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Macworld 2010 Best In Show liveblog

We're live with the Best In Show announcements for Macworld Expo 2010... Jason Snell is onstage now and introducing the six winners who will demo onstage (and the five others who will present on the mainstage).

12:06 PM: And that's the end of Best in Show 2010! Thanks for reading along.

12:00 PM: It's web-based and pretty neat. Enter your feed and tab icons to start. You get a real-time representation of what it'll look like as you work. You can add up to 12 feeds per app. You can then choose an app icon and app name plus your own splash image. Finally, enter your keywords, categories, etc. Special Macworld Expo pricing is $99 per app. Other options like iPad version ($99) or push notifications ($50) are available. They submit to the App Store for you, handle certificates, future compatibility, etc. Looks like a nice way to make a quick-and-dirty feed reader app.

11:58 AM: Their new product is Yapper, a self-service tool that lets you make your own native iPhone/iPad apps using existing RSS feeds.

11:57 AM: Next up, SachManya



11:53 AM: Select any number of files to download to your phone to work with when the network isn't available (airplane mode, for example). Nice spreadsheet and text editing.

11:51 AM: Share files from any of these accounts without having to download it to the iPhone first. Cool.

11:50 AM: Quickoffice Connect Suite for iPhone. Connects cloud services: MobileMe, Google Docs, Box.net and Dropbox with more to come.

11:48 AM: Up now, Quickoffice.

11:47 AM: Shipping in Europe now; in the US in March. Price: $500.

11:45 AM: Now connected to an iPod touch with the included component cable. It's always in focus no matter how close or far you are. Neat. Red, green and blue lasers are producing very bright colors; 5000:1 ratio -- black is really black.

11:44 PM: Projecting snowboarding videos onto a wall from an iPod nano. Neat. Now were projecting a live soccer game onto a wall from an iPhone.

11:42 AM: The 1st laser Pico projector. It's about the size of a Flip Mino. 14mm thick. User-replaceable ion battery holds a 2 hour charge. Demo time!

11:41 AM: Up next is Microvision.

11:38 AM: Launch with a hotkey, a white, rectangular area appears on the Photoshop canvas. Cool. Pressure applied with a generic stylus determines the thickness of the line. You can pan w/2 fingers to move the work area within the canvas via the trackpad. This thing is pretty cool. It's only $25.

11:37 AM: Inklet turns a multi-touch trackpad into a tablet for sketching with Photoshop complete with pressure sensitivity.

11:30 AM: Next up, Ten One Design. Peter Skinner is talking on the stage.

11:35AM: Price: $199

11:31AM
The paper has an infrared-visible grid and a preprinted toolbar. Can change line thickness, color, etc. Trying to get a good camera view...


11:30AM Pen talks to a USB dongle over Bluetooth.


11:29AM Uses a sensor pen and tagged paper to put notes up on the screen... very interesting. Like the Pulse pen?


11:29AM Lets you write down notes and have them appear in real time on a projected screen -- like a virtual flipchart -- and can share them via email instantly


11:28AM Papershow -- brand new way of doing presentations. A plug and play solution for notes display or web conferencing. (We're going to their booth later to check it out)


11:27AM Matt is back, talking about the range of company sizes. Canson coming up, Giulia Giovanelli.


11:26AM Realizing that the device is a platform to talk to lots of different hardware devices that speak serial when using the iPhone. Very nice.


11:25AM Telescope moved! Oooh.


11:24AM Company built a telescope controller solution... Skyfi, a wireless hub for controlling the telescope over serial connection. Slick!


11:23AM If you want to find a particular astronomical object, can search for an individual planet or star. For planets, can call up all information, NASA pictures, etc.


11:22AM Now demoing Sky Voyager app -- live, augmented reality view of the starry sky on the iPhone screen. Ooohs and ahhs.


11:22AM Astronomical software -- as astronomers, people are always asking us "Hey what's that bright star up there" -- answer is always Venus, so first idea was an app that would just say "It's Venus."


11:21AM Representing key trends: Interconnectivity and interoperation. Now introducing Creative Software -- Tim DeBenedictus


11:20AM Macworld reached out to bring the DEMO experience to you...


11:19AM Matt Marshall, CEO of VentureBeat and exec producer of DEMO is onstage...