Was checking my Marce Kaye's Birthday Giveaway Winner announcement and I'm delighted to find out the new application she used to pick one random name from her list for the birthday giveaway winner. It's not the overused Random.org but The Hat. Just like pulling names from a hat, only much easier plus with drum rolling sound effect!
Now that I'm introduced to THE HAT, the next time I'll hold a giveaway, I would never hesitate to use this simple but handy little utility that offers a fun and easy way to automatically determine a random order from a list of any amount of names. You can even use it to pick individual names for raffle and sweepstakes winners, etc. or pick pairs of names for deciding random partnerships (this is useful tool for teachers to select pair of students to do projects or play games), complete with cool animation and sound effects.
And if Pinay WAHMS Birthday Giveaway will decide to use this application to pick up their winners, hope I'll be lucky to be randomly pick for first prize! That would be so sweeeeettttt!!!LOL!
In your dreams, Genefaith!
