As a writer/budding author, we know how useful Scrivener is for keeping our projects in order and structuring our work. It’s available for Mac OSX and, in a slightly less feature-rich version, for Windows. It might even be possible to run it on Linux. The perennial bugbear of Scrivener (and, […]
Hardware
At first glance, the catchily-named A10JQ would seem to be the ultimate mobile writer’s tool from the past. In the days when 5″ smartphones were hideously expensive and tablets hadn’t yet become mainstream, the humble little A10JQ came onto the market. Originally called the “Mobile Internet Device”, it was indeed […]
The Writer’s Toolkit, part 3 : A10JQ
Before smartphones were quite so, well, smart, there was the PDA. The Personal Digital Assistant, often mocked as a digital filofax, was the most pocketable of mobile computing platforms before the advent of Smartphones. Many top manufacturers had their own range. While HP expanded the Jornada brand, Dell’s range was […]
The Writer’s Toolkit, part 2 : The Age before Smartphones
Before the tablet there was the netbook. Before the netbook there was the Handheld PC, epitomised as it was by the HP Jornada range. Beginning life as the HP Jornada 680 in 1998, this clamshell portable computer went through a number of slight modifications before its final incarnation, the 728, […]