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WWDC 2008 Apple Design Award Winners

Apple announced the winners of their annual Apple Design Awards (ADA) tonight.

The Apple Design Awards, held at Moscone West during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, recognize technical excellence, innovation, and outstanding achievement in software development. With new categories for iPhone development, this year's Apple Design Awards will be more exciting than ever.

The ADAs feature categories in both Mac and iPhone categories this year. TheiLife reported the winners from tonight's presentation ceremony. The winners include:

Best OS X Student Project
- Squirrel (finance management) by Axel Peju
Best OS X Graphics and Media Application
- ScreenFlow (Screencasting) by Vara Software Limited
Best OS X Application
- ScreenFlow (Screencasting) by Vara Software Limited
Best OS X User Experience
- Macnification (organize microscopic images) by Orbicule
Best OS X Game
- Guitar Hero III by Aspyr Media, Inc

Best iPhone Web App
- Remember the Milk (task management) by Remember the Milk
Best iPhone Game
- Enigmo by Pangea
Best iPhone Entertainment App
- AOL Radio by AOL LLC
Best iPhone Social Networking App
- Twitteriffic (twitter client) by The Icon Factory
Best iPhone Productivity App
- OmniFocus (task management) by The Omni Group
Best iPhone Healthcare & Fitness Application Winner
- MIM (medical imaging) by MIMVista, Corp.

The native iPhone winners, of course, are not yet available to the public. Runners up are also listed at TheiLife. The winners received two 15-inch MacBook Pro laptops, two 30-inch Apple Cinema Displays, one 16GB iPod touch, one 8GB iPhone, an ADC Premier Membership, reimbursement for one WWDC 2008 E-ticket including airfare and accommodations, and one 2009 ADC Macworld Expo Exclusive Marketing Package.

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48 months ago
wow... prizes are incredible. congrats to the winners!

note to self: must find more useful things to do with my time... :o ;)
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48 months ago
I hope Twitterific for the iPhone is better than the desktop version, which just might be the most overrated application in years.
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48 months ago
I wanted to try that Enigmo game, but seems it ain't a Web App, it's a native app to come soon in the App Store. What's up with that?
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48 months ago

I wanted to try that Enigmo game, but seems it ain't a Web App, it's a native app to come soon in the App Store. What's up with that?


It's out for the Mac to, it's loads of fun!
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48 months ago

wow... prizes are incredible. congrats to the winners!


No doubt! Congratulations, you just hit :apple::apple::apple: :D
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48 months ago
"Best iPhone Healthcare & Fitness Application"

Congrats. Pretty narrow though... is that a category they're going to have every year? Is it a crowded field of competitors?

Why no award for "Best iPhone Animal Husbandry Tool"?
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48 months ago
I'm *really* looking forward to being able to use OmniFocus on my iPhone. I like it a lot and use it daily, but it's not that convenient to have to go to my computer all the time. Hopefully they figure out an easy way to synch the desktop and iPhone data. Anyone know if this will be available on the launch date?
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48 months ago

"Best iPhone Healthcare & Fitness Application"

Congrats. Pretty narrow though... is that a category they're going to have every year? Is it a crowded field of competitors?

Why no award for "Best iPhone Animal Husbandry Tool"?


Actually its a huge market. If you know anyone that works in the healthcare industry ask them about tablet computers and palm pilots - most Dr have them. THe iPhone is scene as a new device that health care professionals could use (think reference library, medical record look up, scheduling, notes on patients, test result access etc).
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48 months ago
ScreenFlow Deserves every Award it gets its an Amazing App.

Congrads Vara!:D
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48 months ago

Actually its a huge market. If you know anyone that works in the healthcare industry ask them about tablet computers and palm pilots - most Dr have them. THe iPhone is scene as a new device that health care professionals could use (think reference library, medical record look up, scheduling, notes on patients, test result access etc).


Give me a break. This category is clearly a ploy to give kudos to an early (although possibly deserving) iPhone/iPod Touch developer. I didn't even see the iPhone runner up categories listed on the iLife page of ADA winners (maybe because only a handful of apps are even in development at this time?)...

'Most' doctors have tablet computers and PDAs? Any evidence for this? Would you also care to elaborate on how they use these devices in their daily practice? I have close family members in the medical field; I would be shocked to see them or any other physician pulling out an iPhone to look up my medical records, take notes on a patient, or access results from offsite labs ("Oh gee! Let me find out the results of your questionable skin lesion on my phone!"). Please exercise some discretion (and spell check) in your future posts. :)
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