Welcome back to the red carpet Fixers! After carefully reviewing all of the submissions, sending out voting slips to the secret organization that runs the Internet and then discarding their choices wholesale in favor of ratings and personal favorites, I have found the contest winners. In no particular order…

A Drum Roll Please…

Most Obvious Yet Non-Vulgar Use Of Taylor’s Mouth Award Goes To… Tainted Rose!
Thank you Rose for managing to make use of Ms. Swift’s adorable “O” face without making me run shrieking from the room in search of eye bleach. My psyche is grateful.

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Contest Time Fixers!

Oh Taylor, I’m not sure what you did to anger some wicked witch, but she has certainly cursed you with horrible awards luck. Sure you might win everything in sight, but the karma bus just keeps running you over regardless. Not to worry though, the Fixer community is here to help. After the jump, we’ve got a close-up of the fate of that airborne Grammy. FYI: Not made of chocolate like I’d hoped…
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Afternoon Fixers! It is afternoon, right? I think only half the clocks in my house have been reset for Daylight Savings time and my circadian rhythm is all wonky. Anyway, even though there were holidays to celebrate over the weekend, Daylight Savings, Halloween, Day of the Dead, many of you still took the time help me with my cell phone problem. So without further ramblings the winners, in no particular order, are:

For Overt Security – Dono1!

For Subtle Security - Seb!

And finally, For Realism In Kludgery – Chris M!

Our winners receive 10,000 Internets each, redeemable absolutely nowhere, along with the e-fame associated with winning a TIFI photoshop contest. Congrats to our winners! To everyone else, thanks for participating and don’t forget to check out the gallery on the sidebar, where everyone that submitted an entry can find their creation!

Update: There seems to be a glitch with our flickr gallery on the sidebar, so to see ALL the entries, just click here.

Ms. Fix-It

The internet converges in mysterious ways. You guys loved the cell phone kludge from earlier this week and I’ve been racking my brain trying to come up with a new photoshop contest for you guys. Then an idea struck me like lightning…

…or like a busboy stealing my phone that I accidentally left on the table when me and family went out to eat, using it to call Guatemala several times and charge a lot of Spanish ring tones to my account. >.> Whichever. Long story short, the threat of calling the cops and deportation was not worth a shiny new phone and it magically “was found” under a table the next night. Damn tables, making international calls on my husband’s dime.

Anyway, contest! I want you guys to fix my phone. Here, I have a visual aid.

Kludge this for me with anti-theft technology. Or maybe a “HEY STUPID YOU LEFT ME ON THE TABLE AGAIN” alert system. Anything really. Because if I lose this thing again, my husband is not making hilariously bad threats in Spanish to my voice mail…

Please email your helpful, hilarious or judgmental shops to thereifixedit+contest@gmail.com and put Phone Contest somewhere in the subject line. Winner(s) will be announced sometime Monday afternoon and all entries will be put into a gallery later that day. Good luck and good shopping!

Oh man. You guys really like to make a girl feel torn. So many good entries. In the end though I narrowed it down to the “Good”, the “Bad” and the “Made Me Laugh So That Coffee Went Into My Sinuses, Thanks”.

The Good

Mike is an optimist. A glass half full kind of guy. The guy that helps strangers, opens doors in the middle of spooky hallways, and always forwards a funny email. Or at least these are the assumptions I made based on the carnival going on here.

The Bad
Jonneh C on the other hand, knows what really awaits you on the other side of mysterious doors. Pedobear Mr. Tumnas. He also knows that there are no women on the internet and everyone with a mustache is a child molester. True story.

The Made Me Laugh So That Coffee Went Into My Sinuses, Thanks
Akira O has obviously spent too much time on the Internet. So much so that they instantly recognized this door for what it was. Please keep it closed in the future…the troll infestation is getting out of hand.

Congratulations to our winners! If yours didn’t make the front page though, don’t despair. Check back later today or early tomorrow when ALL the entries will be up in a gallery for your viewing pleasure. And trust me, there were A LOT of gems. Thanks to everyone who participated!

Good morning Fixers!

I know it’s Monday and we’re all a little hungover tired and bleary but we here at ThereIFixedIt need your help. You see, you guys are apparently budding mad scientists and I hesitate to think what a freak lightning storm or improperly handled electric eels would produce. But it’s given rise to a problem. That of the Frankenstein category. It seems we need one. See the post below as an example.

But calling it the “Frankenstein” category is just too traditional for the likes of us. So chug that third espresso, discretely tilt your monitor away from your co-workers and start thinking of a great name for all the cobbled together kludges that are abominations against nature. Leave your submissions in the comment section and make sure to leave replies to any you find amusing.

On Friday, we’ll take the best of the best and put them in a poll for the Fixer community to vote on. Annnnnd…go!

By Popular Demand: Top 20 Entries Album. Thanks to Everyone for participating!

Wowzers! You guys really pulled out the stops this weekend, attacking Photoshop Contest #2 from a variety of creative directions. Looks like everyone had a great time and it was hard to narrow down to just a few favorites. We have Four Winners for you after the jump!

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After the success of the first Caption Contest, we decided that it must continued if only for the sake of lulz you all gave us (and a few “Wow, that’s like ridiculous good”). So here goes.

Clearly, this building is an innocent casualty of a Power Rangers battle. It has fallen and it can’t get up. Unless YOU fix it. Once again, the email for contest entries is thereifixedit+contest2@gmail.com

After some initial confusion last time about dates and times for deadlines, all contest entries submitted by Monday morning (PST) will be in the running. Winners will receive two(2!) free internets and will be announced sometime Monday afternoon.

So what are you waiting for? Open up that copy of MS-Paint, GIMP or your “liberated” version of Photoshop and help set right the mess caused by unnecessary giant robot violence.

For Inspiration! Contest #1 Original and Winners

Hope everyone had a great weekend! We here at ThereIFixedIt were hard at work judging submissions when we were sidelined by the fact that booze was readily available. So apologies on taking so long getting “The Winnar Is You!” up.

We had so many good entries that we couldn’t pick just one. Well, we could have but it involved two of us getting into a knife fight while our wrists were duct taped together; so in the spirit of goodwill we instead narrowed it down to the following three. Congratulations guys!

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