What a great honor: MarsEdit has been nominated in the Macworld Readers’ Choice Awards, as the Mac Gem of the Year!

If you love MarsEdit, I would be grateful if you decide to cast your vote in its favor!

Of course, the fact that it’s down to six great applications, and MarsEdit is among them, that feels pretty good in its own right. But it would be even more awesome if we actually won!

As luck would have it, Storie di Apple just published a great interview with my friend Drew Thaler, so I get to take a much-needed break from talking about myself.

Discs, filesystems and Macs – Interview with Drew Thaler

Some really fascinating stuff, particularly if you’re interested in historical perspective on the transition from OS 9 to OS X, and some of the landmark moments such as the launch of the iPod.

I’m especially amused by Drew’s recollection of thinking “what kind of stupid name is iPod?” If you take a step back and ask yourself honestly, you’ll probably agree it’s still pretty stupid!

Austin Heller recently interviewed me and has just published the results.

An Interview with Daniel Jalkut

I like the interview format because it takes all the work out of blabbing my mouth off! It’s sort of like blogging, only I get to talk about several things at once, and don’t have to think of the topics myself.

Reading back over it, the topics range from my first Mac to how I feel about iPhone development. Austin did a great job of posing the questions and I did an acceptable job of answering them. Check it out!

Iron Coder 7 is coming up, and Jonathan Wight just announced that the top prize will be an iPod Touch! In other news the contest will run over the course of a week this time around, instead of the usual 48 hours.

I am going to need something to develop my iPhone/iPod applications on pretty soon.