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NZXT Launches Contest to Crowdsource Phantom 240 Special Edition Colors

Posted: 04 May 2014 06:27 PM PDT

Each winner will receive an NZXT Super Bundle worth $450

To celebrate the launch of the most affordable PC case in its storied Phantom line, California-based NZXT has announced a month-long case design competition that is open to every earthling over the age of 18. As part of the "Phantom 240 Design Competition", which got underway on May 1, the company will be giving away one NZXT Super Bundle each to three lucky winners.

In order to participate, all you need to do is head over to create.nzxt.com, use the online case creator to give a virtual Phantom 240 a custom paint job, and submit your masterpiece for others to vote on. In all, there are five components for you to customize and as many as seven colors to choose from for the paint job. (That's a total of 16,807 possible combinations.) Each participant is free to submit a maximum of three designs.

Here is an excerpt from the terms and conditions: "Contest will run from May 1st 2014 through June 1st 2014. There will be at least three winners of the Contest: the two Contest entries receiving the most votes from visitors to the Contest website will be declared winners, and NZXT will select a third winner in its sole discretion."

"Contest winners will receive an NZXT Super Bundle (including a laser-etched P240 sample of your Contest design entry, a Sentry 3 fan controller, a HALE82 v2 700W power supply, a Kraken CPU cooler, and an NZXT Shine 3 mechanical keyboard), the fair market value of which is approximately $450.00."

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Google Splits Up Drive Mobile App

Posted: 04 May 2014 04:21 PM PDT

Separate Docs and Sheets apps are now required for creating and editing documents

A new version of the Google Drive app hit the Play Store and App Store on Friday. In a move Google had telegraphed a couple of days earlier with the release of standalone Docs and Sheets apps for both platforms, the latest Drive app no longer lets you edit documents.

Instead, you now need the new standalone productivity apps in order to edit or create documents and spreadsheets. The new productivity apps, though, don't really have a lot of new tricks up their sleeves, save for the fact that they now allow you to edit your documents and spreadsheets offline. As for the new, emasculated Drive app, the ability to lock the app and its contents using a four-digit passcode is the only noteworthy item on the changelog.

Launched in 2012, Google Drive effectively usurped the online productivity suite named Google Docs, becoming the front-end for the various productivity apps contained therein. This latest move has therefore come as a surprise to many. One likely explanation for the split is that Google did not want the Drive app to become bloated over time with the addition of new functionality.

For instance, Google is also readying a third standalone productivity app called Slides for those interested in creating presentations on the go. It is not difficult to see how having this functionality in the Drive app instead — one also packed with the ability to create and edit other documents — could have made the app appear bloated to those who don't have much use for such features.

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