The $495 package, developed by New York City-headquartered Dragonfly Software, runs on the IBM-PC and compatible computers. In many ways it takes after another word-processing program, XyWrite, a ...

textedit is too limited, MS Word is a fucking labyrinth. I'm a professional writer and I want something that's really good for actual writing and has a nice "gallery" of my existing projects, the way ...

For anyone serious about privacy and streamlining their digital toolkit, HedgeDoc is the clear winner. So what are you ...

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In the past, most small-business owners got by with a typewriter, handwritten notes and a basic text-editor program, but modern-day business professionals depend on a word processor. Whether you're ...

Note takers, take note. A new breed of software is taking the humble word processor out of the age of the typewriter and ushering it into the age of the Internet. These new "note taking" programs go ...

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A software start-up called Virtual Ubiquity is joining the ranks of entrepreneurs convinced they can make a better online word processor. Today, Web-based text editors are typically written using a ...

Word processors have been a part of computing for decades, and for obvious reasons – whether you’re writing a novel, making notes, working on a project for school, or someone who needs to produce ...

Notepad, a text editor, performs relatively fewer functions than WordPad and MS Word. On the other hand, WordPad and Word are very close to each other but still distinct in many ways. This post will ...

Words, words, words, as Annie Hathaway used to say when Bill Shakespeare was having one of those days. What’s a body to do? Recently, for example, a Harvard professor wrote to the Economist magazine ...