Last Updated on Thursday, 17 January 2008 00:53 Wednesday, 16 January 2008 17:53

Editor: Chris Hunter

Author: Justin Ohl

The Best of Show winners were announced for this year's Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco. They tend to focus on products that were innovative, displayed quality manufacturing, and were creatively inspired. They are both varied in concept and in demographic.

For purposes of balance, the winners will be listed alphabetically by company name. That makes the first winner Adobe for Photoshop Elements. Probably for the fact that it is a great suite for the cost, and the interface is streamlined and clean, just how they like it. 

The MacBook Air won Apple (of course) an award. How could it not? Steve Jobs pulled one out of thin air... The product really fits the "notebook " description. They are ultimately thin, and uncannily clean, with Jobs' lack-of-buttons design direction.

Everyone loves rocking, and Guitar Hero III from Aspyr earned the company some serious respect. Rock on! We love playing the game.

BusySync performed well with their 1.5 release of their software, but they went above and beyond in the eyes of the Macworld editors. With the ability to merge almost any calendar service, scheduling with a Mac is even easier. Not only was 1.5 amazing, but 2.0 looks to be just as promising, with new features, like the ability to sync with Google Calendar. 

The Eye-Fi , probably everyone's favorite new gadget for digital photography, took Macworld by storm, and deservedly so. The software automatically uploads images from a digital camera to almost any source.

GridIron Software received some needed press and ink with their introduction of Flow: It is an all-inclusive program for working on graphic design, web, and video projects. The program has a simple design, and is intended to take advantage of the user's previous knowledge, whether the user knows it or not.

Dictate from MacSpeech wowed quite a few publications, with its remarkably accurate voice-recognition, which is not an easy task. This is a total re-write of previous code, so it is completely original. It is in the process of making waves around the internet, just as Nuance releases Dragon Naturally Speaking for the Mac. This may get interesting. 

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