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 ...

That's not a criticism of Evernote, though: it's more that Apple Notes has proved handier. Even so, Apple Notes doesn't have Evernote's feature of letting you record audio into your notes. If you want ...

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 ...

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Based on what I saw in the beta version (released today) of Corel's new Wordperfect Lightning (I have a video as well as a screen gallery), the freely downloadable lightweight collaborative word ...

If you’re heading off to college with a new computer (or you’re a parent who just made the investment for your son or daughter), chances are you spent a lot more time worrying about the new hardware ...

If you own a Mac, there are plenty of word processors to choose from. Whether you’re penning a research paper for college, a report for your boss or your next bestselling novel, there’s an app that’ll ...

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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