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Friday 10th May 2002
Omni double in Apple Design Awards 11:47AM, Friday 10th May 2002
The OmniGroup software developers has scooped two annual Apple Design Awards; the diagramming and charting tool OmniGraffle 2.0 was named both the Best Mac OS X User Experience and the Best Mac OS X Technology Adoption. This double success follows the award won last year by the company's OmniWeb Internet browser.

The full list of winners and runners-up with Apple's comments:

Best New Mac OS X Product:
Winner: Toon Boom Studio 1.1: an animation tool for traditional animators that includes 2D drawing, 3D scene painting, painting to film, and sound synching.
Runner Up: Marketcircle DayLite 1.0.1: a comprehensive customer relationship management tool.

Most Innovative Mac OS X Product:
Winner: Watson 1.5; an innovative tool for viewing Internet-based information, with an auto-updating feature.
Runner Up: Toon Boom Studio v1.1: an animation tool for traditional animators that includes 2D drawing, 3D scene painting, panting to film, and sound synching.

Best Mac OS X User Experience:
Winner: OmniGraffle 2.0:
 
 
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: an innovative, flexible diagramming and charting tool.
Runner Up: STX 1.0: a powerful, integrated business management tool with timesheets, payroll, inventory, billing, and accounting capabilities.

Best Mac OS X Technology Adoption:
Winner: OmniGraffle 2.0: an innovative, flexible diagramming and charting tool.
Runner Up: Vektor 3 3.1.3: a full-featured chess program with an innovative use of Quartz, Speech, and other Mac OS X technologies.

Best Mac OS X Open Source Port:
Winner: TeXShop 1.19: the ultimate tool for formatting scientific and technical documents.
Runner Up: SIDekick 1.1: a tool for salvaging legacy sound files stored on Commodore64 SID file players.

Best Mac OS X Student Product:
Winner: MacJournal 2.1: a tool for keeping and organizing logs, diaries, journals, notes, and ideas.
Runner Up: CanCombineIcons 2.1.0: this tool helps you easily create icons for your applications.

For more information on the awards click here.

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