IDG’s Macworld Magazine Announces 2001 Editors’ Choice Awards

SAN FRANCISCO, December 3, 2001 — Macworld magazine, IDG’s premier Macintosh publication and Web site, has named the winners and finalists of its prestigious seventeenth annual Editors’ Choice Awards for 2001.

The Eddy Awards, the Apple Macintosh industry’s highest distinction for breakthrough product development, are being given to the year’s top software and hardware products in 25 categories. The Macworld editors surveyed every Mac product on the market from November 1, 2000 to November 1, 2001, evaluating them for their overall quality as well as their utility, innovation, and elegance. A celebration party will be held in honor of all the award recipients during the week of Macworld Conference & Expo San Francisco, which begins Monday, January 7th, 2002.

“It was a year of transition as the industry moved to adopt Apple’s new operating system, Mac OS X,” stated Rick LePage, Macworld ‘s Editor in Chief. “However, we were thrilled to see so many great products introduced from new and established Macintosh developers.”

Macworld magazine’s 2001 Editors’ Choice Award winners and finalists are:

Best Illustration Software Zbrush 1.2, Pixologic (Winner) Illustrator 10, Adobe Systems ToonBoom Studio, Toon Boom Technologies

Best Image-editing Software Photoshop Elements, Adobe Systems (Winner) Fireworks 4, Macromedia Test Strip 3.1, Vivid Details

Best Web Development Software BBEdit 6.5, Bare Bones Software (Winner) Dreamweaver 4, Macromedia LIFT Onsite 2.0.1, UsableNet

Best Business Productivity Software Office v.X, Microsoft (Winner) mimio 1.5, Virtual Ink Virtual PC 4, Connectix

Best Data Management Software AccountEdge 2.0, MYOB US (Winner) FileMaker Pro 5.5, FileMaker Quicken 2002 Deluxe, Intuit

Best Digital Camera PowerShot S110 Digital Elph, Canon (Winner) Coolpix 995, Nikon PowerShot G2, Canon

Best Display Formac Gallery 1740, Formac (Winner) electron22blue III, LaCie VB50HRTV, Viewsonic

Best Education Software Robolab 2.5, Pitsco Lego Dacta (Winner) Kid Pix Deluxe 3.0, Broderbund World Book 2002 Mac OS X, World Book

Best Game Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2, Aspyr Media (Winner) Escape from Monkey Island, Aspyr Media Rogue Spear, MacSoft

Best Printer Stylus C80, Epson (Winner) HL-1670N, Brother International Stylus Photo 820, Epson

Best Productivity Utility QuicKeys X, CE Software (Winner) FileGuard 4.0, Intego StuffIt Deluxe 6.5, Aladdin Systems

Best Science/Engineering Software VectorWorks 9, Nemetschek (Winner) CalculationCenter, Wolfram Research CrystalMaker 5.0, CrystalMaker Software

Best 3-D-Graphics Software LightWave 3D 7b, NewTek (Winner) Cinema 4D XL 7.1, Maxon Computer Maya for Mac OS X 3.5, Alias|Wavefont

Best Acceleration Product GeForce3, NVIDIA (Winner) AEC-6880M/ATA-133 RAID, ACARD Encore/ST G4 Duet, Sonnet Technologies

Best Development Software REALbasic 3.5.1, REAL Software (Winner) Interface Builder, Apple Computer Script Debugger 3.0, Late Night Software

Best Digital Video Software Final Cut Pro 2.0.2, Apple Computer (Winner) DVD Studio Pro 1.1, Apple Computer Premiere 6.0, Adobe Systems

Best Input Device Cintiq, Wacom (Winner) Cordless MouseMan Optical, Logitech Turbo Mouse Pro Wireless, Kensington Technology

Best Multimedia Product MOTU 828, Mark of the Unicorn (Winner) Formac Studio, Formac Reason 1.0, Propellerhead Software

Best Personal Digital Assistant Palm m505, Palm (Winner) Palm m125, Palm Visor Edge, Handspring

Best Storage Product DVR-A03, Pioneer (Winner) DiskOnKey, M-Systems VXA-1 FireWire, Ecrix

Best System Utility BrickHouse 1.1b6 , Brian Hill (Winner) Drive 10, Micromat Unsupported Utility X 2.0, Ryan Rempel

Hardware Product of the Year Titanium PowerBook G4, Apple Computer

Software Product of the Year Office v.X, Microsoft

Technology of the Year SuperDrive, Apple Computer and Pioneer

Impact Award Mac OS X 10.1, Apple Computer