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Transmit turns 10, we Panic

by Cory Bohon (RSS feed) on Sep 8th, 2008

Milestones come and go, but the big milestone of the day was 10 years in the making. Panic's Co-founder, Steven Frank, noted on his personal website that their flagship product, Transmit turned 10 years old.

Transmit, originally called "Transit," was released on September 8, 1998. Who knows, without the success of Transmit we might not have the other beautiful applications from Panic. If you want to relive the old days of Transmit, Panic offers up a free version (you must be running a pre-OS X Mac, or have a classic mode enabled Mac) for your downloading pleasure.

Join TUAW in saying, "Congratulations, Panic." We cannot wait to see what is next!

Tags: 10 years, 10Years, Cabel Sasser, CabelSasser, Panic, Steven Frank, StevenFrank, Transmit

Filed under: OS, Leopard

Resolution independent UI patent dissected by Cabel Sasser

by Michael Rose (RSS feed) on Jan 9th, 2007

The developer of Transmit (and composer of underground musical hit Buggy Saints Row) has done due diligence on Apple's patent application from December for a method of generating resolution-independent UI elements. If Apple is going to scale the Finder's descendants to work on hyper-resolution displays, this kind of tool would be essential.

Sasser's post gives a great intro to the importance of resolution independence (keeping UI elements smooth and silky even as more pixels are required to render them on denser displays) and explains what's cool about the patent application: Apple developer Mark Zimmer (inventor of Fractal Design's natural media drawing app Painter) has built a theme creation tool that actually works up buttons, scroll bars and other eye candy via a procedural description, instead of bunches of pixels. Want a higher resolution display? Boom -- the markup is run again with the denser target, and welcome the new hotness.

Cabel believes we'll be seeing the fruits of this labor real soon now. Must be later today!

Tags: cabel sasser, CabelSasser, leopard, os x, OsX

Filed under: Retail, Cult of Mac, Apple

More Portland Apple Store drama

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Jul 12th, 2006



We mentioned that the Portland Apple Store was a no go, but Cabel Sasser, Portland resident and Mac developer (of Panic fame) has investigated the story some more. It seems that the good people of Portland were concerned about Apple just plopping another carbon copy of an Apple store in their fair city. Apple, hip to style, worked with the Landmarks Commission to come up with a rendering as seen above, which is a departure from the normal Apple Store. Sadly, it still wasn't good enough and it looks like Apple is taking its ball and going home.

Cabel has heard that Apple might try again, and here's hoping they do. I mean, who doesn't like the Apple Store?

Tags: apple store, AppleStore, cabel sasser, CabelSasser, panic, portland

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