Filed under: Text, Productivity, iPhone
WriteRoom for iPhone: distraction-free writing, easy sync
If you're familiar with the excellent WriteRoom app for OS X, you might also love the iPhone version of the app. WriteRoom is a full-screen, distraction-free writing environment that whisks away the toolbars, icons, buttons and other attention-stealers so you can be alone with your writing work. The iPhone version does the same thing, and it also syncs automatically to Writeroom.ws, where it can be edited later on your iPhone or via a browser on your computer.In the fullscreen writing environment of Writeroom.iPhone, you can change the text size using the zoom gesture. You can also share your document with another machine via WiFi. The iPhone app is 5 bucks, but a purchase will get you $5 off WriteRoom for Mac, or the organizational app TaskPaper. If you were planning on buying either one, you might as well grab the iPhone app while you're at it.
First there was WriteRoom, which gave Mac users a very simple black interface in which to write. No distractions, just a black screen with glowing green letters, which probably appeals particularly to people that have been working with computers long enough to remember monochromatic terminals.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
