July 3 - 9:20am EDT   Coinciding with its five-year anniversary, Blue-tec this week announced a new version Ulysses 1.6, its Mac OS X-based text editor. Aimed at the creative writing market, version 1.6 includes an innovative 'tabbed' single-window user interface, comprehensive filtering and search system, semantic text editing, and a 'preview as you type' window. The update also offers bug fixes, further improved UI, extended printing capabilities, enhanced search/replace features, and new Hungarian and Portuguese localizations. The software requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later and is priced at €80 for a single-user license. A 30-day free trial is available from blue-tec.com. [full story]

January 16 - 8:40pm EST   Mariner Software has released StoryMill 3.0, the latest release of its writing software. The software combines a word processor and database as well as offers "timeline view" feature to help writers manage the creative process from inception to publication. The software features the ability to track, tag and filter characters, scenes, locations as well as the ability to research with StoryMill's unique dynamic outline. Writers can visually and interactively display their story across time with StoryMill's timeline view and place annotations on the project. [full story]