Linked List: January 6, 2006

Friday, 6 January 2006

Small and Nimble: The Long Story Behind Karelia’s New Logo ★

Remember the thing where Dan Wood’s Karelia Software had Watson, but then Apple released the very Watson-esque Sherlock 3? Karelia’s been working the past year or more on a consumer-friendly web page editor called Sandvox, which, judging only from the name, might be running head-on into Apple’s apparently-soon-to-be-released “iWeb”.

Wood addresses the impending release of iWeb here, revisits the Watson-Sherlock story (admitting that Apple gave him advance knowledge of Sherlock 3’s release, and that they offered him a job on the Sherlock team, which offer he turned down, all of which is contrary to the conventional wisdom regarding the Watson-Sherlock saga), and ties it all in nicely with the introduction of Karelia’s new logo (the typography of which logo I shan’t comment upon).

TextMate 1.5 ★

Has been in public beta testing for a while as version 1.1, but even 1.5 is a humble version number; TextMate is much improved over 1.0. Also, don’t miss TextMate developer Allan Odgaard’s “Year in Review”, where talks about how he turned developing TextMate into a successful indie Mac software business.

Rogue Amoeba Hiring ★

Rogue Amoeba Software is hiring, with open spots for a developer and support technician. Great opportunity for anyone looking to break into the indie Mac software business.