Trolltech announces winners of the /Mac Application Developer Contest

Trolltech today announced the winners of the worldwide contest for Qt/Mac developers.

Oslo, Norway and Palo Alto, US, 30 June - 2004 - Our goal with the Qt/Mac Application Developer Contest was to invite developers to be creative with Qt for Mac OS® X, and increase the number of innovative applications on the Mac. Trolltech was pleased to receive a large number of high quality submissions.

The overall winner of the contest, and recipient of a Power Mac® G5, is Toon Boom Animation inc. with the application "Toon Boom Studio".

An excited and impressed jury concluded that: "Toon Boom Studio is an amazingly good program for creating animations. It has a great user interface, while at the same time ensures productivity, and ease of use."

The winner and runner-up in each of the three contest categories are:

Best Original Qt Application

Individual/community developed application using the Qt/Mac Free Edition

• Winner: Ryo Shimizu with the application "Rize", a molecular visualizer tool
• Runner-up: John Harwell, David Van Essen, Donna Hanlon with the application "Caret5", an application for viewing and manipulating surface reconstructions of the cerebral and cerebella cortex

Best Ported Qt Application

Individual/community developed application originally written with Qt/X11 Free Edition for Unix/Linux and ported to Mac OS X using Qt/Mac Free Edition

• Winner: Will Stokes with the application "Albumshaper", a graphical photo organization and publication software package
• Runner-up: Ronald Florence with the application "LyX/Mac", a WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) editor/formatter using the LaTeX typesetting engine

Best Original Commercial Qt Application

Company developed application using the Qt/Mac Professional or Enterprise Edition

• Winner: Toon Boom Animation inc. (Karina, Francisco, Sandy, Marc-André) with the application "Toon Boom Studio", a cartoon animation application
• Runner-up: Brain Innovation (Rainer Goebel) with the application "BrainVoyager Brain Tutor", a program to teach users about human brain structures

The winner of each category will be awarded a 40 GB iPod®, while the runner-up in each category will receive a 20 GB iPod.

Many other submissions also impressed the jury. "The port of KDE, the popular Linux Desktop Environment based on Qt, is amazing", says the jury, "we look forward to see more from these guys".

Several other applications also deserve mentioning. A few of them are "Serna", an XML documentation editor by Syntext Inc., "Orange", a data-mining suite developed at the University of Ljubljana, and "Birds of the Western Palearctic", a ornithological reference to the birds of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East by BirdGuides Ltd. In the Best Ported category; "Ipe" (by Otfried Cheong), a drawing editor for creating figures for PDF, ported by Markus Bongard.

"We wanted to invite developers to discover the powerful combination of Qt and Mac OS X," said Eirik Chambe-Eng, co-founder and President of Trolltech. "The quality and the creativity of the applications submitted is impressive, and Trolltech would like congratulate the winners and to thank all the participants for helping us bring more applications to the Mac."

For more information on the contest visit http://www.trolltech.com/campaign/maccontest_winners.html.