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The Apple Design Awards is a special event hosted by Apple Inc. at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference

Worldwide Developers Conference

The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, commonly abbreviated WWDC, is a conference held annually in California by Apple Inc. The conference is primarily used by Apple to showcase its new software and technologies for developers, as well as offering hands-on labs and feedback sessions...

. The event is meant to recognize the best and most innovative Macintosh and iOS software and hardware

Computer hardware

Personal computer hardware are component devices which are typically installed into or peripheral to a computer case to create a personal computer upon which system software is installed including a firmware interface such as a BIOS and an operating system which supports application software that...

produced by independent developers

Independent software vendor

Independent software vendor is a business term for companies specializing in making or selling software, designed for mass marketing or for niche markets...

, as well as the best and most creative uses of Apple's products. The ADAs, as they are commonly known, are awarded in a variety of categories which vary from year to year. The Apple Design Awards have been presented each year since 1996, though for the first two years of their existence they were known as the Human Interface Design Excellence, or HIDE, awards.

Since 2003 the physical awards were designed with an Apple logo that glows when touched. These new awards were engineered and built by Sparkfactor Design

Sparkfactor Design

Sparkfactor Design provides flexible product design resources through offices in Palo Alto, California and San Francisco. They help design products and equipment for the consumer electronics, medical equipment and other industries.-History and work:...

. The early awards were dubbed the "Heidis", but this name was dropped in 1998 in favor of Apple Design Awards.

2011

Student:

Grades 2 by Tapity
Pennant by Vargatron
Pulse News by Alphonso Labs

iPhone:

Cut the Rope
Cut the Rope
Cut the Rope is an award-winning physics-based puzzle video game for handheld gaming platforms. It was developed in 2010 by Russian developers ZeptoLab and is published by Chillingo. On iOS, it uses the Crystal and Game Center social networking services. On Android, it uses Scoreloop social...

by Chillingo
Golfscape GPS Rangefinder by Shotzoom Software
Infinity Blade
Infinity Blade
Infinity Blade is an action role-playing iOS video game developed by Chair Entertainment and Epic Games released through the Apple App Store on December 9, 2010. It is the first iOS game to run on the Unreal Engine 3. Upon release it became the fastest-grossing app in the history of iOS, selling...

by Chair Entertainment
Chair Entertainment
Chair Entertainment Group is an American video game developer based in Salt Lake City, Utah.-History:Chair Entertainment Group was formed in 2005 by Advent Rising creators, Donald and Geremy Mustard, CEO Ryan Holmes, and key members from the core design team behind Advent Rising. Soon after, Chair...

iPad:

Osmos
Osmos
Osmos is a puzzle video game developed by Canadian developer Hemisphere Games for different systems as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. The game was made available on Steam on 17 August 2009. The Android port was also hinted to be in development...

by Hemisphere Games
Our Choice by Push Pop Press
djay
Djay (software)
djay is a digital music mixing software program for Mac OS X, iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch created by the German company algoriddim. It allows playback and mixing of digital audio files with a user interface that tries to simulate the concept of "two turntables and a microphone" on a computer...

by algoriddim

Mac:

Capo by SuperMegaUltraGroovy
Pixelmator
Pixelmator
Pixelmator is a graphic editor developed for Mac OS X, by Pixelmator Team Ltd built upon a combination of open source and Mac OS X technologies...

by Pixelmator Team Ltd.
Anomaly: Warzone Earth
Anomaly: Warzone Earth
Anomaly: Warzone Earth is a real time strategy video game by 11 bit studios. The game was announced in late 2010 as a fast-paced strategy game, and released on April 8, 2011.-Plot:...

by 11 bit studios

2010

Best iPad apps:

The Financial Times by The Financial Times Ltd.
TabToolkit by Agile Partners
Flight Control |Flight Control HD http://firemint.com/?page_id=977 by Firemint
Starwalk for iPad-Interactive Astronomy Guide by Vito Technology Inc
Pinball HD
Pinball HD
Pinball HD is a pinball video game developed and published by Gameprom for the iPad. The game consists of three previously released pinball games; Jungle Style, The Deep and Wild West. Each table can be viewed in the iPad's portrait or landscape modes. The entire table is shown in landscape mode,...

by Gameprom

Best iPhone apps:

Doodle Jump
Doodle Jump
Doodle Jump is a video game developed and published by Lima Sky for Windows Phone, iOS, BlackBerry, Android, and Nokia Symbian and soon on the Xbox 360 for the Kinect platform. It was released worldwide for iOS on April 6, 2009, and was later released for Android and Blackberry on March 2, 2010,...

by Lima Sky LLC
Brushes by Steve Sprang
Articles by Sophiestication Software
20 Minute Meals-Jamie Oliver by Zolmo
Real Racing http://firemint.com/?page_id=304 by Firemint

2009

Mac OS X Leopard Developer Showcase:

Billings by Marketcircle Inc.
BoinxTV v1.3 by Boinx Software
Things
Things (application)
Things is a personal task management application for Mac OS X made by Cultured Code, a software startup based in Stuttgart, Germany. Its 1.0 release was on January 6, 2009...

http://culturedcode.com/things/ v1.1 by Cultured Code
Versions v1.0.3 by Pico and Sofa

Best Mac OS X Student Product:

Fontcase v1.1.3 by Pieter Omvlee

iPhone Developer Showcase:

MLB.com At Bat 2009 v1.0.1 by MLB.com
Postage v1.0 by RogueSheep
Topple 2 v1.1 by ngmoco:)
Tweetie
Tweetie
Twitter is a client for Twitter, the social networking website. There is a mobile version that runs on iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, and a desktop version runs on Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard ....

v1.3.1 by atebits LLC

Best iPhone Student App:

Wooden Labyrinth 3D v1.2.1 by Elias Pietilä

Best iPhone OS 3.0 Beta App:

AccuTerra v1.0.0 Beta by AccuTerra

2008

Best Leopard Student Product:

Winner: Squirrel by Axel Péju
Runner Up: Flow 1.0.1 by Brian Amerige

Best Mac OS X Leopard Graphics and Media Application:

Winner: ScreenFlow by Vara Software Limited
Runner Up: FotoMagico by Boinx Software Ltd.

Best Mac OS X Leopard User Experience:

Winner: Macnification by Orbicule
Runner Up: Checkout by Werck BV

Best Mac OS X Leopard Game:

Winner: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock is a music video game, the third main installment in the Guitar Hero series, and the fourth title overall...

http://www.guitarherogame.com/gh3/ by Aspyr Media
Aspyr Media
Aspyr Media, Inc. is an Austin, Texas based company that specializes in porting Windows games to Mac OS. It has been in business since 1996, and as of 2003 owns 60 percent of the Mac entertainment market...
Runner Up: Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed and published by Electronic Arts for the Windows, Mac OS X and Xbox 360 platforms, and released internationally in March 2007...

http://www.commandandconquer.com/ by Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...

Best Mac OS X Leopard Application:

Winner: ScreenFlow by Vara Software Limited
Runner Up: Bee Docs Timeline 3D Edition by Bee Documents

Best iPhone Web App:

Winner: Remember the Milk by Remember the Milk
Runner Up: AP Mobile News Network by The Associated Press

Best iPhone Game Winner:

Enigmo
Enigmo
Enigmo and Enigmo 2 are respectively 2D and 3D arcade-style computer games for PC, Mac OS X, iOS and the PlayStation Minis developed by Pangea Software. They both involve moving certain substances into their proper containers...

http://www.pangeasoft.net/enigmo/ by Pangea Software
Pangea Software
Pangea Software is an Apple computer game company based in Austin, Texas that is owned and operated by Brian Greenstone. The company is a former developer of Macintosh and Apple IIGS games, the former of which they still currently sell, however have recently stated their intention to focus solely...

Best iPhone Entertainment Application Winner:

AOL Radio
AOL Radio
AOL Radio powered by Slacker, , is an online radio service available only in the United States.- Roots :...

by AOL LLC

Best iPhone Social Networking Application Winner:

Twitterrific
Twitterrific
Twitterrific is a Mac OS X and iOS client for the social networking site Twitter. The client, created by The Iconfactory, lets users view in real time "tweets" or micro-blog posts on the Twitter website as well as publish their own.-Added value:...

http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific by The Iconfactory
The Iconfactory
The Iconfactory is a small software and graphic design company that specializes in creating icons and software for creating and using icons. The company was founded in April 1996 by Corey Marion, Talos Tsui, and Gedeon Maheux. Lead Engineer Craig Hockenberry joined the company in 1997 and Artist...

Best iPhone Productivity Application Winner:

OmniFocus
OmniFocus
OmniFocus is a personal task manager by The Omni Group for Mac OS X and iOS. The declared goal of the program is to be able to capture thoughts and ideas into to do lists....

http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnifocus/ by The Omni Group
The Omni Group
The Omni Group is a company that develops software for the Mac OS X platform. The Omni Group was informally founded as a NEXTSTEP consulting company in 1989 by Wil Shipley, who immediately brought on Ken Case and Tim Wood. The three incorporated together under the name Omni Development, Inc. in...

Best iPhone Healthcare & Fitness Application Winner:

MIM by MIMvista Corp.

2007

Best Mac OS X Leopard Application

Winner: Delicious Library 2 (alpha)
Delicious Library
Delicious Library is a media cataloguing application for Mac OS X, developed by Delicious Monster to allow users to manage collections of books, movies, CDs, and video games....

, Delicious Monster
Delicious Monster
Delicious Monster is a software company based in San Francisco, California that sells the shareware software program Delicious Library. Its founders are Wil Shipley, one of the three co-founders of The Omni Group, and Mike Matas, who worked as an interface designer at The Omni Group...
Runner Up: iBank
IGG Software
IGG Software is a Putney, Vermont-based software company that specializes in Mac OS X applications for personal finance and small business.-iBank:IGG's iBank application, a personal finance product and Quicken competitor,...

3.0a, IGG Software
IGG Software
IGG Software is a Putney, Vermont-based software company that specializes in Mac OS X applications for personal finance and small business.-iBank:IGG's iBank application, a personal finance product and Quicken competitor,...

Best Mac OS X User Experience

Winner: Coda
Coda (web development software)
Coda is a commercial and proprietary web development application for Mac OS X, developed by Panic. It was released on April 23, 2007. It won the 2007 Apple Design Award for Best User Experience. It is available for $99. - Concept and idea :...

1.0, Panic Software
Runner Up: Sandvox
Sandvox
Sandvox is a WYSIWYG template-based website creation tool by Karelia Software, based around WebKit. Released May 16, 2006, it competes directly with Apple's iWeb and Realmac's RapidWeaver. Sandvox can be purchased with either a Regular or Pro license...

1.2, Karelia Software
Karelia Software
Karelia Software, or Karelia is a software company with a headquarters in Alameda, California that claims to pioneer the desktop Web application market. It was founded by Dan Wood and later joined by Terrence Talbot. The company derives its name from the Karelia Suite of classical music by Jean...

Best Mac OS X Developer Tool

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

Best Mac OS X Dashboard Widget

Winner: BART Widget, Bret Victor
Runner Up: PEMDAS 1.1, Michael Filippone

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
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, often referred to as TBC or BC, is the first expansion pack for the MMORPG World of Warcraft...

, Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher founded on February 8, 1991 under the name Silicon & Synapse by three graduates of UCLA, Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham and Frank Pearce and currently owned by French company Activision Blizzard...
Runner Up: Wacky Mini Golf! 1.01, DanLabGames

Best Mac OS X Student Product

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

2006

Best Mac OS X User Experience

Winner: iSale 3.1 http://www.equinux.com/us/products/isale/index.html
Runner Up: Boinx FotoMagico 1.7 http://www.fotomagico.com/

Best OS X Graphics

Winner: modo
Modo (software)
modo is a polygon and subdivision surface modeling, sculpting, 3D painting, animation and rendering package developed by Luxology, LLC. The program incorporates features such as n-gons, 3D painting and edge weighting, and runs on Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows platforms.-History:modo was created...
Runner Up: Unity
Unity (game engine)
Unity is an integrated authoring tool for creating 3D video games or other interactive content such as architectural visualizations or real-time 3D animations. Unity's development environment runs on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X, and the games it produces can be run on Windows, Mac, Xbox 360,...

Best Developer Tool

Winner: TextMate
TextMate
TextMate is a general-purpose GUI text editor for Mac OS X created by Allan Odgaard. Popular with programmers, some notable features include declarative customizations, tabs for open documents, recordable macros, folding sections and snippets, shell integration, and an extensible bundle...

1.5
Runner Up: F-Script
F-Script programming language
F-Script is an object-oriented scripting programming language for Apple_Inc Mac OS X operating system developed by Philippe Mougin. F-Script is tagged as Cocoa developer's best friend, wherein the package provides an integrated set of tools that makes it possible to interactively explore and...

Best Scientific Computing Solution

Winner: EnzymeX 3.1 http://mekentosj.com/enzymex/
Runner Up: FuzzMeasure Pro 2 http://www.supermegaultragroovy.com/products/FuzzMeasure/

Best Game

Winner: The Sims 2
The Sims 2
The Sims 2 is a strategic life simulation computer game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. It is the sequel to the best-selling computer game, The Sims, which debuted on February 4, 2000. It was first released on September 14, 2004 for Microsoft Windows. A port to Apple Mac OS X...
Runner Up: WingNuts 2
WingNuts 2
WingNuts 2 is an award-winning shooter game from Freeverse. It allows the player to take control of several real world and fictitious aircraft as they travel through time to stop Baron Von Schtopwatch....

http://www.freeverse.com/wn2/

Best Mac OS X Student Product

Winner: Lineform 1.1 http://www.freeverse.com/lineform/
Runner Up: PhotoPresenter http://www.arizona-software.ch/applications/photopresenter/en/

Best Widget

Winner: iClip Lite http://inventive.us/iCliplite/
Runner Up: WeatherBug Local Weather http://weatherbug.com/weather-widgets/mac/

Best Automator Workflow

Winner: Build Real Estate Catalog/Ultimate Productivity Action Pack http://www.automatedworkflows.com/automator/ultimate.html
Runner Up: Lecture Recording Workflow 1.2, University of Michigan School of Dentistry http://www.dent.umich.edu/itunes/

2005

Best Mac OS X Tiger Technology Adoption

Winner: Transmit 3.2
Transmit (FTP client)
Transmit is an FTP client for Mac OS X and Mac OS Classic . Developed by Panic, Transmit is shareware – after a seven-day trial period, the product can only be used for seven-minute sessions until it has been purchased....

, Panic, Inc.
Panic (company)
Panic is an Oregon-based American software company that specializes in shareware applications for Mac OS X. It was founded by Steven Frank and Cabel Sasser....
Runner Up: iSale 1.7, equinux USA, Inc.
Special Mention: OmniOutliner
OmniOutliner
OmniOutliner is commercial outlining software for Mac OS X produced by The Omni Group. OmniOutliner has most features of a conventional outliner, allowing the user to create nested lists of topics for almost any purpose, but has additional features extending its functionality beyond simple...

3.0.3, The Omni Group
The Omni Group
The Omni Group is a company that develops software for the Mac OS X platform. The Omni Group was informally founded as a NEXTSTEP consulting company in 1989 by Wil Shipley, who immediately brought on Ken Case and Tim Wood. The three incorporated together under the name Omni Development, Inc. in...

Best Mac OS X User Experience

Winner: Delicious Library 1.5
Delicious Library
Delicious Library is a media cataloguing application for Mac OS X, developed by Delicious Monster to allow users to manage collections of books, movies, CDs, and video games....

, Delicious Monster
Delicious Monster
Delicious Monster is a software company based in San Francisco, California that sells the shareware software program Delicious Library. Its founders are Wil Shipley, one of the three co-founders of The Omni Group, and Mike Matas, who worked as an interface designer at The Omni Group...
Runner Up: 3D Weather Globe & Atlas Mac OS X Edition, Software MacKiev
Software MacKiev
Software MacKiev is a company specialized in consumer and educational software development and publishing for Macintosh, Windows, and mobile platforms...

Best Product New to Mac OS X

Winner: Comic Life
Comic Life
Comic Life is a comic desktop publishing computer program developed by plasq for Mac OS X and Windows. Comic Life was previously bundled with Intel Macs....

1.1, plasq
Plasq
plasq is an international software limited liability company comprising software developers and user interface designers from the United States, Australia, Switzerland, Norway and France...
Runner Up: Delicious Library 1.5
Delicious Library
Delicious Library is a media cataloguing application for Mac OS X, developed by Delicious Monster to allow users to manage collections of books, movies, CDs, and video games....

, Delicious Monster
Delicious Monster
Delicious Monster is a software company based in San Francisco, California that sells the shareware software program Delicious Library. Its founders are Wil Shipley, one of the three co-founders of The Omni Group, and Mike Matas, who worked as an interface designer at The Omni Group...
Special Mention: eDrawings for Mac 2006, SolidWorks

Best Mac OS X Entertainment Product

Winner: World of Warcraft 1.3.1
World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game by Blizzard Entertainment. It is the fourth released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994...

, Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher founded on February 8, 1991 under the name Silicon & Synapse by three graduates of UCLA, Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham and Frank Pearce and currently owned by French company Activision Blizzard...
Runner Up: Jammin' Racer 1.01, DanLabGames

Best Use of Open Source

Winner: OsiriX 1.6.4
OsiriX
OsiriX is an image processing application dedicated to DICOM images produced by medical equipment . Osirix is complementary to existing viewers, in particular to nuclear medicine viewers. It can also read many other file formats: TIFF , JPEG, PDF, AVI, MPEG and Quicktime...

, Antoine Rosset, Osman Ratib, Lance Pysher, David Davies-Payne, Luca Spadola, Bruce Rakes
Runner Up: Blender 2.36
Blender (software)
Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software product used for creating animated films, visual effects, interactive 3D applications or video games. The current release version is 2.60, and was released on October 19, 2011...

, Blender Foundation
Blender Foundation
The Blender Foundation is a non-profit organization responsible for the development of Blender, an open source program for three-dimensional modeling....
Special Mention: AdiumX
Adium
Adium is a free and open source instant messaging client for Mac OS X that supports multiple IM networks, including Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, AIM, ICQ, and XMPP. It supports many protocols through the libraries libezv , MGTwitterEngine , and libpurple...

, Evan Schoenberg, Adam Iser

Best Mac OS X Scientific Computing Solution

Winner: DataTank 2005-5, Visual Data Tools, Inc.
Runner Up: OsiriX 1.6.4
OsiriX
OsiriX is an image processing application dedicated to DICOM images produced by medical equipment . Osirix is complementary to existing viewers, in particular to nuclear medicine viewers. It can also read many other file formats: TIFF , JPEG, PDF, AVI, MPEG and Quicktime...

, Antoine Rosset, Osman Ratib, Lance Pysher, David Davies-Payne, Luca Spadola, Bruce Rakes
Special Mention: Mathematica
Mathematica
Mathematica is a computational software program used in scientific, engineering, and mathematical fields and other areas of technical computing...

, Wolfram Research

Best Mac OS X Server Solution

Winner: Quicksilver InfiniBand Software for Mac OS X, SilverStorm Technologies (now QLogic
QLogic
QLogic Corporation is an Aliso Viejo, California-based designer and supplier of storage networking, high performance computing networking, and converged infrastructure solutions...

), Small Tree Communications
Runner Up: Elektron 1.0.1, Corriente Networks LLC

Best Mac OS X Student Product

Winner: GraphClick, Simon Bovet http://www.arizona-software.ch/
Runner Up: iMap 3.1, Peter Schols http://biovolution.com/imap/
Special Mention: Sonic Birth, Antoine Missout http://www.sonicbirth.com/

2004

Best Mac OS X Product

Winner: Big Bang Chess 1.0, Freeverse Software
Runner-up: Unison
Unison (Usenet client)
Unison is a commercial Mac OS X client for Usenet, developed by Panic Software. It supports binary downloading , group browsing and segmenting and error checking utilities...

1.0.2a, Panic Inc.

Best Product New to Mac OS

Winner: Contribute 2, Macromedia Inc.
Runner-up: GraphViz
Graphviz
Graphviz is a package of open-source tools initiated by AT&T Labs Research for drawing graphs specified in DOT language scripts. It also provides libraries for software applications to use the tools...

1.12 (v11), Pixelglow Software

Most Innovative Mac OS X Product

Winner: ToySight 1.0, Freeverse Software
Freeverse Software
Freeverse Inc. is a computer and video game, and desktop software developer owned by Ngmoco. Based in New York City, Freeverse titles received numerous awards including a Macworld Game Hall of Fame, two Macworld San Francisco Best of Shows and three Apple Design Awards in 2004...
Runner-up: SwordfishExpress 2.0, buyolympia.com

Best Mac OS X User Experience

Winner: Unison
Unison (Usenet client)
Unison is a commercial Mac OS X client for Usenet, developed by Panic Software. It supports binary downloading , group browsing and segmenting and error checking utilities...

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
Freeverse Software
Freeverse Inc. is a computer and video game, and desktop software developer owned by Ngmoco. Based in New York City, Freeverse titles received numerous awards including a Macworld Game Hall of Fame, two Macworld San Francisco Best of Shows and three Apple Design Awards in 2004...
Runner-up: PulpFiction 1.0, Freshly Squeezed Software

Best Mac OS X Open Source Product

Winner: GraphViz
Graphviz
Graphviz is a package of open-source tools initiated by AT&T Labs Research for drawing graphs specified in DOT language scripts. It also provides libraries for software applications to use the tools...

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

Best Mac OS X Server Solution

Winner: iNquiry
Inquiry
An inquiry is any process that has the aim of augmenting knowledge, resolving doubt, or solving a problem. A theory of inquiry is an account of the various types of inquiry and a treatment of the ways that each type of inquiry achieves its aim.-Deduction:...

4.05d, The BioTeam
Runner-up: gridMathematica
GridMathematica
gridMathematica is a software product sold by Wolfram Research which extends the parallel processing capabilities of its main product Mathematica.- Features :...

1.1, Wolfram Research, Inc.

Best Mac OS X Entertainment Product

Winner: Unreal Tournament 2004
Unreal Tournament 2004
Unreal Tournament 2004, also known as UT2K4 and UT2004, is a futuristic first-person shooter computer game developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes...

for Macintosh v1.0, MacSoft
Runner-up: Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne is a real-time strategy computer game developed for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS and Mac OS X by Blizzard Entertainment. It is the official expansion pack to Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, requiring Reign of Chaos to play...

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
Improvision
Improvision is a software developer based in Coventry, England. The company is the developer of Confocal, live cell imaging solutions and image analysis software for 2D, 3D and 4D imaging....
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

Best Mac OS X Product (Best of Show)

Winner: Salling Clicker
Salling Clicker
Salling Clicker is a suite of computer programs to enable the remote control of a Macintosh or Windows PC from a mobile phone. It is written and maintained by Jonas Salling from Sweden through the company Salling Software....

1.5, Salling Software
Runner Up: World Book 2003 Jaguar Edition, Software MacKiev
Software MacKiev
Software MacKiev is a company specialized in consumer and educational software development and publishing for Macintosh, Windows, and mobile platforms...

Most Innovative Mac OS X Product

Winner: Salling Clicker
Salling Clicker
Salling Clicker is a suite of computer programs to enable the remote control of a Macintosh or Windows PC from a mobile phone. It is written and maintained by Jonas Salling from Sweden through the company Salling Software....

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

Best Mac OS X User Experience

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
Software MacKiev
Software MacKiev is a company specialized in consumer and educational software development and publishing for Macintosh, Windows, and mobile platforms...
Runner Up: Spell Catcher X, Evan Gross

Best Mac OS X Student Product

Winner: Hydra 1.0.1, Martin Ott, Martin Pittenauer, Dominik Wagner, and Ulrich Bauer (now renamed SubEthaEdit
SubEthaEdit
SubEthaEdit is a collaborative real-time editor designed for Mac OS X. The name comes from the Sub-Etha communication network in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series....

)
Runner Up: SignalScope 1.0.5, Benjamin Faber

Best Mac OS X Use of Open Source

Winner: Fugu 1.0
Fugu (software)
-External links:* *...

, University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
Runner Up: VLC
VLC media player
VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to...

0.5.3, Samuel Hocevar
Sam Hocevar
Samuel “Sam” Hocevar is a French computer scientist, programmer, image processing expert and reverse engineer. Hocevar was the Debian Project Leader from 17 April 2007 to 16 April 2008.- Biography :...

Best Mac OS X Server Solution:

Winner: iNquiry 1.0, BioTeam
Runner Up: Radmind 0.8.4
Radmind
Radmind is a suite of Unix command-line tools and an application server designed to remotely administer the file systems of multiple client machines....

, University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

Best QuickTime Content Created by a Student

Winner: Drive By Punch, Stephen Mebs http://www.boxclever.ca/project.php?project_id=9
Runner Up: Nature and Water, Mario Palomera http://www.palomera.mx/design_award/

Best QuickTime Content Created by an Individual

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

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

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
OmniGraffle
OmniGraffle is a diagramming application made by The Omni Group. OmniGraffle is built only for Mac OS X and the iPad. It may be used to create diagrams, flow charts, org charts, and illustrations. It features a drag-and-drop WYSIWYG interface...

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

Best Mac OS X Technology Adoption

Winner: OmniGraffle
OmniGraffle
OmniGraffle is a diagramming application made by The Omni Group. OmniGraffle is built only for Mac OS X and the iPad. It may be used to create diagrams, flow charts, org charts, and illustrations. It features a drag-and-drop WYSIWYG interface...

2.0, Omni Development Inc.
The Omni Group
The Omni Group is a company that develops software for the Mac OS X platform. The Omni Group was informally founded as a NEXTSTEP consulting company in 1989 by Wil Shipley, who immediately brought on Ken Case and Tim Wood. The three incorporated together under the name Omni Development, Inc. in...
Runner Up: Vektor 3 3.1.3, Manfred Schubert

Best Mac OS X Open Source Port

Winner: TeXShop
TeXShop
TeXShop is a free TeX editor and previewer for Mac OS X. It is licensed under the GNU GPL.It was developed by the American mathematician Richard Koch. TeXShop was created especially for the Mac OS X user interface Aqua and capitalized on the native PDF support of the Macintosh operating system...

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

Best Mac OS X Student Product

Winner: MacJournal
MacJournal
MacJournal is journaling and blogging software originally developed for OS X. It is published by Mariner Software. MacJournal offers only basic text formatting and limited page layout features. MacJournal's audience includes diarists, bloggers and podcasters....

2.1, Dan Schimpf
Runner Up: CanCombineIcons 2.1.0, David Remahl

2001

Best New Mac OS X Product

Winner: OmniWeb
OmniWeb
OmniWeb is a proprietary Internet web browser developed and marketed by The Omni Group. It is available exclusively for Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system...

4.0, The Omni Group
The Omni Group
The Omni Group is a company that develops software for the Mac OS X platform. The Omni Group was informally founded as a NEXTSTEP consulting company in 1989 by Wil Shipley, who immediately brought on Ken Case and Tim Wood. The three incorporated together under the name Omni Development, Inc. in...
Runner Up: Xtools 1.0.3, Tenon Intersystems

Most Innovative Mac OS X Product

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

Best Mac OS X User Experience

Winner: OmniWeb
OmniWeb
OmniWeb is a proprietary Internet web browser developed and marketed by The Omni Group. It is available exclusively for Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system...

4.0, The Omni Group
The Omni Group
The Omni Group is a company that develops software for the Mac OS X platform. The Omni Group was informally founded as a NEXTSTEP consulting company in 1989 by Wil Shipley, who immediately brought on Ken Case and Tim Wood. The three incorporated together under the name Omni Development, Inc. in...
Runner Up: Drive 10 1.0.0, Micromat, Inc.

Best Mac OS X Technology Adoption

Winner: AutoCompleter 1.0, Catchy Software
Runner Up: REALbasic
REALbasic
Realbasic is the object-oriented dialect of the BASIC programming language used in Real Studio, a programming environment, developed and commercially marketed by Real Software, Inc of Austin, Texas for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, 32-bit x86 Linux and the web.- Language features :RB is a strongly...

3.2, REAL Software, Inc.

2000

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

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

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

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.

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