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Apple Design Awards 2006 winners

Apple Design Awards 2006Today this year's winners of the annual Apple Design Awards were announced. The awards aim "to recognize technical excellence and outstanding achievement on Mac OS X" in eight categories. Here are the winners (uh, spoilers):
  • Best Developer Tool: TextMate 1.5.2
  • Best Use of OS X Graphics: modo 201
  • Best Dashboard Widget: iClip lite 2.0
  • Best Automator Workflow: Build Real Estate Catalog/Ultimate Productivity Action Pack 1.0
  • Best User Experience: iSale 3.1
  • Best Game: The Sims 2, 1.0 Rev E
  • Best Scientific Computing Solution: EnzymeX 3.1
  • Best Student Product: Lineform 1.1
You can go to the Apple Design Awards 2006 site for more information and the runners-up, which is mysterious absent of links, or you can head over to Phill Ryu's blog where he lists them all with links and some commentary on the award ceremony. Ryu runs Widget Machine and co-developed iClip lite (winner of Best Dashboard Widget above) with Inventive.

Filed under: Fun, Macintosh, Shareware, Freeware

Ten cool OS X screensavers

Top 10 OS X ScreensaversPhill Ryu is making us Windows users jealous (again) with his list of the Top Ten OS X Screensavers. With one $20 shareware exception, all of his picks are free, and all of them are universal binaries and look stunning. I'm particularly intrigued by the Simpsons-inspired Mr. Sparkle screensaver at #9, Hills at #3, and Fenêtres Volantes, which turns your windows into floating, drifting 3D objects, at #1. Ryu also names a handful of promising runners-up.

The OS X Leopard that might have been

Fake Leopard Screenshot ContestApple gets a lot of accolades for its user interface design, and even Microsoft is turning some heads with Vista and Office 2007, but they should both be paying attention to the OS Eric Patterson made. Unfortunately for us, Eric Patterson's OS isn't real: It's just a mock-up of what he thinks Mac OS 10.5 Leopard should look like, and it's cool enough to have won Phill Ryu's Fake Leopard Screenshot Contest. Ryu challenged would-be interface designers to envision the future of Mac OS X, and the results are truly stunning. Patterson's improvements are attractive, refined, and downright cool, and the other winners and runners-up are much the same. These people should be working for Apple--I want this stuff now!

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With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet. They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...

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