![]() I cut my Mac graphics teeth on HyperCard, one Apple application I did very much like, but I was never a huge fan of Apple’s ClarisWorks/AppleWorks productivity suites - antecedents of iWorks - for either word crunching or graphics, preferring to stick with third-party solutions that I found worked better and slicker, and most of which I’ve now been using for nearly two decades. MAC WORD PROCESSOR DEFAULT SNOW LEOPARD PLUSI switched to Tom Bender’s delightful $15 shareware styled text editor Tex Edit Plus around the turn of the millennium, and used it for almost all of my wordsmithing until my first iPad came along in 2011. I also had what turned out to be a brief dalliance with the 68k version of Nisus Writer in the late ’90s, and its out of the word processor mainstream feature set whetted my enthusiasm for text editors as my everyday word crunching platforms. However, I found it clunky and feature-limited compared with the slickness and power of Word 5.1, which I soon went back to. ![]() It was also the last version of MS Word that I really liked.Īt the time, Apple had a word processor application called MacWrite Pro, and out of loyalty I bought a copy so I could give it an honest try. I subsequently upgraded to Word 5.1, which was a lot more powerful, although less sparing of resources, but still managed to acquit itself tolerably well on the old Plus with its 0 processor and 2.5 megabytes of RAM. My first Mac - a used Mac Plus compact desktop machine - came with a copy of Microsoft Word 4, an excellent word processor in its time and indeed one that would stand out today, especially if a complimentary version were ported to the iOS. ![]() I’d configure all kinds of workarounds and extra steps because I wanted to wring every last bit of functionality out of my devices, and the basic starter apps just weren’t ever enough.”įor me running third-party apps on Apple hardware dates a lot farther back than the iOS, and has nothing to do with bolstering my cred as a PowerUser, although in some respects I guess I might qualify. Greetings from the Grid blogger Seth Clifford recounts years of eschewing Apple’s default iOS apps in favor of third-party software, because, as he explains, after all, “Apple’s apps are for regular people, and I’m a PowerUser, maaaan. Productivity App Suites For OS X/iOS Cross-Platform Users – The ‘Book Mystique
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