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Macworld has announced the winners of this year’s Eddy awards, which are presented to the best software and hardware products in a number of categories, as selected by the magazine. Apple’s PowerBook G4 takes the cake for Hardware Product of the Year, while Microsoft’s Office v.X received the software counterpart to that award. The SuperDrive, found in higher-end Power Mac G4 configurations, was named Technology of the Year, while Mac OS X 10.1 received the Impact Award.

Econ Technologies has announced the release of Portraits & Prints Template Maker, a custom layout designer for the Mac OS X-only Portraits & Prints. “The Template Maker makes Portraits & Prints the perfect solution for printing any style of photo and an important piece of the Apple digital lifestyle,” said D. Proni, President of Econ Technologies in the press release.

MacEase has announced the release of InfoManager 2.1, an information management system for the Mac which enhances the clipboard. Version 2.1 now works with Netscape 6.x, offers enhanced support for AOL 5.0 and the AOL 5.0 Web browser and several small enhancements have been added to the software’s code.

CE Software has posted QuicKeys 1.0.1, a maintenance update to the company’s popular macro and automation utility for Mac OS X. The new version adds a handful of small improvements while correcting a number of bugs — full details of the changes are documented at VersionTracker.