, 1 Tweet equals 1 entry.
2. Everyday I will compile all tweets in a log file for record.
3. Winners must respond to email notification within 48 hours or a new winner will be chosen at random.
4. Prizes are not exchangeable with cash.

Oh yeah, my family members are not allowed to participate in this contest. Sorry yeah! I’ll give you all other gifts. Hahahaha…

So what are you waiting for? Start Tweeting! It’s simple to win! And yeah, feel free to spread this post around. Do subscribe to us and watch out for more giveaways!

Update:

The winners of the Levoltz Anniversary Giveaway are:

1. Alex F
2. Jigyasa
3. AricaSays
4. Camaco
5. Si Ji Yan

1. KatiLee
2. Sam
3. Brain Derek

1. Ed Dale
2. Curran J

1. Max
2. Wong Chi
3. Stefan Muller
4. Karla
5. Te Jin

1. Giridhar
2. Crystal1

1. C Meghiel
2. Zandy

1. Pavithra

The grand Prize winner: Halka

Congrats to all the winners.

Mails have been sent to the winners. The winners are expected to get back with-in 2-3 days.

James Dean is a programmer, computer technician and the creator of Xbox 360 Red Light Fix Pro gamer edition guide- one of the best selling guides for repairing the red lights error. The guide includes videos and PDF guides that guarantee that you will be able to fix your Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death within an hour and save the money that you will pay to Microsoft for getting it repaired.

A great thing about the guide is that it’s very well organized. The instructions given in a progressive manner and the pictures compliment the instructions to make it a user friendly guide. Because of the clear details provided you could even fix your Xbox 360 3 red lights error with the guide alone without even watching the videos.

The quality of the videos included in the Xbox 360 Red Light Fix Pro Gamer Edition is outstanding. The videos are in high definition and include complete step by step instructions. The instructions are given clearly and the speaker explains everything that he does. The videos are shot in a way that allow you to clearly see what’s happening and there are there are close ups where required. The videos are streamed directly from the website so you do not have to make space on your hard drive for the files.

The member’s area is also very well organized and upon entering it you will know exactly what to do. The Getting started section is clearly defined and following the directions you can go to the videos. You won’t feel lost in the member’s area when you are there.

The actual repair process is easy to perform and by following the instructions in the PDF e-book and the videos you should be able to repair your Xbox 360 in no time. The actual time required to fix your Xbox 360 is within an hour according to James Dean.

The guide also teaches you to fix other problems that you may encounter with your Xbox 360. You get instructions on how to deal with freeze ups that can happen during game play, distorted graphics that you may have seen when playing a game with a lot of action, 2 red lights, 4 red lights and the E74 error that stems from the GPU and the connections to the motherboard.

The e-mail response time is more than 24 hours, but other than the e-mail service there is not much negative you can point out. The guide itself is complete and is one of the best if not the best guide for fixing ring of death on your Xbox 360. There is also a money back guarantee in case you feel that the guide was not helpful in repairing your Xbox 360.

One of the most unused feature of Apple Mac OS X is the application for internet sharing that is found in System Preferences -> Sharing -> Internet Sharing. This is easy to set up, doing so would allow you to share wireless wifi connection to be shared with the other systems in your vicinity. This allows you to change your Apple Mac into a wireless internet hub. This is a step by step guide to set up your Mac’s internet connection to get XBOX 360 online without buying your wireless adapter.

The initial step is to get familiar with the Internet Sharing application provided by Mac. As described above, navigate to Internet Sharing(option listed on the left). Once you are on the Option page of Internet Sharing, you need to know what you exactly want to do before you proceed to turning it on. As you can see at this point, you need to pick where you want the shared connection to originate and where you are going to get the output. If you are planning to convert your Mac into a wireless internet hub, you would select

Share your connection from: Ethernet

To computer using: Airport

You can play around with any of the configurations here, like changing it from Bluetooth to Airport, Ethernet to Ethernet, etc. To enable this service, you need to check the internet sharing options checkbox in the left. Doing so, you can turn your Mac into a wireless internet hub. This works great when you are roaming and you just find a Ethernet plug but you’ve couple of laptops to connect. You can at this point create an internet hub for everyone to connect to.

One of the recently found feature that I like is using the Airport connection of my Macbook with my XBOX using an Ethernet connection. I’ve been doing this for a couple of times now, and this has saved me S$ 130 if I had to get myself a wireless adapter for my XBOX 360. Here is a step by step tutorial on sharing your internet connection using your Mac to get XBOX 360 online:

1. Enable internet sharing as shown above, in System Preferences of your Mac. Select the sharing from Airport to Ethernet option.

2. Using an Ethernet cable connect your Macbook to your 360.

3. Goto Applications > Utilities, and open Terminal application on your Mac.

4. Type “ifconfig eno” in the terminal.

5. Look for a line that shows “inet XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX” in the screen of the terminal. Make a note of this number. In my case it was 210.172.51.1

6. Get the IP Address of your wireless internet router from System Preferences -> Network -> Select Airport -> Advanced -> TCP/IP Tab -> Router. Note this number also. In my case it was 168.23.1.1

7. Go to the menu of the Network Settings once you start your XBOX 360. Now, you would have to fill in some numbers.

8. Enter the inet number you noted from your terminal screen against the IP Address, but note that you need to add 1 to the last digit. For instance, mine would be 210.172.51.2

9. Enter 255.255.255.0 against Subnet.

10. Enter the inet number against Router/Gateway. Mine was 210.172.51.1

11. Enter the IP of your router against DNS (both primary and secondary). Mine was 168.23.1.1

12. Leave PPPoE and advanced settings blank (default was off and automatic).

13. Test the connection and enjoy having a shared wireless internet connection to your Xbox 360 from your Apple Macbook.

If you need any assistance with configuration, please leave a comment to this and I’ll get back to you.