The 100 Best Products of 2005

[Novindu]

All Products Listed by Ranking

1. Mozilla Firefox Web Browser
2. Google Gmail Web Mail
3. Apple Mac OS X Version 10.4 (Tiger) Operating System
4. Belkin Wireless Pre-N Router and Notebook Network Card Wireless Networking
5. Dell Ultrasharp 2405FPW 24-Inch Wide-Screen LCD
6. Alienware Aurora 5500 Performance PC
7. Seagate USB 2.0 Pocket Drive Portable Hard Drive
8. Skype VoIP Service
9. Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT Digital SLR Camera
10. PalmOne Treo 650 PDA Phone
11. Zone Labs ZoneAlarm Antivirus Antivirus and Firewall Software
12. Mysoft Technology Maxthon Browser Plug-In
13. Rio Carbon Midcapacity MP3 Player
14. Webroot Window Washer 5.5 Utility
15. Maxtor H01R300 Shared Storage Drive Network Hard Drive
16. Google Search Engine
17. Netgear 54 Mbps Cable/DSL Wireless Travel Router Model WGR101 Travel Router
18. OnlyMyEmail Pro Spam Filter
19. Sony PlayStation Portable Handheld Gaming Device
20. NVidia GeForce 6600 GT Graphics Board
21. APC Back-UPS RS 800VA 120V Uninterruptible Power Supply
22. 2BrightSparks SyncBackSE Utility
23. Moon Software Password Agent Password Manager
24. HP Officejet 7210 All-in-One Multifunction Printer
25. Winternals Software ERD Commander Data Recovery Software
26. Ubuntu Linux 5.04 Linux Distribution
27. Epson PictureMate Photo Printer
28. Mozilla Thunderbird E-Mail Program
29. Cloudmark Anti-Fraud Toolbar Browser Security Plug-In
30. Vonage VoIP Service
31. Cloudmark SafetyBar Spam Filter
32. Adobe Photoshop CS2 Image Editor
33. The New York Times on the Web Web Site
34. Apple ITunes Media Player
35. Seagate USB/FireWire Hard Drive External Hard Drive
36. Canon CanoScan 9950F Scanner
37. IRiver IFP-895 Flash-Based MP3 Player
38. Valve Half-Life 2 PC Game
39. Samsung HL-P5063W Rear-Projection TV
40. Tor Privacy Software
41. LG Flatron L1981Q 19-Inch LCD
42. Dell 3000cn Color Laser Printer
43. BlackBerry 7100t PDA Phone
44. Verbatim Store 'n' Go Pro USB Memory Key
45. Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 SATA NCQ Internal Hard Drive
46. Compaq Presario V2000 All-Purpose Notebook
47. Microsoft Windows Media Player 10 Media Player
48. Canon Pixma IP4000R Inkjet/Photo Printer
49. Best Software Simply Accounting Accounting and Personal Finance
50. Orb Media Streaming Service
51. Flickr.com Photography Site
52. Dell Inspiron 6000 Desktop Replacement Notebook
53. DirecTV HD DVR HR10-250 HD Receiver and DVR
54. ACD Systems ACDSee 7 Photo Organizer
55. Dell UltraSharp 1704FPV 17-Inch LCD
56. Olympus C-8080 Wide Zoom Digital Camera
57. Qnext Instant Messenger
58. IBM ThinkCentre A51p All-Purpose PC
59. SightSpeed Video Instant Messenger
60. Wikipedia Online Resource
61. Cerulean Studios Trillian 3.1 Instant Messenger
62. CMS 80GB USB 2.0 ABSplus Notebook Backup System Portable Hard Drive
63. Nikon Coolpix 7900 Digital Camera
64. Contour Design RollerMouse Pro Mouse
65. Adobe InDesign CS2 Desktop Publisher
66. Shuttle Computer XPC i8600b Small PC
67. IBM ThinkPad X41 Ultraportable Notebook
68. Adobe Premiere Elements Video Editor
69. Dell Axim X30 PDA
70. A9.com Search Engine
71. Toshiba RS-TX20 Digital Media Server DVD Recorder
72. Roxio Easy Media Creator 7.5 Burning Software
73. Plextor PX-716UF Rewritable DVD Drive
74. Casio Exilim EX-Z750 Digital Camera
75. Apple Mac Mini Small PC
76. Google Desktop Search Desktop Search Tool
77. Mitsubishi LT-3050 30-Inch LCD TV
78. Apple IPod Photo Large-Capacity MP3 Player
79. Dell 3300MP Projector
80. FileMaker Pro 7 Database
81. Sunbelt Software CounterSpy Anti-Spyware Software
82. Six Apart TypePad Blogging Tool
83. Acronis True Image 8 Backup Software
84. Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard
85. Brother HL-5140 Monochrome Laser Printer
86. Apple ITunes Music Store Music Downloads
87. Internet Archive (Archive.org) Web Site
88. Opera 8 Web Browser
89. Copernic Desktop Search Desktop Search Software
90. Motorola Razr V3 Cell Phone
91. Delphi MyFi Satellite Radio
92. PDAapps VeriChat Standard Edition Mobile Instant Messaging
93. Sonos Digital Music System Streaming Media Device
94. EMC Dantz Retrospect Professional 7 Backup Software
95. Garmin StreetPilot C330 GPS Navigation Device
96. Klipsch ProMedia Ultra 2.0 Portable Speakers
97. Logitech Z-5500 Digital PC Speaker System
98. Antec P160 Desktop Case
99. Corel Painter IX Paint Program
100. Citrix Online GoToMyPC Personal Remote Access

 

[rapa]

ela Novindu pc world top 100 neda me?

kohomada no.01 Microsoft product kiyakathiyenwada oke

Microsoft Windows Media Player 10 Media Player witharai thiyenne

ekath 47 Hooooooooooooooooooooo

Anna ekata Firefox dekkada Open Source wala weda
oya list eke thiyena godak ewa open source software thamai

 

[GTRZ]

I think No1 should be GMail, it changed everything about free email. Those days it was 2Mb, 4Mb mail boxes

 

[rapa]

I think No1 should be GMail, it changed everything about free email. Those days it was 2Mb, 4Mb mail boxes

ow ow niyamai eth egollo add ehema dala eken labath labanawane
eth Firefox wala ehema nahane
oka thorana rules wagayak thiyenawa mata hariyatama mathaka naha

 

[Novindu]

ela Novindu pc world top 100 neda me?

kohomada no.01 Microsoft product kiyakathiyenwada oke

Microsoft Windows Media Player 10 Media Player witharai thiyenne

ekath 47 Hooooooooooooooooooooo

Anna ekata Firefox dekkada Open Source wala weda
oya list eke thiyena godak ewa open source software thamai

yuh dude nly WMP 10....... microsoft shuld be ashamed of dem selves machan!!!

 

[Novindu]

The 100 Best Products of the Year

Top 100 listed alphabetically

1. Adobe Photoshop CS2 Image Editor
2. Adobe Photoshop Elements 4 Image Editor
3. Adobe Premiere Elements 2 Video Editor
4. Alienware Aurora 7500 Power Desktop Computer
5. Amazon A9 Toolbar Search Toolbar
6. AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Desktop CPU
7. Apple Boot Camp Mac Dual-Booter
8. Apple iPod Digital Audio/Video Player
9. Apple iPod Nano Digital Audio Player
10. Apple iTunes Digital Audio Software
11. Apple Mac Mini Value Desktop Computer
12. Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe Motherboard
13. ATI Radeon X1900 XTX Graphics Board
14. Avvenu Remote File Access
15. BitDefender 9 Standard Antivirus
16. Blogger Blogging Service
17. Canon EOS 30D Digital SLR Camera
18. Canon Pixma IP6600D Photo Printer
19. Canon Pixma MP950 Multifunction Printer
20. Cerulean Studios Trillian 3.1 Instant Messaging Client
21. Citrix GoToMyPC 5 Remote Access
22. Corel Painter IX.5 Graphics Software
23. Craigslist.org Web Classifieds
24. Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Sound Card
25. Creative Zen Vision:M Digital Audio/Video Player
26. Dealnews.com Online Bargain Tracker
27. Del.icio.us Social Networking
28. Dell UltraSharp 3007WFP 30-Inch Wide-Screen LCD Monitor
29. Eizo FlexScan S2410W 24-Inch Wide-Screen LCD Monitor
30. EMC Retrospect Professional 7.5 Backup Software
31. Engadget.com Gadget Blog
32. Epson Perfection V700 Photo Scanner
33. EvDO Wireless Broadband
34. Flickr Photo-Sharing Site
35. Fujifilm FinePix E900 Point-and-Shoot Digital Camera
36. Google Search Engine
37. Google Desktop Desktop Search
38. Google Earth Satellite Imagery
39. Greasemonkey Firefox Extension
40. HP Md5880n DLP TV
41. In2M Mvelopes Personal 3 Online Budgeting
42. Intel Core Duo Notebook/Desktop CPU
43. Intuit Quicken Premier 2006 Personal Finance
44. iRiver Clix Digital Audio/Video Player
45. Javacool EULAlyzer Personal 1.1 License Analyzer
46. Kodak EasyShare Gallery Photo Printing Service
47. Kosmix.com Search Engine
48. LaCie d2 Hard Drive Serial ATA External Hard Drive
49. Lenovo ThinkPad X60s Ultralight Notebook
50. Meebo (alpha) Instant Messaging
51. Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 Keyboard
52. Microsoft Xbox 360 Game Console
53. Mindjet MindManager Pro 6 Data-Organizing Software
54. MioNet Remote Access
55. Mitsubishi XD460U Projector
56. Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Web Browser
57. Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 E-Mail Application
58. NEC MultiSync LCD 2180WG-LED Flat-Panel Monitor
59. Nero 7 Ultra Edition CD/DVD Burning
60. Network Magic Home Networking
61. NewsGator FeedDemon 2 RSS Reader
62. NoScript 1.1.4 Browser Add-On
63. Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 Voice Recognition
64. nVidia GeForce 7600 GT Graphics Card Chip Set
65. nVidia GeForce 7900 GTX GPU
66. Olympus Evolt E-330 Digital SLR Camera
67. Opera 9 (Beta) Browser
68. Palm GPS Navigator GPS
69. Pioneer BDR-101A Blu-ray Drive
70. Qnext 2 P-to-P Communications
71. RedOctane Guitar Hero Video Game
72. Rhapsody Online Music
73. Sage Software Simply Accounting Basic 13 Small-Business Finance
74. Salling Clicker 3 Presentation Remote
75. Samsung LN-S3251D LCD TV
76. Seagate 160GB Portable Hard Drive Portable Hard Drive
77. Serious Magic Ovation PowerPoint Add-On
78. SideStep.com Travel Site
79. Sonos ZonePlayer 80 Digital Audio Streamer
80. Sony Cyber-shot DSC-R1 Advanced Digital Camera
81. StumbleUpon Browser Add-On
82. Sysinternals Rootkit Revealer 1.7 Antispyware
83. ThinkFree Office Online Online Office Suite
84. TiVo Digital Video Recorder
85. T-Mobile SDA Cellular Phone
86. Toshiba HD-A1 HD DVD Player
87. Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV600 Power Notebook Computer
88. Ubuntu Linux Distribution
89. Ultimate Ears Super.fi 5 Pro Earphones
90. Vonage VoIP Service
91. Webroot Spy Sweeper 4.5 Antispyware
92. Western Digital Raptor X Hard Drive
93. Windows Live Local Online Mapping
94. WordPress Blogging Tool
95. Yahoo Mail (Beta) Web-Based E-Mail
96. Yahoo Maps (Beta) Online Mapping
97. Yahoo Music Engine 1.1 Digital Audio Site/Software
98. Yamaha RX-V4600 Home-Theater Receiver
99. YouTube.com Video-Sharing Site
100. Z-Wave Home Automation

Top 100 listed numerically

1. Intel Core Duo Notebook/Desktop CPU
2. AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Desktop CPU
3. Craigslist.org Web Classifieds
4. Apple iPod Nano Digital Audio Player
5. Seagate 160GB Portable Hard Drive Portable Hard Drive
6. Google Earth Satellite Imagery
7. Adobe Premiere Elements 2 Video Editor
8. Canon EOS 30D Digital SLR Camera
9. YouTube.com Video-Sharing Site
10. Apple Boot Camp Mac Dual-Booter
11. Adobe Photoshop Elements 4 Image Editor
12. Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Web Browser
13. Engadget.com Gadget Blog
14. Toshiba HD-A1 HD DVD Player
15. Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV600 Power Notebook Computer
16. nVidia GeForce 7600 GT Graphics Card Chip Set
17. Google Search Engine
18. Sonos ZonePlayer 80 Digital Audio Streamer
19. RedOctane Guitar Hero Video Game
20. Yamaha RX-V4600 Home-Theater Receiver
21. Pioneer BDR-101A Blu-ray Drive
22. Adobe Photoshop CS2 Image Editor
23. Citrix GoToMyPC 5 Remote Access
24. Dealnews.com Online Bargain Tracker
25. Palm GPS Navigator GPS
26. MioNet Remote Access
27. Ubuntu Linux Distribution
28. Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 E-Mail Application
29. Canon Pixma MP950 Multifunction Printer
30. Yahoo Mail (Beta) Web-Based E-Mail
31. TiVo Digital Video Recorder
32. Avvenu Remote File Access
33. Blogger Blogging Service
34. Sony Cyber-shot DSC-R1 Advanced Digital Camera
35. Apple Mac Mini Value Desktop Computer
36. Apple iPod Digital Audio/Video Player
37. Lenovo ThinkPad X60s Ultralight Notebook
38. SideStep.com Travel Site
39. Windows Live Local Online Mapping
40. Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Sound Card
41. Alienware Aurora 7500 Power Desktop Computer
42. NEC MultiSync LCD 2180WG-LED Flat-Panel Monitor
43. Apple iTunes Digital Audio Software
44. Olympus Evolt E-330 Digital SLR Camera
45. Ultimate Ears Super.fi 5 Pro Earphones
46. Creative Zen Vision:M Digital Audio/Video Player
47. Google Desktop Desktop Search
48. Opera 9 (Beta) Browser
49. Mitsubishi XD460U Projector
50. Vonage VoIP Service
51. StumbleUpon Browser Add-On
52. NoScript 1.1.4 Browser Add-On
53. Webroot Spy Sweeper 4.5 Antispyware
54. Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 Keyboard
55. Western Digital Raptor X Hard Drive
56. Yahoo Maps (Beta) Online Mapping
57. Intuit Quicken Premier 2006 Personal Finance
58. ATI Radeon X1900 XTX Graphics Board
59. Javacool EULAlyzer Personal 1.1 License Analyzer
60. Eizo FlexScan S2410W 24-Inch Wide-Screen LCD Monitor
61. Kosmix.com Search Engine
62. T-Mobile SDA Cellular Phone
63. Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe Motherboard
64. Dell UltraSharp 3007WFP 30-Inch Wide-Screen LCD Monitor
65. Meebo (alpha) Instant Messaging
66. Corel Painter IX.5 Graphics Software
67. Samsung LN-S3251D LCD TV
68. Cerulean Studios Trillian 3.1 Instant Messaging Client
69. Rhapsody Online Music
70. In2M Mvelopes Personal 3 Online Budgeting
71. Canon Pixma IP6600D Photo Printer
72. EMC Retrospect Professional 7.5 Backup Software
73. Yahoo Music Engine 1.1 Digital Audio Site/Software
74. Network Magic Home Networking
75. Z-Wave Home Automation
76. BitDefender 9 Standard Antivirus
77. Sage Software Simply Accounting Basic 13 Small-Business Finance
78. Flickr Photo-Sharing Site
79. Nero 7 Ultra Edition CD/DVD Burning
80. Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 Voice Recognition
81. Kodak EasyShare Gallery Photo Printing Service
82. EvDO Wireless Broadband
83. LaCie d2 Hard Drive Serial ATA External Hard Drive
84. HP Md5880n DLP TV
85. Qnext 2 P-to-P Communications
86. Salling Clicker 3 Presentation Remote
87. Epson Perfection V700 Photo Scanner
88. Mindjet MindManager Pro 6 Data-Organizing Software
89. Microsoft Xbox 360 Game Console
90. iRiver Clix Digital Audio/Video Player
91. Fujifilm FinePix E900 Point-and-Shoot Digital Camera
92. nVidia GeForce 7900 GTX GPU
93. Del.icio.us Social Networking
94. Serious Magic Ovation PowerPoint Add-On
95. WordPress Blogging Tool
96. Amazon A9 Toolbar Search Toolbar
97. ThinkFree Office Online Online Office Suite
98. Greasemonkey Firefox Extension
99. NewsGator FeedDemon 2 RSS Reader
100. Sysinternals Rootkit Revealer 1.7 Antispyware

 

[Novindu]

The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time

The Complete List of Losers

1. America Online (1989-2006)
2. RealNetworks RealPlayer (1999)
3. Syncronys SoftRAM (1995)
4. Microsoft Windows Millennium (2000)
5. Sony BMG Music CDs (2005)
6. Disney The Lion King CD-ROM (1994)
7. Microsoft Bob (1995)
8. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (2001)
9. Pressplay and Musicnet (2002)
10. dBASE IV (1988)
11. Priceline Groceries and Gas (2000)
12. PointCast (1996)
13. IBM PCjr. (1984)
14. Gateway 2000 10th Anniversary PC (1995)
15. Iomega Zip Drive (1998)
16. Comet Cursor (1997)
17. Apple Macintosh Portable (1989)
18. IBM Deskstar 75GXP (2000)
19. OQO Model 1 (2004)
20. CueCat (2000)
21. Eyetop Wearable DVD Player (2004)
22. Apple Pippin @World (1996)
23. Free PCs (1999)
24. DigiScents iSmell (2001)
25. Sharp RD3D Notebook (2004)

 

[GTRZ]

funny how they have selected Alienware Aurora 5500 Performance PC as 6th place, it's powerful but they have just add most powerful parts from different manufacturer's and created a PC. Even normal dude can do that. Only thing they have done custom cooling, case and other designs to optimize performance. Some few custom software.

For me it's not enough effort to take 6th place. There are tons more other products which has used it's own innovative technology and research to make their new product. Alienware not making anything big they just using newest parts from AMD, Intel, Nvidia etc.. and making once of the most powerful PCs to the date that money can buy.

 

[Novindu]

machan dont you thnk even dat is gud .......

 

[Novindu]

Companies of the Year

Web Company of the Year

Yahoo has progressed far beyond being a mere search engine; it has emerged as the number-one online developer, on the strength of great revamps of Yahoo Mail (#30) and Yahoo Maps (#56), smart acquisitions of Web stars such as Del.icio.us (#93) and Flickr (#78), and development of the Yahoo 360 personalized Web spaces and of the Yahoo Music Engine (#73). Google may get a lot more attention, but Yahoo has been getting more things accomplished.

Hardware Company of the Year

With a huge RD budget and a single-minded despot running the show, Apple once again introduced products that made everyone else look bad. iPods (#36) that play video have created a new market for reruns, Core Duo-based Macs (#35) have expanded the market for Intel chips, and Boot Camp software (#10) has opened the door to running Windows on the Mac hardware. We continue to hope that some of the Cupertino crowd's design ideas will trickle down to the rest of the tech industry.

Software Company of the Year

In the 1990s, Adobe was known for its professional software; its dumbed-down consumer products didn't fare so well. Now, however, the company makes stellar $100 apps that regular folks can use--for example, Premiere Elements 2 (#7) and Photoshop Elements 4 (#11)--while continuing to improve its pro applications. How can Adobe afford to sell an app with 90 percent of Photoshop's power for only 10 percent of its price? Volume, volume, volume.

Worst Company of the Year

We get the feeling that Sony doesn't trust people. Many of its ills over the past year involve copy protection: First was the fiasco with its music CDs, which installed rootkits on PCs to hide digital rights management spyware, thereby exposing the computers to viruses. Then came delays in the delivery of Blu-ray drives due to difficulties implementing a second copy protection scheme. And as a result of the Blu-ray problems, Sony had to push back its PlayStation 3 console to November. All this from the company that virtually pioneered copying with the Betamax.

 

[Novindu]

funny how they have selected Alienware Aurora 5500 Performance PC as 6th place, it's powerful but they have just add most powerful parts from different manufacturer's and created a PC. Even normal dude can do that. Only thing they have done custom cooling, case and other designs to optimize performance. Some few custom software.

For me it's not enough effort to take 6th place. There are tons more other products which has used it's own innovative technology and research to make their new product. Alienware not making anything big they just using newest parts from AMD, Intel, Nvidia etc.. and making once of the most powerful PCs to the date that money can buy.

it has fallen to 41th place dis year machan...im talkin abt da brand tho da version is new!!

 

[Novindu]

How the 100 Best Products Got That Way

Eclectic. Inventive. Essential. Our World Class winners are all that and more.

Harry McCracken
From the July 2006 issue of PC World magazine

In 1983, PC World's founders had a brainstorm: Why not create an honor roll of terrific products in an array of categories? Their inaugural "World Class PC Contest" celebrated 14 very old-school items. (Hey, back in those days a monochrome dot-matrix printer could be the essence of cool.)

Fast-forward to 2006. The competition we now call the World Class Awards remains a popular yearly extravaganza, and not just in its traditional dead-tree form: 2005's version was by far the best-read story in the history of our Web site.
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This year's edition--"The 100 Best Products of the Year"*--starts here. Once again, the festivities span both print and online. Click here to see an expanded version offering extras such as video clips and, on June 6, a live chat session with Senior Writer Alan Stafford, who edited the feature and spearheaded the weeks of meetings, ballots, and impromptu hallway dialogues that determined our winners.

Perusing this year's roster, I'm struck by its sheer diversity. "The products we cover extend far beyond the PC, because technology today means so much more than simply sitting at a desk hammering away at a spreadsheet," Alan explains. "Traditional computing products are still important, of course, but our winners also reflect the smart technology that can now be found in everything from Web services to consumer electronics."

Does ranking such far-flung items from 1 to 100 seem quixotic? There was plenty of method to our madness: PCW editors painstakingly rated every contender on multiple measures. As always, the ultimate benchmark was whether a product or service did something worth doing, and did it well--a question that was equally applicable whether what we were judging was a laptop, a security suite, a music service, or an HDTV set.

But this year, we formally took each nominee's impact into consideration as well as its excellence. Those that were influential and widely adopted scored points here, including 2006's Product of the Year, Intel's Core Duo processor platform, which showed up both in powerful new Windows notebooks and in the first Macs that can dual-boot into Windows.

We took pains, however, to ensure that the list didn't devolve into a parade of items you already know about. In fact, I'd never heard of some of the products until a colleague made an impassioned case for them. (One example is JavaCool's EULAlyzer Personal, which gives cryptic, interminable software end-user agreements the once-over so you don't have to.)

Another methodology tweak for 2006: For the first time, we told editors to rate contenders for the list regardless of price tag. "That helped some products, like Yamaha's RX-V4600 receiver, which sells for $1200," says Alan. We had a hunch, though, that this approach wouldn't result in big-ticket luxuries pushing out useful bargains, and it didn't. In fact, more than a quarter of the winners are free applications and services--the latest evidence that we technology users are truly living in a golden age of freebies.

If these awards are anything like last year's, they'll be read, reread, debated, and dissected until it's time for us to do our World Class thing all over again. And that's part of the fun. Let the conversation begin: Write me at [email protected] with your take on our picks, and I'll report back at my Techlog blog.

http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,125713,00.asp

 

[GTRZ]

machan dont you thnk even dat is gud .......

not for me machan, credit should go out to AMD, Nvidia, ATI etc.. who developed the technology not for Alienware who just assemble the stuff together.

 

[Novindu]

not for me machan, credit should go out to AMD, Nvidia, ATI etc.. who developed the technology not for Alienware who just assemble the stuff together.

yeah dats true..... i do agree with you..!!!

 

[madurax86]

YO

hey wht abt winamp 5!!, its da best player available for windows...??