Text editing sweetness

I was checking out the Apple Design Awards and saw this cool editor. It’s called Hydra. Basically it lets multiple people edit the same document at the same time. While not an original idea, it is certainly one of the best implementations I’ve seen. It uses Rendezvous to find people on the local network sharing documents and let’s you join a shared document. You can also do it over the Internet. It color codes changes according to who made them and does syntax highlighting. They apparently envisioned this as a great application for doing XP Pair Programming.

Sadly my favorite FTP client, Transmit, was only a runner-up for best user experience. Listening: Mystery Train - Transatlantic