Pillarbox is a free Google chrome extension for writers and who prefer a simple user interface over one cluttered with buttons and menus you will probably never use. Even a popup window can wreck your concentration enough to prevent you from completing a cogent thought. So can other people, but this won’t help with that. [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

I write like who? That was the first thing coming to my mind after pasting in my first text into a form on the I Write Like website, but more on that later. I Write Like is a web service that analyses text pasted into a web form, to come up with a famous writer [...]

Categories: Online Services

Let’s face it, sometimes it’s just too hard to get work done with so many distractions coming at you on your computer. Email, youtube, facebook, shopping – it all adds up to one huge time suck and threaten to perpetually keep you from your work.  There are times when I need to concentrate on work [...]

Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Security, Tutorials Basic

Being a writer requires more tools than one might think. In today’s instant-on, instant-off world, writers need immediate access to tools that enable them to look up words, save data, keep tasks, etc. When your primary tool is a word processor it’s hard to keep track of all those duties without popping in and out [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Mac, Software, Tutorials Basic, Windows

Novel writers have a large pool of word processing tools at their disposal to write their novels. This ranges from basic programs like Notepad to Microsoft Office or Open Office. There are however some – lesser known – novel writing software programs available that have been designed with that purpose in mind getting rid of [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I don’t use a lot of extra fonts on my computer. For me, the standard fonts are good enough for my needs. However, a lot of my friends are font-crazy and love to have different fonts on their computers. Fonts500 is a website that claims to have 500 of the best fonts available. The good [...]

Categories: Cool, Misc

The name of this software distribution is probably a little bit out of line but the purpose is not. The goal is to reduce software costs for students but the compilation is also attractive to everyone else. The website offers a version of this distribution for Windows computers and for Macs. You may download it using the preferred method bittorrent to ease the load on the servers and reduce bandwidth costs.

Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows

Ever heard about Bix ? Bix.com to be precise. Don’t be ashamed to admit that you never heard about it either. I read about the site today and decided to pay a visit to website I never heard about before. I always thought I know everything that is going on but it seems that some sites seem to slip through my grasps. Back to Bix: Bix is a contest site that seems to be pretty famous for it’s Karaoke contests.

Categories: Entertainment, Funny