Apple Design Award Winners Announced

EccentricAnomaly writes "Apple has announced the winners of this year's Apple Design Awards. And the winners are: Best New Mac OS X Product: Toon Boom; Most Innovative Mac OS X Product: Watson; Best Mac OS X User Experience and Best Mac OS X Technology Adoption: OmniGraffle; Best Mac OS X Open Source port: TeXShop; and Best Mac OS X Student Product: MacJournal." The last one appears to be down, due to "excessive bandwidth consumption." Maybe the Apple Design Awards people should've gotten together with the Apple iTools HomePage people.

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Way to go omni

[Dirty Pickle]

I'm kind of surprised OmniOutliner didn't get a nod. Like OmniGraffle, it's an impressive show of what cocoa can do. I'm guessing they just didn't have version 2.0 out in time.

Oh, and LaunchBar. I can't live without that.

Here's the full list.

[d0n quix0te]

Best New Mac OS X Product:

Winner: Toon Boom Studio 1.1, Toon Boom
An animation tool for traditional animators that includes 2D drawing, 3D scene painting, panting to film, and sound synching.

Runner Up: Marketcircle DayLite 1.0.1, Marketcircle Inc.
A comprehensive customer relationship management tool.

Most Innovative Mac OS X Product:

Winner: Watson 1.5, Karelia Software, LLC
An innovative tool for viewing Internet-based information, with an auto-updating feature.

Runner Up: Toon Boom Studio v1.1, Toon Boom.
An animation tool for traditional animators that includes 2D drawing, 3D scene painting, panting to film, and sound synching.

Best Mac OS X User Experience:

Winner: OmniGraffle 2.0, Omni Development Inc.
An innovative, flexible diagramming and charting tool.

Runner Up: STX 1.0, Salon Transcripts
A powerful, integrated business management tool with timesheets, payroll, inventory, billing, and accounting capabilities.

Best Mac OS X Technology Adoption:

Winner: OmniGraffle 2.0, Omni Development Inc.
An innovative, flexible diagramming and charting tool.

Runner Up: Vektor 3 3.1.3, Manfred Schubert
A full-featured chess program with an innovative use of Quartz, Speech, and other Mac OS X technologies.

Best Mac OS X Open Source Port:

Winner: TeXShop 1.19, Richard Koch, Mathematics Department, University of Oregon
The ultimate tool for formatting scientific and technical documents.

Runner Up: SIDekick 1.1, Axel Wefers
A tool for salvaging legacy sound files stored on Commodore64 SID file players.

Best Mac OS X Student Product:

Winner: MacJournal 2.1, Dan Schimpf
A tool for keeping and organizing logs, diaries, journals, notes, and ideas.

Runner Up: CanCombineIcons 2.1.0, David Remahl
This tool helps you easily create icons for your applications.

Re:Apple really liked Watson...

[Alex Thorpe]

The author of Watson did announce today on MacCentral that Watson would continue to be developed and improved.

IMHO, Sherlock 3 didn't try and add more than half of the features of Watson, and Watson will be adding more before Sherlock 3 is released. I intend to keep using Watson for a long time, myself.

Re:cool

[Matthias Wiesmann]

Actually, there are many advantages for compiling your latex code directly to pdf. In fact, this is what I'm doing on my solaris box.

I used to compile to dvi and then convert to Postscript because most of the figures I used were eps files. Most people in the lab are still working this way. When there are eps figures, xdvi basically call ghostview to convert the eps to a bitmap.

The advantages of compiling to pdf are numerous:

• Compactness - pdf files are very compact.
• Good viewer - previewing your files using acroread means you get good anti-aliasing, which is less tiring.
• Portable, pdf files can be viewed on many plateforms (more that dvi or Postscript at any rate). Also most conferences and journals accept pdf files.
• Better spacing algorithm - pdftex uses a special justification algorithm that tweaks the shape of characters - this avoids some "box overfull" messages.
• The hyper-ref package - all internal references are hyper-links, and the pdf outline is built from the latex structure. Very cool.
• With a little bit of fiddling I built a .bbl file that insert hyper-links to the original paper in the bibliography if there is an "url" entry in the .bib file.