If you listen to any Mac - theme podcasts or radio receiver shows , you ’ve believably heard me talkad nauseamabout howMacworldis more than just a powder store . The fact is , we expend just as much work on our menage of web sites ( Macworld , MacUser , Playlist , andMac OS X Hints ) as we do on the monthly magazine . And given that most people know us because of our mag , I often take great pains to channelize out that not only do we publish on dead trees every calendar month , but we also write vast amount of money of stuff on the web . ( By my count , this item makes 27 stories carry just today ! )

That said , let me crawfish from my World Wide Web - site cheerleading for a moment so that I can take a cheer of a unlike sort .

I ’m happy to account that Macworld powder magazine has pull ahead the prestigiousFolio Eddie Award(not to be confound with our own Eddy Awards ) as the best consumer estimator or technology magazine in the land . Our sister publication , PC World , came in bit , andPC Magazinecame in third .

This is the 2d twelvemonth in a rowing that we ’ve gain this award , and it ’s a credit to the good work that Macworld ’s editor program do every month in make a useful , informative monthly mark magazine . The fact that they do this while also striving to make the good Mac web land site around is even more impressive to me . ( We also deliver the goods this year ’s Maggie Award for expert computer magazine — we ’re on a roll ! )

I ’d also like to congratulate Macworld ’s Art Director , Rob Schultz . That ’s because we also won the Folio Ozzie Award for the best feature - floor design in a enceinte - circulation consumer powder store for “ Tiger Secrets declassify . ”

Now , what about the Eddy Awards thatreallymatter ? We ’re working on our list as we address . quell tuned to Macworld.com — as well as the award - winning Macworld magazine — for a pure list of our pick for the best Mac products of the year . That list will appear sometime in early December .