Articles for tag: Typewriters, Word Processors

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A Brief History of the Word Processor

Like most everything in this world, the preparation of documents is constantly being advanced. Each passing year, there are new possibilities and new functions made in the method of word processing. By offering the user editing, printing, and formatting options, the creation of a professional document has never been easier. The manipulation of text has ...

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Buzzword – the Best Online Word Processor I’ve Used

What do Google Docs, Zoho Writer, AjaxWrite, Docly, FlyWord, Coventi Pages, Peepel Web Writer and Glide Write have in common? All are online word processors, and frankly, NONE of them are quite as good as Buzzword, a new online word processor from Virtual Ubiquity. As opposed to almost all the other options out there, which ...

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The Advantages of Portable Word Processors

Writers on the go can always take a pen and pad when they need to write. However, if you’re like me, writing by hand is awkward after so many years of using only a keyboard. Most of us are just too conditioned to keyboards to do much writing by hand. In addition, then there’s the ...

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Jedit X – a Text Editor on Steroids for Mac

So… here I am, typing a new software review, in yet another word processor for the Mac. This one comes from Japan, and carries the name Jedit X. That’s not Jedi (from Star Wars), but J plus Edit. Jedit X – like a lot of word processors – is a rich text processor, a la ...

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Bean: A Rich Text Word Processor for Mac

Bean is a new open-source, Cocoa-based word processor for Mac. That sentence in and of itself makes it something of an anomaly in the Mac world. While there have typically been a fair number of word processing choices for Mac users (ClarisWorks/AppleWorks, Pages, Microsoft Word, Mellel, Nisus Writer Express, OpenOffice/NeoOffice, and Mariner Write), only the ...

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Top 5 Online Writing Tools

If you are serious about your writing, you will want to be serious about not plagiarizing, citing sources, and spelling. There are tools online that can help with these things and more. Why not use these tools to your advantage? Paper Rater Paper Rater is free, which makes it a great online writing tool. In ...

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Review of Abiword : a Microsoft Word Alternative for Mac OSX

I am going to start my review of Abiword, an open-source word processor available for Mac, Windows and Linux, by talking about Firefox. Firefox is an open-source web browser, also available for Mac, Windows and Linux. Firefox does things the right way. Firefox behaves the same way, no matter what platform a person is using. ...

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CopyWrite – Mac Software for Fiction Writers

I’m constantly on the lookout for programs to make my life easier. These programs tend to be tiny applications that do one thing, but do it well. Among these are applications that reside in the menu bar (to allow me a view of the weather, or to control a music player, or to launch programs ...