Hubby entered Marco Polo in the WWDC design awards.
He didn’t win. 🙁 I was checking out the winner and the runner up of the student section. They’re okay, I’m not sure how the judges would have chosen the winners.
Pictureque was the winner. It is a nice program, the user interface is attractive and easy to use. However, it doesn’t seem to contain features that I would have thought were would be intrinsic to photograph beautifying. The first thing I might want to do with any photograph is crop it. Picturesque doesn’t do that, which means I need to open iPhoto or GIMP to do so. In which case, I might as well do all my editing in GIMP, it might not be as pretty and quick as Picturesque, but it does a lot more.
Pathway was the runner up. It seems to be pretty cool. It maps your travels through Wikipedia. I find Marco Polo more useful in general, but I know that there are those Wikipedia addicts out there that like to read articles all the time. I think they’d like this program and find it more useful than me. It has a similar interface to Vienna, one sidebar and two resizable sections in the window. I like it, but I don’t think I’ll use it, I don’t use Wikipedia that much.
It would have been very difficult to judge a winner. Shame Marco Polo didn’t win…
