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2007 Winners

Best Mac OS X Leopard Application

• Winner: Delicious Library 2 (alpha), Delicious Monster
• Runner Up: iBank 2.3.1, IGG Software

Best Mac OS X User Experience Screenshot of Delicious Library Delicious Library is a media cataloguing application for Mac OS X, created by Delicious Monster. ... Delicious Monster is a software company based in Seattle which sells the shareware software program Delicious Library. ...

• Winner: Coda 1.0, Panic Software
• Runner Up: Sandvox 1.2, Karelia Software

Best Mac OS X Developer Tool Coda is a shareware web development application for Mac OS X, developed by Panic. ... Panic Software is an Oregon-based software development company. ... Sandvox is a website creation tool by Karelia Software, LLC, based around WebCore. ... Karelia Software, LLC, or Karelia is a software company with a headquarters in Alameda, California that claims to pioneer the desktop web application market. ...

• Winner: CSSEdit 2.5, MacRabbit
• Runner Up: rooSwitch 1.1.8, roobasoft

Best Mac OS X Dashboard Widget

• Winner: The BART Widget, Bret Victor [1]
• Runner Up: Pemdas 1.1, Donkey Entertainment

Best Mac OS X Scientific Computing Solution

• Winner: Papers 1.0, mekentosj.com
• Runner Up: SingleCrystal 1.3, CrystalMaker Software

Best Mac OS X Game

• Winner: World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, Blizzard Entertainment
• Runner Up: Wacky Mini Golf! 1.01, DanLabGames

Best Mac OS X Student Product Blizzard Entertainment is an American based computer game developer and publisher. ...

• Winner: Picturesque 1.0, Acqualia
• Runner Up: Pathway 1.0, Dennis Lorson

2006 Winners

Best Mac OS X User Experience

• Winner: iSale 3.1 [2]
• Runner Up: Boinx FotoMagico 1.7 [3]

Best OS X Graphics

• Winner: modo
• Runner Up: Unity

Best Developer Tool The title of this article should be modo (software). ... Unity is an integrated authoring tool for creating 3D video games or other interactive content such as architectural visualizations or real-time 3D animations. ...

• Winner: TextMate 1.5
• Runner Up: F-Script

Best Scientific Computing Solution TextMate is a general-purpose GUI text editor for Mac OS X. It provides users with innovative abstractions to support declarative customizations which are at once transparent and flexible. ... F-Script is an object-oriented scripting programming language developed by Philippe Mougin at TechMetrix Research in France. ...

• Winner: EnzymeX 3.1 [4]
• Runner Up: FuzzMeasure Pro 2 [5]

Best Game

• Winner: The Sims 2
• Runner Up: Wingnuts 2 [6]

Best Mac OS X Student Product [1][2] This article is about the computer game. ...

• Winner: Lineform 1.1 [7]
• Runner Up: PhotoPresenter [8]

Best Widget

• Winner: iClip Lite [9]
• Runner Up: WeatherBug Local Weather [10]

Best Automator Workflow

• Winner: Build Real Estate Catalog/Ultimate Productivity Action Pack [11]
• Runner Up: Lecture Recording Workflow 1.2, University of Michigan School of Dentistry [12]

2005 Winners

Best Mac OS X Tiger Technology Adoption

• Winner: Transmit 3.2, Panic, Inc.
• Runner Up: iSale 1.7, equinux USA, Inc.
• Special Mention: OmniOutliner 3.0.3, The Omni Group

Best Mac OS X User Experience Transmit is an FTP client for Mac OS X. Developed by Panic Software, Transmit is shareware. ... Panic is an Oregon-based software company that specializes in shareware applications for Mac OS. It was founded by Steven Frank and Cabel Sasser. ... OmniOutliner information can be found at http://www. ... The Omni Group is a company that develops software for the Mac OS X platform. ...

• Winner: Delicious Library 1.5, Delicious Monster
• Runner Up: 3D Weather Globe & Atlas Mac OS X Edition, Software MacKiev

Best Product New to Mac OS X Screenshot of Delicious Library Delicious Library is a media cataloguing application for Mac OS X, created by Delicious Monster. ... Delicious Monster is a software company based in Seattle which sells the shareware software program Delicious Library. ... Software MacKiev is a company specialized in Macintosh software development and publishing. ...

• Winner: Comic Life 1.1, plasq
• Runner Up: Delicious Library 1.5, Delicious Monster
• Special Mention: eDrawings for Mac 2006, SolidWorks

Best Mac OS X Entertainment Product Comic Life is a shareware desktop publishing computer program developed by plasq for Apple Macintosh computers. ... plasq is an international software company (an LLC) comprised of software developers and user interface designers from the United States, Australia, Switzerland, Norway and France. ... Screenshot of Delicious Library Delicious Library is a media cataloguing application for Mac OS X, created by Delicious Monster. ... Delicious Monster is a software company based in Seattle which sells the shareware software program Delicious Library. ... SolidWorks Corporation is a US-based software company. ...

• Winner: World of Warcraft 1.3.1, Blizzard Entertainment
• Runner Up: Jammin' Racer 1.01, DanLabGames

Best Use of Open Source World of Warcraft (commonly abbreviated as WoW) is a massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Blizzard Entertainment and is the fourth game in the Warcraft series, excluding expansion packs and the cancelled Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans. ... Blizzard Entertainment is an American based computer game developer and publisher. ...

• Winner: OsiriX 1.6.4, Antoine Rosset, Osman Ratib, Lance Pysher, David Davies-Payne, Luca Spadola, Bruce Rakes
• Runner Up: Blender 2.36, Blender Foundation
• Special Mention: AdiumX, Evan Schoenberg, Adam Iser

Best Mac OS X Scientific Computing Solution OsiriX is a Medical imaging Software released under an Open source licence. ... Blender is a free software 3D animation program. ... The Blender Foundation is a non-profit organization responsible for the development of Blender, an open-source program for three-dimensional modelling. ... Adium is a popular instant messaging client for Mac OS X that supports multiple protocols through the libgaim library. ...

• Winner: DataTank 2005-5, Visual Data Tools, Inc.
• Runner Up: OsiriX 1.6.4, Antoine Rosset, Osman Ratib, Lance Pysher, David Davies-Payne, Luca Spadola, Bruce Rakes
• Special Mention: Mathematica, Wolfram Research

Best Mac OS X Server Solution OsiriX is a Medical imaging Software released under an Open source licence. ... Mathematica is a general computing environment, organizing many algorithmic, visualization, and user interface capabilities within a document-like user interface paradigm. ... Wolfram Research is part of the Wolfram Group which consists of four companies: Wolfram Research Inc. ...

• Winner: Quicksilver InfiniBand Software for Mac OS X, SilverStorm Technologies (now QLogic), Small Tree Communications
• Runner Up: Elektron 1.0.1, Corriente Networks LLC

Best Mac OS X Student Product QLogic Corporation NASDAQ: QLGC is a California-based manufacturer of storage networking infrastructure solutions. ...

• Winner: GraphClick, Simon Bovet [13]
• Runner Up: iMap 3.1, Peter Schols [14]
• Special Mention: Sonic Birth, Antoine Missout [15]

2004 Winners

Best Mac OS X Product

• Winner: Big Bang Chess 1.0, Freeverse Software
• Runner-up: Unison 1.0.2a, Panic Inc.

Best Product New to Mac OS

• Winner: Contribute 2, Macromedia Inc.
• Runner-up: GraphViz 1.12 (v11), Pixelglow Software

Most Innovative Mac OS X Product

• Winner: ToySight 1.0, Freeverse Software
• Runner-up: SwordfishExpress 2.0, buyolympia.com

Best Mac OS X User Experience Freeverse Software is a software company that gained notoriaty after the popular Jared the Butcher of Song came out. ...

• Winner: Unison 1.0.2a, Panic Inc.
• Runner-up: SOHO Business Cards 1.0, Chronos LLC

Best Mac OS X Technology Adoption

• Winner: Big Bang Chess 1.0, Freeverse Software
• Runner-up: PulpFiction 1.0, Freshly Squeezed Software

Best Mac OS X Open Source Product Freeverse Software is a software company that gained notoriaty after the popular Jared the Butcher of Song came out. ...

• Winner: GraphViz 1.12 (v11), Pixelglow Software
• Runner-up: PureFTPd Manager 1.2, Jean-Matthieu Schaffhauser

Best Mac OS X Server Solution

• Winner: iNquiry 4.05d, The BioTeam
• Runner-up: gridMathematica 1.1, Wolfram Research, Inc.

Best Mac OS X Entertainment Product

• Winner: Unreal Tournament 2004 for Macintosh v1.0, MacSoft
• Runner-up: Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne v1.0, Blizzard Entertainment

Best Mac OS X Scientific Computing Solution

• Winner: Mac TetrUSS v010804, NASA Langley Research Center
• Runner-up: Volocity 2.6.1, Improvision
• Honorable Mention: IBM XL Fortran Advanced Edition 8.1, IBM

Best Mac OS X Student Product

• Winner: 4Peaks, Alexander Griekspoor, Tom Groothuis, Oncology Graduate School Amsterdam
• Runner-up: Curvus Pro X, Simon Bovet, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Best QuickTime Content for Education

• Winner: Conflict Lab’s Rotunda, Conflict Lab, Inc.
• Runner-up: Commanding Heights, WGBH Interactive

Best QuickTime Content for Promotion

• Winner: Robbie Williams “Knebworth” QuickTime Promo, Bluish, Ltd.
• Runner-up: Yamashiro Restaurant Virtual Tour, Axis Images

Best QuickTime Content for Entertainment

• Winner: FreeCaster Sports, Barsark AB
• Runner-up: Bright and Shine, Antonio Hui

Best Performance Demo of a Shipping Product

• Winner: ATI Technologies, Inc , ATI Animusic’s Pipe Dream Demo
• Runner-up: ATI Technologies, Inc , ATI Rendering with Natural Light Demo

Most Innovative Apple Technology Performance Demo

• Winner: Advanced Analytic System Design, Inc., Freefall
• Runner-up: Symbiot, Symbiot iSIMS

2003 Winners

Best Mac OS X Product (Best of Show)

• Winner: Salling Clicker 1.5, Salling Software
• Runner Up: World Book 2003 Jaguar Edition, Software MacKiev

Most Innovative Mac OS X Product Salling Clicker is a suite of computer programs to enable the remote control of a Macintosh or Windows PC from a mobile phone. ... World Book Encyclopedia is, according to its publisher in the United States, the number-one selling print encyclopedia in the world [1]. The first edition (1917) contained 8 volumes. ... Software MacKiev is a company specialized in Macintosh software development and publishing. ...

• Winner: Salling Clicker 1.5, Salling Software
• Runner Up: Starry Night Pro 4.0, SPACE.com Canada

Best Mac OS X User Experience Salling Clicker is a suite of computer programs to enable the remote control of a Macintosh or Windows PC from a mobile phone. ...

• Winner: Starry Night Backyard 4.0, SPACE.com Canada
• Runner Up: Transmit 2, Panic

Best Mac OS X Technology Adoption

• Winner: World Book 2003 Jaguar Edition, Software MacKiev
• Runner Up: Spell Catcher X, Evan Gross

Best Mac OS X Student Product World Book Encyclopedia is, according to its publisher in the United States, the number-one selling print encyclopedia in the world [1]. The first edition (1917) contained 8 volumes. ... Software MacKiev is a company specialized in Macintosh software development and publishing. ...

• Winner: Hydra 1.0.1, Martin Ott, Martin Pittenauer, Dominik Wagner, and Ulrich Bauer (now renamed SubEthaEdit)
• Runner Up: SignalScope 1.0.5, Benjamin Faber

Best Mac OS X Use of Open Source SubEthaEdit is a collaborative real-time editor designed for Mac OS X. The name comes from the Sub-Etha communication network in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series. ...

• Winner: Fugu 1.0, University of Michigan
• Runner Up: VLC 0.5.3, Samuel Hocevar

Best Mac OS X Server Solution: Fugu is an FTP and SFTP client for Mac OS X developed by the University of Michigans Research Systems Unix Group (RSUG). ... The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (UM, U of M or U-M) is a coeducational public research university in the state of Michigan. ... VLC media player is a free software (GPL) media player by the VideoLAN project. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

• Winner: iNquiry 1.0, BioTeam
• Runner Up: Radmind 0.8.4, University of Michigan

Best QuickTime Content Created by a Student Radmind is a suite of Unix command line tools and an application server designed to remotely administer the file systems of multiple Unix machines. ... The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (UM, U of M or U-M) is a coeducational public research university in the state of Michigan. ...

• Winner: Drive By Punch, Stephen Mebs [16]
• Runner Up: Nature and Water, Mario Palomera

Best QuickTime Content Created by an Individual

• Winner: OICs MusicBox Presenting Superfluid, Robert West and Michael Schaff
• Runner Up: Paraphonic Midnight Sounds, Jonathan Puckey

Best QuickTime Content Created by a Company

• Winner: BMW Films Campaign—"The Hire" Enhanced Film Experience, Fallon Worldwide
• Runner Up: The Beautiful Mistake QuickTime Player, Tubatomic Studio

2002 Winners

Best New Mac OS X Product

• Winner: Toon Boom Studio 1.1, Toon Boom
• Runner Up: Marketcircle DayLite 1.0.1, Marketcircle Inc.

Most Innovative Mac OS X Product

• Winner: Watson 1.5, Karelia Software, LLC
• Runner Up: Toon Boom Studio 1.1, Toon Boom

Best Mac OS X User Experience

• Winner: OmniGraffle 2.0, Omni Development Inc.
• Runner Up: STX 1.0, Salon Transcripts

Best Mac OS X Technology Adoption OmniGraffle is a diagramming application made by the Omni Group. ...

• Winner: OmniGraffle 2.0, Omni Development Inc.
• Runner Up: Vektor 3 3.1.3, Manfred Schubert

Best Mac OS X Open Source Port OmniGraffle is a diagramming application made by the Omni Group. ... The Omni Group is a company that develops software for the Mac OS X platform. ...

• Winner: TeXShop 1.19, Richard Koch, Mathematics Department, University of Oregon
• Runner Up: SIDekick 1.1, Axel Wefers

Best Mac OS X Student Product

• Winner: MacJournal 2.1, Dan Schimpf
• Runner Up: CanCombineIcons 2.1.0, David Remahl

2001 Winners

Best New Mac OS X Product

• Winner: OmniWeb 4.0, The Omni Group
• Runner Up: Xtools 1.0.3, Tenon Intersystems

Most Innovative Mac OS X Product OmniWeb is a web browser developed by the Omni Group for the Mac OS X operating system. ... The Omni Group is a company that develops software for the Mac OS X platform. ...

• Winner: Xtools 1.0.3, Tenon Intersystems
• Runner Up: MYOB AccountEdge 1.0, MYOB US, Inc.

Best Mac OS X User Experience

• Winner: OmniWeb 4.0, The Omni Group
• Runner Up: Drive 10 1.0.0, Micromat, Inc.

Best Mac OS X Technology Adoption OmniWeb is a web browser developed by the Omni Group for the Mac OS X operating system. ... The Omni Group is a company that develops software for the Mac OS X platform. ...

• Winner: AutoCompleter 1.0, Catchy Software
• Runner Up: REALbasic 3.2, REAL Software, Inc.

REALbasic (RB) is an object-oriented dialect of the BASIC programming language developed and commercially marketed by REAL Software, Inc in Austin, Texas for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Linux. ...

2000 Winners

Best New Product

• Winner: ViaVoice Millennium Edition, IBM
• Runner Up: Thinking Home 1.0, Always Thinking, Inc.

Most Innovative Product

• Winner: LiveStage Professional, Totally Hip Software Inc.
• Runner Up: Thinking Home 1.0, Always Thinking, Inc.

Best Look & Feel

• Winner: Math Mysteries 1.0, Tom Snyder Productions
• Runner Up: REALbasic 2.0, REAL Software, Inc.

Best Apple Technology Adoption

• Winner: Thinking Home 1.0, Always Thinking, Inc.
• Runner Up: LiveStage Professional, Totally Hip Software Inc.

1999 Winners

Best New Product

• Winner: REALbasic 1.0, REAL Software
• Runner-Up: Disk Warrior 1.0, Alsoft

Most Innovative

• Winner: Disk Warrior 1.0, Alsoft
• Runner-Up: REALbasic 1.0, REAL Software

Best Macintosh User Experience

• Winner: Food Chain 1.0, Cajun Games
• Runner-Up: REALbasic 1.0, REAL Software

Best Apple Technology Adoption

• Winner: Cutie Mascot Jr. 1.5, Kohshin Graphic Systems
• Runner-Up: Virtual Game Station, Connectix

1998 Winners

Most Innovative

• Winner: Flash 2, Macromedia
• First Runner-Up: Legacy of Time: The Journeyman Project 3, Presto Studios, Inc.
• Second Runner-Up: Office 98 Macintosh Edition, Microsoft Corporation

Best Look & Feel

• Winner: Preflight Pro 1.0, Extensis Corporation
• First Runner-Up: PlusMaker 1.0.1, Alsoft, Inc.
• Second Runner-Up: Virtual PC 2.0, Connectix Corporation

Best Apple Technology Adoption

• Winner: Stuffit Deluxe 4.5, Aladdin Systems, Inc.
• First Runner-Up: PowerMail 2.0, CTM Development
• Second Runner-Up: FaceSpan 3.0, Digital Technology International

1997 Human Interface Design Excellence (HIDE) Award Winners

Most Innovative

• Winner: Kai’s Power GOO 1.0, MetaTools, Inc.
• First Runner Up: Starry Night Deluxe 2.0, Sienna Software, Inc.
• Second Runner Up: YOYO Telephone Manager for Macintosh 1.5.1, Big Island Communications, Inc.

Most Elegant

• Winner: Starry Night Deluxe 2.0, Sienna Software, Inc.
• First Runner Up: CalcWorks 1.5.2, John Brochu
• Second Runner Up: AMBER: Journeys Beyond 1.0, Changeling, Inc.

Best Look & Feel

• Winner: YOYO Telephone Manager for Macintosh 1.5.1, Big Island Communications, Inc.
• First Runner Up: Adobe Illustrator 6.0, Adobe Systems, Inc.
• Second Runner Up: Symantec Visual Cafe for Macintosh 1.0, Symantec Corp.

Best Overall Design

• Winner: YOYO Telephone Manager for Macintosh 1.5.1, Big Island Communications, Inc.
• First Runner Up: Starry Night Deluxe 2.0, Sienna Software, Inc.
• Second Runner Up: Kai’s Power GOO 1.0, MetaTools, Inc.

External links

• Official webpage
• WayBack Machine Cache of 2004 winners
• WayBack Machine Cache of 2003-2000 winners
• 1999 winners
• 1998 winners
• 1997 winners
• News article on the creation of these awards, in 1996

References