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Out of the 235 exhibitors at Macworld Expo in New York, Macworld magazine and MacCentral.com, named twelve Best of Show Award recipients...including Discreet cleaner 6 for Mac.

Unveiled at Macworld Expo and available this fall is the latest version of the world's leading content mastering software, cleaner 6 for Mac. cleaner is the leading content mastering software used to create the most professional, engaging CD-ROMs, DVDs, web video or visual communication projects.

cleaner software processes, formats, encodes and publishes some of the highest quality streaming media in the major formats - QuickTime, RealSystem, Windows Media, MP3, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 at a wide range of connection speeds.

Increasing efficiency and streamlining workflow, cleaner 6 for Mac encompasses exciting new features including:

• Smoother interaction from Mac OS X's Aqua user interface
• New watch folders
• Drag and drop capabilities
• Nested settings complete projects with greater efficiency

Additionally, cleaner 6 for Mac takes full advantage of Mac OS X's true memory protection, preemptive multi-tasking and symmetric multiprocessing when running on the dual processor Power Mac G4. With this release, cleaner 6 for Mac aims to deliver blazing performance gains, making streaming media encoding easier and faster.

ABOUT THE AWARD: In order to be considered for the Best of Show awards, products were either making their public debut at this week's expo or were recently introduced and likely to generate excitement on the show floor. In addition, the editors are required to see the products demonstrated to fully qualify their impact on the Mac audience.