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At long last! Coda Notes, a fun Safari Extension we introduced at this year’s WWDC, is now officially available for download!

To recap, the idea is this: Coda is a great tool for web developers. But how can we make life easier for the web client, or the marketing person, or the person not developing the website but who still has a hand in the process? The person who has to give notes and ideas on web development?

It’s simple: Coda Notes lets you annotate web pages.

• Use the pencil to scribble some drawings or thoughts.
• Highlight areas of the page.
• If you make a mistake, click the eraser and clean up.
• And, most awesomly, edit text live on web pages.
• Add sticky notes to call out thoughts. As many as you’d like!

Also, one Pro Tip: click the pen or highlighter buttons multiple times to change colors!

Once you’re done, hit “Send Notes” in the toolbar and a screenshot is taken, placed on a little postcard, and emailed to anyone you choose.

Your notes are sent through our email server¹. Which is as good a time as any to mention our privacy policy: this emailing process is fully automated, and we will not retain your images for any reason. Once your image has successfully sent, it is immediately and automatically deleted, never to be seen again. That is all.

Finally, it gets better:

Coda notes is completely free. Just download, double click, and use.

Coda Notes is a Panic side project, but you can feel free to e-mail any bugs to support@panic.com and we’ll file them away. Most importantly: enjoy!

UPDATE 10/19/2012 — Coda Notes 1.2 adds compatibility with Safari 6 / Mountain Lion. Go to Safari Preferences > Extensions > Updates to get it.

UPDATE 4/17/2014 — Coda Notes 1.3 adds compatibility with Safari 7. And since we are unlikely to do many updates in the future, we posted the source to GitHub!

¹ Why do it this way? Sadly, it’s not possible for Coda Notes to save a screenshot directly to your disk — Safari Extensions can’t access the filesystem for security reasons. Similarly, we can’t send your screenshots via Apple Mail, since Safari Extensions can’t launch or script other applications. This was the best way we could think of to e-mail a thing from an extension.

A week or so ago, the loose tradition continued: Panic once again took over a Portland movie theater (this time, The Roseway, a classic single-screen neighborhooder that’s been massively updated) and invited our friends (and a handful of Twitter pals) to join us for a showing of a movie we’re excited about.

This time it was Toy Story 3. And oh, what a great movie. I won’t say more. If you haven’t seen it, go right now.

This post, however, is just an excuse to show off this beautiful thank-you card we received from a guest:

Thanks, Crystal. In our digital universe, it’s so refreshing to see some beautiful watercolors on actual paper!

Now, just because you don’t live in Portland, doesn’t mean you have to miss out on our fun. I’ve got a special surprise! We’re giving away one Toy Story 3 poster — and it’s signed by the director, Lee Unkrich!

Be the first in the comments to answer the following Toy Story trivia, and it’s yours for the taking.

“Pizza Planet pizza is likely to be delivered in what model of truck, yo?”

UPDATE: Congratulations to Brad in the comments for being the first with the correct answer: it’s a Gyoza!

A while back, we blogged about the official Panic basketball team, PS 208 Locke’s Lions. As well as helping them buy some equipment, we also whipped up a fancy-pants crest design for their jerseys.

Many of you asked the obvious (to you, but somehow not to us!) question:

“When can we buy these shirts?”

Answer: right now.

Printed on amazing-feeling (and slightly costlier) indigo-colored American Apparel 50/25/25 tri-blend track shirts, these are some of the nicest goods we’ve ever made.

Even better? A portion of each sale goes straight to the team.

We’ve only got a small sample quantity in stock right now, but we’ll backorder them so you’ll be able to place an order no matter what: if they run out, thanks for your patience while we print more.

Hit the Panic Goods and help us continue supporting the team. It’s a win-win-win-win. (That last win is the Lions winning their way through the season.)

This came in the mail today.

We are very lucky to have such nice users.

You’re not going to believe this, because I hardly believe it myself, but Transmit 3 was released on February 16, 2005. More than five years ago. And it has been an absolute workhorse for thousands upon thousands of people around the world ever since.

We previewed Transmit 3 to attendees of Macworld Expo in January of that year. I specifically remember one visitor saying, “I couldn’t imagine how you could have improved on Transmit 2, but you did!”

There’s always one more rough edge to sand off the workflow. There’s always one more little dull spot that can be polished to a shine. We’re perpetually unsatisfied perfectionists.  We may go quiet for a while, but we’re never, you know, done around here.

So, in that spirit, we’re proud to announce Transmit 4, the latest and greatest version of the #1 file transfer utility for the Mac.

By the numbers, we’ve got one near-total rewrite, one brand new interface, over 45 new features, up to 25 times the speed, and one particularly awesome new feature. All of the details are over on the website.

Transmit 4 is $34 for new users, $19 for Transmit 3 owners, and free for people who bought Transmit 3 on or after March 1st, 2010. You can buy it instantly right here. The download is also the demo, so if you’re not already a Transmit user, try it all for 7 days for free.

Over the coming weeks we hope to blog a lot of tips, tricks, and did-you-knows. Stay tuned.

Most importantly, thanks for all of your support, ideas, and suggestions — we tried to get as many as we could in there. Thanks for your interest in our software. Thanks to our beta testers, who helped us find and fix hundreds of bugs, making Transmit 4.0 likely our most solid out-of-the-gate release ever.

And thanks especially to that group of code-slinging maniacs I work with for putting their all into everything we do, every time. You are crazy and I’m so proud of all of you.

The rest of you: please, enjoy!

PS: As a reminder, please don’t post your tech support questions in the comments! If you find bugs (hooray, inevitable X.0.1 release!), please send us an e-mail instead. Much appreciated!