Competition closes 9.00 am, 8 Sept 2000
Every week, the Herald Online gives you the chance to win a great prize.
This week, you could be the lucky winner of a DeskJet DJ640C printer from Hewlett-Packard plus one of our new Herald Online t-shirts!
The DeskJet 640c printer produces up to 6 pages per minute (black) and 3 pages per minute (colour) at 600x600 dpi resolution, and features HP's PhotoREt technology so you can print great-looking photographs as well as text and graphics.
Features:
* PhotoREt and Coloursmart 3 technology
* 100 sheet capacity
* 512KB ram, 32KB receiver buffer
* Parallel and USB support
* 1 year warranty
The HP DJ640C sells for approximately $249 including GST. For more information contact
, (free phone 0800 733 547).
How to enter:
It's Home Show week, and the Herald Online is proud to be associated with this annual Auckland institution!
We're also sponsoring the Starship Charity House which has been built at the Home Show and will be sold by auction on Sunday 10 September.
Find out more about the Charity House by visiting our special
.
Then, answer the following questions about the Charity House auction to qualify for our web chase competition:
1. What special project will benefit from the funds raised for Starship Hospital?
2. How much has been spent on labour and materials to build the Starship Charity house?
3. Name three sponsors of the Starship Charity house.
Send your answers to
.
Be sure to include your:
* name
* e-mail address
* daytime telephone number
Entries must be received by 9.00 am, Friday 8 September, 2000.
The winner will be announced next Tuesday in the New Zealand Herald and Herald Online.
Good luck, and thanks for entering!
Congratulations to last week's winner
, John O'Connor, who won a C200 digital camera from Hewlett-Packard.
Last week's answers:
1. A pixel (from "picture element") is the basic unit of programmable color on a computer display or in a digital picture. (A single picture can contain thousands of individual pixels.)
2. JPEG (or .jpg) is a popular file format using "lossy compression."
3. Herald photographer Brett Phibbs took the picture.
New York Times: Sam Altman and his family have vehemently denied the claims.