Panic (company)
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{{Infobox Company
| company_name = Panic Inc.
| company_logo = [[Image:Panic logo.png|96px]]
| company_type = [[Corporation]]
| foundation = [[Portland, Oregon]]
| location = [[Portland, Oregon]]
| key_people = [[Steven Frank]] and Cabel Sasser
| industry = [[Software|Software publishing]]
| products = [[Transmit (FTP client)|Transmit]], [[Unison (Usenet client)|Unison]], [[Coda (web development software)|Coda]], [[Stattoo]], [[Desktastic]], [[CandyBar]], [[Audion (software)|Audion]] (Discontinued)
| homepage = [http://www.panic.com/ Panic.com]
}}
'''Panic''' is an [[Oregon]]-based [[U.S.|American]] [[software]] company that specializes in [[shareware]] applications for [[Mac OS]]. It was founded by [[Steven Frank]] and Cabel Sasser.
Their first program release was [[Transmit (FTP client)|Transmit]], an [[File Transfer Protocol|FTP]] [[FTP client|client]], in 1998. The program currently competes with [[Fetch (FTP client)|Fetch]], [[Interarchy]] and [[Cyberduck]], the other popular FTP clients for [[Mac OS X]]. Transmit has won a number of design awards, including ''[[Macworld]]'' Best of Show and a 2005 [[Apple Design Award]], for the Best Use of Mac OS X Tiger Technologies.
[[Audion (software)|Audion]], released in 1999, was a skinnable [[MP3]] [[media player (application software)|media player]] that competed with [[MacAMP]] and [[SoundJam MP]] the only other Mac OS MP3 players at the time. Once Apple's [[iTunes]] was released in [[2001]], Audion's days were numbered and by [[2005]], Panic retired Audion's development and began releasing it free of charge.
In [[2004]], Panic released their third major program, [[Unison (Usenet client)|Unison]], a [[Usenet]] reader. Unison also won an 2004 Apple Design Award, for Best Mac OS X User Experience, and was runner-up for Best Mac OS X Product of the year.
In [[2007]], the company released their fourth major program, [[Coda (web development software)|Coda]], a web development application for which Panic was awarded the 2007 Apple Design Award for Best User Experience, taking the award for a 2nd time.
==Software==
*[[Transmit (FTP client)|Transmit]]
*[[Coda (web development software)|Coda]]
*[[Unison (Usenet client)|Unison]]
*[[CandyBar]]
*[[Desktastic]]
*[[Stattoo]]
Discontinued:
*[[Audion (software)|Audion]]
==Panic Goods==
* Panic-designed t-shirts
* [[Katamari Damacy]] t-shirts—Working directly with legendary game designer Takahashi, the shirts incorporate his designs utilizing many special silk-screen printing techniques.
== External links ==
* [http://www.panic.com/ Official web site]
* [http://www.panic.com/goods/ Panic Goods]
* [http://www.panic.com/jp/index.html Japanese web site]
* [http://stevenf.com/mt/ Steven Frank's web site]
* [http://www.cabel.name/ Cabel Sasser's web site]
[[Category:Mac software companies]]
[[Category:Companies based in Portland, Oregon]]