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Freeware Find: Bean

by Steven Sande (Sep 12th, 2008)

Departing TUAW blogger Giles Turnbull caught my attention in his recent list of favorite Mac apps. At the top of his list was an application called Bean, which had the unfortunate effect of causing me to think about Rowan Atkinson's comedy character (at right). As soon as the nausea wore off, I took ...

Diamond, the rich text editor that thinks different

by Giles Turnbull (Aug 4th, 2008)

Diamond is a free rich text editor with a difference. Lots of differences, actually, which combine to make it quite appealing. Developer Geoffrey Alexander has recently released Diamond 3, which makes this an excellent time for you to download and give it a try. How is Diamond different? Diamond ...

SubEthaEdit version 3.0

by Mat Lu (Oct 24th, 2007)

SubEthaEdit is probably the original collaborative text editor on the Mac allowing multiple folks to work on a document at the same time over a local network or the internet. Now TheCodingMonkeys have released version 3.0 with a new custom file format that "stores collaboration metadata and history ...

Smultron: open source tabbed text editor hits version 3.0

by Mat Lu (Apr 24th, 2007)

It's true, I admit it, I have a bit of a thing for tabbed text editors (I'm seeking counseling). Anyway, I've discovered yet another one. Peter Borg (who is also behind the very cool Lingon launchd utility) has just released version 3 of his Smultron open-source text editor (with vertical tabs). ...

Forgedit: tabbed text editor

by Mat Lu (Mar 30th, 2007)

We posted a while back about the introduction of tabs into SubEthaEdit. I recently ran across another text editor that offers tabs called ForgEdit, which bills itself as the "programmers text editor for OS X." It seems to be a rather straightforward app with some decent, if not terribly innovative, ...

TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac

by Scott McNulty (Feb 28th, 2007)

Some people balk at the idea of paying for a text editor. 'Doesn't OS X ship with a pretty good text editor called TextEdit,' they say. That is very true, but if you make your living creating text documents (whether they be code, blog posts, or content of some other kind) TextEdit just won't cut it. ...

SubEthaEdit is Now Tabtastic

by Mat Lu (Jan 30th, 2007)

Quirky, but cool, collaborative text editor SubEthaEdit is out today with version 2.6, which adds everybody's favorite (relatively) new UI item: tabs. Of course the main reason to use SubEthaEdit remains its collaborative features, nonetheless the addition of tabs is definitely a strong secondary ...

Montage 1.0 released

by Scott McNulty (Jul 19th, 2006)

Today marks the release of the final version of Montage, which we wrote about when it was but a mere beta. Montage is a professional quality screen writing program which includes a number of things you won't find in traditional text editors. Amongst these features are smart views, Final Draft ...

SubEthaEdit hits 2.3

by Scott McNulty (Feb 7th, 2006)

SubEthaEdit, the favorite collaborative text editor of many TUAWers, has just been revved to 2.3. The biggest change in this version is that the licensing structure has changed. There are no longer any free license of SubEthaEdit. The Coding Monkeys are trying to earn a living coding cool apps for ...

Writely - The (free) Web Word Processor

by David Chartier (Dec 23rd, 2005)

C.K. told me about Writely a while back, and even when DownloadSquad blogged it in September it was available as an invite-only beta. Worse yet, it didn't (and still doesn't) like Safari. None of that matters now, however, as I just noticed that Writely seems to have opened its doors for all to ...