MWSF: Macworld Best of Show awards presented
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jan 12, 2006 at 4:34pm
Macworld has presented the winners of the “Macworld Best of Show Awards,” representing “the most exciting hardware and software products announced at Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco.”
To be eligible for Best of Show consideration, products were either making their public debut at Macworld Conference & Expo or were recently introduced and likely to generate excitement on the show floor. In addition, the editors had to see the products in action. The Best of Show winners for MWSF 2006 are:
° The MacBook Pro from Apple.
° iLife ‘06 from Apple.
° Lightroom from Adobe, upcoming software for pro photographers from Adobe that was released a public beta this week.
° iSee 360i from Advanced">http://www.atollc.com">Advanced Technology Office, a US$249 device that docks with your iPod and can not only play files stored on the iPod’s hard drive on the iSee’s 3.6-inch color screen, but also be used to record video from a number of different sources.
° EyeTV 2 from Elgato, the television viewing/recording solution that works with all existing EyeTV-compatible hardware, but features a designed interface that mimics iTunes and iPhoto. EyeTV 2 costs $49 through March 31
° Suitcase Fusion from Extensis ($100), which combines characteristics of the Suitcase and Font Reserve font managers.
° Google Earth from Google (free) which offers satellite photos of various areas.
° MemoryMiner by GroupSmarts ($60), which lets you explore the relationships between the people and places in your digital photos.
°JBL On Time from JBL ($299), which features a looping speaker, dual alarms, a clock radio and ambient light sensors, so it reacts automatically to changing light conditions.
° LightZone 1.0 from Light Crafts ($250), a photo editing application for professional and advanced photographers.
° Marware Project X from Marware ($199), a project management solution “for the rest of us.”
° Techtool Protege from Micromat ($229), a FireWire flash drive that comes pre-loaded with a bootable copy of OS X, the latest versions of Micromat’s TechTool Pro and DiskStudio, and whatever other utilities you want to load into its gigabyte of memory.
° Browseback from Smile on My Mac ($30), a tool for searching your browser history. The program gives you thumbnails of every page you looked at and you can search your history with keywords, even if you saw the page weeks ago. ($30)
° Docktopus from Startly Technologies, a tool for adding informational “badges” atop Dock icons.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
