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I just read MacWorld’s recent comparison of iWork Pages and Microsoft Office 2008 Word in the latest issue of their magazine. At the end of the article, author Jeffery Battersby offers up some alternatives to these two dominant word processors.
He suggests BareBone Software’s TextWrangler and Peter Borg’s Smultron as alternatives to TextEdit for basic [...]

I was talking with a friend today about movies when the topic of screenwriting came up. I suggested he try out Celtx. It’s a free tool for creating a screenplay and offers robust collaboration and sharing options (and it’s for Mac, Linux, or Windows).
In addition to screenplays, it also supports AV scripts (documentaries, ads, music [...]

I’ve been off the grid for the past several days getting ready for a job interview. Now that it’s over, I want to share a tip about a tool I used to help me prepare.
First, I’ll define the problem. I typically prepare for an interview by writing out potential questions that may be asked. I [...]

Here’s a tip for working with text on your Mac. Have you ever needed to copy over the text of an email from, say, Apple Mail to another application (like your blog?). I need to do this all the time.
Here’s the problem. Sometimes I use my lunch break at work to begin typing out a [...]

I encountered yet another Dvorak bug today. For the benefit of those (ok, probably all of you) who do not know what Dvorak is, it’s an alternative keyboard layout. It’s generally considered faster and more efficient than the standard QWERTY layout.
I can certainly type quite fast and, since the Dvorak keys are not in [...]