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Freeware, fullscreen writing for OS X?
RickP in AZ | Jun 30 2006
Hog Bay Software seems to be reading 43folders and courting Merlin and other writers. They have just released a full screen writiing tool called "Writeroom": http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/product/writeroom In my mad rush to be mister Uber-Cool with the first post I haven't yet tried it. But I will test it in a few minutes to see if it can lure me away from TextWrangler. 7 Comments
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 I tried WriteRoom for a...Submitted by JonB on June 30, 2006 - 11:56am.
I tried WriteRoom for a while, but never quite managed to fit it into my workflow. Then I found Megazoomer. Megazoomer is a SIMBL plugin that expands any cocoa window to full screen. Let that sink in for a minute. Now I use vim in Terminal.app to do my writing without distraction, which is a huge step up from X11 with ratpoison, though TextEdit works as well; NetNewsWire is in the back, big and ready to roll; and Camino now replaces Safari + Saft for me. It does have a few bugs. It seems to interfere with Quicksilver sometimes--activating QS only switches QS to the front, rather than keeping a window open for input, which requires another command-space--although this is remedied by restarting QS, something I am used to as a bleeding-edge user of said program. :) Additionally, if the only open windows are all full screen, expos? lines them up rather than distributes them around the screen; my workaround is to simply have a different-sized window available, like a Finder window or Adium. And there's a thin line at the top of Terminal.app for some reason ... but overall, I'm ecstatic with Megazoomer. Links: » POSTED IN:
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