Editra is a multi-platform text editor with an implementation that focuses on creating an easy to use interface and features that aid in code development. Currently it supports syntax highlighting and variety of other useful features for over 30 programing languages. Editra is freely available under the terms of the GPL

New York based TranslateIt! Team today announced a 50% off sale on TranslateIt! till 10th January 2010. TranslateIt! allows you to look up words on the fly. Just hover the pointer over an unfamiliar word and see its translation in a pop-up window. TranslateIt! offers several methods: translation from clipboard, drag-and-drop translation, manual input of queries in the main window, and double-click translation of words in dictionary entries displayed in the main window

Anton Leuski's CocoAspell is an Open Source spell checker designed to eventually replace Ispell. Its main feature is that it does a much better job of coming up with possible suggestions than Ispell does. In fact recent tests shows that it even does better than Microsoft Word 97's spell checker or just about any other spell checker I have seen. It also has support for checking (La)TeX and HTML files, and run time support for other non English languages

MacSpeech offers holiday discounts on upgrade to Snow Leopard compatible Dictate 1.5.8 and Plantronics Calisto Headset with Bluetooth USB Adapter

DEVONtechnologies, LLC releases the eighth and supposedly last public beta of version 2.0 of all editions of its information manager DEVONthink as well as of the smart note-keeper DEVONnote. The new release brings a polished appearance, a heavily revised column view, a much simplified installation, lots of additional and revised smart templates as well as, finally, tagging including support for OpenMeta

Tension Software announces NoteList 2.7.1 NoteList is an application to store data in a free format using text and images with full word processing capabilities. The application is document based and can manage and unlimited number of documents and any document can store an unlimited number of notes where any single note can be a full text in TXT format or a RTF text with also images embedded

Second public beta of Axiotron's Quickscript handwriting recognition application now available for free download to all Mac users

Markzware, developer of FlightCheck and inventor of preflighting, has released PageZephyr, a content search and extraction engine. PageZephyr has been developed using Markzware's Common Reader Architecture (CRA), the high-performance technology at the heart of Markzware's current and future products

Scribus is an Open Source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation and Windows desktops with a combination of press-ready output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, Spot Colors, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation

KDE.org's KOffice team has announced version 2.1.0 of KOffice, 6 months after the platform release 2.0.0. This release brings a number of new features as well as general improvements in the maturity of the individual applications. Importing of documents have also been given an overhaul

The MacSpeech Dictate 1.5.7 update is a maintenance release that fixes reported issues, and is available free of charge to registered MacSpeech Dictate 1.5 customers using the Check for Updates feature

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