On October 12, 2000, Unsanity, LLC first opened its doors to the general public. We had an exciting product to present to the world, and we were pretty happy and enthusiastic about telling everybody about it. The product name was Unsanity Echo, and it was a YA-MP3-POT (yet another MP3 player out there). Lots of pretty advanced technology was used there, and some of it is still unbeaten (as far as I know). It used its own scripting language for skins, and Photoshop-style system for combining visual plugins together. Unsanity Echo is long dead now, as we have realized we cannot compete with the iTunes and other players already on the market.
Still, here it is just for the record -- curvy sliders, weirdly shaped windows, mix-and-match visual plugins:
Then we have decided we miss a lightweight MP3 player that just plays your files, no fuzz, and have created Mint Audio. It was light, it was stylish, it had skins, same visual plugin system used in Unsanity Echo, and it stuck to the edges of your screen:
Mint Audio been selling for several years until we discontinued it as well -- and boy, it was a tough decision.
Since then, we've focused entirely on haxies, and have made a dozen of different utilities that extend the functionality of the OS in one way or another. We're still on that road.
For kicks and giggles, here's screenshots of versions 1 and 2 of our haxie installer (we're at 3.3 now):
Overall, the thing I keep mentioning and will mention again is that we are the way we are thanks to you, our users. You give us ideas, inspiration, and money (can't live completely without that, right? ;) to go on. You are the sole reason we exist, and if there's anything we can do for you is to say "THANK YOU" in a bold capital letters.
We're 4 now. We may get older, bigger or smaller and possibly more 'corporate', but we will never forget who is helping us on this road. *Bow*.
As a sign of our appreciation, all the t-shirts in the store are $4 off (we're four now, get it?) -- at $9.50 just for today. There's 4 styles available in handful of colors - right here. No, we're not trying to sell our t-shirts to you. We're trying to share with you our vision of the world.
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May the global takeover be quick and, for you, painless.
Congrats, guys!
Posted by: Steve Streza on October 12, 2004 4:44 AMI have been following your work only for less then year, since I switched to Mac. Otherwise, would know you earlier, for sure.
Keep on great development! I can already imagine huge skyscrape with your shining logo on the top. Next to Apple building, of course.
Posted by: andrius on October 12, 2004 5:20 AMYou should consider making another skin-able MP3 player, iTunes might be cool, but you can't (not to the extent needed) skin it. This is one of the biggest beef's with people making themes with TP and SS.. Panic has ceased to update Audion.. Konfabulator doesn't have the 'power' to make a itunes replacement.. I would seriously consider looking at making an MP3 player if i were you guys.. the key would be EASY theming of it..
Posted by: Dave F on October 12, 2004 5:39 AM>all the t-shirts in the store are $4 off (we're four now, get it?)
thanks, but I'll wait 10 more years. Then you'll have to give *me* money, bwahahaha! :-)
Posted by: LKM on October 12, 2004 5:45 AMHappy birthday! Your products have been invaluable to me for pretty much the whole three or so years I've been using OS X. Thanks!
Posted by: Ken on October 12, 2004 8:15 AMHappy Birthday and continued success. Many thanks to the crew at Unsanity that help keep my Mac happy.
Posted by: CREB on October 12, 2004 9:02 AMBest of cheers and may your next trip around the Sun bring you continuing success.
Of course, a version of Labels X that doesn’t produce generic icons in the Sidebar would be nice too. ;)
You folks are the greatest. Happy Birthday!
Posted by: Harv on October 12, 2004 1:39 PMI think I have all your haxies running; keep 'em coming. No system problems at all, even with a beta of 10.3.6...'nuff said.
ishan
Posted by: Ishan Bhattacharya on October 13, 2004 10:30 AMCongrats guys! I remember Echo when it was new, I thought it was really cool but I didn't have as much music then and I never got around to registering it since iTunes came along.
Well long live Unsanity, and long live APE!
Posted by: NetworkShadow on October 15, 2004 12:30 AM.well years latter.. i use same the first day the mint! of course with 10.3.3 ox! the most confortable little app!!
happy birthday! beautyfulUnsanitypeople!
pues yo sigo utilizando el mint! limitado, pero muy comodo!
Feliz cumpleaños!
y gracias!
I bought echo and miss it on osx....
good luck with everything
Just a few days until yet another birthday!
I love you Mint. For as long as my archives last (and I have a PPC or PPC emulation), you will continue to find a home in my /Applications folder.
Posted by: Shawn Holwegner on September 20, 2005 7:43 PMI miss Mint Audio. Anyone know where I could get the skin package that used to be on unsanitys site?
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