The popular technology site Ars Technica decided they would host an Ars Design Award competition for Mac OS X apps when Apple announced last year that they would only do it for iPhone and iPad apps. Eight staff members served as judges to pick the winners in five categories, including Bast New Mac OS X App and Most Innovative Mac OS X App. See the results after the jump.

Apple has announced the winners of the Apple Design Awards for the year of 2009 and posted the results on their website. According to the company, “The Apple Design Awards recognize technical excellence, innovation, and outstanding achievement in iPhone and Mac software development. Each year, winning products set new standards for usability, performance, technology integration and adoption. This year’s winners raise the bar even higher.”

Looking for a deal this summer? Indie Mac Software has what you need. From July 7th until the 15th, you can get 20% off select software by using the coupon code of DF2008. The companies involved in this deal include Azure Talon, Lucerne Systems, M Cubed Software, Wonder Warp Software, and You Software. These five companies are offering a total of nine different applications for you to choose from, so head on over to the site and help them out. You can find out more about each app in detail after the jump.

Limit Point Software’s MenuMinder, which allows you to “…create quick, simple alert, email and SMS Text Message (mobile phone) reminders using the system-wide menu that can be accessed from any application,” has been updated to version 1.5.1. To get this $10 application that works with Mac OS X 10.4 or higher, simply download it and more »

Dare to Be Creative has recently announced their new product, ResizeMe, a batch image and photo editor for Mac OS X 10.4 and higher. ResizeMe can be used to flip, rotate, and scale thousands of photos at one time, and it supports all of the popular image formats (.pdf, .tif, .png, .jpg) while managing to more »

Aperture 2.1 has been given an Editor’s Choice Award for imaging software from PopPhoto.com. Just last year, Aperture received 2007 Imaging Software of the Year from this same website, so this isn’t Aperture’s first time in the limelight. One of the reasons the people over at PopPhoto chose this product was that it “…simply changed more »

App4mac has recently announced Sequence 1.0, a simple to use video and screen capture utility that will be coming soon. Although it will only work with Mac OS X Leopard, it should still sell very well with its $9 price tag and free updates/upgrades. From the product description: A video or screenshot can be emailed, more »

Ergonis Software has just launched an application for Mac OS X called Typinator that will make designing websites a whole lot easier. With over 100 built-in abbreviations, web designers won’t have to type as much code, and therefore they won’t have to worry about making as many spelling mistakes. As Christoph Reichenberger, founder and CEO of Ergonis puts it, “Regardless what tool they are using, most web designers are typing plain HTML code all the time, sometimes at least assisted by their HTML editor. With the new HTML snippets set for Typinator, you can insert over 100 HTML elements without having to click through a list of templates. Just type a double less-than sign followed by the name of the desired HTML element and Typinator will insert the corresponding HTML code and place the insertion point appropriately.”

iPresentee is offering five new iWeb Themes that are geared towards small businesses. These themes include Office, Global, Illusion, Papery, and Money, and come in at only $30 for the entire package or $10 each. In order to use these themes, you need Apple’s iWeb 2.0 or installed. According to the product description, “Each iWeb more »

Every year, Apple gives out awards to some of the best designed and most innovative apps out there for their operating system, and this year was no different. Coming in from many different categories, there are a variety of apps on the list this year. The iLife has a complete gallery and live blog from more »