Month: January 2006

Write Without the Distractions

January 11, 2006 /

Mac users have been excited about WriteRoom, a no-frills text editor that whose background color is an eyeball-friendly black and the font is a cool green Courier, which looks very familiar to command line lovers. No distractions and a slim column complete this optimized environment for the serious writer.

Windows users have an alternative in Dark Room. It looks promising, but is still rough around the edges at this point.

Perhaps the best alternative of all is to build your own WriteRoom clone on Windows using Microsoft Word.

WriteRoom

Study: Men and Women Use Internet Differently

January 3, 2006 /

Lot's of interesting stats here:

The percentage of women using the Internet still lags slightly behind the percentage of men, according to the study. Sixty-eight percent of men are Internet users, compared with 66 percent of women. Because they make up more of the population, the total number of women online is now slightly larger than the number of men.

Women under 30 and black women outpace their male peers. Sixty percent of black women are online, compared with 50 percent of black men.

However, older women trail dramatically behind older men, according to the study. Eighty-six percent of women ages 18-29 are online, compared with 80 percent of men that age. Thirty-four percent of men age 65 and older are online, compared with 21 percent of women that age.

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