Bare Bones Software

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Bare Bones Software
Type corporation
Industry Software industry
Founded June 1994
Headquarters Bedford, Massachusetts
Products Mac OS & Mac OS X software
Website http://www.barebones.com/

Bare Bones Software is a Bedford, Massachusetts, USA software company developing software tools for the Apple Macintosh platform. The company is best known for its BBEdit text editor, marketed under the registered trademark "It doesn't suck,"[1] and has been mentioned as a "Top-Tier Mac developer"[2] by Mac OS X journalist John Siracusa.

The company was founded in May 1993, and incorporated under the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in June 1994. It is privately held.

Product list

  • BBEdit Professional HTML and Text Editor.
  • BBEdit Lite Free "lightweight" Text Editor (replaced by TextWrangler).
  • Mailsmith Email client (ownership transferred to Stickshift Software. Now freeware.)
  • Super Get Info File and folder info utility for Mac OS X. (discontinued)
  • TextWrangler Free, lightweight Text Editor which replaced BBEdit Lite.
  • Yojimbo Information Organizer.
  • WeatherCal application that adds weather predictions to iCal.

References

  1. ↑ "Bare Bones Software - BBEdit 9". 2008. Archived from the original on 20 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-20. 
  2. ↑ "John Siracusa's OS X Lion Review - Ars Technica". 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-21. 

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