The best product voted for by the public in the DesignIT Software Awards that Microsoft supports is a tool that helps Alzheimer's patients to post text, images and videos.

The design called " Memories are made of this " includes a program screensaver that acts as a command prompt for the system. Author Said Dajani, Alzheimer's site administrator, said the software's idea is to help patients recall important events in their lives.

Having dementia still uses computers easily images 1 " Screensaver is like a scrapbook, " he said. " Because the actual play was actually helping them link the images, we turned it into a computer tool ."

The second part of the tool is to create a social network for patients to exchange and talk to each other. " They not only perform quite complex access operations, they can also chat with others to remember who has been online at the same time, " Dajani said.

DesignIT is an annual contest to choose the best software. Microsoft engineers will support award-winning products to serve life. It is estimated that there will be 1 million people with Alzheimer's disease by 2025.