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Readers named Leopard as Apple Product of the Year, while the magazine’s editorial staff picked Aperture as best Graphics Software and the MacBook Air as Innovation of the Year.

Other winners included QuarkXPress, Adobe After Effects, Virgin Media and Nikon.

The winners in full:

Reader Awards
Audio product of the year: Shure SE110
Video product of the year: Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional
3D product of the year: NewTek LightWave 9.3
Printer of the year: Canon Pixma iP4500
Camera of the year: Nikon D3
Display of the year: NEC MultiSync LCD3090WQXi
Storage of the year: Western Digital

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iPod / iPhone accessory manufacturer of the year: Belkin
ISP of the year: Virgin Media
Mac Reseller of the Year: MacWarehouse
Apple product of the year: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Editorial Awards
Business software of the year: ProjectWizards Merlin 2.5
Graphics software of the year: Apple Aperture 2.1
Print publishing software of the year: QuarkXPress 8
Innovation of the year: MacBook Air

MacUser has also revealed the winners of the its daily competitions at last week’s CreativeLive Expo:

Thursday
Simon Bailey: 8GB iPod nano
Daniel Sullivan: JoeSoft HEAR
Kate Beard: JoeSoft HEAR
Andrew Downie: Prosoft Drive Genius 2
Dave Pugsley: Prosoft Drive Genius 2

Friday
John Mills: 8GB iPod nano
Andrew Douglas-Jones: JoeSoft HEAR
Solomon Ezra: JoeSoft HEAR
Sybil Chick: Prosoft Drive Genius 2
Geoff Brook: Prosoft Drive Genius 2

Saturday
Miles Playne: 8GB iPod nano
Sian Cundy: JoeSoft HEAR
Rupa Das: JoeSoft HEAR
Robert Williams: Prosoft Drive Genius 2
Alasdair Kergon: Prosoft Drive Genius 2