not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources karelia software news newspapers books scholar jstor free images march 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message karelia software industry software publishing headquarters alameda california products sandvox imedia browser website karelia.com karelia software or karelia is a software company with a headquarters in alameda california that claims to pioneer the desktop web application market . it was founded by dan wood and later joined by terrence talbot . the company derives its name from the karelia suite of classical music by jean sibelius . the name can also refer to karelia a historical province in eastern finland . contents 1 products 1.1 active products 1.2 discontinued products 2 company history 3 references 4 external links products edit active products edit sandvox a new website creation tool for mac os x released in may 2006 . version 2.0 was released in may 2011 . imedia browser a freeware media library program for mac os x 10.4 or later . discontinued products edit watson an internet browsing and searching utility for mac os x similar to apple s sherlock . tunefinder a melody finder for the classic mac os and mac os x issued as an early development preview . company history edit original karelia software logo . the original karelia logo was inspired by events that occurred shortly after dan wood created watson . the application was designed as a complement to apple s existing sherlock 2 application providing users various plug ins to view specific internet content . watson was released in november 2001 and the popularity of the program grew quickly . wood was later invited to a meeting at apple in which he was shown a demo of sherlock 3 which incorporated the same look and nearly all of the modules featured in watson . 1 after voicing his displeasure to apple developer relations wood received a phone call from steve jobs during which jobs indicated that he saw karelia as the handcar in the way of the steam train that owns the tracks 2 a very similar experience to that of cabel sasser of panic software . 3 despite this setback karelia software has continued to create popular mac software and has since incorporated the train tracks and handcar into their logo . when apple introduced sherlock 3 at the world wide developer s conference the following may the similarities to watson were striking . 4 user support for karelia and the watson program remained high due in part to the poor user response to the slow speed and restrictions of sherlock 3 . 5 dan wood worked with sun microsystems in late 2003 in an attempt to develop to port watson to java . 6 the project was later cancelled allowing wood and the karelia team to return full time to the development of mac os x applications . karelia s next macintosh application was the popular and well received 7 8 sandvox for web design . sandvox was released as a public beta in january 2006 9 sandvox 1.0 was announced in may 2006 10 and sandvox 1.2 won the runner up apple design award for best mac os x user experience in 2007 . 11 karelia released sandvox 2 in may 2011 . 12 in december 2012 it was one of the 20 apps selected to apple s mac app store best of 2012 . 13 in march 2014 karelia acquired the potion factory 14 an independent mac software company . the latter s applications the hit list for mac and iphone i love stars tangerine and five moku have been added to karelia s suite of software products . andy kim head of potion factory joined karelia as part of the deal . references edit indie fever the genesis culture and economy of a community of independent software developers on the mac os x platform the long story behind karelia s new logo the true story of audion the mac observer watson developer speaks out against apple ; plans port to windows baltimore sun sherlock or watson it s elementary sun licenses search software for desktop push software editorial sandvox 1.5 software review cnet sandvox create web sites easily geek patrol sandvox public beta available now macnn karelia s sandvox 1.0 builds websites macworld apple design awards presented at wwdc the karelia blog at last ... sandvox 2.0 has arrived macstories.net apple posts best of app store 2012 lists karelia software acquires potion factory external links edit karelia software the karelia imedia browser retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title karelia software & oldid 744234563 categories mac software companieshidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from march 2011all articles with topics of unclear notability navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 13 october 2016 at 23 41 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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