TextWrangler is a pure text editor, as opposed to styled text editors like Tex Edit Plus that support a considerable degree of text styling and formatting, straddling the category margin between text editors and word processors. As such, it does not support any fancy formatting capabilities, headers and footers, graphics tools, a thesaurus, and other staples of feature-laden “office” software. Instead, it focuses on helping you manipulate text in ways that word processors generally can’t.

Yojimbo for Mac OS X is a useful app for storing all the loose crap that your Mac accumulates: images, screenshots, notes, passwords, bookmarks. It’s a searchable, sortable junk drawer for your desktop or laptop. Yojimbo for iPad allows you to sync those items wirelessly…and that’s it. If you already have Yojimbo on your Mac, Yojimbo for iPad will allow you to transfer what you’ve stored. You can search the names and tags of your items. But you can’t create new items, which is the big drawback to this software.

So we’re going things a bit differently this week. We started out covering the week’s news and other articles on Appletell.com, but this week we have an interview with Rich Siegel of BareBones Software.