WriteRoom is a popular piece of shareware for OS X which provides a minimalist word-processor, which is simply text on a background in full screen. The idea of WriteRoom is that if you cannot instant message or surf the web whilst creating the document, it will be of a higher quality and produced in a [...]
Text Flow Collaboration Software
Working on one text document with multiple colleagues can prove to be very complicated. Imagine writing a first draft and sending it out to several colleagues for feedback. You probably will receive several revised versions of that text document in return which contain annotations, comments and other feedback.
The difficult part begins to combine and make [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Dec 29th, 2008
- Comments: 7
Abiword: A Lean Word-processing Machine
I like my tools to be efficient. Part of efficiency is opening quickly, not sucking up all of my systems’ resources, and saving in various formats. When considering office needs one of the first tools that pops into my mind is word processing. Naturally the masses will first turn to either MS Office or OpenOffice. [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Dec 23rd, 2007
- Comments: 9
Adobe buzzword – The new kid on the block
After such word processing giants as Google Docs and Zoho Writer, is there room for another one? The answer has to be a definite yes, I think there is always room for anything new, but let’s see if Adobe’s fancy-pants buzzword delivers the goods.
First of all, yes, it does look awesome. It uses the clever [...]
Writers Tools for Open Office
If you prefer Open Office over Microsoft Office you might find the following plugin for Open Office useful. The so called Writers Tools for Open Office are a set of new functions that are added as a new menu in the software.
Phrase Express – Paste frequently used text
I use many phrases over and over again. When I write someone an email, a business letter or reply to a private message in a forum. If you are tired of writing “Thank you for your email”, “Yours sincerely” or a signature over and over again you might want to take a look at the free software Phrase Express. You can use Phrase Express to paste commonly used phrases into any text field using defined phrases. The program adds some of its own at the beginning but the real beauty is the flexibility of it. It is possible to create a folder and text structure that works best for you. You could for instance create folders for business, private and forums and add as much phrases as you want to those folders.
