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For Mac & iPhone users to write without distractions. WriteRoom is a full screen writing environment. Unlike the cluttered word processors you're used to, WriteRoom lets you focus on writing.
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| Aug 16, 2013 | Lessons From Monks About Designing The Technologies Of The Future | Klint Finley Contributor More posts by this contributor Why Everyone Is Obsessed With E-Mail Newsletters Right Now Forget Mega-Corporations, Here’s The Mega-Network “The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the bod... |
| Jul 15, 2012 | iPad writing app showdown: four apps enter, one app leaves | reader comments 57 with 41 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit It's not feasible for most folks to do their everyday work on an iPad yet, but writers seem to be one of the quickest growi... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | Contemplative Computing | Last year when Nicholas Carr‘s book The Shallows hit the streets suggesting that the Internet was frying our brains (see our coverage) I asked what we could do to build a less brain damaging Internet. Since then I’ve been too, well, distrac... |
| Jan 7, 2010 | TXT.IO Takes Minimalist Microblogging to the Extreme | Once upon a time, microblogging was all about simplicity. Today, even services like Posterous that started out as very simple and easy-to-use tools have begun to add more and more features. Microblogging, however, can’t get much simpler tha... |
| Oct 9, 2008 | iPhone text editor shoot-out: WriteRoom vs. TextGuru | reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit We here at the Orbiting HQ do quite a bit of writing, and we don't always have a computer at hand. What a few of us do have is ... |
| Oct 24, 2007 | Minireview: Getting things done with TaskPaper 1.0 | reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Long has Apple been driven by development that places simplicity over functionality, the iPod being an excellent example. The i... |
| Feb 6, 2007 | Think 1.0 emulates WriteRoom, but with your own apps | reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Apps that help minimize—not maximize—the ability to multitask on your Mac have been coming into popularity lately. As one reade... |
| Jan 4, 2007 | WriteRoom 2.0 released for OS X | reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit It seems like it's been a long time since we've mentioned WriteRoom, but it's certainly become quite the popular little OS X ap... |
| Sep 28, 2006 | My Dream App voting, Round II | reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Last week on My Dream App: The guest judges didn't spare anyone. After 8,874 voters, the first six contestants were voted off t... |
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What has the press written about Hog Bay Software?
Parsers VC has collected 12 articles mentioning Hog Bay Software, among them “Lessons From Monks About Designing The Technologies Of The Future” (Aug 16, 2013) and “iPad writing app showdown: four apps enter, one app leaves” (Jul 15, 2012).
Is Hog Bay Software still active?
Yes, Hog Bay Software is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Feb 6, 2022.