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.

gwen@realsoftware.com

(512) 775-1346

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