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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.
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.
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I really like TeXShop. It's quite a complete app and a good example of how good free software can be. The only thing it doesn't support yet is spaces in .tex filenames. It does, however, make great pdf files!
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So are these the Darwin awards???
What menu?
I wish I could offer you help with just the info you've given, but the missing piece of information is kind of the crux of the matter.
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I use Mail everyday since 10.0 and never have that problem. It's a wonderful tool, better than Outlook on Windows in my opinion. The only minor issue is that sometime Mail refuse to quit, not a big deal because you can always force quit.
Mail takes about the average time to open up for me, say 4 or 5 'bounces'. But then I leave it running most of the time I'm in X, so I usually fire it up after a restart, which usually means after playing some games in 9.22.
Of course, right after a restart, it has to log into my DSL, so there's a wait while the Internet Connect app starts the PPPoE connection. That's another 10 seconds, usually.
"Common Sense Ain't" -Unknown
The menu bar, at the top. I.e., click on any of them (message, mailbox, format, etc), and it take 30-45 seconds before the menu "dropdown" appears. Sorry about that, I guess I should have been more clear :-)
;-)
On a slightly OT note, I'm running OSX on an original (blueberry) ibook, upgraded to 160Megs of RAM (that's a G3 300mhz) and haven't seen the perfomance issues that other people do. In fact, the Mail.app menu problem is the only speed-related thing I have to complain about, and I doubt that it is related to my processor at all (i.e., it's a config thing, or something). I'm *very* impressed! My wife's Quicken and my shell, co-existing *natively* on the same machine! w00t
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.
OpenMac is a good place to ask these quiestions, just follow the link, get the OpenMac Application and ask away!
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i guess it helps to remember those tags huh? oh well ;)
Don't call me back. Give me a call back. Bye. So yeah. But bye our, well, but alright we are on a shirt this chill.
I guess that's why they renamed it "Sherlock 3" and are releasing it with Jaguar :-)
Alcohol and Calculus don't mix. Don't drink and derive.
Looks pretty slick. It's not surprising it won, though -- NextStep included a TeX distribution (and had builtin previewing capabilities via Display PostScript).
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
We wouln't want *Akamai* to get Slashdotted now *would we*? Thank God Slashdot can take up the slack.
Come on, posting articles is nice and all, but this server was not going to be slashdotted(period), it didn't require registration, and it isn't even noticably loaded.
And, of course, there's the legal issue that this is Apple's copyrighted content that you're moving to another site.
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Watson development to continue, says developer
Dan Wood of Karelia Software, the developer of Watson, confirmed for MacCentral that he had no part in the development of Sherlock 3. Wood also confirmed that Watson is alive and well and he will continue the development of the product.
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