Gordon's Tech

I've been a longtime user of Nisus Writer Pro . There's a lot of good things about it, but what I most like is the native file forma...

A year ago I was disappointed to learn that Nisus Writer Professional didn't handle inserted images very well ... Gordon's Tech: Ni...

Nisus Writer Professional is not cheap for families . The license covers a single user at a time, so a family like ours with 5 users would n...

A colleague asked me about what I use for word processing on the Mac. I started to respond, then realized it could be a quick post. Briefly,...

Nisus Writer Pro is a $45 upgrade for Express users . Express is my favorite wordprocessor . I'll be looking at an upgrade for me, not s...

The purest of the pure OS X apps support a full suite of OS X services, including Apple's Dictionary and Thesaurus. This includes Nisus ...

Another example of Microsoft on the skids : VBA for Macintosh goes away (Joel on Software) . Joel wrote the spec for VBA. It was a lock-in s...

OS X 10.5 is MIA [1] and so is iWorks 3 (OS X spreadsheet), Aperture 2 (working date metadata and faster than a dead slug), iLife 2007 (2008...

It's been years since AppleWorks was retired, but there's still no full replacement. Apple' s 10.5 delay bodes poorly for anyth...

Nisus Writer Express is our family wordprocessor. I like it very much, but there are a few things I miss. Nisus Writer Pro sounds like it w...

Update 12/12/06 : You can't delete a file in Simple Finder. Think about it. Simple Finder is proof positive that Apple is quite capable ...

Daring Fireball: Can I Get an "Hallelujah" for Auto-Completion With the Esc Key? . Hit F5, get an auto-complete drop down. Works i...

[I did this post to solve a problem, but it turned out there were far better solutions . So I cleaned it up a bit and moved it here, because...

It's hard to build a web 2.0 wordprocessor. On the other hand, a web 2.0 spreadsheet seems far simpler. Now Google is launching one . No...

Microsoft requires one to sign a EULA to view their Windows Media Photo Specification spec. I've done that, and probably given them nam...

After much consideration, I bought Nisus Writer Express, now on version 2.6.1. Here's how a review of a much earlier version concluded: ...

How does Pages compare to traditional desktop publishing solutions? FrameMaker Feature Comparison compares Pages, Word, FrameMaker and InDe...

Nisus Writer Express Features One feature caught my eye: "Inheritable Character, Paragraph, and Note Styles". I like Pages and thi...

macosxhints - Pages 'First Look' preview online Pages isn't ready. Neither, for that matter, is iLife '05. ...Pages trul...

Macintouch - iWork 'm not sure if this has been commented upon yet, but Pages is *slow*. Page redraws are glacial. Steve's presentat...