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Google Docs editing coming to iPad

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Sep 20th, 2010)

This is pretty fantastic. Dave Girouard, president of Google Enterprise, announced via the Google official blog today that mobile editing for Google Docs is coming to the iPad and Android. Up until now, the Webkit browsers used on the mobile devices have been missing a key capability for handling ...

Developer offers enticing look at Scrivener 2.0

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Sep 15th, 2010)

Developer KB made a series of blog posts about what will and will not be featured in the upcoming Scrivener 2.0. What I like is that he's not so focused on introducing new features, but improving on what's already there. The initial release came out back in 2007, but this is a case where slow and ...

myTexts for iPad, distraction-free writing to go

by Brett Terpstra (May 29th, 2010)

A while back, I shared my discovery of myTexts, a robust distraction-free writing application ... well, as robust as a stripped-down, no-frills editor would want to be. Now, myTexts has shown up on the iPad, with iTunes syncing of your text files between your iPad and the desktop version. To make ...

Calling all authors: How to sell your books in the iBook store

by David Winograd (May 27th, 2010)

Have you got a novel or two in your bottom desk drawer? Did you participate in the National Novel Writing Month competition last November? Are you a budding author who needs that last nudge to actually get writing? If any of these describe you, Apple has just given you a way to get your masterpiece ...

TUAW's Daily App: Space Miner: Space Ore Bust

by Mike Schramm (Apr 30th, 2010)

Space Miner: Space Ore Bust is a terrific game for the iPhone -- it's an arcade game that's basically a one-stick shooter, where you move a ship around a 2D field (rendered in colorful 3D), collecting asteroid ore and taking down alien robots. But though the basic premise of the game is quite ...

Found Footage: How to write a screenplay on the iPad

by Steven Sande (Apr 12th, 2010)

Nate and Biagio over at jokeandbiagio.com have come up with a Pages hack for writing screenplays on the iPad. At this time, there are a few iPhone apps for writing screenplays, but none of them exist in an iPad version... yet. As you can see in the video above, the solution that these two ...

Friday Favorite: Ommwriter, the Zen word processor for writers

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 11th, 2009)

More Friday Favorites, the apps, tools and accessories that we love to share. As a writer, I love Scrivener. It's great for managing large and complex projects. But for shorter pieces, this blog post for example, I've found a new favorite, Ommwriter. Brett first mentioned the beta of Ommwriter ...

Ommwriter, an extra helping of zen for writers

by Brett Terpstra (Nov 30th, 2009)

As part of our Back to School series last year, I covered some of my favorite writing tools. Many of the writing applications I've mentioned there and elsewhere have full-screen, distraction-free editing modes, ala WriteRoom, which gets plenty of mention here at TUAW. The full-screen editing feature ...

NaNoWriMo writers: Storyist has some hot deals for you, too

by Steven Sande (Oct 23rd, 2009)

In my continuing campaign to get as many Apple fans out there as possible to take part in National Novel Writing Month, I'm always looking for deals on writing software. Earlier in the week, I reported on a deal that Scrivener is providing for NaNoWriMo participants. Well, not to be left out of the ...

5 ways for Mac users to get ready for NaNoWriMo

by Steven Sande (Oct 15th, 2009)

You've heard me talk about National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo, before. It's the annual event aimed at getting potential bestsellers out of the minds of would-be writers and onto paper -- virtual or real. The idea is that most people have a couple of good novels hidden inside them, ...

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 ...

TUAW Review: Storyist 2.0, a professional's writing tool

by Steven Sande (Aug 19th, 2009)

Over the past several months, we've been publishing a series of reviews of writer's tools (last year we posted some great writing tools for students). While a few of the tools that have been covered in depth have been minimalist writing environments such as WriteRoom, there are more powerful and ...

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 ...

Oxford English Dictionary back to the Mac

by Mel Martin (Jul 18th, 2009)

If you make your living with words, and some of us around here at TUAW do, then a good dictionary is what you need. The mother of all dictionaries, the Oxford, is now available for Macs (PPC and Intel) on CD with half a million words, and the ability to trace word usage through more than 2 million ...