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SimpleText Enhancer 2.0.1 ($17, Time Limited Demo) SimpleText is a great program for simple text viewing and editing. Nearly every Mac has it installed somewhere. As a matter of fact, many machines have multiple copies installed (try something like Doublet Scan to take care of this) but once you settle down to one copy, you'll find that the feature set of SimpleText is somewhat lacking. If only you could retain the basic ease of use, but also add more advanced text manipulation features... SimpleText Enhancer adds a palette which provides one click access to commonly used SimpleText commands. Similar to the File menu, you can select New, Open, Save, Save As, Page Setup and Print. And like the Edit menu, you can select Undo, Copy and Paste operations.
After this, things start to get interesting. In addition to the normal Save command, there is now an Auto-Save feature where you can ask that your document is saved at regular intervals between 2 and 60 minutes. You'll be glad you did this once someone trips over the power cord, or the juice goes out for some other reason. In the Paste department, there is now an option to insert the current time and date in a number of formats. In the Font department, the currently selected font and size are constantly displayed. There are the usual Bold, Italic and Underline options, as well as Increase and Decrease options for the font size. But there is now a handy font map option which shows all of the available in the characters in the current font. You can select a character from this menu and it will be pasted into your document. No more having to fumble with odd key combinations to get at that unusual character.
To beef up the printer department, there is a fast print option, but more importantly, a way to now define your left, right, top and bottom margins. Rounding out the feature set are upper and lower case conversion, sorting, the ability to define custom glossaries of terms for specialized fields or areas, and a way to convert a read-only SimpleText document to allow writing. If you like SimpleText but were looking for just a bit more power and usability, SimpleText Enhancer should keep you happy. Have any other text gadgets you'd like us to look at? Let John know via e-mail, or share it with the rest of us in the Mac Gadget Forum Useful Link |
