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Apple patents content filter for outbound text messages

by Aron Trimble (Oct 13th, 2010)

Ever the kid-friendly outfit, Apple filed a patent in 2008 that aims to make text messaging safer for the children. TechCrunch reports that today, the US Patent and Trademark office awarded Apple a patent which puts a ban on sending obscene text messages sometimes called "sexting." The technology ...

BBEdit 9.5.1 out now

by Mike Schramm (Jul 29th, 2010)

You lousy kids, with your iPhones and iPads and iGadgets! Back in my day, we worked on real computers, with real keyboards, and mice with one button, and we liked it! BBEdit is a relative relic of that age -- when text ruled the Earth, BBEdit ruled text. And the old Mac app is still being updated. ...

AT&T plans for SXSW 2010

by Mike Schramm (Mar 1st, 2010)

Happy March! The super hip and trendy South-by-Southwest music and tech festival is coming up this month, and like many tech conventions these days, AT&T is working on a plan to keep their network up and running as thousands of iPhones descend on Austin, Texas to send around voice, texts, and ...

TaskPaper for iPhone, simplified to-do lists go mobile

by Brett Terpstra (Feb 23rd, 2010)

TaskPaper, from the developer of WriteRoom, has been around for a while, and we've been talking about it since version 1.0. After what seems like a long wait, TaskPaper for iPhone is out. The super-simple to-do list with surprisingly robust capabilities is now mobile, and syncs with the desktop ...

Mac 101: Making Text Replacement Work

by Erica Sadun (Dec 31st, 2009)

Text replacement: it's one of Snow Leopard's really cool features. With it, you can type abbreviations and they'll automatically expand into full text. You can convert your most common phrases into just a few keystrokes, and let Snow Leopard take care of the rest. Here's a quick summary of what you ...

Holiday giveaways: Eucalyptus ereader

by Michael Rose (Dec 26th, 2009)

Can't figure out what to put on the iPhone or iPod touch you got as a gift? We've got the prescription: holiday giveaways galore! Here's an app giveaway that will help you catch up on the classics while you're on the go: the $9.99 ereader Eucalyptus [iTunes link], which gives you access to over ...

TextExpander touch on sale to celebrate WriteRoom for iPhone integration

by TJ Luoma (Sep 28th, 2009)

When TextExpander touch for the iPhone was announced, one of the exciting aspects was the SDK to allow other developers to integrate TextExpander's technology into their iPhone apps. The new version of WriteRoom for iPhone now includes TextExpander support. With this announcement, SmileOnMyMac ...

AT&T states more MMS details for Friday

by Joachim Bean (Sep 24th, 2009)

As the AT&T iPhone MMS launch is only one day away now, Engadget is reporting that they heard some launch details from AT&T. Specifically, AT&T has stated that it expects MMS for the iPhone to launch in the "late morning" Pacific time, which would mean it "early afternoon" Eastern time. ...

Writer's tools: WriteRoom wreally wrocks

by Steven Sande (Aug 4th, 2009)

As you've probably gathered by now, I'm on a search for the perfect writing tool. I did a short blurb about Ulysses 2.0 a few weeks ago, I read Megan Lavey's Friday Favorite review of Scrivener with interest, and I'll have a detailed review of Storyist v2 soon -- if I can get over the writer's block ...

myTexts, yet another way to reduce writing distraction

by Brett Terpstra (Jul 27th, 2009)

myTexts, a new app from MOApp, caught my attention recently. It's another "distraction-free writing" app with some nice touches and a reasonable price tag. This genre of apps basically time-warps you back to the days of full-screen, menu-free, plain text word processing. The most popular of the ...

TUAW Review: The Soulmen send Ulysses 2.0 on a writing journey

by Steven Sande (Jul 16th, 2009)

As a technical writer, blogger, and wannabe novelist, the tool that I use to capture my thoughts is almost as important as the words that I choose to describe those thoughts. I love to try out new writing tools, particularly those that say that they're going to let me write creatively without ...

Friday Favorite: Scrivener

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jun 26th, 2009)

Not long after I bought my first personal Mac in late 2004, I stumbled across an article that mentioned Ulysses, a text editor geared toward creative writers -- essentially the marriage between a word processor and project management software. It allows you to have all documents within a writing ...

WWDC Live: Ross Carter and Pagehand, typography-aware word processor

by Brett Terpstra (Jun 18th, 2009)

Ross Carter of Cocomot has a pretty cool new word processor, Pagehand, in the works. It reads and writes in PDF format, so you don't have to think twice about sending a document to anyone; they may not be able to edit it -- depending on the software they're running -- but you're pretty much ...

unmarked software cleans up TextSoap 6

by Steven Sande (May 13th, 2009)

OK, when a Mac application has a fun word like "soap" in the name, you just have to roll with the puns. Please forgive me. The developers at unmarked software have scrubbed the dickens out of TextSoap, their text processing application for Mac OS X. Some dirty bugs had besmirched the application, ...

Pixelmator 1.4.1 brings noise filter, Pixelmator Learning with it

by Mike Schramm (Apr 22nd, 2009)

Our friends over at Pixelmator have released a new update, and while it's not quite as big as their point versions, it does add a few new features and a nice online guide to the program. The main new feature in-app is a noise filter that allows users to add random specks and pixels to an image, ...