Microsoft are heavily discounting MS Office and the new Windows 7. Any UK student can buy Windows 7 Home Premium online for £30 (it’s normally about £150) and/or MS Office Ultimate 2007 (with Word, Access, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher and Outlook) for £38.95 (which can retail anywhere between £250-£380). To get the software, you have to [...]
I’ve briefly reviewed the Mac-only writing tool Scrivener a couple of times for Macworld. This post is based on those two pieces: Most of the stuff I review goes straight in the trash afterwards. Some programs stay on my machine for a little while. A very few apps become part of my toolkit; the software [...]
I recently reviewed Bean 2.4 – a brilliant, free and very lightweight Mac word processor – for Macworld. Here’s my redux version of that review: My quest for the ultimate writing tool continues with Bean, a stripped down and superfast word processor. Most of the applications Apple bundles with OS X are great – but [...]