REAL Software Announces REALbasic Design Awards 2004 Winners
AUSTIN, Texas (March 26, 2004)— REAL Software, Inc. announced today the winners of the REALbasic Design Awards 2004. Originally created to award excellence in software design, the REALbasic Design Awards have enjoyed a long history as the “Cubies.” Starting in 2004, REAL Software renamed the awards the REALbasic Design Awards to focus software development effort on software design. The criteria on which the software was judged included creativity, ease of use, design, utility and best use of REALbasic technologies.
“Categorizing and judging this software, as you can imagine, was extremely difficult. We received so many excellent entries, it was very hard to choose the winners,” said Geoff Perlman, president and CEO of REAL Software. “We’d especially like to thank the many REALbasic users who submitted software. They encourage us every day to continuously improve REALbasic to provide more and better features to help them in turn create some of the best software we’ve seen.”
The winners in each category are listed below. More information, honorable mentions and links to the software are available on www.realsoftware.com/awards.
Winner, Best Overall Software and Winner, Most Innovative Software: Shared Space, from All-Seeing Interactive.
Shared Space is a tool for visual thinking, group working and content management. It allows users to create visual maps of information using web-like structures.Winner, Best Business Software: TimeLog, from Stefan Fürst.
Timelog helps you keep close track of the time you spend on your projects. It integrates with iCal and calculates the time spent on a project or with a client.Winner, Best Consumer Software: IntelliScanner Collector, from Intelli Innovations.
IntelliScanner Collector is everything needed to catalog books, CDs, DVDs, and games with ease: one click provides detailed product information and artwork in an easy-to-use collection manager.Winner, Best Graphic Design Software: ColorThink, from CHROMiX, Inc.
ColorThink is the complete color management toolset for managing, repairing, evaluating and graphing standardized ICC (International Color Consortium) profiles.Winner, Best Utility Software: Macabinet, from RadicalBreeze.
Macabinet is a customizable drawer that allows you to store whatever files you like and it slides out of your way when not in use.Winner, Best Educational Software: Solve Elec, from Corinne Queme.
Solve Elec is educational software for teaching electronics circuit analysis and resolution. It features circuit drawing, computation, equation verification, analysis and graphing.Winner, Best Cross-Platform Software: Net Clipper II from Script Software.
Net Clipper II in its simplest form is a tool for sending the contents of your clipboard to another computer. Works cross-platform from Windows to Macs.Winner, Best Developer Tool: Help Logic from Electric Butterfly.
HelpLogic creates help systems for software applications and web sites. HelpLogic saves time and money by removing the development headaches usually associated with help authoring.Winner, Best Entertainment Software: Roadworks from E.S.P. Graphics, Inc.
Use Roadworks to lay tiles, each with different piece of 'road', on a grid in such a way as to keep the game car from crashing. Lay tiles to construct roads (watch out for corners) and earn points.
About REALbasic
REALbasic is a full-featured software design environment easily suited to creating all kinds of applications, from utilities to enterprise-class applications. REALbasic is available now starting at $99.95 direct from REAL Software or at Apple Store, Fry's and other software retailers. REALbasic Professional Edition, required for cross-platform compilation, starts at $399.95 and includes extended functionality for database and team development. Download a free trial of REALbasic at www.realsoftware.com/demo.
About REAL Software
For everyone who seeks the flexibility to create their own software, REAL Software provides REALbasic, a powerful, easy-to-use software development tool for Macintosh and Windows that creates software for Macintosh, Windows and Linux. REAL Software, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is based in Austin, Texas. For more information visit www.realsoftware.com or call 512.328.7325.
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