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September 4, 2007

links for 2007-09-04

  • Steven Poole - Goodbye, cruel Word
    Author Steven Poole gives up on Microsoft Word, which I continue to maintain is overkill for 90 percent of the word processing population. Like killing a fly with a cruise missile...
    (tags: Mac Microsoft software technology writing)
  • Bean: An OS X Word Processor
    A free, lean word processor for Mac OS X by James Hoover.
    (tags: Mac software tools writing)
  • How Bean: a Word Processor for OS X came about
    James Hoover's essay on the thinking that went in to the creation of Bean, notably as a successor for WriteNow, as a lean, mean, writing machine.
    (tags: Mac software tools writing)
  • Lean Word Processor Specifics
    An article from February 2001 by Marten van de Kraats, in which he details the need for a lean word processor on the newly born Mac OS X. Marten was a huge fan of WriteNow (as was I). This served as James Hoover's inspiration for Bean.
    (tags: Mac software tools writing)
  • exljbris :: Free Quality Font Foundry
    Jos Buivenga has some outstanding fonts, and while he should be charging for them, he offers them as donationware instead. I love Fertigo!
    (tags: font typeface typography)
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