12.31.06
For you budding novelists
Here’s a free Windows software tool designed for writing novels: yWriter. Take a look at some of the screenshots—it’s pretty cool. And free. And the current version is 2.3.3.1, last updated in November—so you won’t have the version 1.0 problems to deal with.
The program is designed to let you work on chapters, scenes, characters, etc., and keep track of those things and let you organize them. Very handy looking.
Look around the site—he has lots of other free tools. Example: yLend, a program to track stuff you’ve lent. HamTime caught my eye, but it’s a program that alerts radio amateurs (”hams”) that it’s time to announce their call sign. (The FCC requires the announcement at least every 10 minutes.) Others:
yBook: displays electronic books for reading
yPlay: plays MP3, OGG, WMA, etc., files: compact, clean design
yTimer: runs up to 40 countdown timers
And others. Check it out.
