Inspirational Technology

Mariner Write

Another rumor now is that Apple has purchased Mariner Software. No idea if that is true or not, but their word processor Mariner Write actually seems pretty decent. May not be good enough for Word power users, but for someone like me who doesn't use anything more fancy then tables it might be usable. I'm trying the latest beta for a while to see how it goes. I'd love to have something that isn't Word so that I could use a word processor without feeling dirty.

BTW, if Apple did actually buy this company, a fresh Cocoa UI wrapped around their word processing component would make for a very interesting product indeed.

They also have a spreadsheet which I played with for about 5 minutes. It's definitely a quick Carbon port of an OS 9 app so it's not something I care too much for. The word processor has been reworked more to fit better as an OS X app. It's still an obvious Carbon app, but supports font smoothing and services which are critical to me.