Fri, 30 Jun 2006 Macworld UK 2006 awards winners revealed

Macworld UK named the winners of its prestigious Macworld Awards at a glittering ceremony held at the Royal Courts of Justice in London last night.

The Awards were sponsored by Harman Kardon, JBL, Quark and FileMaker. The event saw the UK Mac industry's leading lights gathered together under one roof to share the occasion.

Winners came from an extensive and varied list after a year of fast-paced change in the Mac industry: Apple began the move to Intel processors, developers are beginning to gear up for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and the iPod continues to lead the pack as the world's leading portable media player.

After great reflection, this year's winners and runners-up are as follows:

Macworld Editors' Choice Award for Productivity Hardware

Winner: Vonage, Vonage.

Runners up:
MicroLink dLAN, Devolo
Pixma iP4200, Canon
Pixma MP780, Canon
Smart Label Printer 430, Seiko
Vigor 2800VG, DrayTek

Editors' Choice: Productivity Software

Winner: FileMaker Pro 8, FileMaker

Runners up:
NetSuite, NetSuite
Oracle 10g, Oracle
Script Debugger 4.0, Late Night Software
Skype 1.3, Skype
Traffic T9, Sohnar

Editors' Choice: Creative Hardware

Winner: EOS 350D Canon

D50 – Nikon
EasyShare P850, Kodak
FinePix F10 Zoom, Fujifilm
Graphire 4 Studio XL, Wacom
Perfection 4490 Photo, Epson

Editors' Choice: Creative Software

Winner: QuarkXPress 7 Quark

Runners up:
Canvas X, ACD Systems
Freeway 4 Pro, Softpress
Portfolio 8, Extensis
QuarkXPress 7, Quark
SketchBook Pro 2, Alias
Studio 8, Adobe/Macromedia

Editors' Choice: Print Imaging

Winner: Magicolor 2450, Konica Minolta.

Runners up:
DeskJet 9800, HP
Helios UB, Helios
Ilumina Digital Colour Press, Xanté
Phaser 7750, Xerox
Stylus Pro 4800, Epson

Editors' Choice: Storage

Winner: MiniMax Iomega

Runners up:
MediaVault 4210, Huge Systems
SuperDuper 1.5.5, Shirt Pocket Software
PresStore 2.1, Archiware
Raven XTR 500, Formac
Toast 7 Titanium, Roxio

Editors' Choice: Video

Winner: After Effects 7 Adobe

Runners up:
Final Cut Studio, Apple
HVR-A1E, Sony
MV880X, Canon
NGVS17, Panasonic
Shake 4, Apple

Editors' Choice: Animation and 3D

Winner: Cinema 4D R9.5 Maxon Computer

Runners up:
Animator 1.1, Ikivo
Carrara Pro 5.0, Eovia
Daz|Studio 1.0, DAZ Productions
Hexagon 2, Eovia
I Can Animate, Kudlian Soft

Editors' Choice: Consumer Hardware

Winner: TVMini Miglia

Runners up:
EyeTV, Elgato
Ozonic MIDI Keyboard, M-Audio
Squeezebox, Slim Devices
Watchandgo, Formac
Wi-Fi Radio, Acoustic Energy

Editors' Choice: Consumer Photo

Winner: PictureMate 500 Epson

Runners up:
IR-300, Olympus
Ixus 750, Canon
Perfection 3590 Photo, Epson
Photosmart 475, HP
ScanJet 4890, HP

Editors' Choice: Consumer Software

Winner: Google Earth, Google

Runners up:
Comic Life - Plasq
Flickr, Yahoo
HandBrake, Eric Petit & Laurent Aimar
Personal backup X4, Intego
Photoshop Elements 4, Adobe

Editors' Choice: Entertainment

Winner: The Sims 2 Aspyr

Runners up:
Doom 3, Aspyr
Lego Digital Designer, Lego
Myst V: End of Ages, Ubisoft
Quake 4, Aspyr
Tropico 2: Pirate Cove, MacSoft

Editors' Choice: iPod Accessory

Winner: On Time, JBL

Runners up:
AirClick, Griffin Technology
E500 headphones, Shure
iSA silicon case, zCover
PocketPower, Gear4
TuneStage, Belkin

Editors' Choice: Audio

Winner: i-Deck Monitor Audio

Runners up:
iDrive+Play, Harman Kardon
iFi, Klipsch
inMotion iM7, Altec Lansing
iSongBook, Tivoli Audio
mm50, Logitech

Editors' Choice: Apple Product of the Year
Sponsored by Harman Kardon and JBL.

Winner: MacBook

Runners up:

Boot Camp
Front Row
iLife '06
iPod nano
Mighty Mouse

The next three awards were voted for by over 2,000 readers of Macworld magazine.:

Readers' Choice: Best Hardware

Winner: EyeTV 410, Elgato

Runners up:

Brick, LaCie
Drive & Play, Harman Kardon
EOS 350D, Canon
MiniMax, Iomega
SoundDock, Bose

Readers' Choice: Best Software

Winner: Creative Suite 2, Adobe

Runners up:

Freeway 4 Pro, Softpress
Google Earth, Google
iLife 06, Apple
Photoshop Elements 4, Adobe
Toast 7, Roxio

Readers' Choice: Best Mac Reseller
Sponsored by Quark.

Winner: MacWarehouse

Runners up:
Cancom
Computer Warehouse
Gordon Harwood
Jigsaw

Apple Event of All Time

Penultimately, in a special award to mark the thirtieth year of Apple Computer Macworld's readers voted on what they consider the most pivotal event in the company's history, the Apple Event of All Time...

Winner: 1998, The launch of the iMac

Runners up:

1984: The birth of the Macintosh
2001: The arrival of the iPod
2004: The iPod mini
2005: The move to Intel

FileMaker Developer of the Year Award

The final award is the third annual FileMaker Developer of the Year Award, which has been sponsored by FileMaker.

Winner: Geoff Stephens of TimeHarvest

Runners up:
Ian Jempson of BinHex Limited
Mark Staniszewski of Green Button Software

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