word processor – Dave Briggs

Writing apps – the software I use to get words on a page

April 11, 2014

I probably think about this sort of thing far more than I should – after all, doesn’t everyone just use Word? – but I like playing with different tools for writing. After all, for me, typing words into a computer makes up probably 75% of my job. That’s a lot of typing and so it’s … Keep reading

Editing text on a Mac

February 4, 2008

John Naughton had a request from a friend for an alternative to MS Word on a Mac. John pointed him in the direction of TextEdit (Windows users, think WordPad), which comes built into OSX. One issue with this was the lack of a wordcount function, which was soon sorted by an extra little bit of … Keep reading