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Macworld Magazine Editors Announce the 2005 Editors’ Choice Winners
32 Macintosh Products are recognized for Innovation and Excellence
Macworld.com visitors choose two products for the Readers’ Choice awards
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, December 19, 2005 – IDG’s Macworld magazine, the most comprehensive resource
for the Mac market, has named the recipients of the twenty-first annual Editors’ Choice Awards for 2005.
The Editors’ Choice Awards (Eddy Awards), the Mac industry’s most prestigious distinction for breakthrough
product development, are given to the year’s top hardware and software products chosen by Macworld’s
editorial department. Macworld’s editors looked at nearly every new Mac product on the market between
Nov 1, 2004 to November 1, 2005, evaluating their overall quality as well as their utility, innovation, and
elegance.
"The Mac platform is populated by developers who constantly create amazing, innovative products, and this
year proves the point," said Mac Publishing editorial director Jason Snell. "Everyone knows Apple is an
innovator, but the Mac market is full of companies large and small that are meeting or exceeding the high
standards of quality set both by Apple and by the incredibly demanding community of Mac users."
Listed in alphabetical order by company, the 2005 Macworld Editors’ Choice recipients are:
Adobe Creative Suite 2, Adobe Systems
Automator, Apple
Final Cut Studio, Apple
iPhoto 5, Apple
iPod nano, Apple
iPod with video, Apple
Mac mini, Apple
Radeon 9600 Pro PC and Mac Edition, ATI Technologies
TextWrangler 2.1, Bare Bones Software
World of Warcraft, Blizzard Entertainment
Canary Digital Hotspotter, Canary Wireless
Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT, Canon
Delicious Library 1.5, Delicious Monster
PictureMate Deluxe Viewer Edition, Epson
Fujitsu ScanSnap for Mac OS X, Fujitsu
iH5, iHome Audio
Dreamweaver 8, Macromedia
LaunchBar 4, Objective Development
Transmit 3.2, Panic Software
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