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	Mariner Software Reviews MacJournal Scores a Dreamy Review - more... Contour Scores High in Review - more... MacGourmet Deluxe rules supreme in the ultimate head-to-head cookoff! See why! Macsimum News Rates Paperless 9 out of 10! Read the review here. MacUser UK Gives Contour Solid Props Load it up! Macworld Gives Mariner Calc for iPhone 3.5 out of 5 Load it up! MacValley Voice Gives Paperless 1.0 Thumbs up! Download it here. Paperless on the Mac Power Users Podcast (Paperless 58:20ish) Hear it here... StoryMill Receives 8 out of 10 in Italian Macworld Download the tiny PDF here. MGD gets a great review from IT Reviews... More... Contour for Windows Gets Strong Praise in Belgium Read on... iPhone Journal gives thumbs up to Mariner Calc for iPhone Thumbs waay up! Itailmac Gives High Rating to MacJournal (Italian review) Viva Italia! IT Reviews Gives Impressive Review to Contour! Nice! MacObserver Scores 4 out of 5 with StoryMill BooYa! Macworld Gives Contour 3.5 out of 5 We earned every poiint! Contour Impresses Macworld UK with a 4 out of 5. Wow! Mariner Calc for iPhone rocks TUAW! Move to the front of the line. Macworld.com Gives StoryMill 4 out of 5 Mice! - KaBoom! MGD Scores Multiple Excellent Reviews - here and here. Contour gets its first review - Read it here! MacJournal Score 5 out of 5 in Korea! - Review it in detail! My Kitchen, My Table Blog Gives MacGourmet Deluxe 4.5 out of 5 Rating Read the details! MacUser UK Loves MacGourmet Deluxe Read about it here. O'Reilly picks MacJournal as Top 5 app in 2008 Wow! See why here. Italian Publication Impressed with StoryMill Viola! StoryMill Gets 4 out of 5 at MacObserver Read about it here. MacLife Scores MacJournal 4 out of 5! Get the story here. Mountain View MUG Cooks up a Great Review with MacGourmet Deluxe. Delicious! Read it here... O'Reilly Digital Media Talks About MacJournal- Take a listen. Montage Scores 4 out of 5! Read it all at Mac-Guild MacLife Gives MacGourmet Deluxe 4 out of 5! Review the full story here. ATPM scores MacGourmet Deluxe High You can too CookingInCastIron.com Gives MacGourmet Deluxe a Thumbs Up! Review their review here. About.com Gives MacJournal 5 a 4 out of 5! Learn "About" it here. MacUser UK Gives Four and Five Stars to StoryMill and Montage. Check it out in PDF format. Softpedia rates StoryMill 4 out of 5. more... MacNN Gives Love to MacGourmet Deluxe Click here for the story MacGourmet Deluxe Impresses MacApper Dreams come true! Desktop Poet for Mac get 3 out of 5 from Softpedia See why they like it here! Alaksa Gives MacJournal 4 out of 5 Check the score here. Macworld Magazine gives Montage 3.5 out of 5 Get the details here. MacJournal 5 Scores High with 8 out of 10! More about it here... AppleLinks Gives MacJournal 5 a Solid Review Read every word here... MacJournal 5 Praised on Inside Aperture Blog Click here. AppleLinks Rates StoryMill 4 out of 5! Read the article here. MacJournal 5 Shows Nicely on the Writer's Interface Read about it here. New Jersey Loves WinJournal! Read the full review. MacUser-UK Gives StoryMill 5 out of 5! Read the full review. Mariner in the Seattle Times. Check it out here. PC World Reviews WinJournal Get the report. ABC News/CNet love MacJournal 4! Read about it here... Womens Adventure Magazine has good things to say about WinJournal... Read the article here... WinJournal Receives High Marks at Blue Moon More... MacJournal & WinJournal get Kudos More... MarinerPak Named One of Top Five Microsoft Office Alternatives for Mac Users More... WinJournal awarded 4 out of 5 stars! More... Montage Gets 5 Stars in Lake of the Ozarks Business Journal ##_link-downloadfile216## WinJournal scores 5 out of 5 on Kidzworld! Check it out! MacJournal scores a perfect 5 of 5! See the review here... More... German Magazine finds Montage "Very Recommended" More... on page 5 to 6 (pdf pages count) Montage Given 3.5 out of 5 stars! More... MacJournal Gets 4 out of 5 Apples! More... MacObserver gives MacJournal Four out of Five! More... Montage Scores 3.5 out of 5 at MacNN More... Mountain View MUG has high marks for MacJournal 4.1 Check it out! MacCompanion Ranks MacJournal 4.1.1 with a 4 of 5 Rating - take a look at the PDF! Montage scores 4 out 5 in France. ##_link-downloadfile193## The MacCast Give MarinerPak a Strong Review Read it here... AppleLinks Gives Thumbs Up to Montage. Read the review... AppleLinks applauds MacJournal 4... Read it here... MacUser UK Gives Montage Four Out of Five Mice! Read the PDF here: ##_link-downloadfile190## The first written impressions of the pre-release version of Montage. Read them here... http://www.dvguru.com/2006/06/16/montage-mac-screenwriting-software http://www.macuser.com/software/fade_in_mariner_releases_monta.php http://101squadron.com/2006/06/montage-screenwriting-software-for-os.html Russ Conte of the Chicago Macintosh Users Group Gives Thumbs Up to MacJournal - read the ##_link-downloadfile181##. MarinerPak Grabs Nice Air in Surf-Bits Review see it here. Consumer Guide Rank Write and Calc Amongst the Best Bambi & Tera's Mac360 Review the MarinerPak...and love it! Read it here... PMUG (Princeton Macintosh Users Group) loves Mariner Write. Download the ##_link-downloadfile172## PDF. Space Port Users Group (New Mexico) give thumbs up to Mariner Write. Download the ##_link-downloadfile169## PDF. MacWorld gives MacJournal 4 out of 5 stars. See the review here. MacNN scores MacJournal 3.1 a 4.5 out of 5. Read the review here. MacJournal Receives Good Rating in ATPM - Check out the review here. French Reviewer Likes MacJournal - Go to Link - Mes outils de travail http://danielpoulin.fr.tc. MacUser UK Offers Up Confusingly Mediocre Review of MacJournal Read it here. Desktop Poet 1.0 Earns a Very Good Rating from ATPM Read about it here. Kevin Slimp Online: Newspaper Industry Favorite Loves Mariner Write. Read about it here. MacObserver: Highly Recommends Mariner Write - Read about it here. MacRogues: Mariner Write runs slicker than goose grease on my Mac - Read about it here. ATPM Scores Write a "Very Nice" Rating. Read the full review - here... MyMac.com Reviews Mariner Write - Read about it here Mariner Write Named Fastest Mac Word Processor on Planet - Check out Barefeats here... Macline Ranks Write Amongst the Best in Turkey. See the full article here. Mariner Write Runs Away with Speed Competition. Read the report here. Mariner Write Scores Nearly Perfect Rating. See the review here. macHOME Magazine Names Mariner Write as App of the Month! (No e-version available.) German publication, MacWelt, praises the MarinerPak. Read the review Write 3.5.1 scores 4 out of 5 mice! Read the review MarinerPak, Small Business Mac Software, ranks high in Home Office Reports review! Mariner Write wins Best Word Processor in recent Dutch competition. Digital Art in Israel reviews Mariner Write. A French review of Mariner Write. Palmtop-Pro Magazine reviews Mariner Write. MacUser UK reviews both Mariner Write [review] and Mariner Calc [review]. Mariner Write 3.1 release in St. Paul Pioneer Press. Check out the review from MacEase. See the killer review on Macupdate. Applelinks reader review of Mariner Write. RAVES... I have been using both the Storymill and Contour products for my manuscript writing and story outlining needs and have found them both to be absolutely wonderful in their respective areas. I have tried many competitive programs, from Word to Dramatica to several open-source projects and found that Mariner solutions have provided me the best end-goal products for my writing needs. I am also considering your Montage product for my script writing needs as a change from the use of Final Draft, but am still residing the fence on that move as of yet. I am pleased to also inform you that my wife, who is a chef, is now using your MacGourmet Deluxe program for her archiving of recipes at my insistence and she is loving the product so far. I appreciate the work your team has done and look forward to new products and updates to your catalog. Dale C. I started writing once I became Cabin Crew, as we all need to keep a journal of our flights as a personal record. One year after I left the company to join a college, I read all my journal from the time I was flying and i found a great moment reading it. This experience took me to the habit of writing my daily experiences and for that matter I wanted to have somewhere safe to keep my notes. The idea of having a cloud never pleased me as I need the internet to check and update my notes, so I started searching for Journals that would be easy to use but also with interesting and useful functions. I found then the Mariner page through Apple store online. It was like a child in a candy shop, I was amused with the range of software and their functionality but as a good shopper I thought better try first. I download a demo of the MacJournal software, very easily I started my first page of my Diary and I kept for the 13 days until I finally purchased. I can't say how happy I am. But writing for me has a new meaning, everyday I wait to arrive home and start writing on my MacJournal, it is fantastic. The process to purchase was very easy and the information provided on the email sent just after I bought it was precious, everything I need to validate my software was in there. I did countless shops on internet for software and often had problems with downloads of information requested to validate the program that wasn't clear so I spent most of the time trying to find out how to start the software that I bought 2 days ago. I am impressed with the service provided by Mariner since the demo until the feedback email received the day after the purchase. Thank you for all your attention. My absolute best regards, Luiz de Sousa I have to say how thoroughly impressed I am at macjournal's power. It is an amazing piece of software, especially for the main thing it does: journaling and document handling and it's flexibility with filetypes. There really is nothing that comes close to this functionality on the market . You can't even compare this with something like evernote, though I see lot's of people making that comparison... Nicholas Quixote Rabbit Bites "Twisted and sublime..." NY Times My shopping experience at your website was easy and wonderful actually! I was shopping for my brilliant little brother... He's an author, only 15-years-old, and using StoryMill this past year he's now just a few chapters away from the completion of his first novel. It's the first in a series of 12 wildly original fantasy books. Using StoryMill he's plotted the entire series with detailed info on every character, twist, location and plot point. Now he's started developing movie and screenplay ideas, so knowing that he'd loves StoryMill, Mariner was the first place I looked and I was thrilled to find Contour and Montage!! Daria Musk After I made about 100 scans of old documents, receipts, and bits and pieces of paper notes and memos I then regrouped all my PDF documents (maybe 200 or so) that lived in various folders on my Macs. At that point I recognized the practicality of Paperless. Its ability to find a document, display it quickly, its centralized filing capabilities, security features and most importantly ease of use. That is when I decided to purchase the product. I love it and it is taking away lots and lots of my paper and electronic clutter. It is indispensable. Brian Henry Just wanted to say how much I love MacJournal. It's an incredible program - I couldn't be more pleased with it. Thanks so much for developing it as well as maintaining it wonderfully. Very, very appreciated! I couldn't live without it! Best, Ingrid Awesome! Wow, I'm really impressed with you guys! I'm now, depending on the receipt, seeing the Merchant, Date and Amount being filled from the receipt. Fun time for me today. Thanks for bringing Paperless to Mariner. I'm a very satisfied user. Keep up the great work! Mitch Shearer I have been using Mariner Software for several years now. My wife found MacJournal for me shortly after I made my first Mac purchase. I have kept a journal for the past 25 years, mostly with pen and paper. MacJournal is the only software I use to write my journal electronically. Love the software. Last year I was introduced to NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month event. Over 100,000 people take the month of November, starting at midnight October 31st and going through Midnight November 30 attempting to write an original 50,000 word novel from scratch in those short 30 days. I immediately purchased StoryMill and began writing. In my first year of participation I wrote 55,000 words and reached my goal. Just as a note, I am not a professional writer and had never attempted something like this. The 55,000 word novel is not for public consumption but was simply a personal goal of mine to do write something big. I would never have been able to do it without Storymill. This year, I want to become better at this hobby of mine and purchased Contour because even though I have been writing in a journal I really don't know how to write a story. I've never taken a class or had someone teach me the elements of good story writing. Within the first five minutes of owning Contour I suddenly learned what I had been missing. I'm looking forward to this November to begin using both Contour and Storymill to do another 50,000 word novel. Thank you for such excellent. Your organization has been wonderful to work with over the years. Thank you for the support you have provided me. You are free to use any quotes or comments I have made for marketing purposes. If there is something specific you would like me to share, I am more than willing. Thank you again, Richard Bliss One of the things that I have always liked about Mariner is that your company offers smart software with fluid, intuitive interfaces and high functionality at a price that is more suited to modest budgets. Best regards, Ryan Poquette Seriously, I have just installed Paperless, created my libraries (including a test one) and scanned some documents. Labelled them, categorized them, and viewed them. As I said, AWESOME! It was so easy. I am using a Canon MP scanner (which I know is not really recommended, but I already had it) and it works beautifully. Adding multiple page documents is simple. I have not eave opened the documentation! If this software helps me to become organized in my personal and business life, well, my wife will wonder who has moved into our house! I really am that disorganized, as I spend all my time looking after others. Well done! Thank you. Regards, Ken Woodward I am now an 82 year young retired professor who has had dealings with Mariner Software in general and Logan Ryan in particular. Being an incorrigible Computer Illiterate, I have had to call upon Logan Ryan more often and for dumber reasons than I care to remember. I was always treated courteously, and even generously. No need to say that this company's software is delivers what is promised, and at very reasonable cost. Thank you Logan and Collaborators. Dan Dorotich Professor Emeritus "Do you want to know the three biggest screenwriting problems? Twitter, Youtube and Hula. Want to get real screenwriting done? Get Montage. The full screen feature is worth the price of the software alone." Ted Raimi Actor, screenwriter Los Angeles, CA "For years I have been wanting to start a journal for myself and my children to read one day. I have looked at other products but they all fell short. It was always missing one of the requirements I had. This one wouldn't allow you to add rich media, that one had no backup option. Now that I have found MacJournal, I have a full featured application that is still being supported and improved." Justin Kolos Inwood, WV Oh my gosh, Montage is such an incredible piece of software! I love the scene mode so much - I'm only an amateur student writer, but get quite obsessive and usually go back and rewrite things loads of times - but it's so nice to be able to mark a given scene as "Final", and then leave it alone (whereas previously, rewriting would probably mean rewriting the whole thing all over again). And the different statuses are so useful too... and brilliantly colour-coded - such a good feature. And so much cheaper than Final Draft! Good work! Hari Sriskantha Last night I accomplished more in 2 hours than I had in the previous week, thanks to Contour. It's almost like paint-by-number (apologies!), but of course much, much more. Somehow, my creative juices are on steroids. Now, on the inside of my forehead, there is a neon sign flashing: I Can Do This. Contour makes me feel like a legitimate professional. Strike that! I am a legitimate professional who uses Contour. David Pruden To the team behind MacGourmet Deluxe, I am very happy with my purchase of MacGourmet Deluxe. I am a new diabetic, and I'm working on a vegetarian lifestyle. The Vegalicious Vegan Recipe pack, a free downloaded from the macgourmet.com website, was impressive. I have also imported 100 vegetarian recipes from Vegetariantimes.com and Allrecipes.com. All of that in the first 48 hours! I found the import procedure to be very quick and painless. I also took 3 additional seconds per import to copy the nutrition information from the website and paste it into the notes section of each import. This let me avoid mapping some ingredients to the included nutritional database. This product is a must-have for cooks and anyone concerned about meal-planning or nutrition. Pure Gratitude, Alisa Ingram, MD And here is what our users have to say... As a current user of StoryMill, I decided I'd like to try MacJournal as an assistant to my blog site and to keep journal entries, quotes overheard, and my often-random thoughts of the day. The Mariner Web site was easy to maneuver through and I downloaded the program free of charge for a trial run of 14 days. It didn't take that long to see that this was going to be something I'd use everyday. Buying it and registering it was as easy as downloading it. I simply went to the e-Store, purchased the item, and the next time I opened MacJournal I was prompted to register. Quick. Simple. Neat, very much like the product itself. Sarah Morgan Costa Rica I think you guys really have the right idea. Purpose built software at a reasonable price is a great business model. Your customers get great software without a lot of bulk they don't care about. I have Microsoft Office on my Mac but I never use it and don't plan on buying the 2008 version. And that's saying something, I'm a retired software engineer from Microsoft. Keep up the great creative work! John Kountz Senior Software Engineer - Retired Microsoft Corporation "MacJournal is one of those rare products that does not get between me and my goals. I can use MacJournal to achieve my goals, without complications, unwanted features, and clutter." Tony Checker Canberra, Australia MacJournal 4 user By the way the reason I am so delighted by MacJournal's improved audio handling is the acts of composing, performing and recording music frequently get in each others way using other tools. By enabling MacJournal to capture high quality audio, one can capture both what one is thinking and planning as well as its tangible manifestation. In terms of work flow this allows me to describe what I am doing and capture it in the same document, which keeps the analysis and planning coupled with the capture of the expression. I can then further export the audio file as a .MOV and use QuickTime Pro to convert it into a .wav or .aiff which can be dragged and dropped into many apps ranging from professional grade audio environments to iTunes and GarageBand. The net result of this is an accelerated work flow where one can go from an idea to a musical score and a CD in an hour. I have just spent the day working this out and am grateful to you for providing a tool that lowers the overhead associated with artistic expression. This is very important when your day job is something else. (I am the CEO of the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute.) As a professional Innovation Specialist (svii.org and howardl.com) I spend a lot of time examining tools that allow people to create and innovate more effectively. Howard Lieberman I recently bought your Mariner Calc. I have Mariner Write, Mac Journal and Mariner Calc. I just removed my Word and all it�s components not that I personally have any problem with Microsoft Word but since I am not using Entourage, or Power point therefore to Upgrade was a large Investment , for items I did not use ! I like to pick and choose and am not a suite buyer ! I administer three web sites and any time I can save dollars and save time I do it ! My next purchase soon will be Desk Top Poet! Some day I would like to see Mariner Write , with toolbars from Mariner Calc and Mac Journal in the app ! I am lazy want it all in front of my face ! Marshal Sandler Marshal & Naomi Sandler Royal Oak MI http://apple-of-my-i.com/ "I only have to see the goldmine of words in front of me and ideas are conjured up out of my head that I didn't even know were there. I express things I didn't know I thought. It's the most mentally healthy thing I've done in months - and far more comfortable than sitting in a draught by the fridge!" Eleanor Patrick Desktop Poet customer United Kingdom Barring any dramatic change in its performance or my experiences with Write, it is likely Mariner Write will be the only word processor I use on my MacBook from here on out. Even if or when Microsoft produces a Universal version of Word, I'll stick with Write. It's simply a great word processor. I could lit all of the things I like about it, but they'd all be thing you've heard before. The biggest challenge for me has simply been getting used to the differences between Write and Word, learning the user convention in Write vs. Word, a simply just becoming familiar with Write's user interface, which is, by the way, very easy to learn. But then again, having used Word for the last 15 years, I think it's only normal to feel a bit awkward getting beyond using another program when you have been so indoctrinated with the only other word processor (MS Word) you have ever used. But other than that, and with few exceptions, I want to tell you that you have a fine product in Write and I have no doubt that it will be my new standard, fulfilling my every word processing need. I especially appreciate the fact that without any problem, Write can open and read Word documents as well as save to the .doc format. John Mandes, Hershey, PA Associate Professor of Communication I just wanted to let you know I broke the world record "Start up your personal blog by just registering, typing some text and clicking after purchasing MacJournal 4." Did it in under two hours, with 99% of that time spent in writing my text. By the way, I used MacJournal 4, just upgraded, no user manual opened. Great job! Regards, Paul. http://paulovertoom.blogspot.com Why did I purchase Fridge poetry, being french and not english? First, I like playing with words. Also, I must professionnaly be accustomed to that: writing easily and with elegance is a must for my university work. But there is more. A few minutes of use of the trial downloaded version convinced me that it was an excellent tool for learning more english by means of an unusual but astute method. After only a little hour of exercising, nice and thoughtful sentences began to appear. So I discovered a new and fresh method of improving my english. This is why I quickly registered my trial version. Thank you Mariner Software. Jaric Jaute UFR Sciences de la Terre University of Lyon Write allows me to deal with MS Word documents (including Word docs written using double-byte characters, like Chinese and Japanese) without having to wait for MS Word to to fire itself up. I like its ability to match default fonts with the language input system I select (I do a lot in Chinese and Japanese as well as in English). I like being able to set the default saving mode to MS Word RTF, because most recipients still expect to receive Word documents. It's so fast and flexible that I would call it (so far, anyway) a "lightspeed heavyweight". Best wishes for continued success, Dr. Jan W. Walls Director David Lam Centre for International Communication Simon Fraser University Installation was fine and software is working as advertised. Currently using Calc as my primary Spread sheet program. On my way to waving bye bye to any software from Redmond Washington. Thanks Ted Ellis Mariner Write is for me a speedy tool when writing pages that must be rushed. Because Mariner Write is reacting naturally and simply. And M.W. doesn't need much free memory; many other softwares can work simultaneously besides M.W. It is for me a precious feature. I own Microsoft Word, a necessity caused by my university environment where Office is dominant. But Word responds often strangely, causing unnecessary hassle. I don't like its "gas factory" pack of features. A lighter text processor must be there for offering more streamlined features. Mariner Write does the job. Greetings. Geoffrey Martin UCLA Los Angeles, CA I am the editor of a magazine and a professional writer, as well as a Mac devotee. While we produce our magazine each month using Macs, and I regularly write and edit on my Mac at home, ours is a "Windows World," and I have used the de facto word processing standard, MS Word, merely to coexist with PC-using authors and coworkers. Using the Mariner Write demo for a few days, I felt impressed by its user-friendly simplicity, its variety of necessary (but not overboard) features and its clean export of documents to a Word-compatible format. While time might reveal a feature or two that I need/miss, I believe I have finally found the Word alternative I have long sought. Chris Raymond Milwaukee, Wisconsin Write is a great program which is simplicity in itself. But underlying the simple surface are all sorts of bells and whistle await the user's graduation into those area. Why pay big money for a program put out by the "Big Guys" when this simple Word Processor does just what I want -- helps me capture keystrokes/words. You've done a great job here. Warren English Hendersonville, North Carolina I have been having some issues with Excel recently revolving around its 256 column limit.. I'm trying to get data from After Effects into my 3D application but Excel will not transpose 5300 rows of data into columns... you can imagine how happy i was to find that a program as cheap as yours can do it no problem at all!!! Stunning, thank-you so much! Ian Waters I think that you can do wonders with this software (Desktop Poet) as an educational tool. The name doesn't do it justice. It would appeal to all teachers...not just poets. I know that I could use it for workshops if it came in a PC version. It's too good to be just a Mac program. Joel Heffner www.creativity-to-go.com www.thestorystarter.com www.joelheffner.com I just purchased mac journal after using the free version for a while. I just wanted to write a quick note about how much I love MacJournal. In addition to using it as a journal, it's been invaluable as a tool for organizing information of just about any kind. I'm a writer and I use it to record screenplay ideas I have, lists of contests to enter, people to contact and just about any bit of text I want to keep. I like the software because it's makes it so easy to record and organize my thoughts. The nesting is such a brilliant idea I'm surprised it's not used in other programs (like Word). I use MacJournal every day. It's really indispensable to me. Joe Flood joeflood@joeflood.com www.joeflood.com Most users have some photo program on their computers where they process digital photos, like Photoshop Elements. I had some very sharp photos saved in a Photoshop format, but in the Mariner Write document, it did not paste anywhere as clear as in your photo program. Even if you save it at 1600 dpi, which takes forever to print, it still looks "pixelated." When I saved the photo in a JPG format, and pasted it into a Mariner Write document, it pasted as a huge photo. But, grabbing one of the black corner boxes, I shrank it diagonally to the size I wanted (keeping the proper proportion of height vs. width.) I was amazed how sharp and clear the photo printed on my laser printer, at 300 dpi. So, for me, JPG is the only format to use for Mariner Write. Vince C. Thanks again to you and the team. Mariner makes my day being able to tell people I can do Word or Excel -- ONLY EASIER. Michael Sidoric msidoric@mac.com CapMac User Group If justice held sway, MarinerWrite would be the word processor that dethrones MS Word. I have used Word for the Mac since 1988, but after 16 years Word, it was time to reconsider. Word has gotten so overblown, so prone to problems and so overpriced that I determined that I would seek out the best alternative out there. And that alternative is Mariner Write (Mariner Calc likewise does a yeoman job as a spreadsheet program). Two good products, at a great price. Yours in Christ, Fr. James Lentini jlentini0404@mac.com Several times I have approached a solution to a problem while using Mariner Write's "Table" feature thinking "this will never work," and been proven wrong. I suppose that the first time was when I used it as it was routinely meant to be used, as a table, and figured that documents with tables would surely be easier to handle with a larger ("more sophisticated," we say) program. Surprisingly, Mariner Write's tables are simpler to make and easier to use than the table feature in the much larger AppleWorks. I had the same preconceived notion when I tried to use a table to make up for the fact that Mariner Write did not wrap text around a graphic. I could perhaps use a table to make it look as though it did wrap text. I would make a table with one row and two columns, put the graphic in one of the columns, put the text (or continuation of text) in the other, then erase the lines. It will never work, I thought. But, it did. I now do it routinely, sometimes leaving the table lines that frame the photo. The size of the two boxes can be adjusted to suit the size of the graphic, and the 9-pt attribution for the graphic can easily be placed under its right-hand corner. The last case (to date) of something that I figured would never work was when I prepared a chart of the characters that a font would produce when using none or various combinations of the modifying keys. I made five four-row tables, each representing the keyboard. I designated one for unmodified text, one using only the Shift key, one using the Option key, one using both the Shift and Option keys, and finally one modified by the Control key. The chart was going to be for the Merriam Webster font, but I made the five tables while in another font, Times. I assumed that I would have to pause at each box on each row of each table and change the font from Times to Merriam Webster. But I was wrong. The table did not dictate what the default font would be, but I learned that I could select the boxes I wanted to fill, and change them, all at the same time, to the other font. Then I could simply move the cursor with the tab key from box to box and add the Merriam Webster equivalents of each key I pressed. Very useful indeed. Ted M. Hopes Glendale, Arizona I have had several people ask me what software I use to write and publish my books,. My answer is I have tried them all if they can run on Panther, I have used them. However there is only one I will recommend. Mariner Write is the best software for writers using a Mac, hands down, nothing or no one does what it does. I not only wrote all of my books on it, but my cover guys did my covers and previews on it as well. For all of you LULU Publishers, Mariner Write saves your books to PDF, no more converters needed. Way to go Mariner Guys and Gals keep up the good work. Amy Fullen http://www.lulu.com/ameth "Thank you for doing your part to stop the Microsoft status quo. Small companies like yours that produce innovative software at innovative prices keep the computer industry alive and kicking. I uninstalled Microsoft Word/Office two months ago and haven't looked back." Ian Evans, Student Lewis & Clark College As a Graphic Artist I can't tell you how happy I am to have a word processor that loads in about 2 seconds and has all the features I need to handle the body copy I work with. It's just a brilliant program and I commend everybody at Mariner for developing such a product. Thank You, Bill Castillo With MarineWrite I can do 80 percent of my work without any problems. Simply, small, yet powerful. I could not ask for any more and hope that the people at Mariner Software continue to adhere to such a policy. It has been a pleasure working with Mariner Write and thank you for the option of not having to use Word. Koji from Japan You folks must have the fastest technical support this side of the galaxy!!! That's why users will stick to you forever... Will keep evangelizing on your behalf. Massimo Mauro We have looked long and hard at most of the text-processors on the market for OSX. We have found that Mariner Write is what we have long looked and waited for. Period. There is nothing we miss in the program neither we encourage you to alter or beef up in the program. Mariner Write is pretty easy to use for layman's, nice to look at, yet powerful and versatile enough to satisfy the advanced and professional users needs. Mariner Write gets a full buy recommendation without hesitation - its sad that Mariner Write is not more widely known in Europe - we hope to change that with our report in the upcoming Palmtop-pro magazine. Cheers! Boris Michael von Luhovoy, Publishing Editor Palmtop-Pro Magazine www.palmtop-pro.com I have been using Mariner Write for a couple of years now and have recently begun using Mavriner Calc. What first attracted me to the former was its ability to produce vertical Japanese text, a feature I still make use of. Also, while I can and do write in Japanese (and less often in Polish), I appreciate a world-script savvy word processing program with menus and help in English. In addition to the language capabilities, Mariner Write's small memory foot and speed make for a very efficient application. I use another word processing program when I am need of more advanced search and replace and macro-producing options in my linguistics research, but it is not yet OS X native, nor does it have the vertical text option. As noted above, I have just begun using Mariner Calc, so it is a bit early to be making any sort detailed evaluation, but my initial impressions have been very favorable. I have two Japanese localized spreadsheet applications: one a stand-alone program and the other, part of a general "works" application. The former is a program whose name well-known as a spreadsheet program, and while my Japanese version can, of course, deal with Japanese text, I have reports from friends that the English version often produces gobbledygook in place of Japanese. I have not run into this problem at all with Mariner Calc, and, as in the case of Mariner Write, I really appreciate having the application itself in English. David Bogdan University Professor in Japan I thank you again for developing Mariner Write, which I continue to use happily every day. It stays open all the time the computer is on, I use it constantly in conjuction with ClippingNamer in particular, and it has never crashed on me. Francis Sakamoto telescapes@earthlink.net You folks are awesome. Love Calc and Write -- those two apps are THE reason I switched to OSX... needless to say I despise MicroShaft, and your apps are better, faster, and more robust at 1/1000th of the footprint -- and they NEVER crash. Michael Sidoric avfolk@mac.com
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