Fri, 03 Apr 2009 Macworld Awards 2009: Nominations
We are pleased to announce the nominations for this year's Macworld Awards.
Macworld is pleased to announce the full list of nominations for the Macworld Awards 2009.
The Macworld Awards are voted on by Macworld Editors and readers. A Macworld Award is considered a benchmark throughout the industry. The presitgious awards ceremony, to be held this year at The HAC, is a much looked-forward to annual tradition.
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Do you share your creations online?
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What do you create and how do you share it?
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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
The awards ceremony is to be held on 18 June 2009. The winners will be announced at a special event at the HAC, London, hosted by Macworld.
This year's nominations are:
Apple product of the year
- App Store
- iPod touch 2G
- iPhone 3G
- MacBook
- MacBook Pro
Best consumer storage
- Buffalo LinkStation Mini - Buffalo
- Data Robotics Drobo 800 - Data Robotics
- LaCie Little Disk - LaCie
- FreeAgent Go for Mac - Seagate
- Western Digital MyBook Studio Edition II - Western Digital
Best professional storage
- SpyderHUB - Firmtek
- Data Tank 3.5" - Freecom
- G-RAID3 - G-Tech
- Iomega UltraMax Plus - Iomega
- TS-509 Pro Turbo NAS - QNAP Systems
Best consumer software
- Photoshop Elements 6 - Adobe
- Bento 2 - FileMaker
- Voila - Global Delight
- Roxio Toast 10 - Roxio
- TuneRanger - Smith Micro
Best iPod Accessory
- HardSkin for iPod nano - Contour Design
- Gear4 Duo - Gear4
- c-Jays - Jays
- Powertraveller soundtraveller K3000ST - Powertraveller
- Shure SE210 - Shure
Best iPhone Accessory
- hf2 Custom*Fit - Etymotic
- AirCurve - Griffin Technology
- iOPlay - iO
- i-Station 25 - Logic3
- JuicePack - Mophie UK
Consumer Audio Product
- SoundSticks II - Harman Kardon
- Valve80 - Logic3
- T12 - Orbitsound
- Evoke Flow - PURE
- Luna Voyager - XtremeMac
Best iPhone/iPod touch application
- Tweetie - Atebits
- Google Earth - Google
- OmniFocus - OmniGroup
- Truphone for iPhone - Truphone
- ConcertVault - Wolfgang's Vault
Best iPhone/iPod touch game
- Zen Bound - Chillingo
- Days of Thunder - Freeverse
- Real Football 2009 - Gameloft
- Rolando - ngmoco
- Warfare Inc. - spiffcode
Creative Hardware Product Of The Year
- Spyder3Elite - Datacolor
- Eizo CG241W -Eizo
- MX Air - Logitech
- MultiSync LCD2690WUXi - NEC
- Intuos4 - Wacom
- ColorMunki - X-Rite
Creative Design Software of the year
- Photoshop CS4 - Adobe
- Aperture 2 - Apple
- Universal Type Server - Extensis
- QuarkXPress 8 - Quark
- Manga Studio 4 - Smith Micro
Creative Web Software of the Year
- Adobe Flash CS4 - Adobe
- Adobe Air - Adobe
- BBEdit 9 - Bare Bones
- Microsoft Silverlight - Microsoft
- LittleSnapper - Realmac Software
Best Pro Photo and Print Imaging
- EOS 450D - Canon
- Stylus PX800FW - Epson
- PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II - Canon
- Nikon D3 - Nikon
- Lumix DMC-G1 - Panasonic
Professional Video Product of the year
- Adobe Premiere CS4 - Adobe
- MediaComposer 3.5 - Avid
- DeckLink HD Extreme - Black Magic Design
- HF100 - Canon
- Matrox MX02 - Matrox
Best Animation and 3D product
- ImageModeler 2009 - Autodesk
- Maya 2009 - Autodesk
- Boris Continuum Complete 6 - Boris FX
- Carrara 7 Pro - Daz3D
- Cinema 4D - Maxon
Consumer Hardware Product of the Year
- Eye TV DTT Deluxe - Elgato
- Myvu Crystal - Myvu
- Linear PCM - Olympus
- HDR-TG3 - Sony
- WD TV - Western Digital
Consumer Photo Product of the Year
- Pixma IP4600 - Canon
- Photosmart D5460 - HP
- Coolpix P80 - Nikon
- Pentax K-m - Pentax
- CyberShot H50 - Sony
Best Productivity Hardware
- N1 Vision - Belkin
- DSL-2740B - D-Link
- SlimBlade Media Mouse - Kensington
- C544dn - Lexmark
- Phaser 8560DN - Xerox
Best Productivity Software
- Business Accountz Enterprise - Accountz
- FileMaker Pro 10 - FileMaker
- Parallels Desktop 4 - Parallels
- StuffIt Deluxe 2009 - Smith Micro
- VMware Fusion 2 - VMware
Education Product of the Year
- ConceptDraw MINDMAP Pro 5.5 - CS Odessa
- MacSpeech Dictate - MacSpeech
- TechTool Pro 5 - Micromat
- MindManager 8 - Mindjet
- ContentBarrier x5 - Intego

Question of the day!
Mark Hattersley
Editor in Chief
Do you share your creations online?