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myTexts for iPad, distraction-free writing to go

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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...

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

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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...

One Month Later: The iPad

It's been a little over a month since I've introduced the iPad to my digital workflow and I'm now convinced that I had an iPad-sized hole in my life. The iPad is a device I rarely leave the house without.

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

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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...

Found Footage: How to write a screenplay on the iPad

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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....

feature: Tumblr vs Posterous: quick blogging showdown

Online blogging tools that are designed to make things as easy as possible for anyone to publish online have been around at least a decade and, by now, "blogging" is well-established as...

Friday Favorite: Ommwriter, the Zen word processor for writers

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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,...

Ommwriter, an extra helping of zen for writers

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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,...

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

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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,...

TextExpander touch on sale to celebrate WriteRoom for iPhone integration

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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.

Notational Velocity: Managing ‘Data’ Instead of ‘Documents’

When I first launched Notational Velocity, I knew I was going to use it for the foreseeable future. Let me give you a brief up on why. I use TextEdit to write most of my documents, and store them in my documents folder. It’s a fairly efficient method given the snappiness of TextEdit and the...

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

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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...