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I checked out a couple of interestng little text utility applications last evening. Notabene 1.3b1 Notabene 1.3b1 is a simple SuperCard-based text archiving utility with a few editing tools, written in the HyperTalk/SuperTalk scripting language. It doesn’t write documents or other files to the harddisk, but rather the information is saved within the application. 
The Table of Contents is generated and updated automatically. Clicking once on a title tab opens the related card. If you’re a Mac veteran familiar with HyperCard, Notabene will feel nostalgically familiar, notwithstanding its Aqua-themed interface. I found it quite beguiling, and enjoyed the smooth fades seguing from one card to another. There is a lagre inventory of keyboard commands and shortcuts incorporated. Notabene is another entry in a crowded field of Mac OS Desktop database/notepad applications, but it’s a nice one worth checking out. System requirements: For more information, visit: Tofu 0.1 Developer Amar Sagoo says Tofu is an experiment, adressing the perception that people don’t like reading text on computer screens. He notes:
In Tofu, text is arranged in columns, like in a newspaper. Each column is only as high as the window, so there is no vertical scrolling. This means that each line stays in the same vertical position, and only moves past your eyes horizontally. Since this is your reading direction anyway, and the human eye is better at horizontal than at vertical scanning, the text feels much more stable and you feel more in control. Sagoo says he thinks another thing that helps is that because of the columns, the text is now in “chunks”, which also makes it easier to track. Amar Sagoo is putting this experimental version of Tofu out to see if people think the idea works, and if it’s something worth developing further. You can tell him what you think of the idea at asagoo@gmx.net. At this point, Tofu 0.1 doesn’t do much except convert text dragged and dropped into its window into horizontally scrolling columns, somewhat analogous to Column View in the OS X Finder. It’s an interesting idea, and I daresay Sagoo is on to something. Whether it will catch on remains to be seen. System requirements: Tofu is freeware It’s a small download, and you can check Tofu 0.1 out for yourself here:
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