Nisus Blogs

Most of us here in the USA are celebrating a long, relaxing three day weekend. So, while we are goofing off, eating too much, and generally being lazy, you can save a bit of cash on our word processors. Just go to our store, choose your product, and use the coupon code “laborday” in the [...]

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Just in time for the long (here in the US) holiday weekend, a new beta release of Nisus Writer Pro. Since the release of the first beta, we discovered a few Snow Leopard related bugs and fixed them, and squashed a few other bugs while we were at it. You can download this new beta [...]

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This tip came from one of our engineers, Martin, who writes on this blog from time to time. In previous versions of Mac OS X a user could use “Get Info” in the Finder to control which localization(s) a particular application was launched with, eg: they could disable all but one localization to force an [...]

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Mac OS X 10.6 brings a great deal of refinement, stability, and goodwill since the price is so low. However, we have discovered a couple of interesting issues that should be discussed. The native file format in both Nisus Writer Express and Pro is RTF (rich text format). This format is shared by many other [...]

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When Apple announced on 24 August that Snow Leopard would be available on the 28th, we were as surprised as you were. Remember, Apple had said previously that Snow Leopard would be available in September. To most in the developer community, that meant late September. Boy, were we wrong. Since 10.6 has now out in [...]

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Apple has announced that Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) will be released this coming Friday, 28 August. That’s earlier than what they had been promising, which was September. While this is good for consumers, I have a feeling that some developers are doing a bit of scrambling at the moment to get their applications [...]

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To celebrate the release of Nisus Writer Pro 1.3 and take advantage of the Fourth of July holiday here is the USA, we are having a sale on Pro. From now until 6 July, you can now purchase Pro for 20 percent off the regular price. Just go to our store, choose your version of [...]

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After many months of adding, fixing, and tearing out of hair, Nisus Writer Pro 1.3 is now available. The big feature addition in this release is the new document manager. It now can manage any file on your drive, regardless of its location. You can create file groups, or use the predefined smart groups. There [...]

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Wow … it’s been a while. This place is kind of dusty and has an odd odor, but everything still works. Anyway, no real news, but that will change shortly, hopefully in the next few days. Stay tuned, folks.

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We are pleased to announce the release of Nisus Writer Express 3.2. This new version adds new features such as editable document properties (author, company, copyright, etc.), additional backup options, control over smart quotes on a per-language basis, and a preference to choose the default file format for new documents. We also added the Sparkle [...]

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Between all of the parties and sleeping and eating, I actually did something of substance. I attended the Town Hall meeting on Wednesday night. The place was full, and a bit anxious. People had ideas that they were just dying to share, and share they did. A few wanted to either move it to New [...]

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I can’t say that I wasn’t too surprised at the lack of excitement in this years show. People that I talked to before the keynote were not expecting much. And what do you know, Apple delivered on that. The new stuff is nice, but not earth shattering. That’s got to be one of the reasons [...]

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I arrived very early this morning only to see the rain I was so desperately hoping would not fall. Being San Francisco, I knew that was a pipe dream, but sometimes you just have to root for the impossible. I made the rounds in the afternoon. Seems that there was a bit of news about [...]

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It is Thanksgiving Day here in the USA, or as my English friend says, “You are Welcome Day.” This is the day where we get to stuff ourselves full of food, watch football, and be more lazy than usual. There is another thing we celebrate, but that gets lost in the inevitable food-induced coma. We [...]

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Nisus Writer Pro 1.2 is now available for your downloading pleasure. This new version adds a few new features, many bug fixes and other fun stuff. The biggest change is in our file importer. We have replaced the old importer with a completely new one that greatly improves file translations, especially for .doc files. Additionally, [...]

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A very dedicated user of Nisus Writer Pro (and our French localizer), Philippe Demoulin, has created a new forum for International users of Nisus. You can find the new forum at http://nisuswriter.phpbb3now.com/. Philippe also has a French Nisus blog. If I understand my French, and I don’t, it has tips, tricks and other useful information. [...]

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Well, it was fun while it lasted, but the whole “Social Networking” craze is now officially over. It died the day that Hoffspace was launched. I already have some pretty severe back pains, but the idea of a David Hasselhoff social network is going to cause me more pain than any back spasm can give [...]

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A new month brings a new version of Nisus Writer Express. Nisus Writer Express 3.1 brings the following new features: Go to page A large caret option Dutch and Polish localizations Page Borders palette The open dialog now has an “ignore rich text commands” option There are also many bug fixes. You can read about [...]

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The title of this post comes from a song by The Blasters, later covered by X. Yes, I did listen to music in the 80s, as a matter of fact. Anyway, it is the Fourth of July here in the States, so that means fireworks, marching bands, too much food, and in this case, a [...]

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I got this lovely warning today as Time Machine was backing up my iMac: My drive isn’t that large (160 gig WD Passport) and I probably should get a larger drive. But, eventually Time Machine will eat that drive as well. Maybe it is time to look for alternative backup solutions.

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