Macworld has announced the second round of nominations for the Macworld Awards, with winners to be announced at an awards ceremony on 21 June.
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Macworld Awards 2012 - Editors' Awards
APPLE
Apple product of the year
NEW ENTRY: The New iPad
iPhone 4S
OS X Lion
iCloud
MacBook Air 11in
Final Cut Pro 10.0.3

HARDWARE
Best consumer storage product
NEW ENTRY - Still to be confirmed
Western Digital, TV Live Hub
Hitachi, Touro Mobile Pro
Seagate, GoFlex Ultra Portable
Verbatim, Store n Go
Freecom, Mobile Drive Mg U&F
Best professional storage product
NEW ENTRY - G-TECH, G-RAID with Thunderbolt
Freecom, SilverStore 2-Drive NAS
Iomega, StorCentre ix2-200
LaCie, Little Big Disk Thunderbolt
Promise, Pegasus R6
Synology, DiskStation DS2411+
Best consumer camera
NEW ENTRY - Panasonic, Lumix DMC-GX1
Nikon, Coolpix S1200pj
Olympus, E-P3
Canon, Powershot S100
Fujifilm, FinePix F600EXR
Sony, Cyber-shot DSC-HX9V
Best DSLR camera
NEW ENTRY - Fujifilm X-Pro1
Nikon, D5100
Canon, EOS 600D
Pentax, K-5
Sony, Alpha A55
Panasonic, Lumix DMC-GF3
Consumer hardware product of the year
NEW ENTRY - Still to be confirmed
Mobee, Magic Bar
Kanex, SnapX
Western Digital, LiveWire
Huawei (Three), MiFi E586
Wacom, Bamboo Fun Pen & Touch
Creative hardware product of the year
NEW ENTRY - Blackmagic, Ultrastudio 3D
Datacolor, Spyder4Elite
Wacom, Cintiq 24HD
Wacom, Inkling
NEC, SpectraView Reference 271
Eizo, ColorEdge CG275W
Best photo printer
NEW ENTRY - HP, Top Shot LaserJet Pro
HP, Envy 110
Epson, Stylus Photo PX720WD
Kodak, Hero 7.1
Canon, Pixma Pro-1
Lexmark, Interact S605
Best office printer
NEW ENTRY - Still to be confirmed
Brother, MFC-J825DW
Kodak ESP Office 2170
Oki, ES9410
Canon, MG6150
Xerox Phaser 7800
SOFTWARE
Best consumer software
NEW ENTRY - Still to be confirmed
Accountz, Home Accountz
Google, Picasa 3.8
Adobe, Photoshop Elements
Parallels, Transporter
Nuance, Dragon Dictate 2.5
Best professional software
NEW ENTRY - FileMaker, FileMaker Pro 12
Parallels, Parallels Desktop 7
VMware, VMware Fusion 4
Bare Bones Software, BBedit 10
OmniGroup, Omniplan 2
Extensis, Portfolio Server 10
Creative software of the year
NEW ENTRY - Adobe Photoshop CS6
Autodesk, Maya 2012
Nik, Colour Efex Pro 4
Corel, Painter 12
OnOne, Perfect Photo Suite 6
Maxon, Cinema 4D Studio R13
iOS HARDWARE
Best headphones
NEW ENTRY - Denon, AHC360
Shure, SRH440
Sennheiser, RS 170
Jays, a-Jays One Plus
AKG, K840 KL
Altec Lansing, Muzx Ultra mZx606
Best speakers
NEW ENTRY - JBL OnBeat Xtreme
Klipsch, G-17 Air
Audyssey, Lower East Side Audio Dock Air
Arcam, rCube
Sonos Play:3
iHome, iW1
iOS accessory of the year
NEW ENTRY - Still to be confirmed
Elgato, EyeTV Mobile
Kingston, Wi-Drive
iGo, Bluetooth Keyboard for iPad
Just Mobile, Xtand Pro
Schneider Optics, iPro Lens
iOS SOFTWARE
iOS entertainment & lifestyle app
NEW ENTRY - Rockstar Games, Max Payne Mobile
Gameloft, 9mm
Netflix, Netflix for iPad
Chair Entertainment Group, Infinity Blade II
Facebook, Facebook for iPad
Spotify, Spotify for iOS
iOS business & utility
NEW ENTRY - LogMeIn, LogMeIn Pro
GingerLabs, Notability
Readdle, Remarks
ABBYY, TextGrabber
Quickoffice, Quickoffice Pro for iPad
Sage One
iOS video & photography
NEW ENTRY - Adobe, Photoshop Touch
Nik Software, Snapseed
MrBware, Simply B&W
Aspyre Apps, Photo Academy
Global Delight, Game Your Video
Avid, Avid Studio for iPad


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