A couple of weeks ago, Hanx Writer, a typewriter app from movie star Tom Hanks, shot to the top of the Apple App Store. I guess there must be something in the air, because it’s not the only ...

Recorded on August 13, 2014. iPad applications typically have an edge when it comes to adapting physical experiences over to software. Drawing and painting simulations being the most successful.

I grew up on a manual typewriter, the same one my mom used to write articles for Life Magazine in the ’50s and ’60s. It was a small portable in a beat-up canvas case, and you had to hit the keys hard.

Academy Award winner Tom Hanks has taken on a new leading role as an iPad app developer. His Hanx Writer app-- which recently hit the top of the charts as the most downloaded app in iTunes -- combines ...

Welcome to the technological frontier of 2014: Dueling typewriter apps for the iPad. The upstart rival, Typing Writer, was launched in July by The Rumpus. The literary website’s founder, Stephen ...

To manually insert smart quotes, the keyboard must have a numeric keypad, and you must activate the Num Lock key. To use the numeric codes, press and hold the Alt key, then type the four-digit ...

Jack London said every writer should keep a notebook. “Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it,” London said. “Lead pencil markings endure longer than memory.” It’s sage advice, but then again, ...