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I'm a web designer/developer, writer and animator living in Birmingham Ala. I have been working in the web design/development field for 15 years. I am a founding member of the writing and animation team 5 Guys in a Garage who started JabTV.com. I have worked for various internet and media companies over the years including the now defunct Hecklers.com and al.com.

Texteditors – Uncluttered, Unbloated and Free.

Posted April 26th, 2008 by admin

Bloated text editors are a dime a dozen. That is if the dime is large made of gold and has a street value of around 200.00 dollars. They rhyme with Microsoft Word, Star Office and does anyone still use Word Perfect?

There is plenty of room for less. Less bloated features, less convoluted interfaces and less menus that stretch the length of the screen. Microsoft Word has so many features and at times it seems that one must have the patience of Job just to wait for Word to open.

Here are a few text editors for your Mac that are easy on your system resources and your wallet.

1. Text Edit – Cost: Free

Included with your mac.

2. Bean – Cost: Free

Bean is my personal favorite is has the look and feel of a word processor without all the bloat. Saves in .RTF which holds my formating and everyone can read regardless of platform or program.

3. TextWrangler 2 – Cost: Free

Think for TextWrangler 2 as BB-Edits little brother. It possesses most of bb-edit’s general text editing capability and non for the advanced features. But hey it’s a free download!

4. Smultron 3.5 – Cost: Free

Smultron is a free text editor for Mac OS X. It seems to be geared toward web programming, script editing, making a to do list and so on.

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