POPsnail Presents the POPscars

Oscars - The 2007 Oscars are almost upon us again and Hollywood is busier than a IKEA store on the first day of the sales. But as important as Oscars and all his little golden brothers are to Hollywood they don't mean much to us. We only get to watch the ceremony on TV while the host tries to keep us entertained as the Oscars are given out for the best Best Boy or some such. Our views don't count in this show and all we can really do is make predictions who'll win, lose, cry etc. which may explain why people are loosing interest in the Academy Award ceremony. Most people only cast an eye over the Oscar Nominations when they're announced and then get a bit more interested when they read the paper/watch the news that day after the ceremony is over, who can be bothered to watch the actual show anymore?There are far better indicators for what movies are worth watching, the internet has made our views on movies count (check out sites like IMDB or Flixster and you'll see what I mean).

 

POPscars - Our expertise is more grounded in Movie software than movies and with that in mind we've got our own awards ceremony to hold, the movie industry has the Oscars so we think the software industry needs the POPscars! From this year on we'll be awarding the POPscars to software that we think does more for you than any other. Rather than focusing on big name software by Microsoft and it's ilk we want to bring people's attention to the best Shareware and Free Download available so the smaller developers gets more praise than they presently do. We've taken a long hard look at all the software we offer on our site and devised our own awards loosely based on the categories the Academy Awards use, so while Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorcese or Helen Mirren won't be winning any of our awards this year they might be nominated next year if they design some truly essential software (although we aren't holding our breath). We've got it all covered here for you and while we don't have a red carpet or an extravagant after party to invite you to afterwards but we're sure you won't be disappointed after you take a look at our POPscar Award Winners.

 

 

 

Best iPod, PSP, Zune Software in a Leading Role (best actor/actress in a Leading Role)

 

POPscars and Oscars - One of the most important awards of the night and no actor can be expected to be considered a big thing in Hollywood without one of these on their mantle piece, it proves that they made more of an impact on the movie world than anyone else that year. With that in mind we've collected together the best of the stand alone software that we feel with make the most impact on your computer this year but only one of them can take the POPscar.

 

POPscar goes to Super iPod PSP MP4 Converter Suite

 

 

Best Security Software in a Supporting Role (Best Actor/actress in a Supporting Role)

 

POPscars and Oscars - The supporting actor generally acts in the back ground of the leading man or woman while being an integral part of the movie. Software on your computer is no different and there are many pieces of software that you leave running in the back ground to ensure that your computer keeps doing what you want it to do. These broadly fall under the heading of security software including everything from antivirus software to firewalls and we've selected the best on offer for you vie for our POPscar award.

POPscar goes to Nsauditor Network Security Auditor

 

 

Best Software Provider (Best Director)

 

POPscars and Oscars - The director's job is to make sure that everybody works together to achieve his vision for the movie, sometimes they do it well (Francis Ford Coppola) and sometimes they don't (Ed Wood). In the software world there isn't really much that resembles this except Operating Systems and you're probably quite happy with the one you have already. Instead we've compiled some of our biggest software providers to award the POPscar to instead.

POPscar goes to Cucusoft (www.cucusoft.com)

 

 

Best DVD Software (Best Motion Picture)

 

POPscars and Oscars - The big daddy of Oscars, the one everyone in Hollywood wants to say they won. While we don't offer movies for you to download we do provide software for you to watch them with. DVD's don't just have to be watched in your front room after all, you can watch them where you're sitting right now. In our humble opinion the best of the bunch this year and Winner of the POPscar goes to....

POPscar goes to Avex DVD & Video Converter Platinum Pack

 

 

Best Audio Converters (Best Musical Score)

 

POPscars and Oscars - A good movie needs music, music adds to the atmosphere and adds meaning to scenes the camera can't do on it's own. If you've got a taste for good music then you want to be able to listen to it in the way you want to in the format you want to. You'll need the right software to do it of course so have a look at our POPscar Nominations and before you can say soundtrack you'll be listening to your music in whatever way you like best.

POPscar goes to Crystal MP3 Converter

 

Best Language Software (Best Foreign Film)

 

POPscars and Oscars - If you don't like foreign films you're missing some of the best movies ever made, of course many people don't like reading subtitles because it means you're always looking at the bottom of the screen instead on the middle, dubbing films would be called as heresy if the results weren't so often comically bad. Well the only other option is to learn the language, simple as that. Obviously learning a new language easy but if have the right software to help you it certainly becomes a lot easier?

POPscar goes to Recite Spanish Words

 

Best Design Tools (Best Costume Design)

 

POPscars and Oscars - Any film would look odd without the right costumes, imagine a period drama with all the characters wearing kilts and Hawaiian shirts and you'll see what we mean. So you can appreciate that anything you want to design needs to be done properly or people won't take it seriously, once again we've collected the best of the best for the POPscar and you'd be hard pressed to disagree with us.

POPscar goes to Plato Photo Slideshow

 

  

Best Screensavers (Best Visual Effects)

 

POPscars and Oscars - A movie with good visual effects can have you staring at the screen like a kid at a really good fireworks display. While we can't offer you any fireworks we have found a selection of screensavers for the POPscar that are so visually stunning that you'll forget to use your computer for anything else?

POPscar goes to Dolphin Aqua Life 3D Screensaver

 

  

Best e-Books & Literature (Best Original Screenplay)

 

POPscars and Oscars - Writing a screenplay can't be an easy thing to do, you've got to imagine your characters personalities, motives, clothes ad infinitum if you want to make a truly great screenplay that someone is going to want to direct. It all sounds a bit too much like hard work to us and anyone who wins the Oscar certainly deserves it. Instead we've got a selection of our finest e-books for you to take a gander at.

POPscar goes to Think and Grow Rich-Ebook Only

 

Best Audio Editors (Best Sound Editing)

 

POPscars and Oscars - You might think that a film wouldn't need much sound editing but there area always sounds that need taking out, putting in or just tinkering with. it's not an easy job so they get an Oscar for their efforts if they're good enough. You might have a some music that you want to tinker with yourself so it sounds better, then look no further than our POPscar Nominees and Winner below.

POPscar goes to AVS Audio Tools