REAL Software Announces REALbasic Design Awards 2005 Winners
REALbasic Design Award 2005 winners are from the software categories best overall, best business, best consumer, best education, best entertainment, best utility, best graphic design tool and best developer tool. All entries must be made with REALbasic from REAL Software, Inc.
Austin, TX (PRWEB) March 30, 2005 -- REAL Software announced today the
winners of the REALbasic Design Awards 2005. The criteria on which the software
was judged included creativity, ease of use, design, utility, and supporting
information.
"Judging these awards gets more challenging every year, and
this year was no exception," stated Geoff Perlman, president and CEO of REAL
Software. "We encourage everyone to learn out more about these award-winning
products, as they easily represent excellence in software design and utility,
and they show how REALbasic helps bring ideas to life."
The winners in
each category are listed below. More information and direct links to the
software are available on http://www.realsoftware.com/awards.
Best
Overall
ProSelect from TimeExposure, http://www.timeexposure.com.
ProSelect helps photographers
photographers help you and your clients quickly narrow down their preferred
photographs, compare between photographs, design multi-image layouts and collect
orders. Available for both Windows and Macintosh.
Best Utility
Software
NetTool Box from Charlie Boisseau, http://www.nettoolbox.net.
With 23 network tools - from DNS
queries to MX lookups to SSL terminals - Net Tool Box has nearly every feature
that power users need for network testing and monitoring. NetToolBox is
available for Macintosh and is in beta for Windows.
Best Utility Software
Runner Up
DarkAdapted from American Dream Partnership, Inc., http://www.adpartnership.net/DarkAdapted.
DarkAdapted is a
gamma control application program. It modifies your screen gamma settings so
that, for example, people who need to use their computer in a low-light
situation such as a dark room, while not ruining their "dark adapted" vision.
Available for Macintosh and Windows.
Best Consumer Software
iVideo
from Waterfall Software, http://www.waterfallsw.com/ivideo.
iVideo is the equivalent
of iPhoto or iTunes for video files. Items are organized using playlists and
thumbnails, and can be viewed directly within iVideo. Available for
Macintosh.
Best Educational Software
StarQuiz from Cosmicsoft, http://www.cosmicsoft.net/starQuiz.
starQuiz is an easy to
use software package that makes computerized testing easy. You can create
quizzes with multiple choice, true or false, short answer, fill in the blank,
matching, and essay questions. Quizzes can include pictures, movies, web links,
time limits, and more. StarQuiz is available for Windows and
Macintosh.
Best Educational Software Runner Up
RobotProg from Corinne
Queme, http://www.physicsbox.com/indexrobotprogen.html.
Program a
virtual robot with a flowchart. First draw the flowchart, then run the program
and watch the robot execute the program. With RobotProg, learn programming in
gradual levels, even program several robots to play games.
Best
Cross-Platform Software
ProSelect from TimeExposure, http://www.timeexposure.com.
ProSelect is a tool for
professional photographers that helps their clients narrow down their preferred
photographs, compare between photographs, design multi-image layouts and collect
orders. Available for Windows and Macintosh.
Best Developer
Tool
WSL-Amazon from Electric Butterfly, Inc. http://www.ebutterfly.com/rb/wslamazon.asp.
Easily
integrate Amazon Web Services into REALbasic 5.5 applications with this
comprehensive class library, available for Windows, Macintosh and
Linux.
Best Developer Tool Runner Up
On-Target Reports from Aaron
Bratcher, http://www.ontargetreports.com.
On-Target Reports can
quickly and easily generate reports from most popular databases with a
step-by-step assistant. Available for Windows and Macintosh.
Best
Business Software
Studiometry from Oranged.net Software, http://www.oranged.net.
The
ultimate organization tool for professionals, Studiometry tracks all client,
project, time and contact information and more. Available for Windows and
Macintosh.
Best Business Software - Runner Up
iAuthorize from Intelli
Innovations, http://www.intellisw.com/iauthorize/index.html.
The easy,
effortless way to process credit card payments. Using the popular Authorize.Net
payment gateway, iAuthorize enables fast, efficient credit card processing on
Mac OS X.
Best Entertainment Software
Rondo from FracturedSoftware, http://www.fracturedsoftware.com.
Midi made easy, Rondo is
a simple, uncluttered and easy to access midi files. Rondo has many interesting
features including a vertical piano roll with live scrolling and a pull down
piano that will play along with the music. Available for Macintosh.
Best
Graphic Design Software
PhotoEdit from Mien Software, http://www.miensoftware.com/photoedit.html.
PhotoEdit is a
powerful image editing tool that lets you create professional-quality images. It
features all the tools you'll ever need; filled with tons of image filters and
effects.
Best Graphic Design Software - Runner Up
Picture Play from
Crescendo Software, http://www.crescendosw.com/pictureplay.html.
Picture Play
lets you combine digital photos, scanned images, or any other graphics to create
rich and diverse compositions with editable text content, backgrounds, and
stylish effects.
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 highly compatible
with Visual Basic and includes a utility to help migrate existing Visual Basic
applications. REALbasic is available now starting at $99.95 direct from REAL
Software, Fry's and other software retailers. REALbasic Professional Edition,
required for cross-platform deployment, starts at $399.95 and includes extended
functionality for database and team development.
About REAL
Software
REAL Software provides REALbasic, Cross-Platform That Really Works,
for people who want to create and deliver cross-platform software for Windows,
Macintosh and Linux. REALbasic is highly compatible with Visual Basic and
includes a utility to help migrate Visual Basic applications cross-platform.
REAL Software was founded in 1996 and is based in Austin, Texas. For more
information visit www.realsoftware.com or call
512.328.7325.
Contact:
Gwen Palmer
REAL Software, Inc.
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