Linked List: August 30, 2004

Apple.com Design Timeline 

Alex Taylor:

That’s the power of branding, folks. And Apple has mastered it, more than any other company today. And it’s no more evident than it is in their website. In just two years they pulled a complete 180, going from a homely, geeky niche to mainstream and downright sexy.

Thanks to the good ol’ WayBack machine, the makeover has been chronicled. And boy is it interesting.

(Via Anil Dash.)

Unison 1.5 

Free update to Panic’s highly-acclaimed Usenet client.

BBEdit 8.0 

Multi-document interface, vastly improved Unicode support (including ATSUI text rendering), revamped Find dialog, and 100 or so other new features.