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The winners of this year's most prestigious Mac industry awards were announced at a glittering black tie event last night.

Each year Macworld's editors decide what the finest products of the last 12 months have been across different industry sectors; professional creative, consumer and Apple's own offerings.

Question of the day!

Mark Hattersley
Editor in Chief

Do you share your creations online?

Question of the day!

Do you share your creations online?

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paintings & illustrations, mostly, which i upload to flickr.RT @fragmentedm

I draw manga/anime characters. I also do graphic design and photography.RT @spialelo

Yes. I usually put them up on my #deviantart account for feedback on how to improve.RT @spialelo

Macworld readers also vote for what they see as the products of the year. The products with the most number of votes in each category were put up for nomination, and the product with the highest number of votes was declared victorious.

The winners of this year's awards are:

Apple Product of the year The Dual Core Quad Xeon Mac Pro

The blisteringly fast 8-core Mac Pro offers the power of two Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors and is exceptionally good value for money. The MacPro was the first PC to offer Intel's 3GHz 'Clovertown' processor.

Nominees:
AirPort Extreme, Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro, iPod nano 2G, Nike + iPod

Best Mac OS X software Parallels Desktop for Mac

Parallels Desktop lets you run many operating systems at near-native speeds, all without leaving the friendly confines of OS X.

Nominees: Intego Internet Security Barrier X4, ProSoft Engineering Drive Genius, Micromat TechTool Protogo, Roxio Toast 8 Titanium.

Best storage product FirmTek SeriTek/2eEN4

The SeriTek/2eEN4 array of four high-performance drives offers secure data storage in a tough, lockable enclosure.

Nominees:
Iomega Ultramax, Western Digital MyBook, AMCC 3Ware Sidecar, Miglia DualDisk.

Creative hardware Logitech NuLooq navigator

Logitech has created a truly original must-have device for anyone who needs precise navigational control over a work space.

Nominees: Wacom Intuos3 A5 Wide, LaCie 321 Colour Monitor, Pantone Huey Pro, Yamaha GO46.

Creative design software Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended

Photoshop CS3 Extended is the ultimate image editor, offering many new features alongside medical and scientific imaging tools and significant workflow enhancements.

Nominees: Corel Painter X, Quark Print Collection, Apple Aperture 1.5.2, IMSI TurboCad 2

Creative web software Quark Interactive Designer

Quark Interactive Designer makes QuarkXPress a more rounded cross-media authoring tool and enables designers to build lively Flash presentations.

Nominees:
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, BareBones BBEdit 8.6, RealMac Software RapidWeaver 3.5, Softpress Freeway 4.3.2

Pro photo and print imaging Nikon D40x

The D40x offers 10-megapixel capture, 3-frames-per-second shooting speed and a lengthy rechargeable battery life. It's also a dream to handle.

Nominees:
HP DesignJet Z2100, Epson Stylus Pro 3800, Olympus E400, Canon EOS-1D MK III.

Professional video product Canon XH A1

If you're a professional filmmaker on a budget or a dedicated amateur you'll absolutely love Canon's XH A1.

Nominees:
FirmTek SeriTek/2EN2, Apple Shake 4.1, Sony HDR-HC3E, Avid Mojo SDI

Animation and 3D Autodesk Maya 8.5

The increase in performance and stability from Mac-Intel support, and the pioneering Nucleus technology are great reasons to upgrade to Maya 8.5.

Nominees:
Google SketchUp Pro 6, e frontier Poser 7, Maxon Cinema 4D RD10, Luxology Modo 203

Consumer hardware Elgato EyeTV Diversity

EyeTV Diversity has solved the single biggest problem for TV solutions signal reception. Everything else, especially the excellent EyeTV 2 software package, now shines.

Nominees:
BlackBerry Pearl, DLO New HomeDock, VoipVoice Cyberphone-W, Belkin N1 Wireless Modem Router

Entertainment Macsoft Age Of Empires III

Age Of Empires III is immediately captivating and engrossing. Add to that a superb single-player campaign and thorough multiplayer capabilities and you have a winner.

Nominees:
Aspyr Media Star Wars: Empire At War, Aspyr Media Prey, Asypr Media Call of Duty 2, Feral Interactive The Movies

Best consumer photo product HP Photosmart Pro B9180

The B9180 is a pro-influenced photo printer without the pro price-tag, offering superb print quality, colour accuracy and print permanence.

Nominees:
Epson PictureMate 280, Canon Ixus 800 IS, Panasonic Lumix DMC-f27, Lexmark P350

Education product MacSpeech iListen

Surfing the web can be transformed into a wholly voice-driven exercise and the way you use your Mac and its applications can be revolutionised, thanks to iListen.

Nominees: LEGO Company LEGO Mindstorms NXT, Imaginova Starry Night Pro 6, SMART Technologies SMART Board, Fairfield Language Technologies Rosetta Stone 3.

iPod Accessory Gear4 BluEye

Plug the BluEye into a Bluetooth mobile phone and it turns your iPod into a mobile phone, even displaying your callers phone number on the iPod's screen.

Nominees:
zCover Windshield Clip, Griffin Reflect, Keyspan TuneView, Better Energy Systems Solio Charger

Consumer audio JBL Radial

The Radial offers good bass response and a unique and attractive design. This is a truly stellar-sounding system, especially considering its size.

Nominees:
iLuv i177, Logic3 iStation-8, Shure SE530, iHome iH19

Productivity hardware Konica Minolata Magicolor 7450

This is a solidly-built machine that looks capable of taking years of abuse, and is ideal for documents and content proofing.

Nominees:
HP Colour LaserJet 2605DTN, T-Mobile MDA Vario II, Apple Xserve, Buffalo LinkStation Pro

Productivity software FileMaker Pro 8.5

The Universal version of FileMaker adds web content and object naming. Moving to version 8.5 is an upgrade investment worth making.

Nominees: Google Google Docs, MarketCircle Daylite 3, AEC Software FastTrack Schedule 9, Accountz Business Accountz

Macworld Reader Award - best hardware

Winner: Canon EOS 400D

Nominees: Elgato EyeTV, HP Photosmart Pro B9180, LaCie Big Disk, Formac Gallery 2010

Macworld Reader Awards - best software Adobe Photoshop CS3

Nominees:
Parallels Desktop for Mac, Softpress Freeway 4, Realmac Software Rapidweaver, Quark QuarkXPress 7

Macworld Reader Award - best reseller MacWarehouse

Nominees:
Apple Store, Cancom, Computer Warehouse, Gordon Harwood Computers

Macworld Reader Award - best 'Mac Friendly' ISP Winner: Zen

Nominees: Demon, Madasafish, Pipex, Plusnet

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