Home Office Computing, a technology and productivity magazine for work-at-homers, has announced their selection of the 100 best home office products, services and sites of 2000. The announcement was made today at an award ceremony at the Comdex trade show in Las Vegas. This year marks the third in a row that Home Office Computing has selected a top 100 list based on value, performance, ease of use, innovation, and suitability for home offices.

Of the list, Home Office Computing editor in chief Eric Grevstad says, "Two out of three new businesses begin at home, and almost 20 million Americans today are at least part-time telecommuters, making home offices a hotter market than ever before. We're pleased to salute these products because they help home-based workers succeed. Instead of being aimed at corporate computing centers or family consumers, they're just right for today's work-at-home workforce."

For more information about Home Office Computing and the list of this year's winners, please visit their website at http://www.destinationsoho.com.

Winners are divided into a series of categories, and receive a gold, silver or bronze ranking. Each year, Home Office Computing also selects a "Product of the Year." This year's worthy winners include:

PRODUCT OF THE YEAR
Apple Power Mac G4 Cube

DESKTOP PC
Gold: Dell Dimension 4100
Silver: Compaq iPaq Desktop
Bronze: Gateway Select 1000 SB

VALUE NOTEBOOK
Gold: Acer TravelMate 350
Silver: Gateway Solo 5300
Bronze: Toshiba Satellite 2805

DELUXE NOTEBOOK
Gold: Dell Inspiron 8000
Silver: Apple PowerBook G3
Bronze: Micron TransPort LT

PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT
Gold: Palm m100
Silver: Compaq iPaq H3650 Pocket PC
Bronze: RIM BlackBerry 957

HOME OFFICE PHONE
Gold: Polycom SoundPoint Pro
Silver: Panasonic KX-TMC98
Bronze: Siemens Gigaset 2420

WIRELESS PHONE
Gold: Motorola Timeport P8167
Silver: Nokia 8260
Bronze: Motorola i1000 Plus

EVERYDAY/DESKTOP PRINTER
Gold: Lexmark Z52
Silver: Epson Stylus Color 980
Bronze: Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 990Cse

PROFESSIONAL PRINTER
Gold: Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 1220C
Silver: Xerox Tektronix Phaser 750N
Bronze: Lexmark Optra E312

MULTIFUNCTION PERIPHERAL
Gold: Compaq A1000
Silver: Hewlett-Packard OfficeJet G95
Bronze: Canon MultiPass C755

SCANNER
Gold: Canon CanoScan N1220U
Silver: Umax Astra 6450
Bronze: Visioneer OneTouch 8100

DIGITAL CAMERA
Gold: Olympus D-490 Zoom
Silver: Fujifilm FinePix 4700
Bronze: Epson PhotoPC 3000Z

CRT MONITOR
Gold: Samsung SyncMaster 950p
Silver: Cornerstone C1025
Bronze: Sony Multiscan E200

LCD MONITOR
Gold: Samsung SyncMaster 770TFT
Silver: Apple Studio Display 15"
Bronze: Mag InnoVision LT530C

INPUT DEVICE
Gold: Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical
Silver: Wacom Graphire
Bronze: Logitech MouseMan Wheel Optical

OFFICE CHAIR
Gold: Steelcase Leap Chair
Silver: Humanscale Freedom Chair
Bronze: Relax the Back Gelbow Arm Cushion

OFFICE FURNITURE
Gold: Offi Inc. Tonic Collection
Silver: Hooker Furniture La Cocoon Collection
Bronze: United Sciences Management Information Services ErgoCentrix Computer Desk System

HOME NETWORK
Gold: Intel AnyPoint Phoneline 10Mbps USB
Silver: Apple AirPort
Bronze: Farallon SkyLine 11Mbps Wireless PC Card

NETWORK ACCESSORY
Gold: Linksys Instant Broadband EtherFast Cable/DSL Router
Silver: Hewlett-Packard JetDirect 70X Home Print Server
Bronze: Quantum Snap Server 1000

PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE
Gold: L&H Voice Xpress Professional 5
Silver: Microsoft Office 2001 for Mac
Bronze: Corel WordPerfect Office 2000 Small Business Edition

UTILITY SOFTWARE
Gold: Iolo System Mechanic 3.5
Silver: Aladdin Systems StuffIt for Windows 5.5
Bronze: Dantz Retrospect Desktop Backup

ACCOUNTING/FINANCE SOLUTION
Gold: Peachtree Software Peachtree First Accounting 8.0
Silver: NetLedger 4.0
Bronze: Peachtree Software Peachtree Complete Accounting 8.0

IMAGE EDITING SOFTWARE
Gold: Micrografx Picture Publisher 8
Silver: Adobe Photoshop 5.5
Bronze: Corel Photo-Paint Digital Camera Edition 9

DESKTOP PUBLISHING
Gold: Microsoft Publisher 2000 Deluxe
Silver: Adobe PageMaker 6.5 Plus
Bronze: Adobe InDesign 1.5

WEB PUBLISHING
Gold: Macromedia Dreamworks 3/Fireworks 3 Studio
Silver: Trellix Web
Bronze: Microsoft FrontPage 2000

SECURITY/ANTIVIRUS SOLUTION
Gold: Zone Labs ZoneAlarm
Silver: Symantec Norton Internet Security 2001
Bronze: Network Ice BlackIce Defender

MESSAGING/VOICE-MAIL SOLUTION
Gold: Office Domain MessageASAP
Silver: CallWave Internet Answering Machine
Bronze: JFax Free Fax Plus Send

CONTACT MANAGEMENT/PIM SOLUTION
Gold: Individual Software AnyTime Deluxe 7.0
Silver: HotOffice
Bronze: FrontRange Solutions GoldMine 5.0

COLLABORATION/VIRTUAL INTRANET SOLUTION
Gold: WebEx Meeting Center
Silver: Microsoft NetMeeting 3.01
Bronze: Astound Conference Center

BUSINESS/MARKETING TOOL
Gold: Palo Alto Software Business Plan Pro 4.0
Silver: Business Resource Software Business Insight
Bronze: ThinkDirectMarketing.com

E-COMMERCE SOLUTION
Gold: Bizfinity
Silver: FreeMerchant
Bronze: E-Biz in a Box

OFFICE SUPPLY/BUYING SITE
Gold: Kinkos.com
Silver: Office Depot (http://www.officedepot.com)
Bronze: Onvia.com

HOME BUSINESS INFO/PORTAL SITE
Gold: Microsoft bCentral, http://www.bcentral.com
Silver: Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE), http://www.score.org
Bronze: Small Business Administration, http://www.sba.gov

CONTRACT WORK/HIRING SITE
Gold: eWork Exchange, http://www.ework.com
Silver: FreeAgent.com
Bronze: Virtual Assistants, http://www.virtualassistants.com

For more information, visit:
http://www.destinationsoho.com

Macworld Magazine Names 16th Annual Editors' Choice Award Finalists

Macworld magazine has named finalists for the sixteenth Annual Macworld Editors' Choice Awards.

Winners will be announced at a gala ceremony to be held on the eve of Macworld Expo San Francisco -- Monday January 8, 2001.

The Eddy Awards are given to honor the top software and hardware products in the Mac market. To be eligible, new products must have been released between November 1, 1999 and November 1, 2000. There is no submission process for the Eddy awards. Macworld editors and the Macworld Lab review hundreds of new products every year, evaluating each for technological innovation, quality, performance, user friendliness, and value in order to determine the finalist list.

Macworld's Director of Product Evaluation, Kristina DeNike, headed up the selection process this year. ``The Eddy Awards recognize innovation, value and excellence. This is our opportunity to recognize companies who are producing exciting and unusual products. For example, 2000 has been a great year for imaging hardware -- we've seen a burst of new cameras and digital video camcorders. In the software category, we've had strong updates to established leaders and inspired new applications as well,'' reported Ms. DeNike.

In addition to the Eddy categories listed below, awards will be given for Hardware Product of the Year, Software Product of the Year, and Technology of the Year as well as an Impact Award and a Lifetime Achievement Award. Winners will be published in the March, 2001 issue of Macworld magazine and on macworld.com following the ceremony on January 8th.

And the candidates are:

Best 3-D Graphics Software
Cinema 4D XL Version 6
LightWave 6.1
Vellum Solids 2K

Best Audio Software
Digital Performer 2.72
Peak VST 2.53
SoundJam MP 2.5.2

Best Business Productivity Software
FastTrack Schedule 7.0
ViaVoice for Macintosh, Enhanced Edition
Microsoft Office 2001 for Mac

Best Consumer Digital Camera
Camedia C-211
Coolpix 990
PowerShot S100 Digital Elph

Best Data-Management Software
Details 3.0 MYOB Accounting Plus
Version 9 SPSS 10.0 for the Macintosh

Best Development Software
BBEdit 6.0.1
CodeWarrior 6.0
Script Debugger 2.0

Best Digital Video Camera
Canon ZR10
Optura Pi
Sony DCR-VX2000

Best Digital Video Software
Cleaner 5
Commotion 3.0
iMovie 2

Best Display
Apple Cinema Display
Princeton SENergy 850
Wacom PL500

Best Educational Software
Grolier's Multimedia Encyclopedia 2001 Deluxe Edition
Louvre: The Virtual Visit
Talking Walls

Best Game
Diablo II
Quake III Arena
The Sims

Best Graphics Software
Adobe Illustrator 9
Adobe Photoshop 6
Macromedia Fireworks 3

Best Input Device
Microsoft Trackball Explorer
TurboRing
Apple Pro Mouse

Best Internet Client Software
AOL Instant Messenger 4.1
AvantGo Mobile Internet Service for Macintosh 3.3
Internet Explorer 5 Macintosh Edition

Best Networking Product
AirPort Base Station
InterMapper 3.0
Linksys EtherFast 4-Port Cable/DSL Router

Best PDA
Palm m100
Palm VIIx
Visor Prism

Best Printer
Deskjet 932c
Olympus P400
Stylus Photo 1270

Best Professional Digital Camera
Olympus Camedia E-10
Nikon D1
Canon D30

Best Publishing Software
Adobe Acrobat InProduction 1.0
Font Reserve Server 1.0
ImagePort

Best Resource Software
EndNote 4.0
Movie Magic Screenwriter 2000
Official Copyright 1.5

Best Storage Product
Boa CD-RW 12X10X32X FireWire PM
SANcube X-stream
IBM 1GB MicroDrive

Best Acceleration Product
ATI RADEON Mac Edition 32MB DDR (AGP)
iMAXpowr G4 Voodoo 5 5500 PCI

Best Utility
CopyAgent
NetBarrier 1.6
PGP Desktop Security 7.0

Best Web Motion Software
Adobe LiveMotion 1.0
iShell 2
Macromedia Flash 5

Best Web Publishing Software
Blogger
Lasso Studio 1.5 for Macromedia Dreamweaver
Macromedia Dreamweaver 3

Charles W. Moore

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