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Bean is a rich text editor for the OS environment. Bean’s goal is to provide the right tool for writers, not to outdo MS Word. While it doesn’t have all of the features you might find in an Office product, Bean is still robust enough to produce attractive documents.

After all, you don’t always need the whole tool-box to fix the problem. For those who have a hard time loosening their grip on MS, Bean even comes with partial compatibility with Word.

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Preview.app does a good job at opening PDF files, but I end up printing a lot of my PDF files out because I like to mark them up and jot down notes. Now Skim lets that marking happen in my digital work flow. Skim is a PDF Reader and note-taker for OS X.

You can create circles, notes, highlights and read it all in full screen.

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When Textpander stopped being free, there was a hole in the freeware universe. RapidoWrite fills that hole, making it easy to type full sentences or paragraphs using abbreviations. This is great for signing your emails with a signature, inserting your address into a form, or typing a long, easy-to-mispell word. Simply type the abbreviation you chose and RapidoWrite expands into the full text.

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AbiWord is a free word processing program like OpenOffice or Microsoft Word, and it can save documents in those formats. Includes advanced word processing features like headers/footers, mail merge, table of contents, and auto fields, in addition to all the basics you would expect. AbiWord should be more than adequate for most writing.

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One of the most popular development platforms for running web applications is LAMP — Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (or Python or Perl.) MAMP plays on this acronym to bring Apache, MySQL, and PHP to your Mac. It couldn’t be any easier than with this app.

We’ve posted screencasts previously about running Apache and PHP/MySQL on your Mac. With MAMP it’s even easier. Just drag MAMP to your Applications folder and double click it.

One great reason to install MySQL and PHP is to run a blog. WordPress is our favorite blogging platform, and it requires MySQL and PHP. Here’s a screencast on how to install MAMP and WordPress on a Mac.

(One caveat about MAMP: it’s configured by default to run on port 8888. If you install it on a production server, for example on a box at MacMiniColo.net, you’ll probably want to change to port 80.)

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Celtx is an application for planning and creating media — film, video, theater, animation, poetry, novels, etc. Use it to manage your story line, characters, props, media, schedule, and budget. You can also “publish your creation to Project Central, where others can view your Media Project in its full context, providing a compelling experience for the viewer.”